Cannabis Ruderalis

thcscience_admin
Browse history interactively
← Previous editNext edit →
Content deleted Content added
VisualWikitext
Samsara (talk | contribs)
27,603 edits
m Removed protection from "Kingsley C. Dassanaike": dispute seems to be settled
fixing cite
Line 9: Line 9:
}}
}}


'''Kingsley Clarence Dassanaike''' ({{IPAc-en|d|ə|s|ə|'|n|aɪ|ə|k|ə}} {{Respell|də-sə|NEYE|ə-kə}} [[Sinhalese language|Sinhala]]: කිංස්ලි ක්ලැරන්ස් දසනායක; {{lang-ta|தசநாயக்க கிளாரென்ஸ் கிங்ஸ்லி}} [[Moratuwa]], Sri Lanka June 19, 1914-), the first non-foreign Principal of the [http://csdeafblind.lk/index.php Ceylon School for the Deaf & Blind] in [[Ratmalana]], [[Sri Lanka]]<ref>http://www.sundaytimes.lk/071028/Plus/plus00013.html</ref> was the inventor of the [[Sinhalese Braille]] system,{{citation needed|date=December 2016}} and served as the Chairman of the [[Extension Scouting|Extension Scout Committee]] for handicapped Scouts of the [[World Organization of the Scout Movement]]<ref name="awardees">[https://www.scout.org/BronzeWolfAward/list Official List of Bronze Wolf Awardees, scout.org]</ref> as well as National Headquarters Commissioner, District Commissioner for [[Colombo]] of the [[Sri Lanka Scout Association]] from 1958 to 1963 and acting District Commissioner of [[Moratuwa]]–[[Piliyandala]] in the 1960s.
'''Kingsley Clarence Dassanaike''' ({{IPAc-en|d|ə|s|ə|'|n|aɪ|ə|k|ə}} {{Respell|də-sə|NEYE|ə-kə}} [[Sinhalese language|Sinhala]]: කිංස්ලි ක්ලැරන්ස් දසනායක; {{lang-ta|தசநாயக்க கிளாரென்ஸ் கிங்ஸ்லி}} [[Moratuwa]], Sri Lanka June 19, 1914-), the first non-foreign Principal of the [http://csdeafblind.lk/index.php Ceylon School for the Deaf & Blind] in [[Ratmalana]], [[Sri Lanka]]<ref>http://www.sundaytimes.lk/071028/Plus/plus00013.html</ref> was the inventor of the [[Sinhalese Braille]] system,{{citation needed|date=December 2016}} and served as the Chairman of the [[Extension Scouting|Extension Scout Committee]] for handicapped Scouts of the [[World Organization of the Scout Movement]]<ref name="Ameresekere">D.C.O.T. Ameresekere (1969), Fifty Years in Scout Service. Sri Lanka Scout Association. p. 1</ref> as well as National Headquarters Commissioner, District Commissioner for [[Colombo]] of the [[Sri Lanka Scout Association]] from 1958 to 1963 and acting District Commissioner of [[Moratuwa]]–[[Piliyandala]] in the 1960s.


==Early life==
==Early life==
Line 20: Line 20:


==Later life in Scouting==
==Later life in Scouting==
In 1972, he was awarded the 76th ''[[Bronze Wolf]]'', the only distinction of the [[World Organization of the Scout Movement]], awarded at the 24th World Scout Conference in Nairobi, Kenya by the World Scout Committee for exceptional services to world Scouting,<ref>Dr. László Nagy, ''250 Million Scouts'', The [[World Scout Foundation]] and Dartnell Publishers, 1985 Pg. 221</ref><ref name="awardees"/> the only Sri Lankan thus awarded to date.
In 1972, he was awarded the 76th ''[[Bronze Wolf]]'', the only distinction of the [[World Organization of the Scout Movement]], awarded at the 24th World Scout Conference in Nairobi, Kenya by the World Scout Committee for exceptional services to world Scouting,<ref>Dr. László Nagy, ''250 Million Scouts'', The [[World Scout Foundation]] and Dartnell Publishers, 1985 Pg. 221</ref><ref name="awardees"/><ref name="awardees">[https://www.scout.org/BronzeWolfAward/list Official List of Bronze Wolf Awardees, scout.org]</ref> the only Sri Lankan thus awarded to date.


==References==
==References==

Revision as of 04:13, 16 January 2017

Kingsley Clarence Dassanaike
1st Bronze Wolf in Sri Lanka
Born(1914-06-19)19 June 1914
Moratuwa, Sri Lanka
Other namesDusty/Dassy[1]

Kingsley Clarence Dassanaike (/dəsəˈnaɪəkə/ də-sə-NEYE-ə-kə Sinhala: කිංස්ලි ක්ලැරන්ස් දසනායක; Tamil: தசநாயக்க கிளாரென்ஸ் கிங்ஸ்லி Moratuwa, Sri Lanka June 19, 1914-), the first non-foreign Principal of the Ceylon School for the Deaf & Blind in Ratmalana, Sri Lanka[2] was the inventor of the Sinhalese Braille system,[citation needed] and served as the Chairman of the Extension Scout Committee for handicapped Scouts of the World Organization of the Scout Movement[1] as well as National Headquarters Commissioner, District Commissioner for Colombo of the Sri Lanka Scout Association from 1958 to 1963 and acting District Commissioner of Moratuwa–Piliyandala in the 1960s.

Early life

Dassanaike began Scouting as a Cub Scout at 15th Colombo at Mount Lavinia on June 19, 1919, under Charles P. Dharmakirti.[1] During the course of his Scouting career he worked to promote Scouting for the deaf and blind alongside Edmund Godfrey-Faussett, Charles Dymoke Green, Jr., E. W. Kannangara, and Yorihiro Matsudaira, who would later found the Nippon Agoonoree based on their work together.[1] He participated and read papers at International Scout Conferences on the subject of handicapped Scouting in New Delhi and Manila, visited Thailand, Kenya and Uganda to promote the subject, and had his greatest success in Hong Kong.[3][4] At the 1947 6th World Scout Jamboree in France, he was in charge of the British Contingent of Handicapped Scouts.[1] He was attached to Third Handicapped Group in Birmingham, while serving at the Boy Scouts International Bureau in London, and by the time of the 1957 9th World Scout Jamboree at Sutton Park, he served in a Special Committee attached to the International Advisory Bureau for Handicapped Scouts.[5] Upon his return to Sri Lanka, he assisted in revising “Scouting for Boys” in the Sinhalese language.[1]

Sinhala Braille system

In 1947, Dassanaike, principal of the school for the blind at Ratmalana,[6] introduced a Sinhala braille code influenced by the English braille code.[7][8] In 1952, a universally accepted Braille system was introduced by UNESCO.[9][10] Further he was Vice-President of the World Council for the Welfare of the Blind.[11]

Later life in Scouting

In 1972, he was awarded the 76th Bronze Wolf, the only distinction of the World Organization of the Scout Movement, awarded at the 24th World Scout Conference in Nairobi, Kenya by the World Scout Committee for exceptional services to world Scouting,[12][13][13] the only Sri Lankan thus awarded to date.

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f D.C.O.T. Ameresekere (1969), Fifty Years in Scout Service. Sri Lanka Scout Association. p. 1
  2. ^ http://www.sundaytimes.lk/071028/Plus/plus00013.html
  3. ^ scout.org
  4. ^ scout.org
  5. ^ Pg. No 105 of the Sri Lanka Scout Association Golden Jubilee Souvenir 1962
  6. ^ https://www.freunde-der-dzb.de/files/papers_topic_6_weerawardhana.doc
  7. ^ Dassanaike K.C., (1960) Sinhala Braille kramaya.
  8. ^ https://www.jstor.org/stable/2943058?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents UNESCO, 1956. xxvii, 139 p. (UNESCO ... (1956), 97-104. UNESCO international seminar on public ...... DASSENAIKE, KINGSLEY C.
  9. ^ UNESCO/MC/Conf.9/10 Paris, 8 December 1950 "Interim Memorandum on Uniform Braille for India and South East Asia, with due reference to its Co-ordinated Relationship to the Braille of Other Areas" p. 2/3 section "Ceylon"
  10. ^ UNESCO, 1953, pp 27–28
  11. ^ https://nfb.org/Images/nfb/Publications/bm/Abm/bm1958/BrailleMonitorApril1958.html
  12. ^ Dr. László Nagy, 250 Million Scouts, The World Scout Foundation and Dartnell Publishers, 1985 Pg. 221
  13. ^ a b Official List of Bronze Wolf Awardees, scout.org

External links


Template:Sri Lanka-bio-stub

source: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kingsley_C._Dassanaike&diff=760301552&oldid=760298997

Leave a Reply