Newsletter
for alumni of The Abbey School, Mt. St. Benedict, Trinidad and Tobago, W.I.
Caracas, 14 January 2017 No. 793
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Dear
Friends,
Please watch:
And a long
CV from my classmate 1960:
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Daniel de Verteuil
Career:
After graduating from MSB, in September of 1961 I began a Bachelor of
Science program at Loyola College in Montreal, Canada. In 1966 I went to
Queen`s University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada and graduated in 1968 with a
Bachelor of Applied Science in Civil Engineering.
On graduating, I joined Ontario Hydro’s
Construction Division as an engineering trainee. In 1970 I went to the
Bruce Peninsula of Ontario as a field engineer on the construction team to
build Bruce A CANDU Nuclear Generating Station. In 1977 I transferred to
the refurbishment of the Thunder Bay Coal Generating Station as Project Control
Engineer.
In 1979 I left Ontario Hydro and joined Atomic
Energy of Canada (AECL) and went to the Embalse CANDU Generating Station under
construction near Cordoba, Argentina as Deputy Project Director. I
returned to AECL’s Engineering Offices in Mississauga, Ontario in 1981 to
expedite the last of the engineering drawings and materials for the Embalse
project. After the start-up of the Embalse CANDU station in 1983, I was
Project Manager of miscellaneous projects out of the Mississauga office.
In 1987 I transferred to AECL’s Corporate Office
in Ottawa, Ontario as AECL`s Project Director on Canada’s team of navy and
technical people who were investigating the purchase of nuclear powered
submarines. Canada abandoned the program in 1989 following the fall of
the Berlin wall, and in 1990 I transferred to AECL’s Research Division. I
worked as General Manager and Vice President of Engineering at both of AECL’s
nuclear research sites in Chalk River, Ontario and Pinawa, Manitoba.
I took early retirement from AECL in 1997 and
then associated with a friend’s management consulting and training company
operating mainly in the Ottawa Valley and surrounding area. In 2005, I
retired completely.
Family:
I met my wife, Ginny, while at Loyola in Montreal and we married in
1967. (Later this year we will be celebrating 50 years of married life!).
We have three sons: Michel (1969), Paul (1972) and Blair (1978). We have lived in Kingston, Ontario; Walkerton,
Ontario; Thunder Bay, Ontario; Villa General Belgrano, Argentina; Buenos Aires,
Argentina; Mississauga, Ontario; Kanata, Ontario; Pinawa, Manitoba; Petawawa,
Ontario; Oakville, Ontario. Our three sons graduated from Queen’s
University with engineering degrees. They are married to wonderful women
whom we love dearly and embrace as the daughters we never had. Michel is
married to Lucilene and they have Mateus (18) and Luca (16) and live in
Oakville having recently returned from living in China for three years.
Paul is married to Beth and they have Jackson (15) and Logan (14) and live in
Metcalfe, Ontario. Blair is married to Tanya and they have Caitlin (13),
Devon (10) and Nathan (7) and they live in Cambridge, Ontario. All are
healthy and doing well, gracias a Dios.
Following my second retirement, Ginny and I
spent a few years living and travelling in a fifth wheel recreational
vehicle (RV) spending the summer months in Ontario and wintering in the
southern US. You must understand that Ontario, Canada is wonderful and
beautiful, but unfit for human habitation from November to May. In 2012
we bought a home in Chapala, Mexico (the micro-climate here is purportedly the
second best in the world; our home has no heating nor air-conditioning).
We now spend the summer months in Ontario and the winters in Chapala.
Ginny and I are in good health, blessed with respectable,
successful sons and daughters (via marriage) and seven wonderful grandchildren
we are very proud of.
In short, we are happy and blessed and
profoundly grateful for our good fortune.
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Glen G. McKoy shared Snoopy's video.
Well
there were many knights whose heads were lost in the Sky, Starting with Sir Ladislao Kertesz, building
airplanes, Sir Gustavo
La Grave teaching flying, Sir David Allan Harris flying
& Sir Attila Gyuris
fighting & flying or Sir Shaun
Gianetti & many other brothers, just lost in the Sky.
Muchas
gracias mi hermano y mi amigo, Sir Garnet Diaz.
Cheers
Sweet 2017. The Club.
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Hi
Winston Kerry, it is nice to see you and your Family are in the best of health.
The
weather there seems great.
We have
been having lots of snow and below freezing temperature for Oregon.
All the
best for the New Year, Health and Happiness.
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Many was
the happy Saturday afternoon I spent in the bush, from just above this vantage
point firing arrows from my home-made bow towards the fielders and batters on
this cricket field.
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Sir Wayne
you musta scored after I left, that is good to read I thought I knew you ha!
ha!
cheers
Glen.
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Glen ,
yuh brain gone or wha ?
I
represent the Abbey in every age group in football , cricket , basketball
..also play volley ball , tennis , swimming (aqua lads) ..
You on de
other hand wasn't ah sports man ...
Yuh know
how much time you get vex with me because I going football practice when the
band wanted to practice...Lol
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Yes I
remembered that, sorry buddy, you were such a good drummer maybe I blocked it
out seriously, you know me and meh music ha! ha!
Mount
boys were so multi-talented.
Cheers My
Brother thank you for the update and getting the story right.
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Who knows
if Cosmic force stuck together what we could have accomplish ...never know
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Are the
spectator stands still there on the opposite side?
I wish
the picture was a panoramic one.
There was
no chain- link fence during my time.
That
corner is where I got my gold medal for St Anthony for discus. ... LOL, I had
never thrown a discus before, just had a short demonstration from somebody
about a 5 minutes before, then I went for it. !
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Used to
be the tennis courts.
Played so
many times there.
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Very
depressing to look at those pics.
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I
remember these courts so well.
When I
went to Mount in 1955 to join Prep B, I was 9 years old.
My mom
was a champion amateur tennis player at Woodford Lodge.
In order
to get to see me occasionally, she volunteered to be a tennis coach on these
courts...
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Remember
when the Americans left Trinidad, same thing happened when the Knights left the
Mount.
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With the
sponsorship of WITCO,(?) this Pool and Aqua Lads and Lasses, this was once a
beautiful Pool and gathering place for the life and discipline of dozens of
young people by Bro. Rupert...
To allow
it to further deteriorate will cost even more as time slips by...
Who will
renovate it?....who will maintain it?...
(missing
leadership, no negotiation savy or those in charge do not care, EDITOR)
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Where I
learned to swim
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I used to
be able to swim one and a half lengths underwater in one breath when I was a
pre-teen.
This is
where I learned to hyperventilate, and to hold my breath (at that time) for
five and a half minutes.
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All Mount
Boys champions.
We really
lived a Sporting life
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Was
Michael's younger brother Richard De Verteuil? .... I think so.
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Terrence Ferreira
....
and big
Watson would be Edward. ... I believe. .... came to me in my sleep.
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Great
photo hombre, some of the cool dudes in dark sunglasses, Elvis hairdo was big
then also, ha! ha!
Anyhow,
the hippies from the late sixties early 70's will follow, now in their late
50's, early 60's.
That was
the bestest time, it was all groovy, peace & love on the mount amigo, ha!
ha!
If anyone
wants to contest this, ah ready for battle ha! ha!-
From
circle to circle we circle.
cheers mis amigos adios Glen.
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Ah yes,
Mr Julian.... I immediately recognized him, and I was trying to remember his
name.
He was
also one of my teachers in Forms I, II and III, I think.
One time
I remember he was all proud of having bought a new blue Vauxhall car when he
brought it up to the Mount to show it to everybody.
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The best
teacher at Mount in my day was Mr. Ernie Tyrell.
I can
even copy his initials to this day
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I agree
with you.
He loved
his students.
All in
all he was a wonderful man who had the kids' respect.
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Your
brother went to Mount also?
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No,
I think
that's the reason, he was mad he did not go. LOL..
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All my
scout medals uniform also.
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Making me
depress, have to go take a drink..
will chat
tomorrow.
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People
always ask how I am always talking about the Mount and why are some of us so
close,
I tell
them they will never know unless they went to a boarding school like ours, not
all boarding school are the same, and when they ask if were ever sexually
abused, I feel like taking a fucking bat and beat them to a pulp.
If it was
like that, you think we would be so attached to everyone that was involved with
taking care of us?
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Who could
forget that mango tree at the bottom of the hill.
When the
senior boys went in the tree for a smoke after late studies, that tree used to
light up like a Christmas tree...
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He fraid
bullets.
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EDITED by
Ladislao Kertesz, kertesz11@yahoo.com,
if you would like to be in the circular’s mailing list or any old boy that you
would like to include.
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Photos:
15LK0001HBA, The science book that was
used by Henry Bailey
14LK7406FBEFA, Elisa Farcheg
56CJ0002FOOTBALL, Lots of UNKNOWS
14LK2369FBDAL, Damian Ali
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