Circular No 83

Newsletter for past alumni of The Abbey School, Mt. St. Benedict, Trinidad and Tobago, W.I.

Caracas, 7 of June 2003. Circular No. 83

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Dear Friends,

I have tried to reconstruct the timetable for Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays.

The daily schedule was:

Wake up: 06:00

Morning Mass: 06:00 until 06:45 (until 1958 it was obligatory).

Breakfast: 07:00

Study: 08:00 in Form I classroom, which was above Prep A and B.

Class: 09:00 to 12:00, Four classes of 45 minutes.

Lunch: 12:30

Study: 13:30 to 14:00

Class: 14:00 to 15:00

Tea and clothes change for sports: 15:00 to 17:00

Bathe and change clothes: 17:00 time that the dormitory was opened.

Study: 18:00

Dinner: 19:00

Study for Form boys, Dormitory and sleep for Prep boys: 20:00

Sleep: 21:00

On Saturdays and Wednesdays:

The dormitory was opened after Lunch to change to sport clothes.

And on Wednesday there was study time after 18:00

On Saturday movies at 19:00

On Sunday the Mass was postponed one hour: 07:00

Breakfast at 08:00

Playtime till 10:00 when there was letter writing time and study.

Playtime from 11:00 till lunch.

After lunch the time table was the same as on Wednesday.

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I would like your comment on the time table, I presume that the schedule change through the years so I can vouch for years 1955 until 1960. So turn your clock back and give me your opinion!

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Gabby wrote in response to a sporting story:

That story was especially interesting to me because while I never knew I was inclined that way while at Mount. In the last 20 years I have become somewhat of a fanatic runner. I enter all the 5ks and 10ks around here and usually beat all the old farts in sight. I have done three marathons (one under 3 hours) and last year ran a mile in 5:24. I would like to think that my athlete son has inherited some of that from the old man.

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I have included for those academic old boys, a study manual that was quite a roadblock to some. It was for me, as I would have gotten 1st grade when adding up the points, but did not make it because of my English notes, which required a minimum grade, otherwise the total points did not matter, so I was downgraded. I have kept some of my old books as these proved to be great for reference with my kids. The books nowadays are very poor on themes and their organization is deficient.

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I have received good response on the Web page problem, and we have a group of oldboys looking into the matter.

As soon as there is a story, I shall include it in the circulars.

It is most interesting that those kids that one knew as aggressive, “rebel without a cause” type, and those that were “gang leaders”?? against the defacto rule in our times, are the quietest guys nowadays. And I mean quietest as to email writing, the old flame must have gone out I presume?

God Bless

Ladislao

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Listado: C83.xls

Photo: GCE O level English language

Formato milo

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Wayne Vincent Brown’s column can be seen at www.Jamaicaobserver.com

Column: dbratt –No. 107 Sugar food.

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Look us up at http://www.theabbeyschool.com an all class msb web site.

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.

Use Lkertesz2@icqmail.com for photos as I leave enough storage space for these.

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) 612.5696

ICQ# 158597413

Remember that Venezuela’s time is the same as Trinidad’s, -04:00 GMT.

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ATTACHMENTS

Listado C83.xls

Names	Form V	Contact	nickname	business address	Phone	e-mail
Dan, Staubels
Darwent, John		boos		Inca Talara Peru
Darwent, Peter		roge
Darwent, Roger (RIP)		roge
Darwent, Walter
Dass, Robin
Date, Alan		jon		Korea		alandate@lycos.com
Date, Christopher	1959			UK		juliet_chris@tesco.net
Date, Paul		went to mount????		bc
Date, Robert	1964	Huggins	whg	BWIA pilot	(868) 633 6353	rdate@trinidad.net
De Barry, Jeremy	1966	gabby				tobagojo@trinidad.net,
De Bohembler, David	1957	roger	Cow Spray	Au, painter		check spelling	Rodney = brother TT
De Cambra, Gregory		roge
De Cambra, Raymond J.		boos			(868) 637 3438

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