Caracas,
13 July 2013 No. 610
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Dear Friends,
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Don Mitchell <idmitch@anguillanet.com>
20
May
Dear Priscilla,
How good to have
news of you after so many years, and to learn that you are well.
The news about Joel
is not good, I am afraid.
One day in the year
1981 I was sitting in my office when an elderly French gentleman came to see
me.
He was a banana and
anthurium farmer from Guadeloupe.
He wanted legal
advice about the rules relating to a foreigner doing consultancy landscape work
in Anguilla.
He happened to
notice a photograph on my wall and exclaimed that it included his son, Joel Guy
Blandin.
It turned out he
was the father of my best friend in Forms 1-5 at Mount.
He was in tears as
he told me that some years before Joel had married and settled down in Nice in
France.
Joel was employed
as the Secretary of the Nice Chamber of Commerce.
Some years later,
he and his wife had fallen out and they were divorcing.
Her father was the
communist mayor of Nice.
One day while Joel
was driving his motor-cycle along a highway a vehicle drew up alongside him and
he was machine-gunned to death.
The old man
believed that his son’s father in law had had it done.
Mr Blandin left my
office and I never heard from him again.
I have no idea what
happened to him after that.
Almost a Colombian
story!
Keep well.
Don
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From: Priscilla
Cunningham
Sent: Monday, May 20, 2013 12:14 PM
Subject: Greetings
Thanks for the
compliment guys, 1962 sounds sooooooooooooo long ago
and consequently I do not remember clearly the occasions.
But,
yes, I do remember very well the Sports Days when all ah we sisters of de Mount
boys, in those days, pretty young ladies, would do a lot of that strutting that
you mention the boys doing, we did our share.
And
yes, lots of crushes coming to and fro, at that age, they were flying back and
forth.
I
remember liking very much one of the French Creole boys, not sure where he was
from, Guadeloupe, Martinique, or St. Lucia, but he was cute.
His
name is/was Dominique Piton, md.piton@free.fr, and his good friend, who liked
Annabella, was Joel ?? something.
Do
you have any news about them?
You
guys are all doing a great job and that includes Ladislao, so keep it up.
I
still live in here in Colombia, where I have lived for the past 30 years.
My
husband passed away in 2007 but I stayed on.
Colombia
is a great place still, Third World, with lots of internal warfare from their
eternal guerilla problem going back some 50 years, but life is good, salaries
are low so one can still permit the luxury of help with the house work and the
region where I live the climate is referred to an Eternal Spring.
Keep
in touch,
God
Bless,
Priscilla
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Your editor has had a chance to speak with Priscilla
during my visit to Bogota about a month ago.
Sorry that I did not have time to visit Medellin,
maybe next time.
Ladislao
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Some old news that was not included in memory of Wayne
Henderson
From
Nigel Boos
Gentlemen,
I'm asking for
prayers for our friend and old schoolmate, Wayne Henderson, who is suffering
with lung cancer and is now in hospital, I guess, in the USA.
Wayne received the
Sacrament of the Sick last night and from the information sent in by Sandra
Ward, it seems he's really not doing too well.
Thank you.
Nigel
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Forwarded Message -------------------------------------------------------------
From: Sandra
Ward <smward65@hotmail.com>
Hi Folks,
Thanks so much for
your continued support and prayers, that’s keeping me going.
It’s been a tough
time but thank God that I am here with my bro.
Last night we had
to rush off to hosp with him as he had a very difficult day, lots of pain,
trouble breathing etc etc.
Got to hosp around
10pm and stayed there till 2am as they were doing lots of tests on him.
Just got back from
visiting and he was not looking too good but since got a call that he seems
brighter.
He is on all sorts
of equipment, drips, morphine etc etc and the problem last night is that a clot
has gone to his lungs.
We figured that as
he was getting pain on the other side of his body and his leg was really
hurting and we noticed his toes going blue.
Anyway rushed off
and while on the trip I just prayed loud and had everyone join in prayer and
after some time he started to relax and breathe better and then he looked at me
and said " honky, you powerful, those prayers helped " I said "
Wayne, that's God " so he gave a little smile and said " yes,
he's good " so Praise God..
We still are not
sure what the entire situation is as we have received so many conflicting
reports, one minute pneumonia, then last stage cancer, now clots etc so waiting
on all results to come in.
Had a priest come
today at the hosp to give him the Sacrament of the Sick and while the priest
was praying for all his sins he looked up and said " Father, don’t take
all as some of them were good" we laughed like crazy and so did the
confused priest.
hahaha
His sense of humour is still there and he still has time to say some funny
stuff and of course rudeness so that’s the old Wayne.
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Robert Anderson had
to leave today for Miami to attend the very sad funeral and plans on returning
on wed.
Craig also left and
will come back on the weekend.
It’s just Garry
& I now and Sharon may come on friday if not before.
Keep us all in
prayer and I'll try to keep in touch as often as possible.
Hugs & God's
blessings to all... xoxoxoxox
Love Sandra.
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Dear Nigel,
Even though I have
never met you, obviously, I know about you through our common friend, Ladislao
Kertesz.
I must recognize
that together with Ladislao, you both have done an excellent big task, which
will finally help us to be in touch with all our old friends.
I sincerely thank
you for it, and I hope to be lucky enough to talk about it with you personally.
I am sending you my
personal data, the one that should appear on the board.
Best regards,
Miguel Angel
Luongo
0058-412-7235822
0058-424-2211015
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On
2013-07-10, at 11:02 PM, angel wrote:
Hi Glen.
I just checked and
I am sorry about the mix up with the date. It is 1968.
I also have in my
possession another GOLD medal won by my brother Lorenzo Da Silva and it reads
at the back
“First in Form 111
B 1968-1969”.
He can be seen in
the class picture next to Neville Tania.
Not sure of the
spelling.
I will try and get
these scanned and send them to you.
Angel
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From:
Glen Mckoy
Sent:
Monday, July 08, 2013 1:50 PM
Dear Fr. Harold,
Our brother Angel,
Did say he received
this medal in 1986 not 1968, maybe I am wrong, however Angel can confirm, this
little mix up.
Cheers thank you
for your email.
Glen.
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Date:
Sun, 7 Jul 2013 20:45:28 -0500
From: frharold12@gmail.com,
Glen,
The Abbey School
closed at the end of the Academic Year 1986.
The medal won by
Steve Hart was won in 1968.
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SECCION -
2014 REUNION Part 3
There are five directors at the Association
with the following obligations;
Joseph Berment-McDowald - president,
Whose activities are to extract action by
those under his guidance.
Ladislao Kertesz - chronicler, as I have not been given formal title
or want one.
The activities entrusted are to send out a
weekly newsletter, not only to inform the actions taken by the board, but also
publish all letters received.
No established function has been assigned
by the directors.
Dennis Adrian Gurley - Legal attorney
In charge of all legal documents on behalf
of the ASAA
Peter Sammy – Treasurer
In charge of the moneys, I have printed
out two expense records in the past, but there seems to be a Banking problem,
so no regular reports are forthcoming, until now.
Gary Matthews – Secretary since last year?
The secretary´s job is to write once in a
while any activities that the Board might initiate. No reports have been
received as of today, so I presume that there have been no activities or
meetings to report.
Christopher Knowles - ASAA´s helper, the all do when no one wants to do
something personally.
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Ladislao Kertesz at kertesz11@yahoo.com,
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Photos:
MSBAP01MOUNTINSIDE6512,
front cover issue No.9
74SC0010SCOGRP,
Salvador and friends
91UN0001FBVREQ,
Fr. Bernard obituary
249884LK12FACEBOOK,
Sign at the Mount
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