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
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
And now to our traditional section on emails that have been received, over a period of time.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
For those who would like to get in touch with Roger Taylor, (868) 657-5744, (868) 680-4971
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------