Newsletter for alumni of The Abbey School, Mt. St. Benedict, Trinidad and Tobago, W.I.
Caracas, 28 May 2011 No.499
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Dear Friends,
I am a bit slow these days as I have had some health issues in the family, but all is over and all is well.
Something from the past:
http://www.4shared.com/audio/Z9128fIy/Mighty_Sparrow-Jean__Dinah-The.html
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Old circular.No.19
This Circular was published but it did not contain hard information.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------.
Here are all the emails received from you Geoffrey Golding.
Geoffrey,
Maybe you can check them out and add something new.
How about information on the teacher that you liked best??
Who were your friends, that is, friends and not members of a faction, jajajaja.
We Venezuelans had our group and then the Hungarian subgroup.
But looking back, this did not make friends real, true?
Caracas, 28 May 2011 No.499
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Dear Friends,
I am a bit slow these days as I have had some health issues in the family, but all is over and all is well.
Something from the past:
http://www.4shared.com/audio/Z9128fIy/Mighty_Sparrow-Jean__Dinah-The.html
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
Old circular.No.19
This Circular was published but it did not contain hard information.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------.
Here are all the emails received from you Geoffrey Golding.
Geoffrey,
Maybe you can check them out and add something new.
How about information on the teacher that you liked best??
Who were your friends, that is, friends and not members of a faction, jajajaja.
We Venezuelans had our group and then the Hungarian subgroup.
But looking back, this did not make friends real, true?
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Golding, Geoffrey - I left Mount in 1960 due to an illness and never returned.
I went to England to finish school in 1963 and graduated as a civil engineer in 1968.
Worked in England for a couple of years and went back to work in Trinidad for a year. Went back to England where I worked for a government organization.
Got married in 1972 to an old flame from Trinidad (Heather Dobias) and emigrated to Toronto, Canada in December 1973 to get away from the high taxes and damp conditions in England.
Canada is much colder but no where as damp!!!
I joined Texaco Canada in mid 1974.
Worked in Toronto for 10 years and was then transferred to Halifax, Nova Scotia.
During this period we were blessed with two daughter, Nicole (22 now) and Dana19.
Both are in University and draining my bank account!!
In 1988 Texaco transferred me to their Ontario Nanticoke refinery (close to Lake Erie).
Texaco was taken over by Imperial Oil (ESSO) in 1989 and I am still with them.
I am the Manager of the Environment, Health, Safety and Loss Control Department (very challenging having to deal with ever changing regulations and government folks).
I am two years away from retirement (60) and it can't come quick enough.
I have always dreamt of retiring "down the islands".
I live in Brantford, Ontario which is an hours drive West of Toronto.
I am planning to visit Trinidad within a couple of years and take the girls.
The last time I was there was in 1983 for Carnival.
That's it for now.
If any of you are near to me please give me a call or look me up.
Here is my address:
G. P. Golding, 49 Olivetree Road, Brantford, Ontario, Canada N3R 7X1. Phone 519 753-9978 .
I look forward to hearing from you.
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GEOFFREY GOLDING
3 Apr 2011
Hi, Ladislao
How are you keeping?
Hopefully, one of these days we can meet and renew our friendship from 50+ years ago!!
If you ever come up to the Toronto area let me know and we could meet.
I see Nigel Boos quite often.
It is very unlikely I will be visiting Trinidad again.
My brother, Jon, as you probably know, returned to England and has his condo up for sale in Trinidad.
With respect to the 1960 class photo I am # 19.
Best Wishes and keep up the good work
Geoff
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GEOFFREY GOLDING
25/11/2007
Hi, Ladislao.
My brother Ian lives in England and works for an American company in Africa (Gabon) as a supervisor of directional drilling.
His e-mail address is iangolding2000@yahoo.co.uk.
You are doing a fine job with the Circulars.
Keep up the good work!!
Regards,
Geoff
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From: GEOFFREY GOLDING
Date: 1/17/2005 10:54:30 PM
Ladislao,
It has been a long time since I last contacted you but I religiously read your weekly news bulletins.
Keep up the good work!!!!
I have never sent you a photo so I am now sending one of my wife and I on my 30th year service award with Imperial Oil (ESSO) a month ago.
Do you recognize me?
We have all changed so much over the years but it is amazing how we can remember the faces from some 50 years ago.
Please send me Matias e-mail. I would like to surprise him!!
Best wishes and thanks,
Geoff.
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From: KenTrini@aol.com
Sent: Sun 12/09/07 2:14 AM
Dear Ladislao,
I am Kenneth Ian Austin .
I was a student at the Abbey School from 1946 to 1952.
Yesterday I was trying to connect with PAXABBEY to gather news of any recent happenings,
But was unable to connect because the server is offline or some other problem.
However, fortunately the website for the Abbey School old boys circulars came up.
I spent the next many hours reading previous editions and looking at photos on Gioanetti site.
Years ago I used to receive newsletters regarding old Mount boys which I believe were compiled by Arthur Knaggs.
However I have not received any in many years and conclude that you have taken over that task, using modern technology.
Needless to say I was delighted to have hit on the site inadvertantly.
I notice from the circulars that some of my contemporaries such as Leary and Richard Oconnor are still around albeit in Australia.
I left Trinidad in January1954 and went with Trevor Soodeen to New York University.
Trevor received his degree in Commerce and now resides in Canada,
Unfortunately/I do not have an e-mail address for him.
I transferred to Howard University in Washington, DC in 1956 where I got my BS in Chemistry in1957 and MD in 1961.
After specialising in Internal Medicine/Rheumatology, I joined the faculty of my alma mater in 1966 and taught until my retirement in 2002.
I now practise 2 half-days a week in order to keep my hand in it and my brain active.
I married a Washingtonian in 1962 and we have 3 children:
Janine, an ophthalmologist at the National Institutes of health,
Sabrina, a lawyer
Sean who manages a tennis club.
Some of my contemporaries at Mount were
Arthur Knaggs,
Peter Gaffney,
David and John Farfan,
Ray Dacambra,
Hugh and Christopher Henderson,
Anthony Lucky,
David and Delano Dacastro,
Phillip Nassief from Antigua,
Vernon Lee Kit,
Bernard And Osmond Gomes from Guyana.,
Christen Krogh and
Johnny Nieto from Venezuela.
My brother, Trevor and I started at Mount in 1946 and Trevor replaced Nieto as the smallest boy earning the nickname, Mousey.
Trevor died in Trinidad in 1995, having received the last rites from the original abbot, Father Adelbert, who also ministered to my mother before her death in 1999.
My sister still lives in Trinidad and I try to visit her occasionally and when I am there I always visit the Mount.
I hope to be visiting in 2008.
Please add my name to the list to receive the circulars at kentrini@AOL.com and may you and your family have a happy holiday season.
Maybe we will meet at a reunion of old boys one day.
Thanks for your efforts and keep up the good work.
Kenneth I. Austin, MD
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Keep sending me information to help the Association.
Ladislao Kertesz at kertesz11@yahoo.com,
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Photos:
Mount Inside No. 10 page 19
60CV0001GUYANESE, trip to Guyana.
10GG0001GGOWFE, George Golding and wife.
08UN1506CKNKAU, Christopher Knowles and Kenneth Austin.
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Golding, Geoffrey - I left Mount in 1960 due to an illness and never returned.
I went to England to finish school in 1963 and graduated as a civil engineer in 1968.
Worked in England for a couple of years and went back to work in Trinidad for a year. Went back to England where I worked for a government organization.
Got married in 1972 to an old flame from Trinidad (Heather Dobias) and emigrated to Toronto, Canada in December 1973 to get away from the high taxes and damp conditions in England.
Canada is much colder but no where as damp!!!
I joined Texaco Canada in mid 1974.
Worked in Toronto for 10 years and was then transferred to Halifax, Nova Scotia.
During this period we were blessed with two daughter, Nicole (22 now) and Dana19.
Both are in University and draining my bank account!!
In 1988 Texaco transferred me to their Ontario Nanticoke refinery (close to Lake Erie).
Texaco was taken over by Imperial Oil (ESSO) in 1989 and I am still with them.
I am the Manager of the Environment, Health, Safety and Loss Control Department (very challenging having to deal with ever changing regulations and government folks).
I am two years away from retirement (60) and it can't come quick enough.
I have always dreamt of retiring "down the islands".
I live in Brantford, Ontario which is an hours drive West of Toronto.
I am planning to visit Trinidad within a couple of years and take the girls.
The last time I was there was in 1983 for Carnival.
That's it for now.
If any of you are near to me please give me a call or look me up.
Here is my address:
G. P. Golding, 49 Olivetree Road, Brantford, Ontario, Canada N3R 7X1. Phone 519 753-9978 .
I look forward to hearing from you.
----------------------------------------------------------------------.
GEOFFREY GOLDING
3 Apr 2011
Hi, Ladislao
How are you keeping?
Hopefully, one of these days we can meet and renew our friendship from 50+ years ago!!
If you ever come up to the Toronto area let me know and we could meet.
I see Nigel Boos quite often.
It is very unlikely I will be visiting Trinidad again.
My brother, Jon, as you probably know, returned to England and has his condo up for sale in Trinidad.
With respect to the 1960 class photo I am # 19.
Best Wishes and keep up the good work
Geoff
------------------------------------------------------------.
GEOFFREY GOLDING
25/11/2007
Hi, Ladislao.
My brother Ian lives in England and works for an American company in Africa (Gabon) as a supervisor of directional drilling.
His e-mail address is iangolding2000@yahoo.co.uk.
You are doing a fine job with the Circulars.
Keep up the good work!!
Regards,
Geoff
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From: GEOFFREY GOLDING
Date: 1/17/2005 10:54:30 PM
Ladislao,
It has been a long time since I last contacted you but I religiously read your weekly news bulletins.
Keep up the good work!!!!
I have never sent you a photo so I am now sending one of my wife and I on my 30th year service award with Imperial Oil (ESSO) a month ago.
Do you recognize me?
We have all changed so much over the years but it is amazing how we can remember the faces from some 50 years ago.
Please send me Matias e-mail. I would like to surprise him!!
Best wishes and thanks,
Geoff.
----------------------------------------------------------------------.
From: KenTrini@aol.com
Sent: Sun 12/09/07 2:14 AM
Dear Ladislao,
I am Kenneth Ian Austin .
I was a student at the Abbey School from 1946 to 1952.
Yesterday I was trying to connect with PAXABBEY to gather news of any recent happenings,
But was unable to connect because the server is offline or some other problem.
However, fortunately the website for the Abbey School old boys circulars came up.
I spent the next many hours reading previous editions and looking at photos on Gioanetti site.
Years ago I used to receive newsletters regarding old Mount boys which I believe were compiled by Arthur Knaggs.
However I have not received any in many years and conclude that you have taken over that task, using modern technology.
Needless to say I was delighted to have hit on the site inadvertantly.
I notice from the circulars that some of my contemporaries such as Leary and Richard Oconnor are still around albeit in Australia.
I left Trinidad in January1954 and went with Trevor Soodeen to New York University.
Trevor received his degree in Commerce and now resides in Canada,
Unfortunately/I do not have an e-mail address for him.
I transferred to Howard University in Washington, DC in 1956 where I got my BS in Chemistry in1957 and MD in 1961.
After specialising in Internal Medicine/Rheumatology, I joined the faculty of my alma mater in 1966 and taught until my retirement in 2002.
I now practise 2 half-days a week in order to keep my hand in it and my brain active.
I married a Washingtonian in 1962 and we have 3 children:
Janine, an ophthalmologist at the National Institutes of health,
Sabrina, a lawyer
Sean who manages a tennis club.
Some of my contemporaries at Mount were
Arthur Knaggs,
Peter Gaffney,
David and John Farfan,
Ray Dacambra,
Hugh and Christopher Henderson,
Anthony Lucky,
David and Delano Dacastro,
Phillip Nassief from Antigua,
Vernon Lee Kit,
Bernard And Osmond Gomes from Guyana.,
Christen Krogh and
Johnny Nieto from Venezuela.
My brother, Trevor and I started at Mount in 1946 and Trevor replaced Nieto as the smallest boy earning the nickname, Mousey.
Trevor died in Trinidad in 1995, having received the last rites from the original abbot, Father Adelbert, who also ministered to my mother before her death in 1999.
My sister still lives in Trinidad and I try to visit her occasionally and when I am there I always visit the Mount.
I hope to be visiting in 2008.
Please add my name to the list to receive the circulars at kentrini@AOL.com and may you and your family have a happy holiday season.
Maybe we will meet at a reunion of old boys one day.
Thanks for your efforts and keep up the good work.
Kenneth I. Austin, MD
------------------------------------------------------------------------------.
Keep sending me information to help the Association.
Ladislao Kertesz at kertesz11@yahoo.com,
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Photos:
Mount Inside No. 10 page 19
60CV0001GUYANESE, trip to Guyana.
10GG0001GGOWFE, George Golding and wife.
08UN1506CKNKAU, Christopher Knowles and Kenneth Austin.
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