Donation of aquatic equipments by STC OBA Greater New York

On request made by Thomian Aquatic Sports Union (TASU) , the STC OBA OF Greater New York (STCOBAGNY) funded USD 3000 Worth of Aquatics equipment to S. Thomas' College Mount Lavinia and Mr. Romesh Dias Wanigasekera, Committee member of the STC OBA OF Greater New York officially handed over the Equipment to the Warden S.Thomas' College, on Thursday the 29th October 2009 in the presence of the Present Thomian Swimming and Water Polo team members and TASU Vice President Mr. Jeevaka Perea, TASU Secretary Mr. Nilka Dabare and TASU Committee member Mr. Shehan De Alwis at the College Pool.

The Warden Rev. Puddefoot and Thomian Waterpolo Captain Darith De Silva thanked the STC OBA OF Greater New York for their generous contribution to the development of Aquatics at S.Thomas' and expressed their hope that the STCOBAGNY will continue to support the Aquatics program at STC in the future as well.

Below is a list of the equipment donated to STC by the STCOBAGNY

1 x MARIC PACECLOCK 30"
2 x MIKASA HUNGARIAN HEAVYWEIGHT BALLS
6 x MIKASA MINI-TRAINER BALLS
20 x MIKASA OFFICIAL FINA MEN'S WATER POLO BALLS,
2 x MIKASA MEN'S HEAVYWEIGHT BALL, BLACK WITH YELLOW GROOVES
2 x MIKASA SHOTMAKER REBOUNDERS
2 x SNIPER WATER POLO SHOOTING SIEVES
1 x S&R SPORT OFFICIAL WATER POLO SCOREBOOK
8 x STRECHCORDZ DRAGBELTS
4 x STRECHCORDZ WITH LEG STRAPS
4 x STRECHCORDZ LONGBELT SLIDERS
1 x MONTE NITZKOWSKI WATER POLO COACHING VIDEO DVD LIBRARY, 14 VIDEO DVDS

EXCERT ABOUT STC OBA OF GNY
The S Thomas' College OBA of Greater New York (STCOBAGNY) was formed in Jan 2008. The OBA was formed with the objective of giving assistance to college, students and bringing the local old Thomians together. The current president is Mr. Ivan Sriwardene. The group has approximately 40 members, 10 of whom are in the "working" committee. As the kick off 'event' we had the first Thomian Dinner Dance on the East Coast of USA in October 2008. Two live bands performed in which we had approximately 300 guests who attended and danced the night away to the sounds of Chandimal and the 2nd connection with Dalrene Suby and Oasis (local NY band). One of the first projects the group undertook to support from the proceeds of the dinner dance was to provide the TASU with some much needed equipment for the water polo and swimming teams to the tune of approx usd 3000. We are currently working with the college office to select another project that we can support. We hope to have our flagship event - the Thomian East Coast Dinner Dance on a bi annual basis to be able to collect funds to support our Alma Mater in what ever projects the committee and the college decides as appropriate. Esto Per Petua !

Committee members in attached picture of STC OBA GBY EXCO
(Left to Right)
Navin Rajapakse (1994)
Geoffrey Sriwardena (1964)
Takshan De Alwis (1968)
Aravinth Siva Subramaniam (1982)
Vel Sivapalan (1974)
Bala Sivakumar (1976)
Philip Jayawardena (1969)
Ivan Sriwardena (President) (1963)
Daya Nadarajah (1976)
Lalith Theivanayagam (1982)
Romesh Dias-Wanigasekara (1990)