Donation of a Students Hostel building to Hartley College, Point-Pedro, Sri Lanka.

email from Chella Padmanathan:-

Sending some photos taken at Hartley College new Hostel opening on 1st March,2014 and sent to me ,though I could not be present at the event.

Chella Padmanathan

The old Hartley hostel well with the old building pulled down in 2012.

The building under construction in 2013 December.

The new Hartley Hostel.

Mr. Ian K Karan at the opening ceremony.

Unveiling the memorial plaque.

The Memorial plaque.

On stage at the opening ceremony.

The guests.

The audience.

Kirupakaran was with me at the Hartley Hostel in the early 1950s. We were in the College Choir and were at the functions when we celebrated our 100th College Anniversary of it's founding. We were told that it was more 125 years at that time. Mr. Pooranampillai was our Principal. Kirupaharan was always well dressed and took part in the fun and frolics of the hostel. The hostel had two dormitories in a two storey building.
The building was in the thick of the unrest and was severely damaged during the 'time of troubles'.
In the meantime Kirupaharan emigrated to Germany and became a tycoon in the container shipping field at Hamburgh. He is also a Senator in Germany.
When he visited Hartley after the 2009s he promised a brand new building for the damaged hostel. The old hostel building was pulled down and this is the result. I heard that he had also started an orphanage at Thunnaalai. All of us who were with him appreciate his magnanimity and thank him from the bottom of our hearts.
Philip GV