Newsletter for alumni of The Abbey School, Mt. St. Benedict, Trinidad and Tobago, W.I.
Caracas, 12 March 2011 No.488
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Dear Friends,
One more of the oldies. These Circulars were very simple and got the required attention, as you know.
It is close to 1500 old boys, and every day there is one new member.
I have the following questions to you:
Is your resume up to date, or better yet, have you sent in the 50 words dues?
Some of you should send in your latest photo for posterity, jajaja
Send the one with least touch up!!!!
Do not forget to visit the WEB page by Kazim.
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Newsletter for past alumni of The Abbey School, Mt. St. Benedict, Trinidad and Tobago, W.I.
Caracas, 5 January 2002. Circular No.8
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Dear Friends,
I hope all of you survived all the wine and dancing and the holidays and are ready for this New Year.
I shall try out an idea, brainstorming one, do a Who is Who and Where for the msb crowd. I shall do the compiling while someone takes over. This Who is Who does not compete as would be used in the circulars only, but is complementary as it can be as long as you wish but need not to be sent in by the oldboy whose data is displayed. The reason for this is because I have noticed that some of the oldboys are not too keen in writing up a resume, while a friend of his with a mighty feather, ( his mighty finger???, to be in tune with times), might give a clue which is interesting to all.
Thank you for your support sending in new names for the msb old boys list. I am including part of the list, thank you for your diligence. 70% of the list came from Nigel Boos who took it from Arthur Knaggs who published a pamphlet called OASIS Overseas Abbey School Interested Students, years ago with the same intentions as our internet multilog, (is this correct???), dialog does not seem right, I have to ask Wayne Brown!!!.
Feel free to use, erase, add, etc to the list, you can then send the corrections to the web or me. Remember that for all for whom I have the e-mail address shall receive the circulars, to promote our page or the geocities page in making.
Who is Who: (thanks to Roger)
1. Michael Ames - works in Trinidad as a consultant in the oil business. His son Stephen is a professional golfer on the PGA, doing quite well.
God Bless
Ladislao
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Photo:
Listado: C8.xls
Article: Msb 10 6407 mount inside
Column: wvb 011230 the bride part 2
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PAX Guest House, old car at the front
...22 NOV 2010
From: Nigel P. Boos <nigelboos@eagles-wings.ca>
That's progress for yuh.
Now, all we've got to do is to check out the registration number of the car with the authorities in TT, (of course, the records will be in immaculate condition).
Then, we'll find out who the owners of the car were, see if they're alive or pushing up daisies, contact their great grandchildren who won't care a damn, who will slam down the phone on whoever's calling, and we'll be nowhere further in solving the mystery.
The good monks at MSB don't seem to have gotten any further themselves, or, if they have, then I've not been told about it.
However, Trevor Evelyn has confirmed that he was a student at MSB in 1945 and that the steps down to the guest house had already been replaced by the ramp.
So all we can say for sure is that the photograph was taken pre-1945.
I'm going to say it was taken in 1940, unless someone wants to challenge that date.
It's been a great hunt, David. Thanks. Nigel
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MSB Photograph - The Guest House
...2011 NOV 12
From: Nigel P. Boos <nigelboos@eagles-wings.ca>
Just to let you know that Fr. Abbott is looking into it and he'll get back to us.
What a lovely photograph.
The building looks brand new.
Notice that the long row of steps at the front of the building has been replaced by a ramp for cars.
In fact, if I remember correctly, the ramp was built during my years at MSB.
I'm sure I do remember that incident - it must have been around 1957 when this work was done.
I wrote an article for a local (TT) magazine about 2 years ago, on the "History of Mt. St. Benedict" and in it I reported:
"In 1947, the Monastery was raised to the dignity of an Abbey.
Dom Adalbert van Duin O.S.B., was elected as the first Abbot and was installed on June 16, 1947 by His Grace, the Most Rev. Dr. Finbar Ryan, O.P., Archbishop of Port of Spain, in the presence of great crowds of people, including many of the leading personages of the day.
"Under the able leadership of Dom Mayuel de Caigny O.S.B. and later, of Dom Hugh Van Der Sanden, O.S.B., one of the Benedictine monks, Brother Gabriel Mokveld O.S.B., undertook the tremendous job of converting the overgrown, bushy hillside into the beautiful, stately edifice we see today.
Living quarters, refectory and kitchens were constructed, and the chapel was extended.
A “rest house” was built to accommodate the many pilgrims who began to frequent “the Mount”, and a small “guest house” was built to provide lodging for those wishing to rest their souls in the peace and quiet beauty of the hills of the Northern Range of Trinidad."
One clue to discover the date of the photograph, therefore, would be to find out the years during which Bro. Gabriel was doing all of his construction work.
Nigel P. Boos
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From: John Pereira <jaebp@live.com>
Date: November 11, 2010 8:18:34 PM EST
Thanks very much, Nigel, for the wonderful photo.
I will definitely share it with the older monks and see what comes up.
Cheers!
Abbot John
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Subject: MOUNT ST. BENEDICT PHOTO
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 19:32:21 -0500
Thanks for this wonderful old photograph, David.
I'll look into it and see what I can find.
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Dear Fr. Abbott,
Someone has discovered a remarkable old photograph of the MSB Guest House with a flight of stairs in front of it, which was certainly not in existence during my time at the Abbey School in 1955.
Would you be so good as to show this photograph to the older monks at the Mount, or else look through the archives to see whether you can identify the approximate year in which this might have been taken?
The car in the picture could have been a Model T Ford, and I have another photograph of my grandfather's car -the second in the island, which could be compared to this one, to see if there might be a match. (He died in 1926).
Here is Grandpa's First (and only??) car:
Thanks for your kind help.
Nigel Boos
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On 2010-11-11, at 6:10 PM, david decastro wrote:
HAVE YOU SEEN THIS? WHAT YEAR IS THIS? LOOK AT THE CAR. DONT EVEN KNOW THESE PEOPLE NAMES. CHECK IT OUT."BANDIT"
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From: herman silochan
Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2010 4:18 PM
Thursday 11th November 2010
I purchased this old post card last weekend at a collectors show.
I believe that the photo dates back to the late 1920's or early thirties based on the model of the car at the base of the photo.
If you can determine the correct date, let me know.
Herman
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MSB Guest House - Old photograph dated before 1945
From: Nigel P. Boos <nigelboos@eagles-wings.ca>
Thanks for your note, Trev.
We're trying to decide on a date when the old postcard picture could have been taken.
Since you can confirm that the stairs in front of the Guest House were there before 1945, that in itself is a good date marker.
So we have to look BEFORE 1945 to find a reasonable date on which that old picture could have been taken.
Thanks again.
Nigel
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On 2010-11-12, at 2:19 PM, Trevor Evelyn wrote:
Nigel
Thank you for sending me the pictures of the guest house.
It brings back so many memories my Parents stayed there in 1945 when they came to visit me.
The stairs in front of the guest house were there for all the years I spent at the Mount 1945 to 1949 Dec.
The pictures that goes around from time to time bring back such wonderful memories of the 5 yrs. I spent at the mount.
I found an old photograph of the school taken from a small hill on the south of the bees.
I will send it to you I cannot remember who took it and what year think it was 1947.
Thanks again
Trev
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RE: Data posted to form 1 of http://www.asaatt.org/register.htm
From: Ladislao Kertesz <ladislaokertesz@hotmail.com> 
Dear Kazim,
I shall include the http in my next Circular so that as many as want can register.
I presume that this is what you want??
Also I would like you to change the title: ladislao kertesz blog to ladislao kertesz Circular / Newsletter, I prefer Circular because my compendiae is usually out of date so I cannot call it NEWS??.
The blog is run by Don Mitchell, and he just takes my Circular as soon as it is ready and posts it to the site that he manages, latter I send them to the many individuals.
Maybe you should place a link to the blog so that all viewers of ASATT could with a click go to the site?? and get the latest that is posted.
Now Nigel Boos has been hunting down stray ALUMNI and maybe there should be a link or maybe you should publish the list, I have no idea how it can be done so that he keeps up his splendid work without being displaced by the web page??? Care must be taken.
I talked with one of the Association guys and expressed that only maybe 5 of us are working to the goal that was set last MAY.
So care must be taken to avoid loosing working members.
For the TT Association to be alive and feel alive there should be active members that take care of a minimal effort to the recruitment of ALUMNI (Trinidad) to the cause and of course to reach the goal set in the creation of the Association.
Thank you for your effort, we need more people like you, action and not words.
God Bless
Ladislao
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Ladislao Kertesz at kertesz11@yahoo.com,
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Photos:
Mount Inside No. 10 page 8
08KA0008REUNION, The invitation as sent out for the event.
60UN0002CLASS1960, Finally a class photo of my class.
62WK0041UNKNOWN, an old photo of some competition?? Can you help
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