Newsletter for alumni of The Abbey School,
Mt. St. Benedict, Trinidad and Tobago, W.I.
Caracas, 5 of December 2015 No. 735
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Dear Friends,
Emails follow.
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Don
Mitchell <idmitch@anguillanet.com>
Dec
7 at 9:42 PM
Thank you, Raphael.
Have you sent Ladislao a story about your
progress through life, since your Mount days for his Circular?
Never mind if you make it all up :-)
We all frequently do.
Keep well.
Don
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From:
raphaelhowchung
Sent:
Monday, December 7, 2015 10:06 PM
Same to you Don and the rest of the clan!
God bless you and your families!
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At
Dec 7, 2015, 12:36:34 PM,
Don
Mitchell<'idmitch@anguillanet.com'> wrote:
Dear All,
Ladislao is back in business with his circulars.
There are two new ones up on the Blog at:
And there are more to come shortly.
Merry Christmas to all Old Boys, and a Happy and
Healthy New Year, from the editorial team.
Don
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Date:
Mon, 7 Dec 2015 17:25:58 -0800
7
December 20:25
Thank you Glen, for that.
We need to feed photos and stories of the old
days at Mount to Ladislao.
He would love to help us remind each other about
the old days.
This Facebook page is for contemporary
communications.
But, the history needs to be preserved too.
Let us face the facts.
You don't want to see me with my present paunch
and balding head.
You want to remember that awful Boxhead of 40
years ago.
That is what the Circular can particularly help
with.
Just my thoughts.
16
November 22:07
Is Sir CheChe from Colombia ?
We may need to have a meeting of the circle,
when Sir Laz is able, maybe in the new year, we can go to Colombia.
Cheers Glen..
13
November 21:57
There's still no word from Ladislao.
I hope he is surviving Colombia, and brings back
lots of stories to tell us.
13
November 06:23
Good luck
13
November 01:58
Please send stories, family photos, updates to
Sir LadislaoKertesz for our Circular.
Also please visit your Blog once a month, there are many private letters and
stories we share there that we cannot share here, so please keep our Circular,
alive with your life stories, we must thank the many who have contributed over
so many years.
Cheers, thank you for visiting the Blog.
If you need any information on the Blog please
contact Sir Don. ID Mitch
Also please note, brothers who may want to join,
or lost in time, send your info to Sir Kazim, should you like to part-take in
this discovery of a lost tribe.
Adios, Glen.
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Don
Mitchell <idmitch@anguillanet.com>
Dec
7 at 3:50 PM
You are very welcome, Sarkis,
All the credit should go to Ladislao who does
all the real work.
Don’t forget to send him a few paragraphs from
time to time so your Mount contemporaries can catch up with you.
Once your name is in a Circular, as a result of
you sending him a message for publishing, when someone does a Google search for
you, more likely than not that Circular will come up, and they will be able to
get your email address and contact you.
It has happened to hundreds of Old Boys over the
past 10 years.
It is a good way for old friends to make contact
again.
Keep well.
Don
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From:
SarkisFarchakh
Sent:
Monday, December 7, 2015 10:07 AM
THANKS,
I LOVE THE ABBEY CIRCULARS,
GOOD JOB GUYS!!!!
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Don
Mitchell <idmitch@anguillanet.com>
Dec
7 at 3:40 PM
Thanks, Brian,
Hopefully, Ladislao’s internet problem is fixed
for good.
I have put up Circulars 725 and 726.
I have formatted 727 and 728, and now I have
received 729 and 730 which I will shortly format.
But I am giving the earliest two a chance to
soak up readers before posting the later ones.
Only two circulars fit on the home page, and if
I put up too many at once, I am afraid that not many of the Old Boys will know
to use the “Older Posts” tab at the foot of the page, or the “Blog Archive” tab
at the right, to access earlier ones.
I think perhaps two a week until I have done all
that Ladislao sent me is probably the best thing.
Keep well.
Don
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From:
Brian Gonsalves
Sent:
Monday, December 7, 2015 11:50 AM
Dear Don (and Ladislao)
Just a brief note to thank all the ''Old Boys'' who organise and send
out the MSB NEWS and CIRCULARS, which inspire a great deal of nostalgic
memories of those halcyon days - in my time a span of over 70 years ago !
Contemporaries included the Knaggs and Farfan brothers, plus the 'B.
Guiana' contingent of Trevor Evelyn, Clive Bettencourt-Gomes, and 3 Gonsalves
(Bernard, Terrence + myself). Sadly any other names are lost ''in the mists of
time"
As regards the priests, Fr. Bernard and Fr. Ildefonse were truly
remarkable, if not great men - the latter instilled in many of us, one of his
hallmark
Latin sayings : "difficult ad fidemestsaeperectestatuere"
('the right decision is often the most difficult to.make').
Thank you again for so many poignant memories, from a really 'very old
Mount boy',
Brian Gonsalves
(circa 1945/46).
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On
Monday, December 7, 2015 11:58 AM,
David
De Castro <calypsobandit@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi guys,
Glad we are back in business
After reading the sports article on Terrance I
wonder if there is anybody out there that remembers the very first sports event
on the old sports field visited by parents.
How about this for a very good laugh-I won the
pole vault with a bamboo pole the height- 8FT-6INS (THEY JUMP THAT NOW WITHOUT
A POLE) MALCOM BOYACK CAME SECOND WITH 8FT-4INS.
DOES ANYBODY REMEMBER THIS OR HAVE A PICTURE
I must have been about 15 yrs old and this was
the very first sports event up at the Mount.
The only thing I remember is Trinidad had just
introduced the Jucy soft drink and I thought it was the greatest thing I ever
tasted -- somebody must know the year.
HELP, "BANDIT"
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Don
Mitchell <idmitch@anguillanet.com>
Dec
7 at 3:34 PM
Thank you, Bandit, for taking us back to the
dawn of time.
I doubt if many of were even born at the time of
which you speak.
I am sure Ladislao will put you challenge into
one of his Circulars in due course.
It will be interesting to see how many readers
can relate to that period when Jucy soft drink (I believe it had a hyphen
somewhere in the name) was introduced.
Keep well.
Don
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Nigel
Boos <nigelboos@gmail.com>
Dec
1 at 5:45 PM
My dear friend, Don,
I have had some medical problems and as a result
I’ve not been able to address the statements you’ve made previously, until now.
Additionally, my son suffers from diabetes, is a cancer survivor and quite
recently, he has been diagnosed with kidney failure, requiring daily dialysis,
a prolonged 9-hour process while he sleeps, and this is extremely tedious and
stressful for all of us who care about him.
In retrospect, I find that I am questioning the
activities of the good Monks of MSB, who somehow, never seemed to find the time
to discuss religion with us boys, and who, only seldom, managed to arrange a
retreat for the Form 5 students, at the end of their academic program. That, I
believe, is shameful and regretful, and although I am not authorized to offer
an apology, I do feel the need to apologize for them all for their delinquency
in this regard.
My desire to write to you is occasioned by a
rather questionable statement which you had previously made to me, namely, that
“None of it (religion, prayer) is based on science.” This is patently false and
it needs to be challenged, with respect.
Your UK experience, which you’ve previously
recounted, had exposed you to many other forms of religion, which you had
painstakingly recapitulated. I therefore wish to pass on a few words, hopefully
of wisdom, but certainly of love, to help you to address these same spirits of
long ago.
While there are other religions or, in some
cases, cults, which profess to believe in “a God” or “Gods”, each is searching
for that Mysterious Being. There is only one in which the proponent actually
claims divinity, and who proves it. Christianity does not merely proclaim the
existence of God. This Person, this Jesus claims to BE the Son of God. On one
occasion, while he was sitting in a crowded house, a local bedridden man of the
village who heard that Jesus was there, asked his friends to take him to Jesus.
There was little room to get into the house, so his friends ripped off the roof
covering of the building and dropped the sick man directly in front of Jesus.
Of course, he wanted to be healed of his
illness.
But what did Jesus do?
He didn’t say, “Be healed”.
But he did say, “Your sins are forgiven you.”
The onlookers were shocked! “Only God can
forgive sin”, they murmured.
Jesus looked at them and knowing their thoughts,
he said, “What is it easier to say? 'Your sins are forgiven you', or 'Take up
your bed and walk’ ”.
(Of course, the correct answer to that question
would be “It is easier to say, ‘Your sins are forgiven’”. But no one answered
him.
Whereupon, Jesus then said, “Take up your bed
and walk”. In other words, he did the MORE DIFFICULT thing.
And the man got up, removed his bed and walked
away.
Q.E.D. !!!
By doing this, Jesus PROVED that he was/is God.
Scientific enough?
The story is given in John 5:8, in case you’d
like to look it up.
So, to refute your statement that “None of it is
based on science” (below), I’d have to ask you what you think of that!
Consider too, the supernatural (read
‘super-scientific’) cases of the many incorrupt bodies of saints long dead,
whose bodies should have decomposed years ago.
Can science explain that?
St. Padre Pio died 40 years ago:
Should you be interested, the attached link
might also lead you to rethink your apparent belief in science and your
disregard for religion
With very best wishes to you and yours.
Your friend,
Nigel
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From:
Glen Mckoy
Sent:
Monday, November 30, 2015 3:13 PM
Dear Sirs,
Thank you all for your honest replies. I too have my beliefs, however our beliefs
should be our personal business and shared with those that share same. We are the alumni of a Catholic school,
however we are not a church. Our
members share equal status and respect despite what their beliefs, we had
Hindus, Muslims, a couple of Jews, Atheist & Christian students.
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EDITED
by Ladislao Kertesz Kertesz11@yahoo.com
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Photos:
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your editor in Colombia, Anthony O´brien and Geroge Iwaskiewicz
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your editor in Valencia, Gustavo Tar, Roderick Smith and Brian Goddard
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Letter received by Arthur Knaggs
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