Newsletter for alumni of The Abbey School, Mt. St. Benedict, Trinidad
and Tobago, W.I.
Caracas, 9 of January 2016 No. 740
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Dear
Friends,
It is the
year 2016, thirty years since our school closed, time to reminiscence and look
at the future of the Oldboys’ Membership, but before I want to write about the
Association, the ultimate governing body that we have as Old boys from the
Abbey School.
As with
all associations world-wide, the dynamics can be measured by the amount of
communication between the Secretariat and its members. In most associations,
this communication is basically about owed dues, forthcoming events and maybe
some sad news on someone that died.
In our
case, we do not have dues, so no monthly correspondence asking for payments.
Also since there are no planned events, again nothing to report, and finally
the deceased report does come from the members, so there is no work at the
Association.
Then what
is the purpose of the Association??
Wishing
you an uneventful 2016
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Nigel Boos
<nigelboos@eagles-wings.ca>
Dec 24 at
3:32 PM
So wha’ happen to us folks in Canada? You ent wan’ see us too?
Merry Christmas, Don, to you and yours.
Nigel
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Merry Christmas to my family and friends, under all the merriment and
happiness, let's remember the REAL REASON of Christmas;
He who was born in abject humility in a Cow Pen (we dress it up nicely
calling it a manger).
Remember those who, for one reason or another, have nothing with which
to celebrate this day.
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26 November at 15:10
Dear Sir Kazim, Sir Don, cc. Sir Ladislao Kertesz.
We should see what class photos we can import from the blog, maybe Sir
Laz may have some suggestion, as we need more Mount related material, we do
have many interested stuff on our site, but not Mount related.
A merging of the Circular, Blog, Facebook & input from our Alumni
Association in Trinidad, would give us a better selection of Mount: stuff to
share with our brother, all over the world.
Thank you for your kind attention,
best regards, Glen.
(As
always, you’re trying to improve and simplify.
Hope you manage to interest any active member, but let us face it, there
is no common denominator because it is done thru love, as each of us contributes
when we have time, Editor)
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Dec 25 at
11:21 AM
Hello,
Jan,
Wow. 6,999 photos!
I tried to use Flickr a couple of years ago, but found it impossible to
set up for some reason, and never tried again.
Your photos are so wonderfully ordered, I am tempted to try again.
Enjoy your French retirement, and keep well.
Don
PS: I am copying this to Ladislao so he can enjoy your news.
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From: Gmail
Jan
Sent:
Friday, December 25, 2015 10:06 AM
Dear Don and Maggie,
Thank you very much for your lovely mail, it’s good for the Xmas time to
see two happy people. I enjoy your life story and the pictures make it all
understandable. The coal kiln is very interesting, and a classroom of students
in your pool. Teach them laws good, tell them tickets is ok but not if the
government uses it for extra taxes ha ha. Nice way to transfer a lifetime of
experience to the younger generation.
When the weather is good, from February to October, me and my wife go to
France to work on the farm we are renovating since 2008. Of the spring, summer and autumn of every year
I put albums with pictures on internet. For
joy, if you like to watch look here
A bit plenty, but Flickr gives a lot of space. It is in Dutch, maybe you
can guess it? You can just scroll the
pages, or click on a picture to see it big and read the text below it. If you scroll down, there is an album of
colour slides from the sixties I bought at a brocanterie for 3 euros. Maybe you like that too.
In my garden in Holland trees and flowers are getting a knob like they
want to flower again. Never saw that
before here, it should be snowing instead. The earth is really warming up!
Have fun, be well and enjoy the holidays.
Thank you very much too for all your efforts on the circulars and alumni
stuff. I enjoyed it really much!
Much greetings,
Jan Koenraadt
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from: Gmail
Jan
Sent:
Friday, December 25, 2015 4:34 PM
Hello Don,
It’s ok forwarding it to Ladislao.
I see you both got a good cruise lesson, pity as you might have longed
for it over a long time. But you got Maggie out of Cuba, that is writing
history too!
I think you have close connection with the local government, as there
are two lawyers in the house.
You explored the coast of the island. In my prepschool we learned about
the coastal area of Surinam. In origin it was rocky too, but then the Amazon
river deposited miles of mud for millions of years. The big rivers go from
south to north. Three are so big they don’t bend at the shore, three are
smaller and bend westwards because of the Gulfstream with mud from the Amazon.
Could there be any mud of the Amazon around Antigua? Is it basalt rocks you are
standing in? The orchids are beautiful, my wife and I also love to photograph
beautiful flowers. Your flowers are probably there most of the year, over here
it is seasonal, every two months different flowers. The flamboyant is
beautiful.
I started the picture albums first on Picasa, but Google Plus took that
over and wrecked my system. So last year I moved all the albums to Flickr which
promises 1 terabyte of free space. So you can go big and in original
resolution. I made a sort of photoblog. The view counter started over again,
that’s why those moved albums have few views.
Just pick and choose what you like, otherwise you’ll get dull. It’s
meant for leisure time! All pictures are sorted by time. Flickr recently added
a popup in the right hand corner asking to sign in. We hate that very much, but
like Google and Facebook they want to collect profiles for advertising
purposes.
If you make an account on Flickr, to prevent downloading and appearing
in Google search, please adjust three options in the settings as I show in the
added printscreen. Otherwise all your pictures will show in Google Image search
and other third party search engines when you type the name of your account.
You can test it yourself that the block options work. My account-name is “Jan
en Berthy”. If you type that in Google Search none of my pictures will pop up
(maybe only once with the link to the albums). Otherwise you would get 6,999
hits in Google!
Have fun and enjoy!
Much greetings to family and all,
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Don
Mitchell <idmitch@anguillanet.com>
To garry henderson
Dec 27 at
12:17 PM
Hi, Garry,
Just catching up with correspondence now the Christmas madness is
over.
Have you given Ladislao a recent update, so your old school friends from
1958 can catch up with what you have been up to these past 45+ years?
You were somewhere before Florida, I can bet.
It would be a worthwhile thing to do.
I can only say I feel myself getting more and more shakey and forgetful
as the months pass.
Time seems to rush by, but I don’t remember what I have been doing the
week before (probably very little).
Keep well,
And you keep up the good fight too.
Don
(There
are no photos from GARRY, Editor)
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From: garry henderson
Sent: Sunday,
December 20, 2015 10:34 AM
Don,
I enjoyed reading your Christmas letter & seeing pictures of
yourself & wife, you have not changed much from what I remember you looking
like at Mount in our youth, maybe a little less hair on top.
Also nice to see Brian Goddard, I remember there were 3 brothers, Kitty,
Brian & Ronald I believe.
I have never been to Nevis or Anguilla may get there one of these years,
we have a place in Barbados where we try to go every year from Florida where we
have spent the past 27 years.
Keep fighting the good fight & stay well... Merry Christmas and
happy New Year to you & family.
Best regards,
Garry
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Don
Mitchell
Dear Abbey School Old Boys,
This is just one of my irregular circular emails to let you know that
there are new Circulars on the website.
As we venture into the new year, 2016, Ladislao is nearly up to date
with his Circulars.
I have posted several in the past several weeks.
I have staggered the postings, in the hope that if you visit the website
from time to time, you will find new ones up on each visit. However, if
some of you have difficulty navigating the Circulars, and wish me to give you a
link to each of the ones for December and November, just let me know and I can
happily do so.
Best wishes,
Don
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12/24/15 at
9:39 AM
Merry Christmas/(Holiday) Greetings & Blessings and Good Wishes for
a Happy and Healthy New Year from my heart for ALL my family, both near and
far, and ALL my friends!
Wishing everyone a very Happy & Holy Christmas (Holiday) Season and
Good Health & Cheer for the coming year.
Lots of Love, Priscilla
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B.C.
Pires, is inspired, his latest newspaper column. Here’s a sample…
“Have to make admittance is very much fun
murder mosquito electronic bug zapperfully. Person of write column not
bloodthirsty like mosquito but still like hear crackle before mosquito is
popping. Feel gleeful at inflict revenge within whining-in-ears-full mosquito.
First time had electronic bug swatter, person of write column murder all
mosquito in house very effectiveness, very fastly, all mosquito gone in one
hour; person of write column had fill barrel with water and let stand
stagnantly in garage for days for get back plentiful mosquito to zap joyful
duplicate once more.”
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So
Christmas is over and I didn’t get the chance to write a Christmas column.
Damn. I feel like tapping up Santa Claus. Fat, red fraud. If any children are
reading this, I want you to know Santa Claus isn’t true. If you received
any presents at all, they did not come from Santa. They came from the mall. If
you don’t believe me, look at the bottom of your “Frozen” Anna: if Santa is
true, why is he living in China? Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus and he
lives at the East Pole with his little helpers,
BC Pires
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EDITED by Ladislao Kertesz
Send information to: kertesz11@yahoo.com, if you would
like to be in the circular’s mailing list or any old boy that you would like to
include.
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Photos:
Bandit
p70x p71 The Early Times
58CD0001CDNGRP,
Charles-Henri Dunoyer and Joel Blandin
58JK0012MSBEDI,
The monastery
15BC0002BCP,
B.C. Pires, writer in Barbados and Trinidad
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