Newsletter for alumni of The Abbey School, Mt. St. Benedict,
Trinidad and Tobago, W.I.
Caracas, 12 November 2016 No. 784
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Dear Friends,
Again emails on how to keep The Abbey School. Interesting chat
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From: amickiew@att.net
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2015 12:11:25 -0500
Hey Glen,
Thanks for expanding the horizons of our discussions.
Your historic perspectives provide us with new visions of the
past, and captures our challenges in the present and the future.
Sharing a Broadway song that, when I hear it, always brings back
memories of my past at the Mount to enjoy and reflect on.
Et cum Spiritu tuo,
George
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From: Glen Mckoy [mailto:mckoy43glen@hotmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2015 11:28 AM
Hello, Sir George,
Now this subject on reunion and alumni.
I think it’s an unfair comparison with these other well organized
groups.
Only Lady Kitty & Fr. Sir Cutty would reply to request of
school certificates etc.
Sir Cutty tried to keep a local reunion going & also
corresponded with boys abroad, and I would bet most of them were boy scouts, he
also supported the local home chapter in many successful events,
That was his personal contribution.
As the management of the Mount changed, so did our status it
seems, our first reunion an Abbot was present and sanctioned our humble
beginnings of staying in touch with the Mount.
I can send you the email with photos, as proof of why we are
Knights, now under new management, we were sort of cut right out of the actual
Mount Saint Benedict Community. Not so
for Fatima and the others, they still have their addresses.
Sir George, we had our years in darkness, I speak of the boys
outside of Trinidad.
We were called upon.
After 20, 30, 40 years, a shock too many, but we are now
connected by many circles, in a circular / blog. & club linked.in, face book. & home chapter alumni. Other than that, we are a volunteer alumni,
in spirit & in mind and we are reuniting, in social intercourse right now. We do have small reunions all the time, all
over the world, and what you see is what we have, of our own free will, without
any shame or shy away from saying, I am Proud To Be A Mount Boy.
Time does fly. We have over 200 active members, in contact at all times. I think this is wonderful.
We are still a private group of friends, sharing our history of
The Abbey School.
1942-1984.
We are all now veterans.
Thank you for sharing.
It’s all good. Sir George. We met
at a reunion in Toronto, I feel the same for you, as I felt before I met you,
so I am more for the Spirit of Brotherhood, than the actual meet & greet. However that is good if brothers are living
in the same vicinity. Any more than that,
must be the desire of a collective body.
Best Regards Mis Hermanos –
Adios Glen.
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From: amickiew@att.net
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2015 07:51:20 -0500
Hi Glen, Nigel, Salvador, Kazim, Ladislao, Joseph, Kazim
I know from past circulars and e-mails that you occasionally get
together to break bread and drink wine/beer with alumni and sometimes their
families in your part of the world.
How often do you have these get togethers?
About how many do usually attend?......maybe not formal reunions
but meet the spirit of staying connected.
Pax vobiscum,
George
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From: GEORGE MICKIEWICZ [mailto:amickiew@att.net]
Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2015 6:30 AM
Thank you Father
Harold and Don for your feedback.
Thanks also for
adding others to the distribution list.
I am very impressed
by Fatima College’s dedication but also understand Don’s point.
Also suspect that it
is easier to hold reunions when the given school is still open and
active.
There is an
infrastructure in place to support alumni.
In this school, from
which my 3 children graduated, there are up to 4 generations represented in
some cases.
Several reunions for
different classes are celebrated each year.
I am not voicing
excuses but speculating why it is indeed more challenging for us “old, old, old
boys” to get together as “life fleets away”…..
May God bless all
alumni and their families,
George
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From: Don Mitchell [mailto:idmitch@anguillanet.com]
Sent: Monday, March 30, 2015 10:28 PM
Hello, Fr Harold,
Good to read the
enthusiasm.
It may be a little
more difficult for us to organize than the Fatima case.
Most of the relevant
and interested MSB alumni are overseas, and have been overseas for between
50-30 years.
However, . . .
Keep well.
Don
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From: Father Harold Imamshah
Sent: Monday, March 30, 2015 11:08 PM
..." life is
fleeting for us all"
What a beautiful
reflection of a group that considers itself " family" and the Class
of 69, their "home"
This Year my Class
of 75 (Fatima College), will celebrate 40 years. We still have a monthly Lunch Meeting at the
Oval, raise funds for our Alma Mater, (twice a year Golf Tournament and Bingo).
We send out Monthly emails of the
decisions made in the Meeting and ask for opinions/suggestions on upcoming
events etc. Last year over a few months,
we circulated a list of suggestions for our 2015 40th Anniversary celebrations
and in one Meeting we decided on the August Celebration Day and the events and
left ourselves open to extras. Guys have
been nominated to get things done for that event and for my 25th Anniversary in
June. They have promised to pay for the
catering of the meal and if needed for the Tents needed. Guys in this gathering are all in Companies
where time is money, so they really move meetings right along...believe me, not
everyone reads emails, responds to emails and we never really have 100% of us
working on the day of events, but we plod along encouraging one another and
being there for Funerals or financially if there's a brother in need.
Let me say, how
shocked I was, when I attended Planning Meetings (as a former Abbey teacher and
Monk) for our intended 2014 Abbey School Reunion, at the surprising differences
in styles and preferences that led to the cancellation of the 2014 Reunion.
I do hope and pray
that we can proceed soon being able to iron out our differences and preferences
and have another Reunion; you all deserve to have that revival of the
camaraderie that was the Abbey school spirit that characterized your Abbey
Family in each of the generations on the Mount.
This email list is
missing a lot of Abbey guys that live in Trinidad, so please add the names you
might be aware of that need to be added in the next reply to this. Please
forward this email to others not on this list (I added a few I remembered from
our meeting) and even print and distribute to others who may not be online.
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On Sun, Mar 29, 2015 at 7:50 AM,
GEORGE MICKIEWICZ <amickiew@att.net> wrote:
Attached is an
article written by a good friend regarding her 45th class
reunion.
For me personally,
it probably captures well our current state regarding our Abbey School and
beloved classmates, friends, clergy, teachers and alumni.
I suspect that a
similar article could be written by an Abbey School alumnus after a reunion is
held in the future.
I welcome your
personal reflections on this subject.
May God bless you
and yours,
George
Mickiewicz…Class of 1962
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According to the list the following Oldboy are not with us
anymore.
The first number is the would graduate in Form V
80
Tang
Mark
76
Tardieu Jean Pierre
49
Tarr
Peter
65
Teelucksingh Keith
71
Tenia
Neville
72
Villafana Renwick
49
Vivies
Raymon
?
Waddell Richard
47
Walker Alan
53
Walker Gordon
60
Webster Christopher
71
Wharfe
Clarence
45
Wight
Derek
49
Willems Anthony
66
Zschaech Ricardo
49
Lambkin Ronald J.
66
Fakoory Dion
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From: John MacLean
Date: 9/17/2005 11:34:54 PM
Hugh MacLean, my
first cousin, died back in the '80s, of natural causes, if stress is natural.
Sorry. Can't pick him out in the photo.
No 31 has to be an
O'Brien.
John.
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EDITED by Ladislao Kertesz, 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:
65LK3262FBVHCFAM, Victor How Chug and family
15LK7875AFAWFE, Anthony Farfan
61GF0007SCOUTSBAND, Scouts Band
02LK0012GRP, Isaias Farcheg, Urbano Fedak and Julio Cesar Arreaza
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