Newsletter for
alumni of The Abbey School, Mt. St. Benedict, Trinidad and Tobago, W.I.
Caracas, 28 February 2015 No. 695
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Dear Friends,
Here is an example of another bit
of sad news of our community,
The graduates of 1960 regret his
passing away.
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Nigel Boos
Feb
16
Thanks,
Rob.
I don’t
know what blog you might be referring to, but in any case, you’re quite
correct. I had reported on Gerard’s death some time ago. See:
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Kazim,
It is my
sad duty to report to you that Gerard Pampellonne (OB 1959/60) has passed away
today in England, after a battle with cancer. His wife and children were at his
bedside when he died.
I would
appreciate if you would do the honours and advise the Old Boys of MSB of his
passing.
Gerard
was, in my time, our 2nd Mt. St. Benedict Scout Troop Leader, and a fine,
highly principled young man he was. He graduated from the Abbey School in
either 1959 or 1960.
He
married Kathleen, an English girl, who he met while studying in England. Their
children are Anna-Marie, Jean-Marc, Claudette, Andre and the twins Christian
and Chantal. They lived in San Fernando for many years, while he operated an
oilfield service company - Trinidad Inspection Services Ltd. He retired
from his business to move to England some years ago, and his son-in-law, Paul
Navarro, now runs the company.
In 2011
Gerard was planning to return to Trinidad to spend time in a house he had built
in Diego Martin. Everything was packed and they were ready to leave, when,
feeling unwell, he went to see the specialists and he was diagnosed with lung
cancer. They managed a final visit to Trinidad last year when he was still
feeling strong.
Gerard's
brother, Dave, was also a student at the Abbey School, but unfortunately, I do
not have his email address.
I'm sure
I speak for all of us Old Boys in expressing my deepest sympathy to Kathleen
and her children and to Dave.
May his
soul rest in peace.
Anyone
wishing to contact his family can do so using this contact telephone number
(0208 508 - 7730) and email address: gerard.pampellonne@ntlworld.com
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I also
have come across a photograph of David which I must have taken back in 1959,
and perhaps he’d like to have it too, for his records:
I’m sorry
to hear that he’s not doing too well. If you should see him again, please pass
on my good wishes.
Thanks.
Nigel
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On Feb 13, 2015, at 8:19 AM,
Robert
De Verteuil <rlcdev44@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Nigel
I read
recently in one of the blogs that David Pampelonne died some time ago.
Well,
David lives a few doors from me in Westmoorings and up to yesterday I saw him
walking with his nurse.
He had
some type of illness that left him similar as if he had a stroke.
I met
Gerard Pamp about a year ago.
He told
me he was coming back to tt from the uk and was going to build a big house!
I never
saw him again and was told that he returned to the uk where he became
critically ill....not sure with what.
Maybe he
is the one who died!
All the
best
Robert
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THE NEXT FRONTIER FOR HEALTH, SAFETY AND THE ENVIRONMENT (HSE)
GEORGE MICKIEWICZ
Senior Process Safety Consultant at DuPont
Tablets,
Smartphones, Books and those future hands held portable devices that are yet to
be invented are a real challenge today in situations that currently involve
face-to-face human interactions.
In my
interactions with clients over the last year, I estimate that at least 50% of
the audience/participants use their electronic devices during our interactions
ranging from seconds to minutes in time.
This
practice has increased significantly since I started to do a little consulting
work in the last 10 years.
Old-timers
like me view this as disrespectful, not paying attention, lack of
participation, etc.
However
this practice will not change but increase as the younger generations join the
work force.
This
phenomenon presents a great opportunity for visionaries.
Especially
for those companies that today value and extensively use HSE
communication/training and related activities.
I will
address HSE aspects but recognize that it also applies to many, many, many
other business interactions and deliverables.
In the
HSE field, we need to start thinking and applying it in situations involving
value adding interactions, e.g.:
Safety
moments/pauses shared via SMSs.
Training,
PHAs, MOCs, Incident Investigations and other human safety related interactions
via web meetings versus conference room sessions.
Each
person with a portable electronic device that has all HSE the policies,
standards, procedures, checklists, regulations, permits and all other required
documents to work and run hazardous processes safely.
And so
on.
Today we
do have e-learning systems, databases, specific software for specific safety
tasks, etc..
However,
most of these require the use of PCs but, I am guessing, that PCs will probably
cease to be cost competitive within 5 years as the hand held device technology
continues its revolutionary continuous improvement process.
Will you
be the next Steve Jobs, Bill Gates to invent the next device/ APP to integrate
all the HSE related requirements into one effective, low cost, flexible tool
that will enable society to work and operate hazardous processes more SAFELY
than we are able to do today?
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GLEN
MCKOY
Dear
George,
So True
all of what is written on HSE..
This is a
new habit, and it’s very disrespectful to be using these devices, while in a
conversation with another, it shows a lack of manners and maybe you are bored
to pay attention to whoever is conversing with you.
When one
is walking it is a very wonderful thing, to look at the surroundings, the sky,
other people sharing life around you, but with these devices you are lost in a
vacuum somewhere in cyber space.
Thank you
for sharing, it is already a problem with the present generation.
Best
regards
Glen
McKoy.
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From:
"Richard"
<rdriver@telus.net>
Subject: My 50 words
Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 17:05:04
-0700
Hi Ladislao,
I really
enjoy your bulletins, even though I can't put faces to most of the names, the
names I remember..
Keep up
the good work,
God
Bless. Regards
Richard.
Before
giving you my “50” words. I would like to mention the article I read in The
Vancouver Sun newspaper some weeks ago that states “Scientists have
discovered you start losing your memory by age 10” With that in mind,
I’ll see what I can do.
I was
shipped off to Mount at the tender age of 9 in 1946. I was one of the BG
contingent that included Trevor Evelyn (the senior member) Neal & Alex
Gonsalves, Osmand Gomes, Clive Bettencourt Gomes, Eric King &
his brother??. Some of the others were the Schouls’, Ian, Steven, Conrad,
Malcolm Boyack.
We
“little” boys lived under the big “arm” of Fr. Lee Sing. Can’t say he
spared the rod as we found out just before bedtime in our pajamas. He also
played a good game of marbles.
In ’48 I
left Mount and went to St Stanislaus College in BG, among my class mates was
Kevin Greene aka Fr Hildebrand in later years.
After
leaving school in ’54, I went to live in Trinidad, where I came across many of
the boys I had met at Mount, Arthur Knaggs, Peter Ganteaume, to name a couple.
Went back to BG in ’56 worked with RJ Shannon(NCR).
In 1967 I
got married to Pauline daSilva, and in 1973 we immigrated to Canada and made
Richmond, British Columbia our home. I continued to work with NCR until I
retired in ’02. We have 2 “kids” Catherine, who lives in Vancouver,
& Mark who lives in Toronto. In 2001 we finally had an empty house,
or so we thought, but living in Beautiful BC, we have a constant stream
of visitors.
My
address is Richard Driver, 4311 Lancelot Drive, Richmond,
BC V7C 4S4.
Phone No.
is 604 277 5673, email is rdriver@telus.net.
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Now to the best part??
Although I find that your emails are the best.
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Photos:
Bandit p14 The Early Times
65AK0001CRICKET, sent by Arthur Knaggs
58AK0033CRICKET, sent by Arthur Knaggs
59UN0002GPA, Gerard Pampellonne
