Newsletter
for alumni of The Abbey School, Mt. St. Benedict, Trinidad and Tobago, W.I.
Caracas,
13 of February 2016 No. 745
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Dear Friends,
Anyone in contact with Malcolm Boyack?? Cannot find his email address, or photo. I hope that he is well and happy. Please contact him.
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Pete
Da Costa <stevesco@outlook.com>
15 Feb
Ladislao,
I read your email below re the situation in Venezuela.
I have always had an interest in Venezuela as I was born in
Trinidad but my mother’s father and his family came to Trinidad from Ciudad
Bolivar.
It is indeed very sad to see what that beautiful country has come
too.
But with Gods intervention she will rise again.
May the Lord keep you and your family safe during these difficult
times.
Regards
Peter
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8 February 11:45
Hello my brothers, all
Mount Boyers.. He He!!!
8 February 11:23
Sometimes it may
seem the channels are disconnected, but trust me, the lines are open at all
times, its just silent.
Muchas Gracias.
8 February 11:18
Hello guys, long
time I didn't 'hear' from you....
8 February 11:08
Thank you Sir Ladislao Kertesz, looking
great, love the circulars, it’s the only reason I got involved, Great Grand
Master Knight.
Cheers Glen.
8 February 05:54
Dear Kazim,
First Venezeula, now Trinidad.
The internet servers are beginning to reject my emails informing
the Old Boys about new Circulars.
I suspect the servers are programmed to look out for spam and to
reject it.
That means that now none of my updates to either of those
countries may be getting through.
Could I please trouble you to post the notice below on the Group
page?
That way, the news might get through to some of those whose
servers have blocked my emails.
Don
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From: John Gioannetti <JGioannetti@MDC-UM.com>
Subject: The Bearded Monster
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 09:45:19 -0400
Mr.
Lewellyn Macintosh / Short Pants / The Bearded Monster
Currently
Principal of Trinity College in Maraval trincoll@tstt.net.tt.
For those
who are interested. Mr. Lewin Macintosh, Teacher at Mount St. Benedict in
1960's and 1970's.
He is
also known by his stage name "Short Pants".
To the
people in my class he was known as the Bearded Monster.
He used
to talk about how the Amerindians had predicted that these bearded monsters
would arrive on their shores in odd vessels.
Thus the
name as he has a full beard himself.
In my
humble or not so humble opinion he was one of the two best teachers I had at
Mt. the other being Tony or Dr. David Strisiver.
Mr.
Macintosh taught History, Literature, Geography, English Language.
Mr
Macintosh was an enthusiastic and gifted teacher, who installed in one a desire
to learn and to question.
A true
teacher.
His real
love was History and he taught you not just date and facts, but why, how events
changed the course of history and possible alternative outcomes had things
happened differently.
I have
dyslexia so writing essays was hard for me in his classes.
He once
came out during his holidays and gave me an Oral exam in Literature and History
so I would be able to move up to the next form.
Without a
doubt my favourite channel is the History Channel, he must have done something
right with me.
His most
famous quotation was. "If you fail to prepare, prepare to fail."
He once
came to teach maths, not his speciality.
I had a
bit of fun running rings around him with Algebra, he eventually asked me to do
the examples on the board as he was a bit out of his dept on this matter.
One day
Roger Taylor and I were talking in class, and the following transcript shows
what a witty and quick thinker he is.
Mackie:
Taylor and Gioannetti shut up
Taylor:
Sir I was not talking
Makcie:
Taylor stand up
Mackie:
No Taylor on top of the desk (Taylor was a long lanky string bean in those
days)
Taylor
stood on the desk
Mackie: What
do you take me for a fool?
Taylor:
No sir
Mackie: A
Moron?
Taylor:
No sir
Mackie:
An imbecile?
Taylor:
No sir
Mackie: A
Jack Ass?
Taylor:
YES SIR
Mackie:
Well God became a man to teach amongst men, so I became a Jack Ass to teach
amongst Jack Asses, now shut up and sit down.
Mr.
Macintosh started the first and only annual calypso competition at
Mt.St.Benedict. The winner, Glen Evelyn has some points to make, most of
them about the priest personal hygiene.
Most of
which was true.
But Mt.
St. Benedict did not recognise freedom of the Press or Arts, so we never had
another.
Some of
the verses were:
When Cutty
open he mouth, is den the flies does come out.................He really meant
Odo
Rughead
come from France, 10 yrs now he wearing the same pants
It was
hilarious, in fact one of my fondest memories of Mt. St. Benedict.
Another
Mackie favourite was, “In some countries a man kicks someone, they cut off his
foot, if he steals they cut off his hand, if he rapes......................................."
The class
would respond "What Sir, what" in heated anticipation.
He would
then respond with a sly grin filtering through a massive beard, "They make
him marry her" any way enough dribble and trivia
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Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 14:07:14
EDT
Dear Laszlo,
I am presently, and have been living for the last 49 years, in England.
I live in the town of Chatham in Kent, which is in the south east
of the country.
So the chances that I meet any of my Mount contemporaries are
pretty well nil.
I can say that I have been back to Trinidad only twice in recent
times, and on the last occasion I met Malcolm Boyack who was a contemporary.
He is a friend of my brother Allistair.
I remember people like Anthony Lucky, now a judge I hear, and
some of the Ames brothers.
I have also been in touch recently with Richard and Leary
O'Connor who are related to me by marriage through my uncle.
They both live in Perth Western Australia and are retired.
No joy with Julian and Benedict Hutton.
I have not tried to locate them recently.
I do keep in touch with Christopher Henderson, Roger's elder
brother, as we are the only family in England.
We visit each other regularly and we are going to spend the
weekend with them on 19th Oct. Chris and his wife Judy came to England about 15
years ago to live and they have more recent friends from Trinidad.
You can send him email at ccjhenderson@yahoo.co.uk.
Must fly.
Richard De Verteuil RAPDEV@aol.com
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From: "Norman Gabriel" <norman@normangabrielltd.com>
Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2002 12:04:14 -0400
Dear Ladislao,
Abraham Laquis forwarded your e-mail of October 10, 2002 to me
and suggested that I contact you directly.
I am an old boy of Mt. St. Benedict and I graduated at the same
time as Urban Fedak and Isaias Farcheg.
I would be pleased to receive information on the old boys of my
class but bear in mind that I have been in constant touch with Urbano and
Isaias over the many years.
Regards.
Norman Gabriel.
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Another
event that happened at the Mount:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>><REDECORATION
Those in
the big boys dorm in 1959, must remember their rooms, most of us got there in
Form IV, and were given the inner rows and when we moved to Form V we finally
got a window and could control the fresh air??,
I had a
window on the North side when there was a move to redecorate the cubicle, each
of us was asked to choose a colour from a book,
I chose
mine which was finally painted a pastel brown.
I
remember that one of the cubicles was red??
But I do
not remember whose cubicle it was, except that the room looked to the South.
All this
happened under Fr. Eugene´s reign (terrorific), please raise a hand those that
think it was so)??.
If any
remembers their room’s colour, please give me a line.
I
remember that the cubicle closest to the stairways was the Galt brothers,
Both
made a lot of noise after lights out, putting in about half an hour of
streching with their newly bought “Charles Atlas” spring exercisers.
I
believe that it had five lines of springs.
Can
anyone remember “Charles Altas”?.
So my
friends, another week has gone by and I hope that you are getting ready for the
Carnival. Maybe some of you can write about the event and let us share the
emotions.
God
Bless
Ladislao
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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:
15JC2779JCA, Jerry Campbell
04PZ0001PZE, Paul Zeven
02LM0001LMA, Lewellyn Macintosh
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