Newsletter for alumni of The Abbey School, Mt. St. Benedict, Trinidad and Tobago, W.I.
Caracas, 23 July 2011 No.507
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Dear Friends,
Looking for John Garcia, Swimmer, Jimmy Samaroo's cousin. Got 2 Trinity Awards for saving 2 people from drowning.
Can any one help with the email address and telephone number.
Hope that he is well and kicking.
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I am glad to have received form Robert Huggins the following note.
Las,
I don't know if you know, but PG as he was fondly know as went on to complete his PhD in Sports training many years later.
He then worked with the Government of Trinidad and Tobago as a Coach.
PG passed away some years ago at a ripe old age.
Can't remember how old, but some of the other past students might remember.
Robert.
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I am going to narrate my part in PG Wilson´s life.
If you look at the bottom of the photo that I have included in Circular No. 15,
The dedication was signed in 1965, while my graduation year from, Form V, was in December 1960.
This photo was given to me by PG in Washington D.C during my last year at the Catholic University of America.
He stayed a couple of days there before going to a scholarship somewhere in the US, I do not remember those details but I do remember the bottle of good Fernandez rum he gave me and the photo that I still keep.
At that time I was in the swimming team of the university where I noticed that scholarships were given to foreign coaches with good records, so after a while I made a comment to my swimming coach on PG´s situation.
Again by fortune I had stayed in letter contact with PG after I left the Mount, so I asked PG for his curriculum,
Which by the way he sent in hand writing; next I had to rewrite it in my portable typing machine.
I am sorry that I did not keep the memorabilia of his hand writing and letters.
He was accepted and I met him in a Hotel next to the University, he was very excited and I presume all went well.
From your writing he got the opportunity the he deserved and placed him in the position to continue to help others as he had done with us, thank God.
I have still fond remembrances of his person and coaching, since I was in track and field team, mainly Discus and Javelin.
I lost contact with him after that, as I left the US in July 1965 for Venezuela and started to work in an area where communications were not the best, and all I remember is that someone told me later that he had a TV programme in Trinidad.
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Newsletter for past alumni of The Abbey School, Mt. St. Benedict, Trinidad and Tobago, W.I.
Caracas, 18 of May 2002. Circular No.27
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Dear Friends,
The following message was received from: Paul de la Bastide
Ladislao
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I attended The Abbey School from 1958 through 1963 (or thereabouts) as a day scholar.
The old memories remain:
Lifting Mr Lionel Tyrell's old Morris 8 automobile and carrying it up the steps to the lower classroom landing hallway. (He never found out who did this but we all got flogged anyway)
Do you remember "Toots"? We used to spray ink on the back of his suit when he walked by in the isle of the classroom.
I really felt sorry that we all did this. Poor fella.
Then there was the freshman initiation as a new student started school, they had to be thrown into the bougainvillea hedge with all the thorns. ouch. That really hurt for days after.
Smoking in the bathrooms and getting caught every time.
Throwing the compass point at the blackboard while the teacher had his back turned.
And the Dean of Discipline....I was in his office every day it seemed like getting my ass caned.
(Amongst all of this, I managed to get an education somehow.)
I now live in the USA and would really like to get info from time to time., however you won't be able to fax me because it will be a long distance call for you.
Is it anyway possible that you can e-mail stuff to: paul.delabastide@att.net ??
I used to hang out with the Costello's, Rostant's, Russell Cuhna, Gregory Farfan, Bruce Hutton, The Kirtons and de Pass boys, so that should clue you in to my era (now 53).
I have been asking around for while now as to what ever happened to The Abbey School and all it's records. Do they have a web site that I can go to and do research on old student lists?
Let me know your response.
Please keep in touch
Paul
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Continuing the Who is Where, thanks to Roger Henderson:
16. Harry Laughlin works in Trinidad. Good friend of Roger Ames
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I noticed that very few of us have contacts with their classmates, the question is not that if we are negligent but in most cases we have forgotten the names. I can say that for myself, I can say that I knew the names of my class mates when I was at school but only remembered with certainty only half of them after forty years. Also I cannot remember the names of my University classmates. But it is nice to be able to recall some names after you read them from the Excel listing or the web page, slowly one recalls the crazy thins we did.
I would like your comments!!!!.
This week’s photo is for those that remember the airplanes that spent time close to us every day, while training. Also a question that Gabby gave us some time ago!!.
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Esmond Lange
21 abr 2011
Laszlo
14 is Wayne Henderson, 19 is Geoffrey Golding, 4 is Michael Herrera, could 10 be Ian de Bruin? CLASS 1960.
Best regards
Esmond
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I love Trini humor.
From: Clive Bettencourt (clive_bettencourt@yahoo.co.uk)
Sent: July-21-11 8:07:43 AM
Three Trini men were really drunk, almost passing out * rum * so they stopped a taxi.
The taxi driver figured they were drunk out of their minds, so he just switched the engine off and switched it on again and told them "we reach"
The first man gave him money.
The second said thank you.
And the third buss a slap in de taxi driver face!
The taxi driver got surprised and said to himself:
O and ah was hoping none of them realised the car didn’t move an inch.
" What was that for? " He asked.
The third man said " next time don´t drive so fast, U cudda kill all ah we "
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From: sgianetti@mac.com
Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2011 23:02:52 -0400
LITTLE RALPHY ON MATH
A teacher asks her class, 'If there are 5 birds sitting on a fence and you shoot one of them, how many will be left?'
She calls on little Ralphy.
He replies, 'None, they will all fly away with the first gunshot.'
The teacher replies, 'The correct answer is 4, but I like your thinking..'
Then little RALPHY says, 'I have a question for YOU.
There are 3 women sitting on a bench having ice cream:
One is delicately licking the sides of the triple scoop of ice cream.
The second is gobbling down the top and sucking the cone.
The third is biting off the top of the ice cream.
Which one is married?'
The teacher, blushing a great deal, replied, 'Well, I suppose the one that's gobbled down the top and sucked the cone.'
To which Little RALPHY replied, 'The correct answer is 'the one with the wedding ring on,' but I like your thinking.'
LITTLE RALPHY ON MATH (Part 2)
Little RALPHY returns from school and says he got an F in arithmetic.
'Why?' asks the father?
'The teacher asked 'How much is 2x3,'' I said '6', replies RALPHY.
'But that's right!' says his dad.
'Yeah, but then she asked me 'How much is 3x2?''
'What's the fucking difference?' asks the father.
'That's what I said!'
LITTLE RALPHY ON ENGLISH
Little RALPHY goes to school, and the teacher says, 'Today we are going to learn multi-syllable words, class.
Does anybody have an example of a multi-syllable word?'
RALPHY says 'Mas-tur-bate..'
Miss Rogers smiles and says, 'Wow, little RALPHY, that's a mouthful.'
Little RALPHY says, 'No, Miss Rogers, you're thinking of a blowjob.'
LITTLE RALPHY ON GRAMMAR
One day, during lessons on proper grammar, the teacher asked for a show of hands from those who could use the word 'beautiful' in the same sentence twice.
First, she called on little Suzie, who responded with, 'My father bought my mother a beautiful dress and she looked beautiful in it.'
'Very good, Suzie,' replied the teacher.
She then called on little Michael.
'My mummy planned a beautiful banquet and it turned out beautifully.'
She said, 'Excellent, Michael!'
Then the teacher reluctantly called on little RALPHY.
'Last night at the dinner table, my sister told my father that she was pregnant, and he said 'Beautiful, just fucking beautiful!''
LITTLE RALPHY ON GETTING OLDER
Little RALPHY was sitting on a park bench munching on one candy bar after another.
After the 6th one a man on the bench across from him said, 'Son, you know eating all that candy isn't good for you. It will give you acne, rot your teeth, and make you fat.'
Little RALPHY replied, 'My grandfather lived to be 107 years old.'
The man asked, 'Did your grandfather eat 6 candy bars at a time?'
Little RALPHY answered, 'No, he minded his own fucking business.
I LOVE Little RALPHY!!!!!
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Ladislao Kertesz at kertesz11@yahoo.com,
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Photos:
Mount Inside 6404 page 01
66KM0003GRP, Fr.Cuthbert and Kitty Marcus in Mass, St.Bede´s Hall
11SC5562SCOGRP, Pedro Coscarart, Srkis Farchak, Salvador Coscarart
60UN0005StANTHONY, St. Anthony at it´s best marching and winning.
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