Leo club of University of Moratuwa organized a lecture on the topic of “SINA PIPENA ME WASANTHAYA”. Our
guest lecturer was prof. Kusuma Karunaratne who was the first female professor
of Sinhala Language. She has authored so many research publications and
translated books and classical works form Sinhala to English and vice versa.
More than that, she has conducted a series of programs over the radio and
television on language, culture, society, ethics and gender issues. That was
the main reason to select Prof. Kusuma Karunaratne as our guest lecturer.
As an undergraduate I have met with varied fellow
undergraduates throughout my university life who has messed up as a student
because of various problems such as broken love affairs, drug addiction,
stress, family and social problems and etc... I really wanted to do something
against this and prevent them from ruining the valuable gift they got; the
university education. As a Leo I thought to arrange a lecture regarding above
situation. When I was thinking of a proper resource person for the lecture,
Prof. Kusuma Karunaratne’s name came to my mind at once because of her
popularity in conducting such lectures. I forwarded my idea to my club members
to get their opinions and all of them agreed to organize a guest lecture at
university premises.
The lecture was continued throughout more than one and half hours with
the participation of about two hundred Leos, Leo prospects, university
lecturers and students. Her experiences and advices as a lecturer in
university, as a beloved wife of a great person and as a good mother of two
engineers was a great help for the audience to make their paths in the right
way. As the chairman of the project I’m very happy to say that the event was a
very successful one. The lecture was done mainly targeting the fresher’s batch
and there was a good participation of them to the lecture. No one was shouting
and sleeping throughout the lecture. Most of the audience encouraged me to do
such projects again and again in the university.
We were
able to achieve all of our goals in this event. We were able to make a huge
sound about our club inside the university again as usual. All the participants
obtained some invaluable thoughts which are essential for their future lives.
Finally the project came to its end as another great social service which was
conducted by the Leo Club of University of Moratuwa.
