Newsletter
for alumni of The Abbey School, Mt. St. Benedict, Trinidad and Tobago, W.I.
Caracas, 4 March 2017 No. 800
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Dear
Friends,
This
issue should be celebrated, the number is unbelievable. But it is true,
just ask Don.
Help me
reach another century by writing at least 50 words.
Before
your will to write fades away, let the Circular keep your memories alive.
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Don
Mitchell <idmitch@anguillanet.com>
Dec 7 at
3:50 PM
You are
very welcome, Sarkis,
All the
credit should go to Ladislao, who does all the real work.
Don’t
forget to send him a few paragraphs from time to time so your Mount
contemporaries can catch up with you.
Once
your name is in a Circular, as a result of you sending him a message for
publishing, when someone does a Google search for you, more likely than not
that Circular will come up, and they will be able to get your email address and
contact you.
It has
happened to hundreds of Old Boys over the past 10 years.
It is a
good way for old friends to make contact again.
Keep
well.
Don
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From: Sarkis
Farchakh
Sent: Monday, December 7, 2015 10:07 AM
THANKS,
I LOVE THE ABBEY CIRCULARS, GOOD JOB GUYS!!!!
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Don
Mitchell <idmitch@anguillanet.com>
Dec 7 at
3:40 PM
Thanks,
Brian,
Hopefully,
Ladislao’s internet problem is fixed for good.
I have
put up Circulars 725 and 726. I have
formatted 727 and 728, and now I have received 729 and 730 which I will shortly
format.
But, I
am giving the earliest two a chance to soak up readers before posting the later
ones.
Only
two circulars fit on the home page at one time.
If I
put up too many at once, I am afraid that not many of the Old Boys will know to
use the “Older Posts” tab at the foot of the page, or the “Blog Archive” tab at
the right, to access earlier ones.
I think
perhaps two a week until I have done all that Ladislao sent me is probably the
best thing.
Keep
well.
Don
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From: Brian Gonsalves
Sent: Monday, December 7, 2015 11:50 AM
Dear
Don (and Ladislao)
Just a
brief note to thank all the ''Old Boys'' who organise and send out the MSB NEWS
and CIRCULARS, which inspire a great deal of nostalgic memories of those
halcyon days - in my time a span of over 70 years ago!
Contemporaries
included the Knaggs and Farfan brothers, plus the 'B. Guiana' contingent of Trevor
Evelyn, Clive Bettencourt-Gomes, and 3 Gonsalves (Bernard, Terrence + myself).
Sadly
any other names are lost ''in the mists of time".
As
regards the priests, Fr. Bernard and Fr. Ildefonse were truly remarkable, if
not great men - the latter instilled in
many of us, one of his hallmark Latin sayings : "difficult ad fidem est
saepe recte statuere" ('the right decision is often the most difficult to
make').
Thank
you again for so many poignant memories, from a really 'very old Mount boy',
Brian Gonsalves
(circa 1945/46).
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On Monday, December 7, 2015 11:58 AM,
David De Castro <calypsobandit@gmail.com>
wrote:
Hi guys,
Glad we
are back in business. After reading the
sports article on Terrance I wonder if there is anybody out there that
remembers the very first sports event on the old sports field visited by
parents.
How
about this for a very good laugh - I won the pole vault with a bamboo pole. The height - 8FT-6INS
(They
jump that now without a pole)
Malcom
Boyack came second with 8ft-4ins.
Does
anybody remember this or have a picture?
I must
have been about 15yrs old and this was the very first sports event up at the Mount.
The
only thing I remember is Trinidad had just introduced the Juicy soft drink.
I
thought it was the greatest thing I ever tasted--somebody must know the year.
HELP
"BANDIT"
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Don
Mitchell <idmitch@anguillanet.com>
Dec 7 at
3:34 PM
Thank
you, Bandit,
For
taking us back to the dawn of time.
I doubt
if many of were even born at the time of which you speak.
I am
sure Ladislao will put you challenge into one of his Circulars in due
course.
It will
be interesting to see how many readers can relate to that period when Juicy
soft drink (I believe it had a hyphen somewhere in the name) was introduced.
Keep
well.
Don
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Glen
Mckoy <mckoy43glen@hotmail.com>
Oct 12 at
2:38 AM
My
Brother & Friend, Sir Joe Berment, (Chairman: Abbey School
Alumni, Trinidad).
Thank
you for sharing this email with us.
So glad
to see, some movements are happening again on our dear Mount St.
Benedict.
It is
so wonderful, to read this news from the Fr. Abbot.
We are
at his mercy, as he remains the protector & keeper of our
Castle.
We look
forward to hearing more, of this positive and future development.
It is
also good to see the young people who are taking pride in the area.
Sports,
is where we all developed on the Mount.
A good
place to start.
Cheers.
Please
Thank & let Fr. Abbot know, that he has our entire Alumni behind him, just
waiting to be accessed in whatever way, we can be of assistance, within our
means. Time is limited & precious,
united we stand.
God
bless you my brother, keep the fire burning.
Best
Regards Glen.
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Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2015 01:06:36 +0000
From: bermentmcdowald@yahoo.com
Subject: Videos from the Mount
Gentlemen,
Abbot
John has kindly shared the videos below (which will keep you informed about
what is happening at the Mount) with us.
I say
that we must congratulate the Abbot and community on his incredible persuasiveness
in accomplishing what I know Fr. Cuthbert and Fr. Odo (deceased) had tried to
with the water supply for at least 40 years and also their insightful generous
sense of neighbourliness in formally making the football field accessible to
the people of the village.
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Colm is
the one that is busy.
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We
thank you sir ......
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Colm is
my.....area representative...Diego Martin, east......
Well,
he's meh partner.
The
last time PNM was ruling the roost,
I met
him outside the red house....
I was
telling him how I enjoyed the hydrofoil service, i.e, ferry to Tobago...
He said
he was the man behind dat....
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Colm go
tell yuh anything fuh yuh vote. LOL
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hmmm....MAD...4
so!
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Man! Dat
took me by surprise!.....like back in time...way back...
Fr.
Odor.....I could see him right now bouncing in dem sandals....
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Does
anybody know if the maths and geometry books we use to study with at MSB can be
bought somewhere?
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Maybe
in a shop in the country ha! ha! cheers Glen.
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E-Bay
is a good site to check for out of print books.
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Just
saw this there for £0.99 !
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Been so
long I had to think twice how to spell arithmetic
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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:
16DD0001DDVWFE, Daniel de Verteuil and
wife
12SC0178SCO, Salvador Coscarart
02LK0002LKEGRP, Ladislao Kertesz, Peter
Morvay, Urbano de Fedak and Isaias Farcheg
11LK7908FBCGO, Christopher Gonsalves
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