Michael Roberts
Vernon Regis was my senior team-mate in the cricket and soccer teams of St Aloysius in Galle for a couple of years. A left-hand batsmen with a sound technique and a medium-pace bowler, Vernon was an asset to any cricketing team. We lost touch in the decades that followed; but the subsequent accounts of his life’s work — with one detailed tale by Ivan Kevitiyagala in the Daily Mirror reprinted in TPS (see https://thuppahis.com/2019/03/02/jesuit-priest-extraordinary-fr-vernon-regis-s-j/…) providing readers with useful details.
The presentation here today is more pictorial than affirmative in ink. Pictures do convey meaning. They demonstrate that Vernon has pursued a meaningful life in Canada and Sri Lanka. He can now rest in peace.
