Newsletter for alumni of The Abbey School,
Mt. St. Benedict, Trinidad and Tobago, W.I.
Caracas, 1 of
October 2016 No. 778
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Dear Friends,
Another one but this one by Hudson Mckoy
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mailto:amickiew@att.net
Oct 1 at 10:35 AM
Hi Guys
Starting
a WIKIPEDIA Abbey School topic. I have initiated this effort by creating
I
have broken it down by decades to allow alumni to personally enter appropriate,
memorable and value adding information. Thus it will become a repository of our
history with each one of us contributing our memories. Please be sure to become
familiar with the WIKIPEDIA policy and guidelines. In advance thanks for your
valuable contributions.
May
God bless you,
George
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mailto:idmitch@anguillanet.com
Today at 8:06 PM
Hello, George,
Back from the island
tour, had my afternoon nap, read all the regional and international Sunday
newspapers I need to read, had some supper, and am now settling down to answer emails
before I go back to bed for a good night’s sleep. Ah, the strenuous life
of the retired person.
The “metrics” for
Ladislao’s Circulars as of today, 2 October 2016, that you request, are as
follows:
2001
Circulars: 7,819 page views: http://abbeyschool2001circulars.blogspot.com/
2002
Circulars: 7,438 page views: http://abbeyschool2002circulars.blogspot.com/
2003
Circulars: 20,281 page views: http://abbeyschool2003circulars.blogspot.com/
2004
Circulars: 19,664 page views: http://abbeyschool2004circulars.blogspot.com/
2005
Circulars: 14,844 page views: http://abbeyschool2005circulars.blogspot.com/
2006
Circulars: 7,227 visitors: http://msbtunapuna.blogspot.com/
2007
Circulars: 9,613 visitors: http://abbeyschool2007.blogspot.com/
2008
Circulars: 10,144 visitors: http://abbeyschool2008circulars.blogspot.com/
2009
Circulars: 6,738 visitors: http://abbeyschoolmtstbenedict2009circulars.blogspot.com/
2010
Circulars: 35,481 page views: http://abbeyschoolmtstbenedict2010circulars.blogspot.com/
2011
Circulars: 7,040 visitors: http://abbeyschoolmtstbenedict2011circulars.blogspot.com/
2012
Circulars: 19,081 page views: http://abbeyschoolmtstbenedict2012circulars.blogspot.com/
2013
Circulars: 17,704 page views: http://abbeyschoolmtstbenedict2013circulars.blogspot.com/
2014
Circulars: 14,794 page views: http://abbeyschool2014circulars.blogspot.com/
2015
Circulars: 7,469 page views: http://abbeyschool2015circulars.blogspot.com/
2016
Circulars: 3,155 page views and continuing: http://abbeyschool2016circulars.blogspot.com/
Note that some years
measure “visitors” while other years measure “pages viewed” so the statistics
are not homogeneous throughout the period under review.
It appears that our
high point of readers of the Circular was the year 2010, with 35,000 pages
viewed.
Readership has been
declining steadily since that date.
There were 19,000 pages
read in 2012, 18,000 in 2013,15,000 in 2014, and 7,500 in 2015 (a mere 20% of
the readership experienced in 2010).
Time to memorialise
the history of the school on Wikipedia before the readership of the Circulars
falls to zero.
Keep well.
Don
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david dumas
28 Sep (4 days ago)
I was there at about
72 for one year I really love the and appreciate your giving me the historical
prospective I will try to make contact the boys i know
David Dumas (
868-799 4475)
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27 Sep (5 days
ago)
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Terry Allen I think
is one with his back against the wall
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Yes Ladislao !!! Thank you for the
photograph which I'll treasure ... I had seen this photo .. but time and
distance does its job ... I had lost it !!!
I was thrilled to see the photo again and
remember some Mount faces ... I particularly remember Richard Clerk, a great individual ... Michael Azar
.. a great guy !!! .. tough and generous ! .. Don Mitchell .. he
was always "cool" ... Michael de Verteuil, always a
true gentleman !!! ... and yes I remember King Henry VIII .. played by the Paul
Zeven .. the Dutch blond haired guy .... I remember Baby Joe
in his character of "The Common Man" .. he was just great
...among the girls the oriental girl Myling Achong ... she
performed great acting as "Margaret" .. Thomas Moore's daughter ... I
still remember her lines regarding the confrontation with her Father ...Sir
Thomas would not surrender to the approval of King Henry's divorce and follow
"his Church" and renounce to his Catholic Faith ... Margaret was
making a great effort to save his Father from his own "stubbornness".
One of the most dramatic scenes from the play.
The Second Photograph is also a very
important scene .. I remember .. I think it was the moment Sir Thomas is
submitted to trial ... and condemned ... The Common Man (Baby Joe)
reads the Death Sentence ....
I played the Spanish Ambassador (Signor
Chapüìs) and my "assistant" (he always walked two steps behind me
on stage) ... his name was Norman Smith .. he was from Cali,
Colombia, but his father was an American...
I remember well "my heated
discussion" with Chancellor Cromwell (Michael Azar)
in the presence of Richard Clerk (I don't remember his part
.. but he was an excellent person .. a great sportsman .. a good soccer player
and a good friend). Signor Chapüìs was desperately trying to save
Sir Thomas´s life through diplomatic efforts from the Spanish Queen ... My last
line in the play .. after I left King Henry's Palace and holding an audience
with Cromwell was "... This man is utterly unreliable !!!" ... and
everybody laughed in the audience .. I was supposed (by instructions from Brother
Oswald) ... to "stress" my Spanish accent even more ... as I
left the stage in my last appearance.
I remember Don Mitchell
(although we were not that close in Mount.) He was a good guy. He played a
great role as The Duke of Norfolk. I believe he was chosen because he
was always so naturally "distinguished".. Please Ladislao ..
send my BEST REGARDS to all my fellow actors in "A Man For All
Seasons" !!! ... and YES .. it was THE FIRST TIME girls were allowed
to act in Mount's Season Play. I don't recall that there was a third woman
apart from the two girls (who portrayed Margaret and Elizabeth,-Sir Thomas
Moore's Daughter & Wife ... respectively). Not only were they both
beautiful girls but their acting was SUPERB!!!! ...
Thank You Ladislao .. please give my regards
to ALL ....give them my phone numbers and e-mail ... I would really love to
meet them all again ... that is just a great way to enrich life!!!!
Please make these comments part of your next
Report!!!!
Blessings to ALL
Rafael Echeverría
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Ladislao ... I noticed that to from the very
begining .. King Henry .. The Dutch guy is definitely NOT in the photo ...
I just don't know why ... but he is not ... I don't remember the
moment when the photo was taken or the circumstances to explain why King
Henry is not in ... and I don't remember the name of The Dutch Guy ... I only
know he was Dutch and I remember his face clearly .. I would recognize at sight! .. He was blond ... goal keeper of Mount's soccer team ... big guy!!! .. big
mouthed!!! .. he fitted King Henry's image PERFECTLY!!!! ... and he was a
great actor!!!!
Actually he is not in any of the photos ...
and he was a principal actor ... him and Michael de Verteuil (St. Thomas More)
occupied the scenario as the principal protagonists of the play!
Did you send my opinion to others? ... I
would really like to contact old friends from Mount ...
Regards,
Rafael
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Eugène Stassin
Born in Namur, Belgium in 1899. He is
educated at the Leuven University and graduated in 1923.
Maurice Storez, founder of L'Arche,
introduces Stassin to Dom Bellot and he enters the atelier as architect in
1924.
When Bellot moves to Wisques in 1929 Stassin
follows his teacher. He would stay there until 1933. After 1933 he is working
independently as an architect.
He died in 1967.
Stassin designed at least the following
religious buildings:
Monastery for the Benedictines on Trinidad
(1935), <<<<<<
Chapel Misericorde in Tertre (1933 ?),
Church Notre Dame Médiatrice in Leuven
(1937),
College for the fathers Montfortians in
Rotselaar (1954).
Well you might have wondered while reading,
who the hell was he!, And now thanks to the Circulars you have additional
information on the beginnings of what is MSB.
The architect who did us a favour, so that
we could go to the Abbey School.
I wonder if he had something to do with the
school itself?
Well done Watson! Can anyone verify the above?
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According to the list the following oldboy
are not with us anymore.
The first number is the vould graduate in
Form V
49
Edinborough
Walton
49
Farah
David
48
Farfan
John
50
Farfan
David
54
Ferreira
Brian
58
Gabriel
Anthony
72
Gangoo
Mario
70
Gill
Donald
68
Gillezeau
Wally
60
Gokool
Ronald
49
Gomes
Bernard
54
Gomes
Osmond
67
Gomez Enrique
?
Gomez Michael
47
Gonsalves
Bernard
?
Gonsalves
Anthony
?
Gonsalves
Uson
78
Greenaway
Steven
80
Greer
Ashton
78
Guerra
Theodore
64
Gurley
Brendan
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circular’s mailing list or any old boy that you would like to include.
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Photos:
15LK0530FBVHCFAM, Victor How Chung and
family
13LK5206FBMDV, Maurice de Verteuil
09LK2636FBAFR, Andres Freytez
13LK3877FBNSAWFE, Nathaniel Sampath and wife
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