Circular No 99

Newsletter for past alumni of The Abbey School, Mt. St. Benedict, Trinidad and Tobago, W.I. Caracas, 27 of September 2003. Circular No.99
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Dear Friends,

Those in Trinidad must have read a lot about one of our oldboys, and his daughters. I have asked Don Mitchell to get material so that I can include it in
one of my Circulars.
Here is the result of the inquiry.
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From: "Don Mitchell, QC" 
Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2002 19:17:39 -0400
Subject: Anthony Lucky

Hi Tony,
You are probably planning to update the Mount site sometime soon with new material. This is a photo attached of Anthony Lucky and family for the "Recent
Photos" page, and below is a note for the "Biography" page when you are next putting up stuff.
All the best,
Don
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Directly from the hand writing of Justice Anthony Lucky.

I presently serve as a Justice of the Court of Appeal of Trinidad & Tobago.
After I left Mount, I completed my secondary education at Presentation College in San Fernando.
I then left for England where I graduated as a barrister-at-law from Gray's Inn in London in November 1961.
After a stint in private practice, I served as a Magistrate in San Fernando between 1964 and 1974 and as Secretary to the Law Reform Commission between 1974
and 1976.
Between 1976 and 1987 I was in-house counsel for Royal Bank of Trinidad & Tobago,after which I was appointed to the bench as a Judge of the High Court.
In October 2000 I was appointed to our Court of Appeal, Trinidad and Tobago's highest Court other than the Privy Council in London.
While engaged in these duties, I continued my legal education, picking up over the years, a Certificate in Legislative Drafting, a Diploma in International
Relations, and a Masters in International Relations.
For my MSc degree I specialised on the law of the sea, and my thesis on the Legal Relationship of the Law of the Sea between Trinidad and Tobago and Venezuela is
on the reading list in some of the subjects at UWI.
I have been married to Cintra for 39 years. Cintra is a graduate teacher in Trinidad, holding a BA (General Hons) degree and a Diploma in Education from the
Faculty of Education at the University of the West Indies. We have four daughters, Cindy-Ann, a specialist medical doctor in Canada; Gillian an
attorney-at-law and Member of Parliament in Trinidad; Elizabeth whose degree is in Industrial Management and Accountancy and who lives in Canada; and Antonia who
is an environmental management consultant in Trinidad.
Besides my work, I enjoy attending international law conferences and spending extended periods of time in Canada doting on my grandchildren.

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From: "Margaret Mitchell" 
Date: 28 Aug 18:15 (PDT)
Subject: Trinidad Reunion 2003

Hello Ladislao,
Here I am back in Antigua. The trip to Trinidad is not past, and I must get back to work. But, I would like to send you some of the photographs I took.
My computer broke down, and is being repaired. I am borrowing Maggie's at the present. I have downloaded the photos to it, and will attach them one by one to
email messages that I shall send to you.
I am very bad with names, so please excuse the lack of information. The old boys of the 1985 class who organised the function treated us all very hospitably.
I thoroughly enjoyed the event, and hope that more of us will make it next year. They have promised to make it an annual event.
The monks and Ms Markus attended the Friday event. I attach several photos of them. It was so nostalgic to see them again. Only Fr Abbot was able to make it to
the Sunday lunch in the Maraval Valley.
The photos of the men and women in formal dress were taken at the dinner on the Friday night. The ones of us dressed less formally were taken on the Sunday at the home of Mr
Hardip-Singh, where we enjoyed viewing the wide array of wild animals surrounding the house.
Very few of the old boys from our generation were present. You will recognise the ones who are in the photos.
All the best,
Don

(Would Mr. Hardip-Singh be an oldboy??? If so someone has his email address??? Ed.)
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From: "Margaret Mitchell" 
Subject: Trinidad Reunion 2003
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 06:29:21 -0400

Hello Ladislao,
I have just sent you a total of 19 photos from the Reunion in Trinidad. They went to the address you requested photos to be sent to. There is a short message
attached to the first one.
Some of the photos are not of the best quality. Please feel free to circulate only those that you are satisfied with.
There are more photos. These are just a cross-section of them. I chose some of the "old" boys, and some of the "new" boys to satisfy all ages!
All the best,
Don

(The photos are OK and if there are more, please send them, I believe that only 15 faces are showing between your´s and Salvador´s photos, I am sure there were
more people at the EVENT!  Ed.)
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From: "Wayne Brown" 
Date: 28 Sep 11:00 (PDT)
To: 
Subject: Re: Circular No.98, The Abbey School MSB

Dear Ladislao--
In your latest MSB newsletter (reprinted, I gather, from a letter from you to David Bratt), you write:
"In the case of WVB he was upset because he though that I was discriminating by not sending out his anti American ones. I told him that it was not true; it was
because I could not get it from the newspaper every week so he is sending them to me for inclusion."
Since you have thus circularised the MSB Old Boys, I hope you will likewise pass on to them my response to yours above, as follows:
1) In the period under discussion--circa August-December 2002--my column was dealing with the impending US attack upon Iraq on an average of once every three
weeks or so. You were reproducing my columns, to which I retain copyright (without my permission, although, to begin with, I had no objection), through
most of that period--yet not one of my "anti-American ones" appeared. If that was a coincidence of the unavailability online of those particular columns, it was a
most striking coincidence.
2) I explicitly disavow your view that my columns attacking the Bush Administration's imperial surge into the Middle East (which, you may have
noticed, is now getting the comeuppance it so richly deserves, though Iraq itself will have been shattered and destroyed by the time the American legions are
withdrawn from it) constitute "anti-American(ism)". American voices opposing the war have existed all along; today, fully half of those polled in the US are
calling Mr Bush's Iraq adventure a mistake; and indeed there's a good chance that he and his bunch of barbarian raiders (raiders of the US Treasury, no less than
of Middle Eastern oil, by the way) will be ejected from office by the American people next year because of it. I doubt you would be minded to call the American
people "anti-American". For the record, I am no more that than they are.

WB.
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Unfortunately I missed the comments when I prepared the Circular, David. As I said about a year ago, I do not censure the Newsletter, but sometimes I try to
avoid confrontation to a minimum, knowing the stance of each writer. Ups, I screwed up!!!!

Dear Wayne, At first I thought that you sent me an article of your Scouting days or intervention during the fight between the Farcheg and Fedak brothers!!!
I am sorry my comments have brought up the controversy, but true to modern journalism, I have printed your answer to Circular No.98 and I hope that the
matter is settled. I shall be more careful next time!!!!.

God Bless
Ladislao
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Listado: C99.xls
Photo from Don: Photo Anthony Lucky family
Photo Salvador Coscarart: Ms Kitty Marcus
Wayne Vincent Brown’s column can be seen at www.Jamaicaobserver.com,
Column: dbratt –next week
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ATTACHMENTS

Listado C99.xls

Names	Form V	Contact	Nickname	business address	Phone,	e-mail
Hewitson, Robert		glen		YV
Hing King, A
Hive, Rolph	1958	maurice		TT	(868) 637 4136
Ho, Howard	1964	orenellas			(713) 417 2496	baknal@aol.com
Hobson, Humphrey
Hoefle, Carlos (RIP)		lk
Hoefle, Gabriel	1967	lk	left in 1966	Losher	(0212) 762 5506, 763 3680, 762 8512
Holiday,		farcheg
Holmes, David		cosca		YV ccs
Holmes, Frank	1972	glen		YV ccs
Howard, Michael	1960		Daddy long legs	Neal and Massy	(868) 665 5555	msh@tstt.net.tt m-howard@neal-and-massy.com
Howell, Millard	1958	roge	Bullet head
Hudson		mcint
Huggins, Robert	1965	boos	left in 1962 in form 2	Calgary		robert.huggins@3web.net,

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