Newsletter
for alumni of The Abbey School, Mt. St. Benedict, Trinidad and Tobago, W.I.
Caracas, 27 of June 2015 No. 712
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Dear
Friends
Emails
below.
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Goddard
Brian
No problem Don,
My life is an open book with hardly any secrets to think of; plus
Ladislao has met my girlfriend and partner on several occasions.
Donald is into sailing and scuba diving; so I hope he can decide
to join me.
I will be copying him on this message.
Saludos, Brian
From: idmitch@anguillanet.com
Date: Sun, 1 Feb
2015 18:26:09 -0400
Wonderful, Brian,
I am coping this thread on the mini-St Maarten Reunion to
Ladislao for his interest and amusement.
If it is too personal, please don’t hesitate to tell him not to
publish it.
Keep well.
Don
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From: brian eaton goddard I.
Sent: Sunday,
February 1, 2015 4:32 PM
Hola Don y tambien yo ... me too !!
I´m already tasting the steamed snapper.
By the way, I have invited my brothers, Don and Christian to
spend a few days with me in SMX.
Christian has already declined, indicating that he cannot make it
due to a trip he has planned to Mexico.
Donald may not be able to also, due to his present geophysical
contracts in Texas.
Anyhow I can handle my island adventure on my own.
My girlfriend / partner (I´m a widower now on 13 years, after 30
years of being married) may join me on another trip next year.
I took her with me to Barbados last year.
I will also be keeping in touch by the end of this month via my
gmail address:
bajanwriter99@gmail.com,
Take care, Brian
From: idmitch@anguillanet.com
Date: Sun, 1 Feb
2015 15:41:09 -0400
I look forward to April !
Don
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From: brian eaton goddard I.
Sent: Sunday,
February 1, 2015 2:23 PM
Hello Don
And as they say here in crazy Venezuela, "que vaina tan
buena" ... what a great thing; as to your prompt and interesting response.
Yes Don, you´ll definitely enjoy yr 69th birthday.
I really did mine ... it´s like a mini break in Tennis, where we
can still vision getting over the hill, in time to witness the good old days
and expect to control the new days and years to come.
The rest is up to chance and our will to overcome adversity.
Some of us, God willing, are lucky enough to survive longer than
others ... you know how that goes !?
Well boy, I´ve never been to Anguilla and by the way, this is my
first trip to St. Maarten (SMX); so being so close, I´ll definitely have to go!
My friend´s son (Marlon Halley) a dentist in SMX, whom I´ll be seeing, had
mentioned that it was a wonderful sailing and /or ferry trip to your island but
I hadn´t thought of going; so now I will !!
You will have to send me your tlf no. so that I can contact you
fm Venezuela and / or when I get to SMX.
By the way, My younger brother Christian has in the past, done
some competitive sailing excursions on regatta type sailing vessels in SMX.
He speaks of those adventures as being most fascinating !!
My planned dates leaving for St Maarten from Valencia and
returning are: April 9th returning home fm SMX the 22nd.
I have booked 4 nights at the Simpson Bay Resort & Marina
thru Monday April 13th, having thought of the possibility of maybe taking a
side trip to Barbados, San Juan and now Anguilla, for 4-5 days or less,
depending on the air travel.
Now that I know of the closeness in getting to Anguilla by boat,
I believe that I prefer to enjoy these two new islands that I have never been
to !!
Thanking you for this great opportunity of getting to know
Anguilla, I´ll be looking forward to staying in touch and meeting with you in a
couple of months.
I´ll be also looking forward to eating that steamed snapper !!!
All the best and Ciao for now ,
Saludos,
Brian
From: idmitch@anguillanet.com
Date: Sun, 1 Feb
2015 13:38:05 -0400
Hi, Brian,
I am a youthful 68, so not in your class, though I’ll be 69 this
year, and rapidly catching up with you :-)
Also, I am in Anguilla, a whole 10 miles away from St
Maarten.
It is a 15 minute ferry ride away.
Why not stay in touch, and maybe we can do lunch or dinner in
either Anguilla or St Maarten while you are up this way.
We do a steamed whole snapper with fungi for lunch at a local
restaurant that I would love to show you.
Don
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From: brian eaton goddard I.
Sent: Sunday,
February 1, 2015 12:47 PM
Great circular to read, Don & Ladislao;
Especially the four letter word story which brought me good
memories of the masterful "Ildefonse".
Also, reading Gionetti´s memory of brother Vincent was quite
moving; since his wording of Vince´s friendly character, was sincerely written
and the very same way that I remember him as well !!
Best wishes to all for this new year and God Bless !!
Brian Goddard
PS: If any of you know of a Mt boy (young or old / I´m 72 ...
jejeje!) who lives in St Maarten pls let me know. I´ll be travelling there for
a two weeks vacation in early April to enjoy some good sailing !
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Thursday, August 13,
2009 10:22 AM
"Tony OBrien" <tony9411@yahoo.com>
I guess you are right.
The last time I saw Cornel it must have been 1965.so it was a big
shock to see a photo of him.You know.
Anthony Obrien
Bogota.Colombia.
Home
57-1-7573899
Cell.
57-3115531732
From: Laci Kertesz kertesz14@yahoo.com
Sent: Wednesday,
August 12, 2009 9:05:10 PM
Maybe you should ask him, I prefer not to be the one !!!
Ladislao
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From: Tony OBrien tony9411@yahoo.com
Date: Sunday, August
9, 2009, 11:33 AM
Do you have an email for Terrence.
And why did Cornel allow himself to become so over weight.
Tony OBrien
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Thursday, August 13,
2009 9:31 AM
"Tony OBrien" <tony9411@yahoo.com>
I have no idea about blog or how to use blog or were to get blog,
So thanks for the info.
Tony
From: Laci Kertesz kertesz14@yahoo.com
Sent: Wednesday,
August 12, 2009 9:04:11 PM
Dear Tony,
Good to hear from you.
To give you a fast run down and that you may contact your friends
fast.
Please look into Don Mitchell´s BLOG page.
There you will find a wealth of information as to oldboys that
have communicated with me since I started the Circular.
At the end of the Circular you will find the address.
Please include me in the CC for communications with your friends
so that I may publish the happy reencounters and that your maybe not well
remembered friend might find you.
Send a photo or two for the files.
Glad you wrote to me.
I work in the lighting business, WWW.KAVIACION.COM is the page,
Keep in contact
God Bless
LAdislao
Sunday, August 9,
2009 7:46 PM
"Tony OBrien" <tony9411@yahoo.com>
Ladislao,
I would like to contact some of the old boys,
See how they are doing,
Were they live and how life in general has treated them.
I am Tony OBrien better known to the Mount boys as Inches.
That name given to me by Cheche and Peter Tang.
I now live in Bogota Colombia with my wife and two boys who are
all Colombians.
One in studing Medicine in Bogota and the other finishing school
in Canada.
Ever since leaving Mount I have been working in the oil Ind.
Drilling and have been all over the world, 7 years in Venezuela,
Colombia, Equador, Chile, Brazil, Iran, Saudi, Far East, Mexico.
You name it I have probably worked there.
So if any of the old guys like Cornel, Terrence, Peter etc want
to contact me please do.
We can chat.
Thanks. INCHES
Anthony Obrien
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