BERNARD VANCUYLENBURG – SACKOBA

Monkey Business & Miraculous Escape

BERNARD VANCUYLENBURG — Thu, 30 Sep 2021 12:22:40 +0000

Monkey Business Permit me to turn back the pages of time and take our minds back to the third week in January 1951 when Chris Duff-Tytler and I were in “The Rainbow Cottage”. This was my first year in college at 6 years of age. Our warden in “The Rainbow” was Reverend Brother Hugh, in […]

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Moments of Mirth

BERNARD VANCUYLENBURG — Thu, 30 Sep 2021 11:56:05 +0000

Any Hollywood writer of comedy scripts would have come up with box office record breakers had he or she spent some time at St.Anthony’s College, especially in the boarding. Humourous incidents, hilarious escapades, and anecdotes were an integral part of boarding life, and after all these years, they still live in the collective Anthonian memory. […]

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The Katu Bridge

BERNARD VANCUYLENBURG — Sun, 19 Sep 2021 20:06:15 +0000

Ask any Antonian to name the bridge that is dear to him, and the answer would undoubtedly be “The Katugastota Bridge” or better still “The Katu Bridge” as it was affectionately known. This bridge still stands as a testimony to the splendid ambitions and fortitude to the men engaged in its construction. To Antonians, it […]

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Under the spreading tamarind tree Antonian memories were nurtured

BERNARD VANCUYLENBURG — Sun, 19 Sep 2021 19:20:36 +0000

The year is 1954. The place, standard 4 in the lower school of St Anthony’s college. The protagonists, a stern Mr P. B. A. Weerakoon taking the English lesson, a schoolboy standing before the class trembling in his Bata shoes, and the rest of the students, this writer included, quaking in their seats anticipating the […]

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Captain Courageous – Glory Days: Reliving the batting exploits of Charlie Joseph

BERNARD VANCUYLENBURG — Sun, 19 Sep 2021 19:14:50 +0000

With grateful appreciation to Tilak Pananwela. The title I originally chose for this article was Two Days in March when I realised that a few years ago, there was a movie with a name that was almost similar – I think it was Two Days in May. So Glory Days it is. Those who witnessed the cricket encounter between St Anthony’s and […]

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