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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