Circular No 82

Newsletter for past alumni of The Abbey School, Mt. St. Benedict, Trinidad and Tobago, W.I.
Caracas, 31 of May 2003. Circular No. 82
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Dear Friends,

The circular is about the web page, I have been asked to inquire about the status and the future of the Web page.

First of all several oldboys, friends of Anthony Johnson have tried to contact him to inquire on the future of the web page, but received no email answer. A few even expressed worry on his health, there was a time when his telephone line was suspended!

Next I got asked Michael Azar to call him or locate him but again no luck, we have the name of the secretary and the office where he works on an itinerary speaker giving Economic courses. Again no luck.

Look up "Anthony L.Johnson" CPA, in yahoo.com search. The result is (eDesignation.com, GRI Sate Faculty member). There his timetable and workshop is depicted, this is the closest I got.

So after all the effort without a reply, to his friends, I believe that Anthony does not want to be disturbed. So what can we do to save the Web page?

I understand the problem, especially after having sent out 81 Circulars. This is an ungrateful work but it has been fun and I am going to keep it until this years end. Of course if I have your help then I shall look into further Circulars.

There is no need to express solidarity to the Circulars, but better would be your support with article or commentaries.

I am extremely sorry that Arthur Knagg has been silent on this effort, thus we have been unable to get to the archives where I am sure you would have been delighted with all the past anecdotes and resumes. And above all, maybe have material for 100 circulars. Still I feel lucky to be able to send you tidibits of information.

Another source that we have been counting on is Jon Golding, who is now in TT, but his busy schedule has prevented him to get first hand information.
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Recently I received this article on one of the activities of my classmates, Roger Henderson:

Gender equality takes another proud step forward in our nation. The Queen's Park Cricket Club is finally allowing women into its halls, or that should be, onto its walls, as a Guardian story (no link) explains. The club has produced a pin-up calendar, featuring some six female models.

According to calendar committee chairman (how does one get that job, exactly?) Roger Henderson, "It is a first for the club, but there was no reason for it." Judging by the expression on club president Willie Rodriguez's face, though, as he looks at the calendar in one of the photos that accompanies the story, Henderson is sorely mistaken.

POSTED BY JONATHAN | 9:10 AM
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One of my classmates wrote to a question on Class 1959.

Ladislao,
First of all I am unable to open the photograph file and secondly I do not know off the top of my head the whereabouts let alone the email addresses of those you seek. I would have to make a conscious effort and devote some time to this project which I must confess cannot be listed as a top priority at this time. I will promise whatever relevant information comes to hand or head I will pass on to you.
Best regards
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NOW NEWS ON THE WEB PAGE.

The web page has been stationary for nearly a year, no updates, no replies to the inquiries to the webmaster from worried old boys.

From emails that we have received, we have concluded that there is no viability to the web page in the actual managerial format.

It is too much work for one individual to take care of incoming/outgoing mail and at the same time update the page. Ideally the page should be done by a retired person if we do not want to go to a commercial firm. The commercial proposition cost money, and I doubt that there is a charitable soul willing to take on the expense. This is the feeling I have had over the time, especially after reading the emails that I have been receiving since start the circulars.

So I shall open a forum on your thoughts. What should we do?

1. Forget the whole matter, let the web page die.
2. Ask someone? to take over the web page, Anthony Johnson willing.

If you have answered, YES, on No. 1 then your time a The Abbey School was only a dream.

If your answer is positive on No. 2, then:

a. Are you willing to take over the web page?.
b. Do you know anyone willing to do so?
c. Are you willing to collaborate with the finance? To have a professional webmaster?

Please take your time, but would like to get an answer from you friends.

God Bless

Ladislao
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Listado: C82.xls
Photo: msba 6404 p08
Song. 145858-1-12
Wayne Vincent Brown's column can be seen at www.Jamaicaobserver.com,
Column: dbratt -No. 109
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Send information to: Ladislaokertesz@hotmail.com, if you would like to be in the circular's mailing list or any old boy that you would like to include.
Telf. 0(212) 263.5346 Caracas.

Please note: you may have missed some of the circulars, if you have not received one every week, do not hesitate to ask for the missing number.

For those that would like to contact me here I include my telephones:
Telf.Office: 58 (212) 263.5346, 267.2416, From: 11:00GMT to 22:00GMT
FAX: 58 (212) 261.0829,
Home: 58 (212) 238.4084. From: 00:00 GMT to 04:00 GMT
Cellphone: 58 (0416) 612.5695
ICQ# 158597413
Remember that Venezuela's time is the same as Trinidad's, -04:00 GMT.
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ATTACHMENTS

Listado C82.xls

			Names Form V Contact nickname business address Phone e-mail Csaky, Jose glen YV Cubillan, Valencia Cubillan, Luis Valencia Cumberbatch, Arthur glen YV Cumberbatch, Valentino glen YV Cunha, Russell 1967 ahow TT Cuthbert, Fr. OSB, Teacher lk TT Living at the mount the-mount@carib-link.net D´abadie, Bernard howard TT (868) 637 4115 adams@wow.net, D´abadie, Roland 1960 howard whg ca (416) 785 7935 roland@on.aibn.com Da Costa, David (RIP) stephen Big Beam Da Costa, Simon roger Small Beam Da Silva, Ricardo 1966 gabby Dager, Felipe glen YV Dager, Simon glen YV Dagher, Jorge cosca YV

Circular No 81

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Circular No 80

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Circular No 79

Newsletter for past alumni of The Abbey School, Mt. St. Benedict, Trinidad and Tobago, W.I.
Caracas, 10 of May 2003. Circular No. 79
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Dear Friends,

Here is some more information on our school and a little resume on the activities of the Benedictine Order, this information appeared in a WEB page, so enjoy this information, the most extensive that I have found up to today.

Archbishop Dowling accepted the Benedictines into the Archdiocese on the condition that they help in parishes. In the 1970s Archbishop Pantin removed this requirement.

The Bosco Boys was an in house apprenticeship programme active from the 1930s to the 1950s teaching trades.

The Abbey School began in 1943 and closed in 1985.

The Seminary began in the 1943 and was managed by the monks until 1970.

St. Benedict's college in San Fernando (now Presentation College) was started by the Benedictines in 1930 and handed over to the Presentation Brothers in 1948.

St. Benedict's College in La Romain was also a Benedictine initiative of 1956. The last Benedictine presence there being 1968.

St. Bede Vocational School, a brainchild of Fr. Bede Thuenissen, had its beginnings in nearby St. John's village and was established on its present site in 1967.

From the very beginning the lands around the Mount were cultivated especially in the traditional crops of cocoa, coffee, tonka beans, provisions etc. and the community was cited for various awards and commendations from the agricultural society in the 1920s. Many people remember the Mount for its honey, the production of which ceased in 2001, and others remember the turkey, chicken and eggs that were available to customers from the 1950s until 1974. The Abbey also looked after estates away from the Mount; Guico in the 1930s and in the 1950s Kedell in Tobago.

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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You might wonder who is taking care of the Monastery? Well here is the list of the care takers of the great tradition:

Abbey of Our Lady of Exile, Mount St. Benedict, Tunapuna, Trinidad & Tobago
Tel: (868) 662-2259, (868) 662-5286; Fax: (868) 645-8478;
email: the-mount@carib-link.net
Rt. Rev. Francis Alleyne, Abbot, Rev. John Pereira, Prior, Bro. Joseph Perez, Subprior, Bro. Gerard Alexis, Bro. Tony Badri, Bro. Camillus Culley, Bro. John Cassian D'Arceuil, Bro. Devon Gaynor, Rev. Thomas Harricharan, Bro. Felix Pope, Rev. Augustine Schreurs, Rev. Benedict Simons, Rev. Cuthbert van der Sande, Rev. Christopher Theunissen, Rev. Odo van der Heijdt, Bro. Marius Williams
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And what about the Guyana Branch???

Guayana Benedictines
P.O. Box 28, Bartica, Essequibo River, GUYANA, South America
email: benedictines@solutions2000.net
Bro. Paschal Jordan, Superior, Rev. Hildebrand Greene, Bro. Matthias Farrier, Bro. Neil Primus
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And now to our traditional section on emails that have been received, over a period of time.
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Please be advised that I can also be reached at TONY9411@YAHOO.COM Thanks.
Tony OBrien

Thank you Tony, are you receiving the circulars? Do you have a couple of lines to contribute? A photo? I am in need of material to share, please help.
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I am including this note to David Pampellone, please inform him to get in touch with me, as I have a message for him that I cannot publish by this means. A telephone number would be appreciated.
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Those of you looking for Mac James Seheult, I have his Work Telephone number and another e-mail address. He is in Houston, Texas with Kelco Oil Field Group:
Tele: (713) 329-7220
Fax: (713) 895-7586
E-mail: mac.seheult@monsanto.com

If you contact him, please gave him my regards, and ask him if he ges the circualrs.
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For those who would like to get in touch with Roger Taylor, (868) 657-5744, (868) 680-4971
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I am sorry to say that the last Quiz got few takers, the answer was:
Michael Howard, Ladislao Kertesz, Jose (Pepe) Braggio and Fr Cuthbert.

Well done, Christopher Knowles.
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You must have noticed that this circular has lots of tiddy bits of information but no lengthy articles. I am trying to clear these short notes, so that you get all possible contact information and show all interventions to my address.

God Bless

Ladislao
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Listado: C79.xls
Photo: msba 6404 p07
Monastery tt: farcheg 11 school
Monastery GY: scan 0001tv
Song. 145858-1-09
Wayne Vinent Brown´s column can be seen at www.Jamaicaobserver.com.
Column: dbratt in next circular
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Send information to: Ladislaokertesz@hotmail.com, if you would like to be in the circular's mailing list or any old boy that you would like to include. Telf. 0(212) 263.5346 Caracas.
Please note: you may have missed some of the circulars, if you have not received one every week, do not hesitate to ask for the missing number.

For those that would like to contact me here I include my telephones:
Telf.Office: 58 (212) 263.5346, 267.2416, From: 11:00GMT to 22:00GMT
FAX: 58 (212) 261.0829,
Home: 58 (212) 238.4084. From: 00:00 GMT to 04:00 GMT
Cellphone: 58 (0416) 612.5695
ICQ# 158597413
Remember that Venezuela's time is the same as Trinidad's, -04:00 GMT.
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ATTACHMENTS

Listado C79.xls

Names	Form V	Contact	nickname	business address	Phone	e-mail	home address
Cassuto, Roberto		glen		YV
Castellani, Pablo		glen		Barquisimeto	985 5423?		962 1914x
Castells, Enrique				Aluminium	959 3568	megaaluminium@cantv.net
Castillo, Ernest				Tunapuna
Castro, Lorenzo Maximilano	1960	whg	Timino	Caracas		Lctelca@Cantv.net
Castro, Pedro	1959	whg		Caracas	(0212) 258 0467, 258 0193	elmagodecamelot@hotmail.com	colegio nueva venezuela
Castro, Reinaldo	1958			Caracas
Caudieron, Alberto		glen		YV
Cedeno, Gary		roge
Cedeno, Lennox		roge
Cesarino, Juan Gerardo		glen		YV
Chacin, Jose Leonado		glen		YV
Chacon, Richard J.		glen		YV
Chadee, Edward		roge	Big Lip
Chandler, Peter				YV

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Circular No 78

Newsletter for past alumni of The Abbey School, Mt. St. Benedict, Trinidad and Tobago, W.I.
Caracas, 3 of May 2003. Circular No. 78
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B.S. For those that keep numbers, if you miss any issue of this Circular, please request it, I still have some in the OUTBOX files of my email. For every P.S. there is a B.S.?? I must ask Wayne Vincent Brown!!! Does anyone know if he is OK, it has been over six months that his keys do not move, at least in this direction! Well, there is a saying that no news are good news, so be it!
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Dear Friends,

Those that went to school with John Dulieu might be wondering where the hell he is upto? Well here is a short description on his latest activities.

New Barbadian Airline

BWIA WILL soon have a new regional competitor with the November launching of a Barbadian-owned, intra-Caribbean airline.

HelenAir Barbados, to be launched over the Barbados Independence weekend, will offer point-to-point flights to Trinidad, St Lucia, Grenada and St Vincent and in the near future to Martinique, Guadeloupe and Dominica.

The airline is 61 per cent owned by three Barbadian investors headed by John Dulieu, a former chief pilot with Carib Express. The new company will be in partnership with HelenAir St Lucia which has 39 per cent ownership.

Dulieu said that forming a partnership with HelenAir St. Lucia allowed his company to benefit from economies of scale. This would include common reservations system, maintenance, crew training and marketing. "We will do daily point-to-point flights. That is, early morning departure to each destination and we are looking for a midday back and an evening back," Dulieu said.

He said HelenAir Barbados would initially use Beech 1900C 19-seater aircraft, but the market response would dictate whether they would look at introducing larger aircraft.

Dulieu, who spent 26 years with LIAT, said his airline planned to expand throughout the Caribbean and into South America. He said they would be pursuing agreements with international carriers transiting Barbados to carry their passengers onward.

"The aircraft that international carriers are using into the region are getting larger and it's very costly to fly between the islands. So we envisage a situation where the Barbados hub, the major gateway in the Caribbean, will become even larger and we plan to capitalize on that," he added.

Chief Executive Officer of HelenAir Barbados Ltd. John Dulieu said that the Barbados operations will begin on November 27 with flights to Grenada and St. Vincent. HelenAir Corporation St. Lucia Ltd. established HelenAir Barbados three months ago with 51 percent Barbadian ownership.
helenair@candw.lc
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Good luck, Captain. If you have any recent news, please send us information on your airline. It reminds me of the days that I flew Gliders as a model builder at the Mount and latter piloted the real full-sized ones, in California and Oregon. And even latter small Cessna and Piper airplanes, and a DC-3 in one of my trips to the South of Venezuela.
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Can anyone update the following lines written to me last year by Don Mitchell??

Don wrote:

I read with much amusement and enjoyment your memories of Fr Benedict in Ladislao's circular No 13. I visited Mount last April when I was in Trinidad for a conference and took the photographs of Fr Augustine, Fr Cuthbert, and Fr Benedict that now appear on Tony's web site.

It was then that I met and photographed Fr Augustine, who has unfortunately lost his sight. That is the colour photo that is on the web site. He was quite active and showed me around despite his handicap. We had a drink and something to eat in the old familiar cafeteria at the Abbey. I was interested to learn from him that he still has all the Abbey School records of all the years that the school was open. We can get to copy, if we can ever organise the expedition of arranging to take a photocopier to the Abbey, all the records of all the forms for our web pages. (Are you upto it Jon?)

Fr. Cuthbert was still working in the co-op he founded over 40 years ago, and he willingly allowed himself to be prised out from behind his desk to have the photos that you have seen taken. He was obviously hale and hearty if a bit thin.

Fr. Benedict was in his room when Fr Augustine showed me there. He would not allow me in, but came out to chat. You can imagine what a state his room must be in with all the bits of equipment lying around. He proudly brought out an amplifier that he had just built from scratch. It is visible in the photo, as he wanted to demonstrate that it was nearly loud enough to be heard down at the now abandoned playing field. He appeared in quite good health, if a bit frail. He assured me that he still has all of the hundreds of class photos that he took all those years ago as the official school photographer. My hope is that, if we can ever take a scanner up to the Abbey, before he passes away and someone cleans out his room for the last time, we will one day soon copy all the photos and put them up on the web.

I hope that Fr. John reads this to him or prints and gives him your memoirs of him, to read

Don
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Hi Ladislao,

Many thanks for the circular. At a cocktail party last night, I met a Mrs Shoul who told me that her husband and two other brothers were at Mount during the 1940s and 1950s. She says two of them (I cannot remember the names) are still living in Antigua, but one has died. She gave me her email address and I have sent her the URL to the Abbey School website. She has promised to make her husband, whom I did not meet, sit down and look at it. In case you would like to contact her, she is Mrs Gene Shoul at gene@candw.ag

All the best,

Don
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In my list only one SHOUL appears, so please give the names of the rest!!! Can anyone help? Even better if you can provide the e-mail addresses.
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For further information on the CD:

http://ecaroh.com/sacred/godofmusic.htm
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So welcome to May and No.78 who would have guessed? There is another photo for those that like to help out, can you place names, left to right, Ho Quiz No. 3.

By the way, Big Joe, David Bratt, got the name all right, others were not close.

God Bless

Ladislao
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Listado: C78.xls
Photos: msba 6404 p07
airplane (should be 2Y instead 6J)
Song. 145858-1-08
Column: No columns have been received, sorry. There seems to a hands down strike by the MSB writers guild.
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ATTACHMENTS
Listado C78.xls

Names	Form V	Contact	nicknames	business address	Phone	e-mail
Bro.Yee-hun, Ron
Brown, Wayne Vincent	1960	lk	Cokyeye	Jamaica	Journalist	wvb@kasnet.com
Brunton, Anselm		boos
Bryan, Richard		glen		YV
Cabello, Natividad		cosca		YV caripe
Cabello, Winston		cosca		YV caripe
Camacho, Cecil		coscarart		TT	(868) 637 5092	Scamacho@wow.net
Camacho, Jeffrey		boos		TT
Campbell, Glenn		mcint		TT
Camp-Campins, Bernard		roge			(868) 624 5279	Kcamps@wow.net
Camp-Campins, John	1954	boos
Cantore, Fulvio		pablo		km 96 ZI Las Palmas Anaco, Venezuela	(0282) 422 3874
Cantore, Oscar		pablo		Anaco, Venezuela	(0416) 682 2020	oscar@aincosa.com
Carabano, Carlos		glen		YV	Carabaño??? Cosca
Carretero, Juan Carlos		coscarart		YV cumana

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