Standards:crest and flag

History of the Crest

Sunflower and Bee (Early days)

The college crest was the Sunflower and the Bee from the early days of the school.

Standing Lion and the Dagaba (After 1933-1937)

In 1933 The College Union was started with the aim of managing the college activities. The college crest in the present form with lion and dagaba was designed by the College Union Council between the period of 1933 - 1937 (no reference to exact year or date is found). The crest was designed by Mr. D.B.Ranaraja an Old Boy of the College (at the time he was the Secretary of the council).

Ref: Pg. 69 Golden Jubilee Souvenir

Redrawn by including artistic features in 1952

Mt T.B Karunarathna who was a teacher of the college and later became the Director of Arts, of the Education Department has redrawn the crest in 1952. Ref: Documentations of standardization of the crest and the flag in 2000. Donated to the Archives by Mr J.B.Herath

Standardization 2000

The college crest and the flag is standardized in 2000 by a group of eminent old boys under the presidentship of Mr. Gamini Gunawardhene and officially accepted by the OBU and the college.

Committee

• Mr. Gamini Gunawardhana (President and concepts)
• Mr. T.B. Karunarathna (Art work)
• Dr. H.S.S. Nisshanka (Art work)
• Mr. J.B. Herath (Drawings of the Art work)
• Mr. Gunathilake Munasinghe (Concepts)
• Mr. D.J. Perera (Concepts)
• Mr. Asela Nawarathna (Concepts)
• Mr. K.M.R. Kulatunga (Computer graphics)
• Mr. Jayampathi Heenekenda (Computer graphics)
• Mr. Niel Perera (Computer graphics)

Standard Crest and Flag

The stranded coloured logo

The stranded coloured crest

The standard lineart crest

Use of Crest

Edited by Kamalanath Samarakoon