Newsletter for alumni of The
Abbey School, Mt. St. Benedict, Trinidad and Tobago, W.I.
Caracas, 25 of October 2014 No. 677
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Dear Friends,
You may wonder why I have been
resending old Circulars??
I am running short of emails
from you, the audience. To improve your input, maybe we should pick a fight
with the Monastery?
A few months ago I had to make
space with extra issues, jajaj
All those who promised 50 words,
make yourself present.
I am resending some photos
because these did not have the numbering system. Remember to use these numbers when making
observations, to facilitate a feedback.
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salvador coscarart <coscarartsalvador@hotmail.com>
Saturday, April 18, 2009 10:16:09 PM
Hola Ladislao
Aqui esta
otro estudiante del abbey school de la epoca de los 67-70.
Se llama
Frank Ibarra y es el primo de Raul Leoni.
Hoy nos
pusimos en contacto asi que hay tienes su dirección para invitarlo a los
circulares
Bueno hasta
pronto y gracias por los circulares un gran trabajo.
Muchisimas
gracias.
Salvador.
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Hello
Ladislao,
Here
is another abbey school student from the 67-70 .
Frank
Ibarra is the cousin of Raul Leoni.
We
made contact today so there you have a new address to invite to your circular,
Good
see you soon and thanks for a great job.
Thank you.
Salvador.
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From:
franibar834@cantv.net
Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2009 21:51:52 -0400
Buenas tardes, Salvador:
Primeramente muchos saludos
para ti, para tu familia y para Pedro.
He sabido que vives en USA,
gracias a Dios, y más o menos recibo información de Uds.
Por favor,
dale muchos saludos a Pedro.
Todavía
recuerdo gratamente los días que pasé en tu casa.
Estoy ahora trabajando en un
proyecto en República Dominicana, aunque también tengo obligaciones en Caracas
con la misma compañía.
Vamos a ver
si la economía empieza a moverse para apurar todo esto.
Cuando viaje
a US te llamo a ver si nos podemos reunir.
Saludos y gracias por
contactarme!
Frank
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Good
afternoon Salvador:
First,
many greetings to you and your family and Peter.
I
heard that you live in the USA , thanks to God, from the information I received.
Please
give many greetings to Peter.
Still
pleasantly remember the days I spent at your home.
I 'm
working on a project in the Dominican Republic, although I have obligations in
Caracas with the same company.
Let's
see if the economy starts to move to hasten this.
When I
travel to the US I shall call you to see if we can meet.
Greetings
and thanks for contacting me!
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Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2014 05:46:08 -0700
To: msbabbeyoldboys@groups.facebook.com
Subject: Re: Mount St Benedict Abbey boys
Trinidad
It
would be nice to have an album, a pictorial...
30
October 08:16
THANKS,
AS WELL. MANY BLESSINGS.
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29 October 19:37
Amen!
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29 October 09:32
This
is a gigantic start if I must say. Many thanks to Sir Ladislao Kertesz
& Sir Don for
keeping The Circular & Blog Alive, and of course you my dear brother Sir
Kazim, for taking your time to put all this stuff in some sort of order.
Cheers
Mis Amigos - Muchas Gracias, from every one of us, from The Abbey School, Mt.
St.Benedict - Long Live Our Club - Cheers Glen.
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29 October 04:43
Yes, Terrence,
A
place we can post ourselves, and year by year.
I will
try to create or incorporate it in our website in the future.
Right
now I am studying to do these sort of things.
It
involves programming or coding on a larger scale as opposed to just the usual
uploading by a webmaster.
I will
create a Facebook like section to get the photos uploaded by the Boys as you
suggested.
Thanks
and appreciation for your many postings and photos my friend.
As
this Mount Facebook Group Admin, it is always wonderful to see so much
participation.
Thanks
again to all who contribute.
Take
care.
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29 October 04:36
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29 October 03:41
It
would be nice to have an album, a pictorial history of the Abbey School:
students, priests, brothers, teachers, scouts, individual sports, etc..
A tool
so we can respectively post.
Better
yet, just by year to year.
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Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2014 07:02:50 -0700
Glen
G. McKoy mentioned you in a comment in Mount St Benedict Abbey boys Trinidad.
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Caracas, 24 of August 2002. Circular No.41
Dear Friends
Back in Caracas, with a
backlog of business that has kept me from fulfilling my obligations to you in
getting this circular out on Saturday, although I have kept the date in the
header.
Here is the second instalment
of my trip to TT that started on Monday, the 12th of August, in
Caracas. My actual arrival in TT was on the 14th of August.
The first part of the
instalment bringing my odyssey up to Saturday the 17th .
My voyage concluded on the 23rd
of August when I finished the trip arriving home.
Now back to the narrative,
where I left off in Circular No.40, written in Diego Martin.
As you remember I had lunch with Capt. Anthony Date (BWIA) at the
Trinidad and Tobago Yacht Club (The Royal Yacht Club for those old boys like
myself). During lunch we saw Anthony De Verteuil come in and we invited him to
join us. We talked over an hour on different topics.
On Sunday it was easy as I
spent time with my host and family, going to the Las Cuevas beach, even saw my
daughter Viki who is staying with their niece.
It was a calm cloudy day but it did not rain, and we left for a late
lunch.
Monday was a busy day as I met
with Alex de Verteuil at his advertising company Pearl and Dean and right after
at 13:00 went with Michael Dórnellas to Mt. St. Benedict. Michael had made
arrangements to meet Ms. Kitty Markus at St. Peter´s Home for the aged, close
to the play field, and with Frs. Cuthbert, Augustine, and Benedict, at the monastery.
We stayed late as Ms. Markus gave us two hours of lively talk on occurrences of
past school history. Next we met Fr. Cuthbert at his office where the old
bakery was originally located and went on a guided tour through his yoghurt
factory, 300 litres a week, all sold and committed.
After this tour we went to meet
Fr. Augustine and Fr. Benedict. Fr. Benedict showed us his static detector
which I hope to show you in a photo. Fr. Augustine has eyesight problems that
are preventing him from working in his guava jelly factory. Bro. Gerard joined
us before we left for a short tour up our old school and St. Bede´s dining
hall, which has been turned into a restaurant. I hope to have photos on these.
At 18:30 we left for POS.
In the evening I had dinner
with Alex De Verteuil´s and Gerard Kenny´s family. Saw Alex´s scissors
collection, over 300 pieces, all of them different, very interesting story
which I hope he would repeat in writing for this circular´s fans.
It was a really pleasant
evening, thank you Alex.
On Tuesday, my last full day
in TT was spent shopping in the morning and for lunch I met with Roger
Henderson and Michael Herrera. In the afternoon Dr. David Bratt came over to my
host´s home and had a nice chat on MSB, then I started packing.
In this second instalment I
can tell my friends that I talked to Franklyn Kerry, Michael Ames, Geoffrey
Agostini, Douglas Agostini, Gordon Thavenot, Bernard Tappin, Dr. George Laquis,
Abraham Laquis, Norman Gabriel, Bruce Hutton, Stuart Henderson, Jeffrey
Gransaull, Jean De Meillac, John Camps-Campins, Malcom Boyack and a few other
that I have lost in my notes. Thank you all for your encouragement and also for
your praise of Anthony Johnson´s Web page.
On Wednesday at 7:00 am we
went to Pier No.1 to get on the ferry. About 40 people got together and left
9:00 am sharp. The customs and immigration went very smoothly. Interestingly the date stamped in my passport
was the 21st of July, so I embarked three week before I arrived?? The sea
was all right for the 3 ½ hour trip, it was cloudy and with a light drizzle.
In the Venezuelan side the
customs and emigration were not sharp, it took half an hour waiting in a
drizzle before the officials who were on the spot, decided that they would
start to check us out of the pier. I got a lift to the storage area where my
Dodge Ram pickup vehicle was kept. Here I got a unpleasant surprise, the watch
dog eat through and sliced the electrical cables going from the engine to the
gas pump and tank. At first I though that this was sabotage or wrongful damage
but after the local electrician repaired the cables I changed opinion. So
instead of leaving from Guiria to Maturin at 13:00 pm we left at 16:00 for the
five hour drive, which was uneventful.
On Thursday we went to the
airport to pick up an aeronautical omnidirectional radio beacon that was
supposed to have been brought over from the Pedernales Airport in the Orinoco
delta. No luck, at the airport the person in charge said that there were too
many cables to disconnect and told me that I should do this, so a simple pick
up turned into a 35 minute flight towards the East in a Beech 1900 to this
remote airport, just a stepping stone from TT. I cut all the cables and
returned with the equipment by midday. Luckily there was a seating place for my
daughter, and she enjoyed the flight which was jumpy.
On Friday I started the day
with a meeting at PDVSA, our oil company, on a heliport project and an
inspection to their private airport that I hope to do next month. After this at
9:00 we took road to Caripe where I hopped to meet Luis Alfredo Mezzana, an old
boy and the local coffee chieftain. We had lunch and at 14:00 we retraced our
journey back to the main highway and in 7 hours we arrived home at 20:30, an
uneventful last day.
To my friends in TT, especially
those have called me during my stay, and those with whom I met, thank you for
your support.
Those that I called and we
were not able to meet, maybe next time, God willing.
God Bless
Ladislao
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Photos:
Dbandit p02 The Early Years
03SC1991MSBEDI, Monastery
03DM0024CMA, Christopher Marothy
05GP0001GPA, Gerard Pampellone
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