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Assembly In Memory of Bryan Claessen

On 19th March 2010, Wesley held an Assembly to offer prayers and remember our hero and Cricket Legend Bryan Claessen.

The below pictures are of the ceremony held.

 The Principal addressing the assembly and Mr. L.R.Gunathileke speaking during the remembrance Ceremony

 

 Elton Bryan Claessen

 

Capt of the 1st Eleven team hoisting the college flag

   

 

 

 

An Extract taken from a letter sent by Bryan in tribute to Dr. Lou Adhihetty –

 It is however time for me to bring this my final tribute to my dear friend Lou to a close with a poem I wrote some years ago titled “A Journey’s End”

and I’d like to share it with all “Wesleyites”.

 

Death is so universal,
Death, so inevitable.
We like the bright flowers of the field
Must bloom and we must all then yield.
 
Should we train ourselves to deal
With such loss and not feel?
Do we now search our minds
For answers of more logical kinds?
 
For the departed we weep.
Should we grieve so very deep?
Is there no faith to shed a tear,
For one that is to us so dear?
 
There is no faith diminished,
To cry when life is finished.
There was a lesson to be seen
-         When “He wept”.
The Son of God – The Nazarene.

 May His Soul Rest In Peace