Wesley College Colombo Archives

The Monday Morning assembly in 1953..

Try to recognize anyone in the picture and comment..!

Writing of Rev. Highfield in his last days.

Support staff in 1948

1961 soccer team.

orn in India to Francis and Beatrice Tampoe Philips, Jayatri is the younger sister of the famed lawyer and trade Unionist Bala Tampoe. Jayatri attended school in Ceylon and studied at Ladies College Colombo, Newstead College Negombo (during the war) and finally Methodist College, Colombo.

At the age of 18, Jayatri joined the Royal Air Force; which perhaps accounts for her interest in matters aviation. Leaving the RAF after the war, she worked as the secretary to Revd. James Cartman, Principal of Wesley College. She then joined Air Ceylon as their first Stewardess. An emotional high for Jayatri during her tenure in Air Ceylon was when she met and married the most influential pilot of the time - Capt Peter Fernando.