| 词条 | Kingsley C. Dassanaike |
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| name = Kingsley Clarence Dassanaike | image = Kingsley C. Dassenaike.png | caption = 1st Bronze Wolf in Sri Lanka | othername = Dusty/Dassy[1] | birth_date = | birth_place = }} Kingsley Clarence Dassanaike ({{IPAc-en|d|ə|s|ə|'|n|aɪ|ə|k|ə}} {{Respell|də|sə|NY|ə|kə}} Sinhala: කිංස්ලි ක්ලැරන්ස් දසනායක; {{lang-ta|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,[3][4] and served as the Chairman of the Extension Scout Committee for handicapped Scouts of the World Organization of the Scout Movement[3] 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 lifeDassanaike began Scouting as a Cub Scout at 15th Colombo at Mount Lavinia on June 19, 1919, under Charles P. Dharmakirti.[4] 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.[5] 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.[6][7] At the 1947 6th World Scout Jamboree in France, he was in charge of the British Contingent of Handicapped Scouts.[8] 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.[9] Upon his return to Sri Lanka, he assisted in revising “Scouting for Boys” in the Sinhalese language.[1] Sinhala Braille systemIn 1947, Dassanaike, principal of the school for the blind at Ratmalana,[10] introduced a Sinhala braille code influenced by the English braille code.[11][12] In 1952, a universally accepted Braille system was introduced by UNESCO.[13][14] Further he was Vice-President of the World Council for the Welfare of the Blind.[15] Later life in ScoutingIn 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,[16][20][17] the only Sri Lankan thus awarded to date. References1. ^1 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. ^D.C.O.T. Ameresekere (1969), Fifty Years in Scout Service. Sri Lanka Scout Association. p. 1 4. ^D.C.O.T. Ameresekere (1969), Fifty Years in Scout Service. Sri Lanka Scout Association. p. 1 5. ^D.C.O.T. Ameresekere (1969), Fifty Years in Scout Service. Sri Lanka Scout Association. p. 1 6. ^scout.org 7. ^scout.org 8. ^D.C.O.T. Ameresekere (1969), Fifty Years in Scout Service. Sri Lanka Scout Association. p. 1 9. ^Pg. No 105 of the Sri Lanka Scout Association Golden Jubilee Souvenir 1962 10. ^https://www.freunde-der-dzb.de/files/papers_topic_6_weerawardhana.doc 11. ^1 Dassanaike K.C., (1960) Sinhala Braille kramaya. 12. ^1 [https://www.jstor.org/stable/2943058?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents Bibliography] UNESCO, 1956. xxvii, 139 p. (UNESCO ... (1956), 97-104. UNESCO international seminar on public ...... DASSENAIKE, KINGSLEY C. 13. ^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" 14. ^UNESCO, 1953, pp 27–28 15. ^https://nfb.org/Images/nfb/Publications/bm/Abm/bm1958/BrailleMonitorApril1958.html 16. ^Dr. László Nagy, 250 Million Scouts, The World Scout Foundation and Dartnell Publishers, 1985 Pg. 221 17. ^1 [https://www.scout.org/BronzeWolfAward/list Official List of Bronze Wolf Awardees, scout.org] External links{{Portal bar|Disability|Scouting}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Dassanaike, Kingsley C.}}{{Scout-bio-stub}}{{SriLanka-bio-stub}} 4 : Recipients of the Bronze Wolf Award|Scouting and Guiding in Sri Lanka|1914 births|Possibly living people |
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