Circular No 633

Newsletter for alumni of The Abbey School, Mt. St. Benedict, Trinidad and Tobago, W.I.

Caracas, 21 of December 2013 No. 633

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Dear Friends,

Merry Christmas to all readers of this Circular Newsletter, keep well and hope to see you next year 2014.

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Glen Mckoy

29 Nov

Dear Sir Nigel & Sir Ronald,

This is wonderful to read, another brother found, so that make the count 1501, ha! ha!

Anyhow, Ronald, your old buddies will be contacting you in due course, we are a close knit group, for those who care, we have brothers from the 1940's to the 1980's, so any brothers you may want to contact, please don't hesitate to ask, we will find them,

Welcome to The Club, our brother & friend, Sir Ronald Hadeed.

Long live our Brotherhood,  Long Live The Mount,

Cheers, Amigos, Adios. Glen McKoy.

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From: nigelboos@eagles-wings.ca

Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2013 13:47:06 -0500

Hi, Ronald,

Welcome to the Old Boys Association of the Abbey School, MSB/

(There must be a more exact name for the group, but I forget what it is.)

We've been looking for you for 13 years and now, Joe has run into you.

That's great.

You'll now become party to whatever stuff we generate among ourselves, and feel free to contribute your own stuff.

I'd be particularly interested in getting a paragraph from you explaining what you've done with yourself since 1966, and hopefully, a recent photograph of yourself, for the record.

Here's a link to the latest MSB OB database. 

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1717336/MSBOBs%20database.xlsx 

See if you can end yourself there:

Regards,

Nigel Boos

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From: Glen Mckoy [mailto:mckoy43glen@hotmail.com] 

Sent: 20 May 2012 13:30

Subject: The First Venezuelan

My Dear Trevor, 

Thank you for this, you just solved a part of our puzzle.  

It's so good to hear from you man, but ah guess we had to ask the right question ha! ha! to get your attention,

I will like to know what ever happened to this 1st Venezuelan brother, now we have the full name. 

I hope all is well best regards to you and the family, have a great summer, mi amigo,

Cheers, Glen.

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From: tevelyn@rogers.com

Date: Sat, 19 May 2012 18:37:08 -0400

Guys,

The first Venezuelan at the Mount was Oscar Schnell, the best center forward we ever had.

Trevor  E.

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From: mckoy43glen@hotmail.com

Subject: RE: New Linked In MSB Group launched today!

Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2013 14:09:31 +0000

Thank you, Jon, for getting this organized not everyone is on the same page, and this is a good way to do this, only those who are interested will part take, as it is still open to the general alumni.

Of course we must always operate in a professional manner, as we are also the representatives and Alumni of The Abbey School, and with great respect to all the people we represent.  

I also Bcc. names that are always here, but like to keep a low profile, I like that ha! ha!  

Cheers, Glen. 

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From: amickiew@att.net

Subject: Re: New Linked In MSB Group launched today!

Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2013 04:49:57 -0600

Hi Jon....

Congrats, great work. 

Please send me an invitation to join.....

Thanks, George

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From: jon@goldings.net

Subject: New Linked In MSB Group launched today!

Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2013 21:52:23 +0000

Hello Everyone

And my best wishes for a Happy Christmas, Feliz Navidad season and enjoyable celebration of the Nuevo Anno!

Our numbers are dwindling and we must look to our next generation to pass on our commercial and educational wisdom as well as our respected contacts globally. 

To help this happen I have today set up a Group on Linked In – Mount St Benedict OLD BOYS, which as some of you who are members will know, is the most professional and respected network on the web and the GOTO place for Fortune 500 and most other employers.  

It is also a great place to meet new professional contacts and to check out anyone who we meet or who want to do business with us.

It takes a little while to construct your profile but once you are up you will be surprised how visible you become globally and are there to make useful new contacts. 

Also a good place to get public endorsements from other professionals.

Anyway, I am sending this to the Glen McKoy circle to announce this new platform and inviting everyone to join if they wish.

But keep in mind this is NOT Facebook and not a place for gossip or unprofessional behaviour.

I have gained a great deal from my L-I presence and it continues to amaze me the people who ask to be connected.

I hope this new Group will form a core of the more serious of our crowd who can engage with one another in business and professional camaraderie.

So don’t delay, sign up on L-I today and join the group since we can help one another in more ways than you think.

And let’s not stop the shit talk and old stories on Glen’s Club!! That is what keeps us going!!

Have a great break and hope to see you on Linked In.

Best wishes

Jon Golding

1955-1961

PS:  And, spread the word for other old Boys to join since I only have this list to work from. 

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From: Glen Mckoy [mailto:mckoy43glen@hotmail.com] 

Sent: 20 May 2012 13:30

Subject: The First Venezuelan

My Dear Trevor,

Thank you for this, you just solved a part of our puzzle. 

It's so good to hear from you man, but ah guess we had to ask the right question ha! ha! to get your attention,

I will like to know what ever happened to this 1st Venezuelan brother, now we have the full name.

I hope all is well best regards to you and the family, have a great summer, mi amigo, Cheers

Glen.

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Csaba Jakobszen

Dec 19, 2013

Dear Ladislao,

First of all I would like to wish a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 2014 with good health, good luck and lots of success in all your endeavours.

Thank you once more for your fruitful efforts to keep us, old MSB boys, informed about the activities and destinies of our schoolmates of long ago.

Your e-mails and the ones of Nigel Boos keep us really up-to-date in the worldwide scenery of our MSB friends who are scattered in just about every corner of this world of ours.

The only negative part of all this is the fact that some of the news are full of sorrow: during the last couple of weeks three of our MSB boys were called by Our Lord to leave this valley of tears and to join him in heaven.

May they Rest in Peace.

Keep up the good work !

Best regards

Csaba

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Nigel Boos

Dec 11

Thanks very much for your input, Robert.

This again, is news to us, and it's interesting to note that the authorities had received a professional opinion that they should increase fees. Wow!

This gets "interestinger and interestinger".

May I ask you where you live, and would you be able and willing to let us have a recent photograph of yourself, for the record?

Thanks, Robert.

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On 2013-12-11, at 12:38 PM, robertdyal43 wrote:

Nigel,

I am a Mount boy who was there when Rudi Singh was there.  My father actually did an audit of the school and he had determined that to stay in business they should increase the fees as they had already refused government help as they wanted full control of who got to go, their students.

This is to answer the question why the school did not survive, that’s my contribution 

Robert 

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From: Nigel Boos <nigelboos@yahoo.ca> 

Date: 11/12/2013 1:22 PM (GMT-04:00) 

Subject: Questionnaire 

Hi, you guys,

Don Mitchell is coordinating a 2014 grand Reunion of all Old Boys of the Abbey School, and has asked me to help by mailing the attached questionnaire to you.

He's trying to understand how many he should expect, to be able to make the necessary accommodation and admin plans.

Please complete and return the form to DON, AND NOT TO ME, at your convenience.

By the way, in case you're interested, here is a link to the current database of the MSB OB's:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1717336/MSBOBs%20database.xlsx

Nigel

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Nigel Boos

Dec 14, 2013

Thanks for this wonderful story, Fr. Harold.

You're bringing the Abbey School back to life with your input.

I never attended an art class in all my life, and I always wondered why this had been omitted from our curriculum.

BTW, we have in our database 2 guys named Rampersad who, if the record is correct, graduated in '69.

One is Fidel and the other Krishna.

Question: Could this be a case of duplication, and could the two names be referring to the same person?

Nigel

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From: amickiew@att.net

Subject: Re: Beti and Baitoei

Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2013 08:53:20 -0600

Thanks for the Hindi lesson,  धन्यवाद् dhanyavaad

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From: Glen Mckoy

Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2013 6:59 AM

Subject: Beti and Baitoei

That is correct, Nigel.  I don't know if it’s the correct spelling, this how it is spoken, boy is Bayta, and girl is Baytee

Glen.

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On 2013-12-16, at 1:47 PM, GEORGE wrote:

Back at the AB, WHY DID WE CALL EAST INDIAN GIRLS  “BETTYS”? 

Perhaps it is spelled differently

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Subject: Beti and Baitoei

From: nigelboos@eagles-wings.ca

Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2013 16:54:04 -0500

Someone, please correct me if you know better.

I believe that the generic name for an Indian boy is "baitoei" and the name for "an Indian girl" is "beti". 

That's my tuppence.

Nigel

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Ladislao Kertesz at kertesz11@yahoo.com,

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Photos:

MSBAP23MI6512, Mount Inside

185743LK13FB, Gangaram Grampersad and Azizul Mohamed

59LK0008TERMREP, Terminal Report 1959, Ladislao Kertesz

72UN0001GRA, Sports field old boy