Newsletter for alumni of The Abbey School, Mt. St. Benedict, Trinidad and Tobago, W.I.
Caracas, 8 June 2013 No. 605
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Dear Friends,
Some clarification on Class 68 and Class 69, expertly
done by Jan.
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From: Nigel Boos
Wow! You've put in
so much work into this tiny project!
Thanks for your
wonderful effort, Jan.
We should get to
the bottom of this soon.
Nigel
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On 2012-09-03,
at 6:45 AM, Gmail Jan wrote:
Dear Nigel,
I got the picture
from Attila Gyuris in early 2008.
He copied it from
Rommel Rosero in a restaurant or so.
Attila tried to put
in numbers and names but it didn't look beautiful.
That is the black
and white picture 66UN0001CLASS69 here below.
Call it version 1.
Because I had Adobe Photoshop, Attila asked me if I can make the numbers and
names look better.
So I asked him for
the original copy.
That is the brown
& white picture here below. Call it version 2.
The numbering in
version 1 jumps from 23 to 29 skips 6.
So I changed the
numbering in the version 2 picture.
This was one class
below me; it is the class of Josh Schoemaker.
Attila Gyuris
skipped one class, and went from Form I straight up to Form III.
That's why Attila
ended up in this class, but that is a school year later than when the picture
was taken.
But Attila and Josh
Schoemaker should know the boys.
I only know a few
of them.
That #25 is Kennedy
is not from me but either from Attila of Rommel Rosero, and I did not oppose
that.
I remember Kennedy
being small and he had a cute Jerry Lewis/ Sammy Davis like voice with a beard
in his throat.
The first term I
was at Mount, August '63 - Xmas '63, I had to learn the English language from
scratch.
Somewhere Octobre
'63 I must have spoken to this Kennedy boy, and I must have made him laugh.
I remember talking
to him that I first thought that he had died when the news came John F Kennedy
was dead.
In 2008 I sent the
brown & white picture back to Attila (to me he is the owner) and a copy to
Ladislao.
The Word document
with updates of the names is new to me, never saw it before.
Don't know who made
it.
I don't know this
Kennedy well enough to be sure #25 is him, but #25 fits well how I remember
him.
He was like that,
maybe the smallest boy at school that year, probably black hair etc.
But if somebody of
that class overrules me that he is Martin Devaux, please follow the overruler.
I think you should
check with the Devaux brothers if they know him as Martin Devaux.
Little Charles
Devaux was in my class for four years, he never mentioned to me about Martin
Devaux a class lower, that he is, or he is not, family to him.
While Charles well
explained to me back then that Desmond Devaux is his brother and Patrick Devaux
also in our class is not.
Is it possible the
person who made the Word document confuses Charles Devaux with #25?
I see in your
latest database under #389 a Martin Devaux but with no other information.
If you have the
name Martin Devaux only from the Word document, I think you should ask OB from
this class like Josh Schoemaker or Attila Gyuris or Andres Larsen, he might not
exist?
Other thing.
I put in the Prep A
picture 63UN0001CLASS1968 I sent this week, I put it here in the text. This was
my class but one year before I came to the Mount.
Compare it with the
brown &white picture, some boys of this Prep A class failed to go to Form I
and dropped in the class of the brown & white picture. I see:
#5 Steve Anderson = #15 in other picture
#11 Peter Quesnel = #14 in other picture
#17 Michael d'Ornellas = #23 in other picture
#20 Reinaldo Ache = #3 in other picture
#25 Derek Fakoory = #12 in other picture
Hope is not too
much confusing, hope I can give a little aid to all your work,
Much greetings Jan
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On 2012-09-02,
at 6:17 PM, Gmail Jan wrote:
Dear Nigel,
Sorry for the
inconvenience, made a typing mistake.
My class picture of
Form II must be June 1965 not 1964.
I came in Form I in
August 1963 until July 1964.
Form II from August
1964 to July 1965, the picture was taken short before that.
Ladislao gave the
picture a name 65UN0001CLASS1968 Form II 1965, that is correct.
It is June 1965.
Much greetings
Jan
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Dear Nigel,
All good here, hope
the same with you.
You didn't attach a
photo on the mail, but if you refer to my only class picture made by Fr.
Benedict, with me second from left on the back row, that picture was made in
June 1964 just before the summer holidays.
I read in your
database that you also ask if anybody knew a boy named Kennedy.
Yes I do, he was a
little boy a class lower than I was.
In November1963
word came around on the schoolyard that Kennedy was dead.
At first I thought
they meant this boy.
I arrived at Mount
august 1963 so I was only in my first term of Form I.
And this boy
Kennedy was at that moment therefore in Prep A.
I don't have other
memories of him from Form II on, it could be he left Mount after one year, I
don't know for sure.
Being small made
him cute, everybody liked him.
Much greetings, Jan
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Jan,
In another identification
exercise which I'd started about 2-3 years ago, it turns out that boy #25 was
identified as a Martin Devaux, whereas, in another ID parade, he is called ???
Kennedy.
Here's the second
picture, with names:
And here's another
of the same picture, with different names given to the boys:
And here's the same
picture, where #30 is considered to be young Master Kennedy:
Thanks for your
help with this, Jan.
Nigel
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Hi there, guys.
I'm trying to
identify the boy numbered as #25 in the attached photograph, and I wonder
whether you can help.
He has been
tentatively identified as a Kennedy, but at the same time, there are some who
say that his name is Martin Devaux.
Are you able to
verify / deny for me whether he is in fact, Martin Devaux, if you know such a
person?
Your help would be
appreciated.
Nigel Boos
P.S. By the way,
I'm also trying to get some email addresses for the following OB's of MSB:
Anthony Devaux, Charles Devaux, Desmond Devaux and Martin Devaux. Can you help
with these?
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From: andresfreytez@hotmail.com
Subject: Salah
graduates with his Masters degree.
Date: Wed, 5
Jun 2013 09:24:22 -0400
Gosh Salah,
We all Old Boys ,
wherever we are all over the world , feel so proud of your great
accomplishments...congratulations for the completion of your Master’s (if I
recall well it refers to on Afro-Caribbean music) at York University , Toronto.
Also for the 25th anniversary of your steel band group.
I am copying this
great news to my family, some of which will be shortly residing in Toronto. And
will hopefully have the opportunity of hearing LIVE yours and your group pan
performances!
We are having, back
here in Caracas, an OBs dinner on Thursday next and we will surely have a chat
to this regard, your success!!!
As nothing comes
for free (saga boy) when will you send us a copy of your recital???
Congratulations
again.
Andres (Freddy)
Freites
Pax in Virtute
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Subject: Salah
graduates with his Masters degree.
From: nigelboos@eagles-wings.ca
Date: Wed, 5
Jun 2013 09:12:53 -0400
Wow!
Salah, this is great
news. I'm sure that your recital, accompanied by the entire family, was the
high-point of the proceedings. You are to be admired and I'm proud of our
association as Old Boys. I'm sure I speak on behalf of us all in expressing our
congratulations on your graduation and recital. Are you planning to return to
Montreal at any time soon, or will you be hanging around Toronto at all?
And a very special
thanks for the unexpected information about Henry Lincoln. This is great too,
in that it helps to complete the dataBase we're trying together to build. I'll
be in touch with Henry via this message, and invite him to drop us a line to
let us know what he's doing with himself.
I've also added his
information to the dB, and he can find out about his classmates through the
link:
Nigel
(905) 426-8999
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On 2013-06-04,
at 11:02 PM, Salah Wilson wrote:
Hi Nigel,
Last Saturday June
1st, I had my Graduate Masters Recital at York University,
My wife, children,
and grand children came in from Montreal to be a part of the Steelpan ensemble
that accompanied me.
It turned out to be
a good recital.
We were also
celebrating our 25th anniversary as a family Steelpan group.
Jerry Bain and his
wife came by and represented the 'old Mount Boys' (Thanks Jerry for the photos)
But I had a unique
pleasant surprise when an old friend who attended elementary school with me and
also went to the Abbey school.
He now lives in
Alabama USA, but was visiting Toronto for a wedding and heard about my recital
and wondered if it was me.
So he took the
chance and came by and it was a great encounter after some 42 years since we
met or were in contact.
So I would like you
to add him in the MSB loop .... the following are his co-ordinates:
Henry Lincoln
Alabama, USA
(334) 477-6432
henry.r.lincoln@gmail.com
Thanks Nigel
Regards
Salah
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On 2013-05-23,
at 5:05 PM, nigelreid wrote:
Hi Nigel,
Are you keeping a
Data Base on awl ah weh?
Arthur Reid is my
youngest sibling; he is still alive and very well, about 53 yrs old.
Lives in Victoria
Gardens, Diego Martin, Trinidad.
Trevor David Reid
(Chippo), 70 yrs old, died September 24th, 2011, Diego Martin, Trinidad.
Trust Jackie and
you all well.
God Bless,
Heather &
Nigel.
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From:
Nigel Boos
Sent: Wednesday,
May 22, 2013 8:10 PM
Thanks, Rob.
Let's check with
Nigel Reid.
Hi Nige - I hope
you and Heather are both keeping well.
Got a little
question for you, please –
When did Arthur
Reid die? And who was Trevor Reid?
Your advice would
be invaluable, as they say.
Keep smiling. The
Lord's a-comin' soon ( I hope).
Nigel
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On 2013-05-22,
at 2:45 PM, Robert deVerteuil wrote:
Hi Nigel,
I note that you still
have Arthur Reid as still being with us!!
His nickname was
'Fedo' and I knew him quite well.
I went to his
funeral.
He always wore a
ship captain's hat and had it on as he lay in the open coffin!
Not sure of his RIP
date but it must have been 2/3/4 years ago.
I didn't know
Trevor Reid who the db has as RIP in 2011..
Robert
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Ladislao Kertesz at kertesz11@yahoo.com,
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Photos:
66UN0001CLASS69
63UN0001CLASS68,
prep A
57IF0028UFE,
Urbano Fedak
224606LK12FB,
Nigel Boos and the Frisbee,
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