Newsletter for alumni of The
Abbey School, Mt. St. Benedict, Trinidad and Tobago, W.I.
Caracas, 28 of June 2014 No. 660
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Dear Friends,
News on David James McLean. It is good to get the information.
Also, I am including some more
information on the Database that Nigel Boos relinquished.
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David De Castro
May 22
This
email is coming to you because some of you are in it and I think others will
enjoy it. Pass it on to others you recognize. Put it in your favourites so you
do not lose it.
Enjoy
lots of videos and songs to see. "THE BANDIT"
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From:
mckoy43glen@hotmail.com
Subject: RE: Welcome, David James McLean
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 18:49:56 +0000
Thank you
Sir Nigel for this email,
Great
work my dear brother, Sir Kazim, excellent news, hope to hear more about David
James McLean.
Cheers
Glen.
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Subject: Welcome, David James McLean
From:
nigelboos@yahoo.ca
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 13:41:40 -0500
CC:
djmclean43@gmail.com
Well,
Kaz,
It looks
like you've snared another of our Old Boys, eh? Well done. I'll send him a note
and try to establish some sort of communication with him, and introduce him to
whatever it is that we're doing at this time.
Thanks
again for your good work. I hope that you're slowly getting better.
My sincere
good wishes to you and your dear wife.
Nigel
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OK,
David,
It's your
turn now, so let's begin. First, thank you for contacting us. Kazim has a way
with computers which seems to draw the Old Boys of MSB towards his website like
bees to nectar.
We've
been trying for 13 years to establish contact with as many of the Old Boys of
the Abbey School as we can, so it's always nice when a new OB catches up to us.
Welcome to the group.
The
effort to contact everyone was begun by Ladislao Kertesz (Class of 1960) about
the year 2001, and we now have +/- 500 email addresses to be able to contact
our friends and classmates. We have a loosely organized association of old
friends, and we try to keep in contact with one another via emails,
discussions, photographs, reminiscences, ole talk, and occasional reunions in
one or other localized place - in Trinidad, in England, in Canada and wherever
else 2-3 OB's get together. We also maintain a database with whatever
interesting and decent info we have on anyone at all, and this is distributed from
time to time via dropbox.com. So, as a matter of fact, here is the current
file right now:
It would
be of interest to many of us, I'm sure, to get some information about you,
explaining when you attended MSB, when you left, why you left, what did you do
next, whether you're married, any kids, etc., etc., and if you have a nice
picture of yourself, hey, we'd post that to the database as well.
Don Mitchell
of Anguilla is coordinating a Grand Reunion of the Old Boys of MSB later this
year, and should you wish to get involved, I'm sure the fellas would love to
have you do so.
That's all
for now. If you wish to contact me, my email address is available at the top of
this message.
Regards,
Nigel
Boos
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Kazim Abasali
Jun 12
Hi
Norman,
Thank for
expressing your support. I appreciate you and the work you have been
doing.
At
present, this is what we have in the MSB Database that describes you:
"Guitarist,
musician and film-maker. Leader of "Los Yetis" rock group in
Columbia. Scout. Has set up a program for disabled / wounded US vets to learn
the art of film-making."
Is there
anything you would like to add or take away? I was able to download your selfie
photo of your Facebook page. Can you kindly join me on Facebook? I sent you a friend request.
In
addition, do you have a website of your work you will like added to the
database? I have now added a website section to our database.
Thank you
Norman, blessings to you and family ...... Kazim
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Norman Smith
May 23
Thank you
all for the incredible service of keeping and sharing our history.
Good luck,
Kazim.
All the
best,
Norman
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From:
"Don Mitchell" <idmitch@anguillanet.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2014 10:31:11 -0400
Can I say
that we are agreed with Ron’s offer to provide the jerseys at TT$80, and we
sell them for TT$125?
Don
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From:
"Don Mitchell" <idmitch@anguillanet.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2014 09:23:42 -0400
Hello,
Justine,
I am
hoping that by today we have the information on the rate for the hotel rooms. I
am also expecting an estimate of the cost per person for the Luncheon and the
Picnic. We need to build in a profit of, say, 50% to help with administrative
costs. Ideally, we need to come up with a profit for the Association at the end
of the day.
Sincerely,
Don
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From:
bradford@tstt.net.tt
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2014 13:56:32 +0000
Hi All,
I offered
to provide the polos @80.00, but the retail price of a similar item averages
between TT$100/150.If they are sold at 125, the profit to the association will
be TT$45.00 each, which should assist in some small way towards offsetting some
of the expenses,
Ron
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vcl28@aol.com
Jun 13
Don
I thought
that the price was TT$80 each. So when contacted I asked father Harold to save
3 for me [St Laurence XXL] and I got Mrs. Khan to send him a check for $240 TT,
I don't think that Father Harold was informed that they were going to be sold
for TT$125 and not TT$80 each.
Oh well
more water under the bridge, I will go along with whatever you guys decide on
this one. But with this one small caveat there are apparently different quality
jerseys available, and since this will not only be worn at the reunion but will
be a keepsake, I would prefer to obtain the better quality one. If they are
more than TT$80/125, I am prepared to pay the difference, you should offer that
option.
In fact,
and I have communicated this to you before, I would have preferred to get us to
decide that each jersey if paid for [extra] have the information of the
particular OB, i.e., MSB logo etc. as agreed and "Tony Vieira.
Guyana.1964" In green if St Laurence, red if St Anthony, etc. We are not the graduates of one class at this
reunion, which is the usual custom, we are graduates from this institution over
decades. (I don't even remember when we
graduated, Don. 1964?) In green if St
Laurence, red if St Anthony etc. Is that too complicated and/or too expensive?
I know that we are probably going to have name tags but this way is better for
me. We are still quite a good way away from the time when this matter should be
addressed, so I was saving these thoughts for when we got the basic
arrangements out of the way.
Tony
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Photos:
6003 East St. George Sports Event p10
75206LK14FB,
03JG0100REUNION2003,
08MP0025MPRGRP. Group photo
No 660. Nicholas de Verteuil advises that the "unknown" gent in the second photo between Messrs Laquis and Prada is Alex de Verteuil
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