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COMPLETION OF 22 YEARS

OF DEDICATED SERVICE

The Broadeasting Unit

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ANANDA COLLEGE

1973-1995

19th July 1995 At

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From the Prineipal

t s with plensure that I send this message to the souvenir published

corgetion with the 22nd Anniversany of The roadcasting Unit that

has done pertecthy well in bringing pride and giory to Anarda for the

est 22 vears and hope that it will continue to do so

t is indeed a pride to see the broadcas ting standerds at Ananda when the students read news every morning at the assembly 1am hapDDV

to menticon that many Anandians are among the present day broadcasters

and media personais who howe reached pinacles of eminancy in their

respective fields

These Units are tarely seen in schools currently and our own

8:0adcasting Unit is generous enough to extend its co-operation to other

schools for the inaugeration of similar Units Members of the Unit could

be seen performing at its best at the Annual prize Giving. Colors Nite

Sports Meet and other functions Itis unbelievabie to see the high

standerds maintained by such a young batch of broadcasters

appriciate the commendable effort of the staf! Advisors and the members in maintaining such a level in broadcasting. I wish them al

success May the blessings of Ananda & Noble Triple Gem be h the Unit

M Damunupola

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The Broadcastlug Unit of Ananda College is a feather in her

cap. It deserves all credit for the high standard that has been

maintaining since its inception. I firmly believe that its activitiea wil

provide further enrichments to the College and the announcers, The

sense of commitment of those who are attrached to the Unit is

highly commendable

I Wish all of them continued success in their efforts.

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The Ritual of Our Unit

our daily rituals

At Ananda, every day is a busy one for us, with

Sdrting from the break of dawn and sunrise. As members of our unit, enter

tne college premises they worship the Ananda Viharaya,

drOot to the unit, calling out a tradition unique to all Anandians. As we greet

our teachers with a respecttul

before setting

"good morning", even before our classrooms

Our destiny is the "Broadcasting Unit."

,myself follow these guidelines adopted by Anandian announcers, and

p towards our heaven by seven a. m, in order not to miss the deadline

TOr admittance. In fact, the unit is like an office for us, giving us a toucn

or professio nalism, and grooming us for office coordination; and sometime like

nome where we enjoy ourselves, crack jokes and learn to work as a team.

I Is quite the bleuding of all of these elements that makes our unit a truly hospitable

working environment. The daily rituals of the unit go into tull action as our staff

advisor. Mrs. D. R. Wijeratne walks into the room silencing every one, and taking

them off their feet. Her help is always valuable to us and she herself is like mother.

But occationally she loses her temper, and has a very effective way of showing us

Our faults.

The day starts off, as our junior members go for the "news box'" and stack

Scraps of ceitified aunouncements on our table. The translators then go into full

effect and begin translating the extensive news items inio English. Naturally, there

are very rare cases when we tend to be perplexed, and sometimes in a frantic quest

for appropriate words

order to get our announcements going.

But tinally, we work out some sort of substritute word in

Our news editing team, then goes to work and starts editing the news items

"as much as possible" In fact, they posses an inciedible tatent to edit pages of

news into just less that few lincs. Apparently, the worst job in our unit is being

an editor, since the editor is always the one blamed for announcement errors. At

the end of editing. the script writers start transcribing the edited news into our

permenant news-books. The news-reader, then runs thiough the script a few timess

and finally gets ready to give a performance.

Meanwhile our "thought - readers" prepare themselves with appropriate

thoughts and recite these thoughts to our English staff advisor, Mr. M. A. Sumana-

pala and receive approval. faced and assists the English team to carry out their rituals e ffectively.

Mr. Sumanapala on the other hand is always happy

As the clock strikes 7.20, it spells what we prefer to call as Down time!"

for our juniors. To avoid them making it a habit to stay behind, without going for the

assembly, the 7 20 Down time is their final deadline to leave the unit. Usually it is

I, Hasitha, and our 22nd Anniversary project chairman Makalanda, who does this job

by announcing the deadline and sending away our juniors. m not surprised that

e three of us so much.Our juniors are quite obedient and have learnt to

when they see us coming (We seniors, of course share special

privelleges!

6 Dell rings and the assembly begins the rituals of our unit come to an

d, and performance time begins. in our studlo. Sometimes after the news Is over

dnnouncers get blamed for not reading the news properly. NervousneSS tends to

gve rise to mistakes in reading and even being in good mood is sometimes bad for

dnnouncing; especially when you are reading an obituary notice, Being in a bad mood

S 81so bad when you are announcing a victory. It is usually this "mood confusion"

that makes us fall in trouble so olten.

LoOking back at the short time we spent in the unit, it is sometimes impressive

tO imagine the great deal of work that we have actually done for the school that

morning. Needless to say the rituals of our unlt every day is a result of our team

Work, co-ordination; and the support given to us by our teachers. For everyday is

another ritual for our broad casting unit.

Rasika Wickramasinghe Senior Announcer

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The 'alendar of he Broadeasting nit

When thinking about Calenders of various institutions,

organizations, clubs and societies, of Ananda College, the calender of the Ananda College Broadcasting Unit stands up rom the rest

as one of the tightest, bussiest and most occupied.

The Broadcasting Unit is one of the very tew Organizations that has duties to p»rform everyday Its basic duty is to keep the students

members of the staff and all others concerned, informed about the

College activities by way of broadcasting News and Announcemenls

in both Sinhala and English everyday at the morning assembly, with

the ut most co operation of the Radio Club

That being the basic activity The Broadcasting Unit. has

some regular duties to perform such as announcing at the Annual

Prize Giving, Sports Meet, Colors Nite & Founders Day Celebrations

in addition The Unit extends its service to almost all the clubs and

Societies by announcing at their various functions.

While serving the School the Unit does so much to its members

The Voice Test is organized frequently by the Unit to polish up the

broadcasting skills of the members, to select best anouncets of the

junior, Senior and Intermediate catagories for the prise giving. and

to enroll new members to the Unit.

All the broadcasters are expected to be very well informed about

the modern techniques of

Workshops on Broadcasting very often and it holds training sessions

for junior members weekly.

broadcasting The Unit organizes

The Unit commemorates the Anniversary in many ways The

Anniversary Workshop to keep not only the Anandians but also the

informed about the techniques students of many other schools

of Broadcasting which makes it the most important of all the

objective of this the Unit extends its

assistance to another School to inaugerate a Broadcastirg Unit. celebrations As an

The Broadcasting Uuit of Ananda College is Kept busy th ough

out the Calender by such events mentioned and many more that

are not

Ultimately The Broad casting Unit becomes one of The most

active organizations at Ananda.

As it has been for the past 22 Years, in the 23rd and in the years

to come, May the unit be kept busy, like wise with the

Blessings of Ananda

Shyamajanaka Makalanda

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am indeed privilledged to write this message. Being a a member of the Broadcasting Unit is considered a greet honour to

any Anandian.

This year the Anniversary cele brations are organized to

commemorate its completion of 22 years of dedicated Service to Ananda.

This Workshop and The Pannel Discusion is the most important event in the Annivereary Celebrations. It is organized to keep the

modern generation informed about the techniques of broadcasting and its importance.

As done every year this year too we extened our assistance to

another school to inaugerate a Broadcasting Unit I wish to Thank specaily to Mr. Sirimewan Bibile for sponsoring our sticker which was a dream of us I thank all the lecturers and guests for their kind co-operaction and all the spensors too

Without the help of Ven. Maha Sangha, The principal, Deputy principals, College Staft, Our Staff advisors, members and many others who helped me in organizing, this Anniversary Celebrations wouldn't have been success,

I sincerely wish that the audiance will find it very informative

and interesting as much as we hope the workeshop to be

I thank everybody for being present.

Shyamajanaka Makalanda

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From The President of the Broadeasting Unit

nembers of the Broadcasting Unit of Ananda College, perform a vital role in

ge. It is worth considerina for a moment what is the meaning of so important a ole

ur unit that facilitates the transmission of ideas, facts, opinions, and teelngs o

ge so cieties, clubs and managsment, For it is our unit which facilitates the muTua

nange of informatlon, which is essential for the smooth motion of the fly-wheel of

College administration.

ne duty of a member of the Broadcasting Unit is that which requires hard-work,

intelligence, tact, knowledge and wisdom. The duty comes with responsibility, and trust, and though it has its toil and tears, it also has its fair share of glamour and recongnition However the chief characteristics of a member of the unit is his humbleness. and his

ability to make every opportunity to educate himself.

By being a member of another club in college, might eventually succeed in molding a character Ilike that of a pearl, which shines best in daylight, but being a member of the Broadecasting Unit will embody a character like that of a diamond, which shines best

in varying light.

With the coming of the age of information technology and cyberspace, I foresee an

interesting and dynamic change in the fiold of information dissemination. And I hope that our college unit will adopt to that change, and continue to produce many revolutionary Broadcasters and Communicators like it has done so far.

I would also like to take this opportunity to wish our beloved former co teacher in charge Mrs. Manel Fernando a pleasant retirement, and extend a warm welcome to our new co-master in charge Mr. M. A. Sumanapala Also I extend our gratitude and appreciation to our dear Mrs Ranjani Wijeratne who has been with us through thick and thin as one of our co-teachers- in charge throughout. I would also like to recognise the tireless and selfless efforts of Project Chairman Shaymajanaka Makalanda (Marky) and his committee.

Finally , wish all of you here an educative, and enjoyable day.

Kaveenga M. Wijayasekara President 94/95

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