The Hardy Alumni Association launched its own website on 2nd September 2001 on the website hosting service - Geocities. Our URL is http://www.geocities.com/hardyalumni, and our email address is [email protected]

The Hardy Institute, Ampara, is celebrating its Golden Jubilee. The Hardy Alumni Association is planning a series of events on 7th, 8th and 9th July 2006. The main event will be a function on 8th July 2006 at 3PM at the Institute Auditorium at Ampara. We have invited a large number of Guests for this function. The Hon. Minister of Education and Higher Education, Susil Premajayantha and the High Commissioner of Canada have already confirmed their participation. We are expecting a large gathering of Hardians including Hardians from the first batch. Some of the events planned are: an exhibition of Agricultural items, Agriculture Machinery and Engineering items, Seminars, Lectures, Competitions, Carnivals, Musical Shows etc. All Hardians are invited.

A CD-ROM is in the process of being created including all the photographs on this site plus lots more, a complete video of Prof. Hardy's funeral, write-ups and articles, and a comprehensive membership database. This CD will be available for sale shortly. Please contact us for further information.

A one day workshop on the use of the Hardy Alumni Association web site was held on the 2nd of September. Members of the the Hardy Alumni Association were introduced to basic Internet concepts and on how to use and navigate the Hardy Alumni Association's website, which incidentally, was also launched on the same day. Photos of this event will be posted to the website as soon as possible.

A video of Prof Evan A Hardy's funeral was posted on the website of the Hardy Alumni Association. Due to bandwidth constraints of the internet, the quality of the video on the website is a tad low. However, the video does give a preview of the digitally enhanced and edited video that is slated for release on CD-ROM by HAA in the near future.