Tummalapalli Sri Harinarayana Pantulu
1885-1950
1. Grand father : Balaramaiah, an Advocate by profession migrated from Gurazala to Bezwada
2. Parents: Venkata Ramanaiah Pantulu & Mahalakshmamma. Both were deeply religious, pious and were liberal minded by nature. They had four sons & two daughters
a. Eldest son: Balaramaiah; passed away due to TB. Not married.
b. Second son : Name not mentioned
c. Third son : Sri Harinarayana
d. Jagannadham : adopted to paternal uncle, Gopala Krishna Murthy

Hence No: b and c were the sole inheritors to the paternal property, the present site where the Home is located.
Sri Harinarayana Garu bought his only surviving (No: b above) brother's share. He constructed his residence (two storeyed building) in 1940 and named it “Sri Hari Nivas” which he gifted to the Students Home in 1946.

An eminent ‘Physician & Surgeon’ by profession with a spirit for public service and generosity and a person of righteousness with frugal habits. Sri (Dr) Tummalapalli Sri Hari Narayana Pantulu Garu was born on 08-10-1885 in the then Bezwada. After passing matriculation, he studied B.A., with Physics in the Christian College, Madras. He secured FIRST class and later studied L.M.&S. He was recruited to the Medical Department in the then Madras Presidency in the year 1911.

He married Annapurnamma Garu, daughter of Shri Patibandla Venkata Subbiah of Telaprolu village Krishna (Dt) in 1912.

He worked in the Medical Department in various posts: Assistant Surgeon, Lecturer in Medicine in the then Medical Schools at Royapettah – (Madras and Tanjore). He rose to the rank of DMO (District Medical Officer), worked in the districts of Cuddapah (now Kadapa), Nellore and West Godavari and retired in 1940. He was re-appointed in 1941 as DMO, Eluru because of exigencies of World Was II. He finally retired in March 1944. He constructed his own building ‘Sri Hari Nivas’ (in which the present Students Home is housed) and settled in the then Bezwada. Unfortunately his beloved wife passed away in April 1945. He had no children.

The altruist nature of the doctor drove him to start a Free Home for College-going-Brahmin Students in 1946 associating it with the name of his pre-deceased wife. That was how the great service – oriented charitable cum academic institution came into existence on 08-11-1946.

He gifted his own house ‘Sri Hari Nivas’ and name it Srimati Tummalapalli Annapurnamma Students Home (STAS Home).

He was a great Philanthropist comparable only to the mythological figures like Dadhichi, Sibi, Bali and Karna of Mahabharata fame. He gifted his entire property to many public purposes. The lions share of which had been earmarked to the STAS Home. He maintained a library of his own with books on Medicine. Ramayana, Mahabharata, Bhagavad-Gita and teachings of great religious preachers Vivekananda, Rama Krishna Paramahamsa & Bhavans Journal of Sri K.M.Munshi etc. He gifted the books to the STAS Home.