Circular No 125

Newsletter for past alumni of The Abbey School, Mt. St. Benedict, Trinidad and Tobago, W.I.
Caracas, 27 of March 2004. Circular No. 125

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Dear Friends,
I am enclosing a couple of notes from Brian Goddard, who went on a short trip up the islands. These were written in Spanish. Please forgive me for the translation; I was sick on the week the subject was being thought!

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From: "Brian Goddard" <briangoddard@oterca.com>
Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2004 14:01:49 -0400

Ladislao:
Yes, certainly, Richard lives in Florida but he was in Trinidad for vacations at the moment of the photo, and Randy Galt was not in it because he is a hardened player of the poker and that day prefered the game than to meet with us. Maybe next time there won´t be any poker game and I´ll get to see Randal ("Swami"). I shall keep you informed when I shall return from my next visit to Trinidad at the beginning of March. Thanks for the photo of class 58, they are just a little bit older than we. I recognize the mayority but I do not remember many of them. Do you have the names as indicated by the numbers? ( No. I have only some of the names, the mayority have not replied, or maybe they do not recognize themselves, ed.) Good Ladislao, I think that I have to go to Caracas once or twice before my trip and I will call you with anticipation, ok. I spoke with Farcheg a couple of weeks ago and he mentioned that they thought of meeting and that he would call me to confirm the date and he has not done so. Did they meet or have not done so as yet.?? (The old old boys are suffering from stress so that for the last 6 months there has been no meeting. Ed.)
Please call me when they are going to meet as this would give me a good excuse to program a reunion with my company and to go to Caracas on that day. Please advise me, ok. - On your friend Steven Tempro in Barbados, I shall try to look him up when in Barbados. I do not know if of Peter Boose is somebody from Trinidad or Barbados. If he is from Trinidad like I believe he is, is because I knew a Boos when I was at the Mount and I have a curiosity to know if they are family? (Peter Boos is in Barbados, is a cousin of Nigel Boos (1960), ed.) Remember that I left MSB in July of the 58 and I needed two or three years to finalize the baccalaureate (level...??) I am not as old as the friends in Caracas (Urban, Isaias, * Lipaski, * Azier Atela, * Castro, Manuel Parra, Csaba Jacobzen, and others.) My contemporaries were: Musolini, Marini, the Sol and others that I do not remember at this moment. Where are they now: Lipaski, Azier, Manuel Prada and the Castro brothers? With this I take leave and you do not forget to confirm if reunion is before 21 of February and/or the possibility of doing one on Monday 23 of Carnival, when I shall go to Caracas; since on Tuesday 24 I leave Maiquetia to Barbados via Piarco.
Saludos, Brian
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From: ladislao kertesz
To: Brian Goddard
Sent: Sunday, February 01, 2004 8:59 AM

Dear Brian,
I thought Richard Galt was in Florida USA. I am missing Swami, Randal Galt!! Good photo, Please look up in Barbados: Steven Tempro at Smugglers Cove Hotel, I need a photo and some story, Also lost contact with Peter Boos, he is a Chartered Accountant
Good Trip.
God Bless,
Ladislao
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Brian Goddard <briangoddard@oterca.com> wrote:

To my family & friends who enjoyed the land of the humming bird at one time in their lives years ago and/or for those who may remember these three musketeers from Mt. back in the late 50´s. We do look a bit used up, wouldn´t you agree!!??
They are: Standing-Richard Galt and sitting are: David (Peanuts) Deverteuil and Brian Goddard, BG ( the younger looking dude).
(Brian, please tell the guys in the photo to write. Ed)
Well, just thought that photos like this one taken a few months ago in Trinidad are worth while sharing with family & friends. I´ll try to get some more pictures of my trip to Barbados & Trinidad next month. I´ve cancelled my POS Carnival plans and going directly to Barbados instead on Feb 24th for a week and returning through Trinidad, stopping off in POS for a few days March 3rd.
I´ll let you all know how the vacation-work combination went after my return, ok. Thank you all for your continuous informative e-mails and jokes.
Take care and all the best to all,
Brian

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From: "David & Susan de Verteuil"
To: "Brian Goddard"
Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2004 1:55 PM

Hi Brian,
I'm totally embarrassed that I never answered you!!! I was extremely busy with renovations, Christmas, and then my in-Law's arrival in early January. If I had answered right away all would have been fine, it's that "Manana syndrome" that got me!! I never went near the computer for weeks, sat down today to clean-out my Inbox, delete, delete, and wham there was your letter one month old!!! Did you manage to find reasonable accommodation? We will be down the Islands over the Carnival weekend until after Ash Wednesday so unfortunately couldn't offer. Do you also realise that trying to do business on Ash-Wednesday could be quite a challenge! I'm attaching the picture we took when you were here .... Let us know your plans ..... David is a very lazy e-mailer, I'm definitely "the secretary".
Susan
Rocksb1@aol.com
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An interesting e-mail was received some time ago. Hope Elizabeth can forgive me for bringing up her letter after so long. Guys, please write her. My answers to her questions are in parenthesis.

On Tue, 20 Jan 2004 15:07:57 EST

Dear Ladislao Kertesz,
I am a novelist living in New York. I was born in Trinidad and left there when I was 19. I have written five novels and am now revising my sixth novel. For this novel, I need some information about the boarding school at Mount St. Benedict. Someone told me that you may be the person to help me. Can you help me with the following information?
(Yes I can, I have looked at you page and it is great.)
When did the boarding school open? 1942?
When did it close and why? (Boarding school in 1973, and the school in 1985. lost its economic proposition.)
Why did the monks open up a school? (I presume for economic gain and seminarian support.)
Who, generally, were the students? (Sons of British civil servant parents and well to do Trinidadian parents, those from other islands and Guyana, the Venezuelans to study English.)
I need a sense of their socioeconomic backgrounds and why they chose to go to the school. (The school had a very good reputation and the Venezuelan got there because of a favourable exchange rate.)
How did the students address the monks? Did they say Brother X? (Yes and Fr. Y)
What did the monks wear? (Cream coloured habits.)
Where did the students sleep in relation to where the monks slept? (Schoolkids slept in dormitories at school where some priests were prefects, maybe 30 kids with one priest in a closed off area, the rest of the clergy at the monastery.)
Did the students eat their meals with the monks? (No, separately)
Did the monks observe silence and for how long during the day? (I do not know but at meals they kept silence to eat and listen when one of the clergy read from the books.)
Were the students expected to observe the silence? (We kept silence at the beginning of the meals so that food could be shared in an adequate manner.)
I know these are many questions, but as a writer I need to know this information so that the scene I am developing will be believable.
(I am giving you the address of Wayne Vincent Brown, classmate, whom you must know through the literary circle, some say that he could be a Nobel prize winner?? Currently he is in Jamaica.)
I would truly appreciate your help. You can get information about me by logging on to my web site: www.elizabethnunez.com,
All the best,
Elizabeth Nunez

I have answered in italic letters, can anyone help or better yet, write to her, she is a splendid woman!! How did I do?? Please I need you comments!!!
God Bless,
Ladislao

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If any one recognizes the alumni in the following photos, please write!
Photos: From Brian Goddard 03 Abbey Boys 2003 name
From Roberto Bodington: file0001a5 20 no s125, file0001a6 150 20 s125
Wayne Vincent Brown's column can be seen at www.Jamaicaobserver.com,
Column: dbratt , Code Blue
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Circular No 124

Newsletter for past alumni of The Abbey School, Mt. St. Benedict, Trinidad and Tobago, W.I. Caracas, 20 of March 2004. Circular No. 124

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Dear Friends,
Here is a very good resume on Brendan Gurley:

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From: Tony Vieira <tandjv@networksgy.com>
Date: 14 Mar 04:53 (PST)

Las,
Brendon Gurley was in my class at the mount, the class that graduated in 1964, Don Mitchell was in that class, so was Joel Guy Blondin, the picture of the class is in circular 101. We became good friends, it was Edward Lloyd and I who took one look at Brendon and said that his forehead was too big, and so we called him five head. Brendon and I became such close friends that his parents approached mine, and I[as a Guyanese] was allowed to stay with the Gurleys when we were let out for short holidays, wonderful family.
I remember one Carnival, Brendon and I crawled under the fence of the countryClub and we had a ball, I asked him why we don't just buy a ticket, his response was "Nah no fun in that". At this same Carnival jump up at the country club the young lady who won the Miss World title that year, a Trinidadian girl was there, and Brendon and I ogled her all night, we even spoke to her.
Sometime in the 70's Brendon married a Guyanese Girl, who I knew very well, my father was the best man at HER father's [Hilary Gonsalves] wedding, so we practically grew up together, and when Brendon came here for the wedding he asked me to be his best man. First public speech I ever made.
I have not seen Brendon for 30 years but hearing that he died came as a complete shock, accompanied by a great sadness; strange isn't it? I do not see him for 30 years, but when I hear that he had died it struck me with such force, it's as if knowing that he was alive and well somewhere on the planet was enough, even though we don't see each other, now that I hear that he has died, I feel
this emptiness inside and I will miss him, it is a strange set of beings we humans are. Anyone in Trinidad who is in contact with his family please give them my deepest condolences.
Is anyone in contact with his younger brother Christian? or know how I can contact him? in the attached picture which I searched for in the old circulars to send it to David Bratt, look at the back row on the right I believe that that is Brendon [but it could be Simon some thing or the other] then Blondin, then me, then Piton. If that is not Brendon then he and Edward Lloyd are missing from this photograph of the 64 class. I wouldn't know why that was.
Michael Azar has called me twice over the past week he now lives in Portland, Oregon. Same old "big Joe" full of energy.
Puds Laquis and I were discussing the circulars last year in Trinidad he, as I did, thought that it was an incredible exercise and whatever the difficulty we have to find a way to keep it going, you can count on me. I think that you can count on Michael Azar also, from our discussions he knows a lot about the Internet web hosting and so on. What do you say Big Joe?
Tony Vieira
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I have found the following story in the internet when looking for Paul Slinger, who appears in the list as being an oldboy from Grenada. So I am enclosing excerpts of three different articles where the name Paul Slinger appears, maybe some one can confirm if he is the oldboy that went to MSB. The story is about Hash House Harriers, if you want to know more about the sporting? event please look up the internet.
Basically Hashing originated in Malaysia sometime in the early 1930s. British senior officers invented the game to keep their men fit and burn off the excesses of weekend partying. Leaders or hares would mark a trail--and many false trails--through the dense jungle around Kuala Lumpur. The hares were then pursued by teams of 'hounds' vying to reach the finish line first. As added incentive,
there was cold beer waiting for the winning team at the finish line. The name Hash House Harriers was adopted in honor of their beloved Hash House pub, which of course sponsored many of the events. Not much has changed, but today, everyone wins and gets beer.
About our friend, the writer continues, "Two weeks later, I was down at the Portofino Restaurant, in St. George's, waiting with about 60 other eager hashers. The leader or 'Hasher Master' that day was Grenada's HHH founder and premiere hasher, Paul Slinger, who describes hashers as 'drinkers with a running problem.' After getting directions to the hash we piled into cars and headed to Grand Etang National Park, the starting point of that weeks hash."
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Another writer wrote, "Following a brief stop for refreshments, continue to the Tower Plantation House to meet Paul Slinger, the owner of this fully operating fruit and spice plantation located in an area of wooded hills behind the island's capital, St. George's. After a tour of the historic house and a walk in the manicured garden, you may wish to visit St. George's main shopping streets before returning to the ship". B L D
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And lastly the following appears in the HHH internet page, "Paul 'Rigor Mortis' Slinger, Hash Founder. It is said that Paul first hashed around the time that Napoleon was defeated but that is just bragging on his part - we all know he goes further back in time than that. He also claims that his real hash name is "Semper Rigourus", a soubriquet which he boldly asserts has been attributed to him by many a Harriette - and if you believe that you'll believe anything. Paul, one of the original pirates that ravaged this part of the world, brought over the hash from Trinidad with his fellow pirate, Englishman Peter Frearson, who had in turn contracted this disease (and others) in the Far East. Paul is easily recognisable at any hash - both for holding a beer in each hand and for his horribly ugly knees. He met his martyr of a wife, the lovely Victoria "Quick Drawers" Slinger at a hash. He was wearing long pants at the time - she couldn't see the knees. They committed matrimony soon after."
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And now further email received lately.

From: "Roger Henderson" <rhenderson@tstt.net.tt>
Date: 15 Mar 14:07 (PST)

Ladislao,
From time to time I will write a few short articles about Mount memories. Nothing spectacular like Wayne Brown or Lawrence Scott but just about the simple things we did while there. Here's the first of an irregular supply.
Roger

(thank you for your help in keeping the Circular alive. Ed.)
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From: Manuel José Prada Padovani <manjosepra@hotmail.com>
Date: 1 Mar 12:30 (PST)

Ladislao
Mandame por favor la dirección de Tony Vieira, ese carajo era excelente jugador de football y era de Saint Lawrence sino me equivoco, me gustaria escribirle.
Love you dearly,
Manuel prada.
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From: "Don Mitchell, QC" <idmitch@candw.ag>
Date: 14 Mar 10:54 (PST)

Hello Ladislao,
I have been out of touch travelling and working in Tortola and St Kitts. I am now back in Antigua after an absence of 6 weeks, and settling back down. I have been getting the circulars and reading them with much nostalgia. Starting in April I hope to begin a one-year sabatical from court work. Maggie and I shall be returning to our home in Anguilla and giving up the government house in Antigua. We should have completed the move by August. I hope that I might be able to do something about the website then.
I am going to take lessons so as to be able to help in a practical way. We may have to start from scratch if we have not heard from Tony Johnson as yet.
All the best,
Don
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From: Anthony Cintra
Date: 28 Feb 18:43 (PST)

Dear Ladislao,
I know it has been said and written many times but good things are worth repeating; many thanks, you are doing an excellent job. It is always very refreshing to receive the circulars.
I have to be in Hamburg for sittings of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) on 15 March. My return date was 6 April, but it seems as though my stay in Hamburg will be longer because we shall have to sit and determine an important matter between Guyana and Suriname. The fact that Guyana has filed an action is in the daily news in Guyana as well as here and in the other Caribbean countries. Barbados has also taken Trinidad and Tobago to ITLOS. The Venezuelan Ambassador has asked and I have accepted an offer to deliver a series of lectures to the International academy in Caracas. I am looking forward to the visit which had been arranged for the middle of April but in the light of what I have written above it will most probably be in May.
I think I mentioned that you can access information of ITLOS at www.itlos.org if you are "adventurous" you can click on judges and scroll to the last name click and see a photo and C.V. of a past student of the Abbey School complete with a photograph.
With best wishes, God bless.
Anthony Lucky
(hope to see you here in Caracas. Ed.)
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From: "eden hutton" <edenhutton@hotmail.com>
Date: 22 Mar 11:08 (PST)

Dear Ladislao,
Please take my name off the list, I am getting inappropriate spam.
Best wishes,
Eden
(Has anyone had similar problem???, if so please write me as this is the first time that I been told of the problem. Ed)
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Dear readers,

you might wonder how I send the Circular. In the next few lines, I am going to tell you on how I treat your mailing addresses.
I do not use any of the automatic mailing devices, such as Outlook or others. You addresses are stored in WORD and then get copied to the email, in bunches of 15, a rather tedious fashion. I do not know if this is a good practice, but I want to make sure that your addresses do not get interfered by virus or copying devices. Also I do not use material direct from your email inbox copy. The material is copied from your email and placed in WORD files, which I then edit, not in material but in format, as sometimes the letter and spacing is not in the Circular´s format. The photos get a similar treatment, copied to Photoshop where I re-dimension the photo, repair imperfections and place a number, so that you can place names on the faces. I have high hopes that this has and would avoid my placing virus into your machines and that this would minimize that someone would copy your address files. Some might think that I do not want you to have the listing or addresses! but they are wrong, I have always provided classmate addresses when solicited. With the sole idea of keeping your addresses from Spam providers. Of course, I cannot vouch for the alumni CPUs, please be careful!!!.
God Bless
Ladislao

If any one recognizes the alumni in the following photos, please write!

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Photos: Paul Slinger?? From Roberto Bodington: file0001a3, file0001a4
Wayne Vincent Brown's column can be seen at www.Jamaicaobserver.com,
Column: dbratt , sorry but I missed the latest, last Saturday.
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Circular No 123

Newsletter for past alumni of The Abbey School, Mt. St. Benedict, Trinidad and Tobago, W.I.
Caracas, 13 March 2004. Circular No. 123
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Dear Friends,
Here is a short remembrance letter from a friend of Brendon. Those who would like to add memories, please feel free to write, and here I mean that those from his classmates. Maybe Don can decipher the photo???

From: Tony Vieira <tandjv@networksgy.com>
Date: 14 Mar 04:53 (PST)

Las,
Brendon Gurley was in my class at the mount, the class that graduated in 1964, Don Mitchell was in that class, so was Joel Guy Blondin. The picture of the class is in circular 101, we became good friends. It was Edward Lloyd and I who took one look at Brendon and said that his forehead was too big, so we called him five head.
Brendon and I became such close friends that his parents approached mine, and I [as a Guyanese] was allowed to stay with the Gurleys when we were let out for short holidays, wonderful family, I remember one Carnival Brendon and I crawled under the fence of the country Club and we had a ball, I asked him why we don't just buy a ticket, his response was "Nah no fun in that". At this same Carnival jump up at the country club the young lady who won the miss world title that year a Trinidadian girl was there and Brendon and I ogled her all night, we even spoke to her.
Sometime in the 70's Brendon married a Guyanese Girl, who I knew very well, my father was the best man at HER father's [Hilary Gonsalves] wedding, so we practically grew up together, and when Brendon came here for the wedding he asked me to be his best man. First public speech i ever made. I have not seen Brendon for 30 years but hearing that he died came as a complete shock, accompanied by a great sadness; strange isn't it? i do not see him for 30 years, but when i hear that he had died it struck me with such force, it's as if knowing that he was alive and well somewhere on the planet was enough, even though we don't see each other, now that i hear that he has died, i feel this emptiness inside and I will miss him, it is a strange set of beings we humans are.
Anyone in Trinidad who is in contact with his family, please give them my deepest condolences. Is anyone in contact with his younger brother Christian? or know how I can contact him?
In the attached picture which I searched for in the old circulars to send it to David Bratt. Look at the back row on the right I believe that that is Brendon [but it could be Simon some thing or the other] then Blondin, then me, then Piton. If that is not Brendon then he and Edward Lloyd are missing from this photograph of the 64 class. I wouldn't know why that was.
Michael Azar has called me twice over the past week he now lives in Portland, Oregon same old "big Joe" full of energy.
Puds Laquis and I were discussing the circulars last year in Trinidad. He, as i did, thought that it was an incredible exercise and whatever the difficulty we have to find a way to keep it going, you can count on me. I think that you can count on Michael Azar also, from our discussions he knows a lot about the Internet web hosting and so on. what do you say Big Joe?
Tony Vieira
(I am resending the photo but this time with numbers, please check it out, ed.)
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I have found the following resume in the Internet. I am still waiting for a formal report from any member of the Club.
A large sports facility was developed for the Abbey School. Athletes from the Abbey School, St. Bede and the Aqua Lads and Lasses swimming club went on to compete at national and international levels.
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Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2003 03:46:32 +1100
From: "Brian Andrew Wickham" <wickee@lycos.com>
Abbey Aqua Lads and Lasses Swim Club

Hi,
Unfortunately, I am now coaching a different club.
Do you know Brother Gerard by chance ? He was the last manager of the club whenI was there.
Brian
wickhamb@notme.com,

(information given to me by a former coach, ed.)
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From: "Roger Henderson" <rhenderson@tstt.net.tt>
Date: 5 May 05:29 (PDT)

Ladislao, I did not recall the bank at the Mount until you mentioned it but I never used it. Do you remember the procedure for haircuts. Rughead would go around the study hall and put you on the list. You then had to spend the entire afternoon waiting on the very slow baber. He was situated next to the showers for the small boys dormitory. Any one remember his name?
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De: Robert [robert.huggins@3web.net]
Fecha: 20/12/2003 12:32:41

Hi Las,
It's been sometime since I wrote about MSB, and don't plan to start now. Maybe in the New Year I will try as for the past year I have been concentrating on getting my business established here in Canada. We have been trying to get work going in the area of waste management, in their case animal and human waste and have been slowly making inroads into the market.
It would be nice to try and stimulate some interest throughout the islands, but have not been able to do any work down there.
Maybe there are some old MSB's who are interested in this area so they can contact me.
In the meanwhile, I will like to take this opportunity to wish you and your family, and the MSB family all the best for the Christmas and coming New Year.
God Bless,
Robert.
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From: "Robert Huggins" <robert.huggins@3web.net>
Date: 10 Jun 14:46 (PDT)

Hi Las,
As long as the MSB net work continues I will try to put in my 2 cents. It's sad to see that so many went there but so few want to write about the things that we did while there. I don't think that our stay was that bad that everybody wants to forget what they did, at least I don't. Also I don't think that people are so busy that they can't spend 5 minutes to talk about their time at MSB. Any how, I suppose that is life, and the world we live in.
No Las, I didn't build model airplanes, instead I watched you build rockets and try to get them to fly. But that's another story.
Actually my sports activity was swimming. I was also giants B captain of the football and volley ball team, both championships which we won. I also played cricket, and anything else that looked good. Have no fear my friend I will try and put something together soon, but I need to get the cobwebs out of this old brain and try to remember some of the things we did.
I may have to try and contact Don Mitchell as I know he, his brother Gordon and I were always doing some crazy thing.
God Bless,
Robert

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From: "Ladislao Kertesz" <lkertesz1@icqmail.com>
To: <robert.huggins@3web.net>
Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2003 6:28 PM

Dear Robert,
I am glad that you wrote, the email of Manuel is: Manjosepra@hotmail.com. His box is full at this time.
I need your help for articles or short stories.
Boxhead told me that the rocket did fly??? Can you remember??
Did you build model airplanes???
What was your sports activity?
I just contacted a swimming coach that trained lads and lasses at our pool some three years ago. The club is called, "The abbey aqua lads and lasses swimming club". There is a little story on it. maybe I shall write on it.
Did you remember Fr. Francis? and the singing?
I am asking you all this to get new writer for the Circular Writers Guild now that the strike is over.
So long my friend
God Bless
Ladislao
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On Thu, 8 May 2003 08:21:48 -0700, "Robert Huggins" wrote:

Hi Las,
Since I don't have Manual's address Can you find out from him what scout patrol he was in?
I am trying to remember a prank that a bunch of us pulled on scout camp at Mayaro.
Robert.

(please do not keep us in suspense, ed.)
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From: "eden hutton" <edenhutton@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 07 May 2003 23:56:43 +0200

Hello Ladislao,
It would be interesting to know if Fr Benedict ever recorded the Gregorian chants the monks' choir sang at Pontifical High Masses.
I used to serve at high mass under the watchful eye of Fr Augustine and Lawrence Scott, and I remember that the singing and the blending of voices was superb. So much so that years later when I bought a recording of Gregorian chants done by an English Abbey, I thought that their singing was far inferior to Fr Benedict's Choir. I hope he has some good tapes set aside for posterity.
Yours, Eden Hutton.

No luck with Lawrence Scott, can someone help, ???? ed.)
(There is a CD published last year that has some of the songs !!! and can be purchased from the Mount, ed.)
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From:: edenhutton@hotmail.com
Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2002 03:09:40 +0000

Dear Ladislao,
Thanks for the circulars. I do not have Julian's or Bruce's addresses. Christopher went to Mount and so did Andrew but they both died I'm sorry to say.
I left Mount in the same class as Peter Laughlin, Paul De Verteuil and David Bratt ........but I don't remember what year it was.
Cheers,
Eden Hutton

(Sorry to tell you that I have no record on the graduation dates for the above mentioned, can any one help, ?? ed.)
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From: eden hutton
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 18:23:26 +0100

Hey Ladislao,
Thanks for the circulars, I really enjoy them. It's good to see Donald Goddard giving Wayne Brown some fatigue. Modern day "Political Correctness" was definitely not born at the Mount. Upfront fatigue is much healthier, and I'm sure Wayne sees it that way. So how about Brian and Christian Goddard, are they still in Venezuela? and Roberto and Luciano Savorgnan, Do you ever hear from them?
Cheers,
Eden Hutton.

(No luck with Savorgnans, too many in internet to be able to locate, ed.)
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Lets see how remembers the winning song in carnival?
1942 - 45 No Carnival - War
1946 No Competition
1947 Pharoah King Pharoah
1948 Melody Canaan Barrow
1949 Wonder Ramgoat Baptism
1950 Killer In a Calabash
1951 Terror Tiny Davis
1952 Spit Fire Post Post
1953 Spit Fire Bow Wow Wow
1954 Blakie Steel Band Clash
1955 Happy Wonderer North American Ballad
1956 Sparrow Jean and Dinah (attached)
1957 Valerie North American Ballad
1958 Sparrow Pay As You Earn
1959 Sparrow Mae Mae
1960 Sparrow Royal Gaol
1961 Sparrow Royal
1962 Blakie Maria
1963 Kitchener The Road
1964 Kitchener This Is Mas
1965 Kitchener My Pussin
1966 Sparrow Obeah Wedding
1967 Kitchener Sixty Seven
1968 Kitchener Miss Tourist
1969 Sparrow Sa Sa Ya
1970 Kitchener Margie
1971 Kitchener Madison Square
1972 Sparrow Drunk and Disorderly
1973 Kitchener Rainorama
1974 Shadow Bass Man
1975 Kitchener Tribute to Winston Spree
1976 Kitchener Flag Woman
1977 Calypso Rose Tempo
1978 Calypso Rose Soca Jam
1979 Poser Smoke Ah Watty
1980 Blue Boy Soca Baptist
1981 Blue Boy Ethel
1982 Penguin Deputy Essential
1983 Blue Boy Rebecca
1984 Sparrow Doh Back Back
1985 Crazy Soucoyant
(A list that you may use to find out your graduation date !!!!, ed.)
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Has anyone been in touch with Richard Knox??, please inform him that I would like to receive his resume and exchange messages.
God Bless
Ladislao

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Listado: none attached.
Photo: class 1964 no.vieira
From bodington, file 0001Swimming
Column: wvb - can be seen at www.jamaicaobserver.com,
Column: dbratt -for boys not fitting in
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Circular No 122

Newsletter for past alumni of The Abbey School, Mt. St. Benedict, Trinidad and Tobago, W.I. Caracas, 7 of March 2004. Circular No. 122

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Dear Friends,
Here are more lines on the late Brendan Gurley:

From: Nigel Boos <nigelboos@yahoo.ca>
Sent: Monday, February 23, 2004 8:05 PM

Joe,
Oh no! Brendan was a great little guy, as I remember him. Unfortunately, we lost touch with each other when I left MSB, but he was a good trumpeter as a kid, and I would love to have known him as an adult.
May he rest in peace.
Nigel

Laz - you may want to announce this to the Old Boys. (You might remember Brendan - he was about 3-4 years behind us, so he probably graduated around 1963-64.
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On Feb 23, 2004, at 2:47 PM, Michael Azar wrote:

Hi Nigel,

Michael Azar here in Portland Oregon. Sorry I have not gotten around to talking to you much last year, but I was going through some health problems.
I heard from Trinidad that Brendan Gurley was killed in Tobago, in a motorcycle accident. I thought that those who knew him will like to know.
Will try and contact you soon by phone or by email.
God Bless,
Michael Azar ( Big Joe)
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From: "Robert" <robert.huggins@3web.net>
Date: 29 Feb 07:33 (PST)

Hi Las,
Just got some sad news. For those of you who remember Brendan Gurley, he was killed on the spot while cycling in Tobago over the Carnival weekend.
May God rest his soul.
Robert
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NOW SOME MORE ON SCOUTING.
Did you know that there was a 3rd Mount St.Benedict Troop??

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From: Anthony Cintra
Date: 2 Dec 19:36 (PST)

Dear Ladislao,
Yes there was another scout troop 3rd Mount St. Benedict. They were "Air Scouts" and the founder was the late Fr. Leo. Later they were amalgamated with 2nd Mount St. Benedict.

I shall call Maillard Howell tomorrow and give him the web site. I shall also call Imbert and Assam and let them know how to get onto the site. I shall give details of the badges then required to become a Queen's Scout in those days soon. Suffice it to say we had to earn a lot.

In my time there were the Hendersons, the Xaviers, the Cedenos, the Galts, the Pampallones, the Huttons, the Ames brothers, Marfisi, Prada, Day, Boddington, Sanchez to name a few.
Sincerely,
Anthony

(No news on Bullets, and those that I have underlined, ed., can anyone help????)
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From: "laci kertesz"
Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2003 18:19:35 -0800 (PST)

Dear Anthony,
Since you are in TT, Please contact your friend Millard so that I can get in touch with him. Also, if you meet Colim Imbert, and Assam Mervyn, I am sorry to ask you if these government officials are not in the same tendencies???, but these are oldboys according to the list.
Hope you have a nice family reunion!!. Nice Scoutmastership!

Back to the old days. There are reports that there were two scout troops in your time, and that there was an aviation or what ever it was called, troop also. That would make it Three troops?. Can you confirm? Are their names available??? Troop leader, members?? What were the different badges needed to get into Queen´s Scout, or was it King´s scout???
Sorry for the many questions but I arrived in 1955, September, and then I took about six months to loosen my tongue.
God Bless,
Ladislao
(It is interesting but no scout member has kept their badges, for us to look at and enjoy, ed.)
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On Mon, 01 Dec 2003 12:13:54 +0000, "Anthony Cintra" wrote:

Dear Ladislao,
Sorry! I really do not know who or what to blame, perhaps it is the telephone system or not being fully au courrant with this new laptop.
I had written thanking you for all the circulars which I continue to receive and enjoy reading even when I was in Hamburg in September and October. It was upon receipt of a circular that I was able to contact Fr. Francis via e-mail.
I am back in Trinidad until I am asked to return to Hamburg which could be at any time as I am a full time judge at the Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (Itlos). By the way if you need any information on Itlos the web site is www.itlos.org. In fact you can read brief backgrounds of all the judges including the one from Trinidad and Tobago. It has been rather hectic since my return, meetings with the President, the Prime Minister and others who are interested in the work of Itlos; and a function hosted by our children for our 40th anniversary and appointment to Itlos. Our grandson and granddaughter came over from Canada with their parents for the
celebration. By the way, score another for our school and Second Mount St. Benedict; I was elected to serve as President of the Boy Scouts' Association of Trinidad and Tobago for the next three years. I did ask "why me?" before being elected but in true tradition I will do my best.
I feel certain that I am joining many others when I say that what you are doing is invaluable. It is good to keep on touch with old friends through circulars.
With best wishes,
God Bless.
Anthony.
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From: "laci kertesz"
Dear Anthony,
I received this email, but it is empty.
Please resend.
God Bless,
Ladislao
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From: "jean de meillac" <jeansie@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2004 10:50:24 +0000

Ladislao,
You used to send me info on the old days at Mount , then you stopped. This E Mail is working again, hear from you??
Jeansie

(Since you have changed the email address, I was returned all the weekly correspondence; I hope that you are getting it now, ed)
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From: "Jean de Meillac"
Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 17:37:21 -0300

Lad,
You are testing my memory, I left Mount in 59 when I was 14. I left after Prep A .... Classmates were, Geoff Herrera, Roger Henderson, John and Gordon Thavenot, Gary Henderson, Flattop Johnson , Christian from Venezuela, he was a good swimmer, Brian Lewis, Jeffery Gransaull, Jeff Lippincott and who could forget Mr Rai who I met in Ireland when I was there at college.
That's a good start ??
Thanks,
Jeansie

(I have a photo of Jean which I attach, ed.)
(I have had no news from those that I have underlined, can anyone acknowledge their wellbeing? ed.)
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From:"Juliet Date" <Juliet_Chris@tesco.net>

Thanks for the e-mail.
The photo you sent is not of the Class of 59. It is of a Retreat we went on at the Seminary. I will attempt to give you a list of the Class members to update the records in a later e-mail. By the way, can you please change my e-mail address on the Class list. It is as you have in your address book: juliet_chris@tesco.net.
I was glad to hear that you had a good visit to Trinidad.
All the best and keep up the good work
Chris Date
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From: Jeremy <tobagojo@trinidad.net>
Sent: Sunday, February 22, 2004 10:46 PM

Hi fellas,
How about this (spelling a bit wonky though):
Class of 1966 (Wow - What a mess)
01. Anderson, Richard
02. Dulieu, John
03. Moffat, Nigel
04. Ronald Hadded
05. John Paul Vlitos
06. Devaux, Desmond
07. Richard Knox
08. Robin[!] Ramlogan
09. 'He burnt the rice' at that scout camp on the Coura River; The first time he
tried to cook!! [Martinique or Guadelupe or St Lucia]. Devaux, Patrick
10. Mcmullen, Vaughn
11.
12. Geoffery Commacho
13. Richard 'Bookie' Johnson - Yea Bookie OK!
14. Andrew(?) Carrichelo
15. Carlos Hofle [Deceased about a year after leaving MSB - Car crash in Caracas?]
16.Ambard, Frank
17. John Piew [Deceased - Died as a British soldier in Northern Ireland in the 1970's]
18. Tempro, Stephen
19. Pratts, Alexander,Yea, Yea - I think
20. [I think this is Michael, and not Richard??] de Verteuil
21.
22. Kecskemeti, Pablo
23.
24. Umberto Luongo
25.
26.
27.
28. Jeremy de Barry
29. Robin Hart
30. Roger Vlitos
31. (Lived in Maraval)
32. Eion O'Connor - Now in Canada.
Send this to Bookie!
Will try to think of more later.
Cheers all,
tobagojo

(Thank you, Class of 1966, can all of you confirm your name and fill in the blanks??. ed)
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So please write, otherwise the list cannot be completed and some of you might be left out.
The next two photos need to be identified, please place names on the faces !!!!!!
God Bless,
Ladislao
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Photo: jean de meillac,jean2
Photos by Roberto Bodington, class 1958. file0001c3, file0001a9
Listado: next time
Column: D Bratt, next time

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