Circular No 673

Newsletter for alumni of The Abbey School, Mt. St. Benedict, Trinidad and Tobago, W.I.

Caracas, 27 of September 2014 No. 673

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Dear Friends,

The Circular is running short of articles.  Please remember your pledge of 50 words every year.

Dear fellow Directors of the Association, you could write on the day to day transactions, just mention any news.

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From: Glen Mckoy <mckoy43glen@hotmail.com>

Date: 4 September 2014 10:12

Subject: RE: Andrés Larsen: Giacomo Tomaselli? Did your family own a restaurant in POS?

Hola Amigos -  

Yes, I remembered Franco Marconi from 69 or 70. 

Yeah, he was short & fat, a bully to the younger boys and sucked up to the older ones, he was a goalie also.

Anyhow, how could I forget him, one day he was suppose to give sweet drinks to us, and I grab one and ran, he caught meh and kick meh in the face, ah thought ah was dead, he had a black belt in karate, anyhow I was o.k., knight of steel, but ah did cry ha! ha! we the younger ones would pick on him.

That restaurant is where someone was killed, believed by the mafia.

A bit after or before that he left.

All the guys from 69/ 70 would remember well.

Hope this answer your question.

Yes, he was a Mount boy, and there are many out there, the good, the bad, the ugly, and then the day boys, ha! ha! 

Our Club knows these differences, and only remain in contact with those who have chosen to walk in the light.
Cheers, Mis Amigos

Adios, Glen.

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Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2014 07:58:25 -0700
From: gyuris@yahoo.com

Subject: Re: Andrés Larsen: Giacomo Tomaselli? Did your family own a restaurant in POS?

Hola, Andres and everybody:

Yeah, ... although I don´t remember the name of the Mount boy involved, but I do remember his face and the incident quite well in the late 60´s.

He was a bit older than me.

It was this Mount boy (along with others in his family) who all went adrift in the high seas while taking a boat or yacht from T&T to Grenada due to some kind of engine trouble (?)

And yes, they did drift for many days (or perhaps week (s)? ) in the Caribbean while drifting westward with the Tradewinds until they were rescued deep inside Venezuelan waters.

After recuperating, he returned to the Mount, still with a severely sunburned face and with marks of peeled off skin all over.

In due time he recovered and all went back to normal.

I remember the boy´s face well, (at least as he looked back then) but, unfortunately, not his name, since he wasn´t my friend directly, as he was older than me (and in a class ahead) therefore not in my social circle in school.

I remember when he returned finally to the Mount, we all wanted him to tell his story, but he was still in shock and didn´t really want to give details about the incident.

I remember him as a nice, easy-going, "no trouble", kind of guy.

I wonder if this story has come full circle now?

A harrowing story,... to say the least ...

Attila Gyuris

Mount 1964-1969

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Andres Larsen <andres_larsen@yahoo.com> wrote:

Subject: Andrés Larsen: Giacomo Tomaselli? Did your family own a restaurant in POS?

Date: Tuesday, September 2, 2014, 9:31 PM

Giacomo Tomaselli?

Did your family own an Italian restaurant in Port of Spain near the central prison?

Were you the one who was on a yacht or motorboat that went adrift in 1970 between Trinidad and Grenada and the Yucatan current swept you dehydrated and sun-scorched over to Los Roques where the Venezuelan air force and or navy (I don´t exactly remember which) sighted and rescued you about a week later?

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From: Glen Mckoy <mckoy43glen@hotmail.com>

Date: 6 September 2014 19:28

Subject: FW: OLD SCHOOL / Sir Manuel Prada.

Hola, Mi Hermano Y Mi Amigo, Sir Sarkis - 

Muchas Gracias for selecting this email Old School.

Today we Honour Sir Manuel Prada - Another Great-Grand Knight that keeps this fire burning.

You make me proud to be a Mount Boy.  

Long Live Our Reunion Of Friendship & Brotherly Love.

As we travel along this road of Knowledge, we seek only Wisdom.

Welcome to the Club, Mis Amigos.

Sir Manuel, Thank you for your excellent memory, as we recall our history.

Please find our email to you below, Old School.

I hope you like same.  Have a peaceful and relaxing evening, my friend.

Best Regards -  

Glen McKoy. 

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From: manjosepra                              

Sent: September-06-14 9:43:10 PM

Dear Glen:

We were and had very, very good allrounders at Mount!

It's my belief that -at least in our period- that if we had better coaches we would have won many tournaments.

In my time we had a great coach in athletics: PG Wilson.

At times Bro. Vincent world bring great sportsmen to school

I remember a guy coming from England- who gave our senior players - in Spanish we say clinica- on modern English football strategies for that time.

We must also remember that while St Marys and other colleges had over 300 or more students we were at the utmost 150 or less students!

They had a bigger student community from which to make their selections!

We had to play proudly all the sports!

Wonderful times and great competition spirit!

It is surely a long and beautiful story!

Love you dearly my brother

Manuel

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From: Glen Mckoy <mckoy43glen@hotmail.com>

Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2014 18:03:54 +0000

Subject: FW: Mike Agostini: The Forgotten World's Fastest Man [PODCAST]

Hola, Mi Hermano Y Mi Amigo - Great Grand Knight Sir Manuel,

Muchas Gracias for this reply.

There was an indirect connection, see what ah say ha! ha!

We had all the sports you could want on the mount, so many good athletes, from the beginning to the end.

I also ran the 100 meters and the mile, and would place, ha! ha! then I start to smoke, end of that story.

I see you also ran hombre, Bullet Howard & Richard Galt, I know the names well.

Thank You Very Much Manuel, for all your support and the many encouraging emails over the years, you are 200 % A Mount Boy.

Long Live Our Mount. Cheers Mis Amigos

Adios, Glen.   

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Re: MSB Database Update September 22, 2009

From:  Nigel P. Boos <nigelboos@eagles-wings.ca>

Pablo,

Gosh, you must have a memory like no-one else's.

How did you ever come up with these dates?

I have no doubt that they're all correct, and I've inserted them all.

Thank you very much for your most useful input.

Every bit helps, of course, and I must say, we've come a long way since we started this little project, thanks to so many guys and their various contributions.

Keep well.

Nigel

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On 22-Sep-09, at 4:35 PM, Paul de la Bastide wrote:

Nigel,

Here are a few updates for your MSB database

Peter Bergasse died Jul 26 1995, Castries St Lucia

Roger Darwent died Feb 18 2002, California

Leo de Gale, d. 1986

Patrick Kirton, email: pere_kirt@hotmail.com

Bernard Lange, d. Nov 10 1994

Geoffrey Prada, d. Nov 26 1998 Caracas (younger brother of Charles)

Pablo

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Aliry, Abidh <abidh.aliry@cibc.ca<

A new one has just emerged out of the woodwork. Welcome him. I hope he brings many more.

Nigel

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From: "Nigel P. Boos" <nigelboos@eagles-wings.ca>

Date: February 1, 2008 6:35:31 PM GMT-05:00

To: "Aliry, Abidh" >

Hello, Abidh,

Of course, I'd love to include you in the group. In fact, I've already added your name. But maybe you can tell me a little about yourself and the Class of 76. If you can remember the names of your classmates, if you have their email addresses or telephone numbers, any interesting anecdotes, anything worth remembering, any old photographs which you'd like to share with the rest of the Old Boys. I'm sure they'd all like to hear from you, because your class must have been one of the last ever to graduate from MSB, am I right? 

The originator of this latest effort, which has gone on for about 5 years or so now, is LADISLAO KERTESZ, from Venezuela (Class of 1960), and he is ably assisted by DON MITCHELL Q.C. who lives in Antigua, I think.

I see that you work with CIBC here in Canada. Might I ask where you're located? 

If you ever get close to Ajax, maybe we could share a cup of coffee sometime.

Be good and God bless you.

Nigel

95 Warwick Ave.,

Ajax, Ontario

L1Z 1L5

Ph: (905) 426-8999

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On 1-Feb-08, at 5:53 PM, Aliry, Abidh wrote:

Hello Nigel

Would appreciate if you would add me to your Abbey School mailing list.

Thanks.

Aliry...'71 - '76

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From: Paul Dewan [mailto:pauldewan@sympatico.ca]

Sent: Friday, February 01, 2008 3:20 PM

Hey Guys,

If you want to be on the database please let Nigel know.

Also please share with other Mount boys.

Paul

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Hope all is well till the next Circular

Ladislao

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Photos:

13PA4689PAL, Peter Alkins

56CJ0011CJAGRP,  Lots of unknowns  Ladislao Kertesz = 22

73SC0001PCOSCOUTS, Gwynnete Trestrail Girl Scout at the Mount?

56CJ0010CJAGRP,   Lots of unknowns