Newsletter for Alumni of The Abbey School, Mt. St. Benedict, Trinidad and Tobago, W.I.
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Dear Friends,
Here is a wonderful idea from Don Mitchell and friends.
Please read their interchange:
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From: "Blogger Invites" <no-reply@blogger.com>
Subject: Blogger blog invitation from Don Mitchell CBE QC
Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2006 18:38:03 -0800 (PST)
Don Mitchell CBE QC wrote:
I have now posted Nos 218, 219, and 220 on this Blogger site for you to see how they look.
All the best,
Don
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Thanks!
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From: "Jon Golding" <jongolding@tstt.net.tt>
To: "Don Mitchell CBE, QC" <idmitch@anguillanet.com>
Subject: Re: Mount Website
Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2006 17:08:49 -0500
Don,
Bravo! Good work following this up!
I have several additional photos for posting when you are ready. A great one of Father Francis conducting the Prep A choir in about 1956 with all the usual suspects looking innocent - but we know better!
By the way Fr Francis died recently.
I have a good article in the TT Catholic News which I can scan and send in.
Regards
Jon
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From: "Don Mitchell CBE, QC" <idmitch@anguillanet.com>
To: "David E. Bratt" <dbratt@trinidad.net>
Subject: Mount Website
Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2006 17:26:15 -0400
We can start a brand new free website at no cost to us if we use one of the free hosters such as Google Groups or Blogger. They are idiot-proof and any one of us with the capacity to press a keyboard key could run it [it only took me a year to learn!!].
Of course, they are not as fancy as on of the professionally designed ones that we had before.
The pain would be posting all the pages all over again.
Fortunately, I expected this to happen, and saved them all on my computer.
So, at least we have the data saved.
I am sure many of the others did the same!
Don
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From: David E. Bratt
Sent: Wednesday, February 08, 2006 4:37 PM
Subject: Re: Mount Website
What does it take to start from scratch?
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From: Don Mitchell CBE, QC
From: "Don Mitchell CBE, QC" <idmitch@anguillanet.com>
To: "David E. Bratt MD" <dbratt@trinidad.net>
Subject: Mount Website
Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2006 15:56:25 -0400
Hello David,
No, I cannot take over the site as I do not have rights.
A stranger cannot come into the picture and take over someone else's website.
I do not know if anyone even knows who has the rights.
Tony Johnson started it, then de Marothy was going to take it over from him.
But, he never told us if he succeeded.
Some changes were made to the site after he said he would take it over, but only minor ones on the home page, on one occasion several years ago, and then nothing.
I am afraid that in the event that whoever has control will not do anything to rescue the site, we must prepare to start from scratch.
For Ladislao's Circulars, I have added the photos to the blog [now that I have found an easy way to do so].
I have only posted the last No 220, and it has the full circular.
It can be viewed at: http://msbtunapuna.blogspot.com/
I can easily post any others that might usefully be posted.
Don
(Maroth de Marothy has all the WEB´s information as he is the last Webmaster and did pay for the hosting. Ed.)
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From: David E. Bratt MD
Cc: David
Sent: Wednesday, February 08, 2006 2:48 PM
Subject: RE: Mount Website
Can YOU restart it?
I will contribute financially or otherwise if needed,
Dave
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From: "Don Mitchell CBE, QC" <idmitch@anguillanet.com>
Subject: Mount Website
Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2006 09:10:12 -0400
I don't know if anyone noticed.
I attempted to visit the long-dormant Mount website, and found the following message:
"This domain name expired on 01/28/2006 and is pending renewal or deletion."
What a shame!!
Any suggestions?
I am trying to redo the blog site that I started some time ago, but had given up on.
Ladislao's latest Circular is posted on it.
It is at: http://msbtunapuna.blogspot.com/
We must be able to get Ladislao to easily post his Circulars on one site and have everyone visit at their own convenience and download the message and photos or just read it on the site, as they wish.
He could put many more photos up with each message that way.
There would be no limit to how long each post could be.
Best of all, Ladislao would only have to co-ordinate writing the thing, and would not also have to worry about posting it out to us.
Mind you, I would like to think that he has a patient assistant who does all the boring work!
All the best,
Don
(Sorry, Don, I do the work from scratch to the mailing. Ed.)
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From: Art & Val Knaggs <av_knaggs@hotmail.com>
Sent: Thursday, November 3, 2005 8:22 PM
To: mikeandval@dsl.pipex.com
Subject: Mount Old
Dearest Mike & Val,
Roses (Knaggs) Eckel and I have been exchanging adventures, and she mentioned crossing your paths recently, so I took the liberty of scrounging your e-mail address from her.
Time flies, and here we are in the Autumn of our youth still ploughing along on our fabulous journey of life, and really savouring (as best we can) every moment, and every step of the way.
Every day is not always good day, yet life's voyage is a blend of attitude, aptitude and balance, with a sprinkling of laughter and good humour, and saturated in love and caring (always with our eyes and hearts lifted up towards He who guides us).
As I reflect on those wondrous days at the Mount, I seem to remember a nick name like "Donkey mane" and guess it came from the length of your hair (and no other extremity.
Don't know if you are aware (all the way up in the frozen North Sea, Aberdeen) but the younger generation have taken over the Olympic Easter Candle of the Abbey School, and have continued the race of drawing together and binding the various Years of Scholastic Wisdom, by putting out a weekly Bulletin which covers the goings-on of all the past students they can wrangle together.
Ladislao Kertesz of Venezuela, heads the group of enthusiasts working on this project, and I have taken the liberty of passing on your name so that you can be involved as a recipient of the various individuals that shared the spirit and wonder of the Monastery and the lives of the fabulous Priests and Brothers who dedicated their time, talent and treasure in moulding us into what we have become today.
If you can spare a few moments to update us on a brief synopsis of your journey, it would be a fantastic contribution to all those exposed to it I am sure.
I was at Mount from 1944 to 1949, and am retired now for about 8 years, having moved to Canada
We have 6 off-spring, in our alphabetical way, A, B and C are in our area of Nova Scotia; D is in New Brunswick; E is in Sheffield, England; and F is in Tobago (her Husband Iain Mac Kinnon is with High Ropes and works on the Offshore Rigs in the North Sea (or whereever else they send him).
We have 9 Grans and another on the way; and love the snow (especially when we leave it and venture down to the W.I.
So do drop us a line, and if there are any other Old Boys hovering around your area, please 'sook' me onto them so we can make contact.
Just got hold of Vitalis Gomes, Earl Kayne, and the younger Tyrone Soodeen, along with Trevor Evelyn (who is computer challenged - so no e-mail).
Love to Val, and look forward to hearing from you.
Love and fondest regards,
Art & Val
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REMEMBER TO PAY YOUR DUE, 50 WORDS PER YEAR, OR SEND A CHECK preferably from any U.S. Bank, to my address:
Ladislao Kertesz
Apartado 69072
Caracas 1062A Venezuela
For those that prefer this way to cooperate with the Circular and the expense that this generates. It is 52 issues per year.
God Bless
Ladislao
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Photos in this issue:
2004LK0001HAHPLC, Hector Ahow, in Puerto La Cruz.
1954UN0001EDIMSB, Shop.
2002UN0001FHIGRPMBA, Fr.Hilderbrand Greene and Bro. Paschal.
2004UN0001CFEUSF, Chritopher Ferguson 2004
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1 comment:
Try clicking on one of the photos to enlarge it.
Don
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