College History at a glance

Year Event
1820 Rev. Miron Winslow and Ms. Harriet Winslow gain a glimpse of their future home
1823 Decision to have the 'Female Central School' at Oodooville
1824 Uduvil Girls' College, the oldest girls' boarding school in Asia founded, with Ms. Harriet Winslow as its first Principal.
1832 Sixty on roll.
1835 A little English included in the course of study, Astronomy was introduced to combat superstition!
1839 Ms. Eliza Agnew succeeds Ms. Harriet Winslow as Principal.
1840 A hundred students on roll.
1874 Jubilee Meeting, over 300 Old Girls present with gifts of jewels diamond earrings, necklaces etc. to make Uduvil an endowed college.
1880 Ms. Susan Howland succeeds Ms. Eliza Agnew as Principal. A new set of classrooms dedicated.
1883 The whole school gathers for the first time in the new hall.
1885 The first girls' training school in the North started by the Leitch sisters.
1886 The inauguration of the first Christian Endeavour Society in Asia. A picnic for the whole school provided in 23 carts!
1897 The English school formally launched.
1899 Calcutta Entrance Examination introduced.
1903 The first Student Council meets.
1906 The first Cambridge class is formed.
1910 A sick room with a school nurse provided.
1911 Ms. Lulu Bookwalter succeeds Ms. Susan Howland as Principal.
1914 The library is gifted by Dr. T. B. Scott. Senior Cambridge classes organized.
1915 Ms. J. H. Dickson and Ms. Mary Paul Fry start the Kindergarten -the first in the North. Ms. Freda Hacker takes charge of Western Music.
1916 Student Christian Association formed. Art Department opened. Rhetoricals introduced.
1917 Ms. Lucy K. Clark, a trained Kindergarten teacher takes charge of the Kindergarten.
1919 A two storied row of six modern classrooms built. For the first time, two students of the school enter University.
1920 Alumnae Association founded. A new dormitory opened - McLaughlin House.
1921 Eliathamby House for 'Under 10' opened. Girl Guide Company formed. Country Dancing introduced. School Band started.
1922 Teachers' Forum constituted. Tennis Club formed. First model Kindergarten in the North built.
1923 Domestic Science introduced.
1924 Domestic Science Cottage opened.
1925 Centenary celebrations. First Netball team plays Kandy High School.
1926 Ms. Iswariam Rajadurai takes charge of Indian Dancing and Veena lessons.
1927 First school magazine in print.
1936 Lewis Bookwalter House opened for Senior girls.
1937 Bookwalter Silver Jubilee celebrations.
1940 Uduvil installs own electricity supply.
1941 Ms. Ariam Hudson Paramasamy succeeds Ms. Lulu Bookwalter as Principal. Students from Uduvil Girls' College enter the Medical faculty of the Ceylon University for the first time.
1944 The first All-Island Bible School organized by Rev. Dr. D, T. Niles.
1945 Uduvil accepts free education.
1947 G.C.E. A/L classes started- school upgraded. Uduvil hosts a public reception to felicitate the first Bishop of the Jaffna Diocese of the Church of South India (JDCSI)- Rt. Rev. Dr. S. Kulandran.
1950 125th Anniversary celebrated. A special train to Jaffna for the first time! The tourist saloon bearing the name "Uduvil Special, 125th Anniversary" arrives bringing the PPA, Colombo Branch. Visit of Sri Lanka's first Prime Minister- Rt. Hon. D. S. Senanayake.
1951 Dedication of the Chapel.
1953 Electricity and pipe borne water supplied to the whole school and modern sanitary facilities provided to the hostel. Boundary wall around the school completed.
1985 Lower school building remodeled and a new block opened, Dwight House added. Arrival of "Ripples" the College van.
1960 Uduvil Girls' College opts to be a private, non-fee levying school.
1969 Opening of the Bookwalter Memorial Administration Block.
1970 Ms. Saraswathy Somasundaram succeeds Ms. Ariam Paramasamy as Principal.
1971 Secretarial Studies introduced.
1973 Launching of short term programmes for high school students from the United States.
1974 Silver Jubilee celebration. Opening of the rebuilt Jubilee Hall by Dr. Telfer Mooke (Asia Secretary, UCBWM). Redesigning and expansion of school library.
1976 Christopher van Hollen, US Ambassador to Sri Lanka visits the school and lays a wreath on the grave of Ms. Harriet Winslow. Ms. Joann Snider, new missionary, arrives at Uduvil in September.
1977 The school presents the first candidate for the Chamber of Commerce Examination. French classes begin with 32 students. Ms. Helen Meisner arrives as the Missionary for the Kindergarten.
1978 Uduvilites sit for the first French Examination.
1979 Dr. Robert Holmes and Ms. Frances Holmes take up residence at Uduvil.
1980 A new Activity Reading Room for the Kindergarten Department.
1981 Opening of the Ariam Hudson Paramasamy Memorial Hostel. The school is registered as a centre for the London Pitman's Examinations. Mr. and Mrs. Knolls arrive at Uduvil to work in Killinochchi.
1982 Dr. C. V. Selliah succeeds Ms. Saraswathy Somasundaram as Principal.
1983 Uduvil opens her portals for refugees. Number on roll soars. Further Education Programme initiated for school leavers.
1985 Susan Howland Block opened for the Primary School. The school wins first place in Folk Dancing and Carnatic Singing.
1986 American Ambassador visits Uduvil again. Uduvil shines in A-Level results - first place in the Commerce section island-wide. The school participates and wins first place at the Shakespeare Contest.
1988 Uduvil gets computerized! Computer is introduced in the secondary school. One man theatre given pride of place.
1991 Celebrating 175 years of Missionary arrival in Jaffna.
1999 Uduvil celebrates its 175th year - festivities extend to PPA branches in Colombo, Melbourne, Sydney, and Canada.
2001 Opening of the Harriet Winslow Memorial Science Block by visiting Trustees of Jaffna College Funds. Visit of the American Ambassador H. E. Ashley Wills. Opening of the Gender Resource Centre by H. E. Ruth Archibald, Canadian High Commissioner. Arrival of Ms. Grace Bunker, Missionary.
2002 A Basketball court is opened in the school. Service of Remembrance held for the lives of Dr. Robert Holmes and Ms. Frances Holmes.
2003 The Primary School gets a new look.
2004 The Netball U.17 team reaches the finals of the National Level Competition.
2005 Ms. Shiranee Mills succeeds Dr. C. V. Selliah as Principal. Basketball played at National Level for the first time. Senior Poetic Shakespeare Drama - Provincial Champions - a first. First place and Gold medalist at the National Level individual Oriental Dance. Junior laboratory established. Uduvil bids sad goodbye to Ms. Grace Bunker, Missionary.
2006 G. C. E. Advanced Level Examination results - seven 3As. Badminton and Basketball Provincial Champions. Winner at National Level in Basketball. Arrival of Ms. Jane Cook, Missionary. Uduvil Girls’ College, proud to host the South Asian Countries Girls’ Brigade Camp. Entrance of the first batch of students into the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Jaffna.
2007 Netball team Provincial Champions. Hockey team Provincial Champions. Cricket team Provincial Champions. Arrival of Ms. Amanda Campeau, Missionary.
2008 The first Medical Graduates from Uduvil Girls’ College. Uduvil Girls’ College, the only school to offer A/L subjects in Commerce with Accountancy, Law and Economics in Northern Province.
   
2010 The yearlong celebration of the School’s 185th year begins. Three A/L students placed in the District Merit List. First in Volleyball at Zonal Level. First in Badminton at Zonal Level. Arrival of Ms. Sarah Godwin, Missionary.
2011 First in Netball at Zonal Level. National Level Prize winner in Art Competition. Volleyball and Netball teams placed in District Merit List. Arrival of Ms. Eileen Gerber, Missionary.
2012  The new three-storied classroom building opened. The first in Badminton at District Level. Second in Netball at Zonal Level. Arrival of Ms. Rachel Babcock, Missionary.
   
   
   
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2023 Miss Rosana Mathuramathy Kulendran succeeds Dr.Mrs Suneetha Jebaratnam as principal