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Mission with a vision
Daily News (via HT Media Ltd.)
Every generation produces leaders. However visionary leaders such as Head Boy Keynula Alahakoon and Head Girl Shelina Fernando of Gateway College, Negombo, are a rarity. Perfect Prefects features the two heads who give the youth a vision, a purpose and a destiny.
“The Greek leader that I admire the most is Leonidas, King of Sparta. I am amazed by the courage and leadership that he possessed. I am a big fan of the Battle of Thermopylae. The Greek resistance tried to halt Persian progress on land at the narrow pass of Thermopylae. Leonidas marched at the head of 7000 Greek men including 300 Spartans. King Xerxes of Persia had anywhere from 70,000 to 300,000. The Greeks were betrayed. Dismissing the rest of the army, King Leonidas stayed behind with 300 Spartans and 1100 Greeks. It was one of the most famous last stands of history.