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Longtime diplomat and educator Patrick Mendis retains strong ties to Minnesota
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'The roots that hold the tree' — Mendis, first-ever Perham exchange student, gets Lifetime Achievement Award
Patrick Mendis, who first arrived in Perham from Sri Lanka in 1978, recently received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Sri Lanka Foundation for his years in government and educational work.
Source: perhamfocus.com
Visionary Educators: Trilicia Gunawardena at Govt. College of Art & Crafts – Part II
(Part I of this article appeared on 04 June) by Laleen Jayamanne A.J. Gunawardena wrote art criticism for The Island newspaper under the pseudonym Jayadeva. In his 1997 (22/6) review of Sarath Chandrajeewa’s third solo exhibition, ‘Art in Pottery’ (sponsored by the Lionel Wendt Gallery and Nihal Fernando of Studio Times), he lays out a […]
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Mondale and me: Former area student remembers interactions with vice president
In the early morning of April 20, I awoke in Taiwan to a dreaded phone call from Minnesota to learn about the passing of Walter âFritzâ Mondale, the former vice president to President Jimmy Carter. Born in Ceylon, a small town in southern Minnesota, Mondale lived to 93 â having served as a Minnesota attorney general, United States senator and ambassador to Japan. Indeed, Mondale and I hardly had anything in common â except we were destined to share history through Ceylon and Taiwan. Like Mondale, I was born in Ceylon. Mine was a British colony, which later changed its...
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