Newsletter for
alumni of The Abbey School, Mt. St. Benedict, Trinidad and Tobago, W.I.
Caracas,
25 of Julio 2020 No. 977
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Dear Friends,
Need articles, please Glen, do your part.
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Robtrini Robert MacLean
Fri, 31 Jul 2020, 17:06
(9 days ago)
This is great catching up great job
CIRCULAR.
Robert
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Some
information on our classmates,
Desmond Lange
With his highly developed business acumen
and broad industry experience gained from a range of senior appointments within
the international oil and gas and associated sectors, Esmond Lange brings an
informed and worldly quality to the Curtin Growth Syndicate.
Born in Trinidad, Esmond was educated in
England prior to his return to Trinidad in 1963 where he worked in the Drilling
and Production unit of Texaco Trinidad Inc.
Six years later he joined Dowell
Schlumberger and there ensued a 24 year career with assignments in Africa.,
South America, Australia, Europe and Asia culminating in Division Manager roles
in East Asia and the An countries.
ln 1993 Esmond joined EMAIL Metals in
Singapore as Regional Manager, Asia Pacific with the remit to consolidate and expand
operations throughout the region.
A return to Australia in 1995 saw Esmond
take up various Board and Advisor to the Board positions in the oil and gas
sector with his focus on planning and implementing corporate strategy, growth
and diversification.
In 2002 Esmond founded Sounding Board
Australia to provide mentoring and advisory services to senior executives of
listed companies, as well as to owners of SMEs.
Esmond's ability to bring complex issues
back to basic principles coupled with high integrity and his non-threatening
way of challenging the status quo helped SMEs develop innovative strategies
that improve performance and deliver better returns.
Esmond brings pragmatism, practical
experience and a large network of contacts - all combined to help his clients
navigate through strategic planning, restructuring, product, marketing and
capitalisation initiatives,
He recognises that people (both owners and
employees) are the cornerstone of any business and considers the whole of
person (personal, spiritual, health) when mentoring in a work context.
His ability to challenge work teams to
remain grounded yet setting the bar high enabled many organisations to achieve
and sustain peak performance.
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Hi Esmond,
Don must have written to you on how the
Circular is been distributed.
Yes, I have reduced the mailing of the
Circular to those who contribute with a subscription to help to differ the
costs of producing the Newsletter.
The cost is 52 usd, for a year, because
it is at least 52 issues, without counting some extra issues when needed.
I am working on issue 950, and hope to
reach 1000. God willing.
Here in Venezuela our financial
conditions are dire. the socialist regime has reduced the minimum salary to 5
usd a month, and this is what I get from my retirement fund, hahaha
Here in Venezuela there are13 oldboys
who receive donations from the school´s association in Trinidad. These
donations are managed by Joe Berment and George Mickiewicz, so it is sad and
true.
Hope that the fires in Australia did not
affect you too much, wonder what can be done in the future to prevent them?
We have a couple of old boys that live
in Australia and I have lost contact with them, can you help??
God Bless
Ladislao
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From: Esmond
Lange <esmond@soundingboardaustralia.com.au>
Date: Sunday,
19 January 2020 at 19:34
Subject: MSB
Old Boys newsletter
Ladislao,
For some reason I seem to have dropped
off your radar/mailing list as have not received anything for quite some time.
However, I have been sent the latest one
by my brother in law Leary O’Connor and in it I see you (and maybe others) have
a yahoo email address.
My server, which is US based, has an
ongoing conflict with yahoo and therefore no emails transiting through yahoo
are able to get through to me and me to them – they say they are working on
solving it but I am not holding my breath!!
In the meantime, can you or anyone
trying to get in touch with me please use my work email address which is the
one I am using for this email.
Thanks and very best regards and a Happy
and Prosperous 2020
Esmond J.
Lange
Managing
Director
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Recycling Old Posts
Another page in the calendar, this time
to start the first day of the year 2005.
We are still here and hope you can
accompany me with news throughout the year.
I hope that this year would bring lots
of prosperity and health to you all.
Remember, those with check books, it is
2005!!!. Those who do not write checks, no problem, cash is accepted everywhere
and the date is not a matter of importance.
Those with no cash in/out of the bank
should not bother with the above warning.
Just as I did last year I am going to
try to recall one of the yearly events that happened at the Mount, I recall the
large grasshoppers that arrived in the evening during January every year; these
were green with orange coloured, size of a hand.
We used to kick them once they settled
on the ground and run to avoid being jumped.
I always found them rather disgusting
because you never knew where they would land.
There were those that would try to hold
them by their hind legs (Goddards?) and in the process get cut with the sharp
leg barbs.
It is interesting that they would arrive
by nightfall and next day they would disappear,
I suppose they looked for the lights.
The invasion lasted about three days.
Maybe someone else has observed these
creatures and would confirm???.
(I have included a photo of the
creature, ed.)
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Again, various email received, maybe in February I
shall be up to date???
Do not forget your Dues!!
Here is part of the emails sent in by the
De Verteuil´s Richard who went to our school in the period of 1949 to 1951.
This brings in a question, was there
another Richard de Verteuil, in the 1960´s???
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From:
Richard de Verteuil 1949-1951<ashl03@dsl.pipex.com>
Sent:
Wednesday, February 25, 2004 9:13 PM
I left school in 1959 in England and
went to University in Birmingham;
I would probably have left Mount a year
earlier.
By 1966 I was married with two
daughters!
Richard
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Original Message --------------------------------------
From: Ladislao Kertesz
Sent: Tuesday,
February 24, 2004 12:00 AM
Ok Richard.
I am sorry but I do not have the date
you graduated or would have graduated Form V.
Only those in the list were sent the
message.
Please give me the graduation date at
MSB or elsewhere.
God Bless
Ladislao
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From:
"Richard de Verteuil" 1949-1951
Date: Mon,
23 Feb 2004 18:23:46 -0000
Dear Ladislao,
A very interesting picture, but in 1966
I was 25 years old!!
Please make sure that the email address
does not get mistakenly promulgated as I do not want to spend much time telling
people I don't know them!!
Thanks a lot,
Richard de Verteuil
1949-1951
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From: Chris Knowles
To: Me London
Subject: Greetings for 2005.
Date: 1/4/2005 7:16:47 AM
Dear Family and Friends,
Greetings for 2005.
2004 has been an eventful year for me.
A short holiday in Normandy for the
Bastille Day week with my old friend Alfred Bell.
Two visits to Trinidad (with one side
trip to Tobago).
A visit to Toronto with my sister
Frances.
And two weeks driving around southern
England with Frances, who had not been here since the Sixties, seeing the
sights and visiting family and friends, one of whom counted as several people
because of a multiple personality scenario.
Very interesting, that one, if you can
imagine the situation(s)!
The main reason for having all this free
time is that at the end of September I retired from my employment of the last
fifteen years with Tate and Lyle, the British sugar company.
And for better or worse (time will tell)
have been travelling and chilling out.
Now that 2005 is here it is time to get
a new job and do productive things, so I have already signed up to do a course
in Industrial Safety etc, a topic which is my latest interest, and is part of
my experience over many years past.
In June, Cindy finished her degree at LSE
and within days of the final exams was back home in Trinidad, such is the lure
of the place!
She is working there at the moment, but
may be returning to this country some time this year to work in this
environment for a time.
Charles is nearly mid way through his
undergraduate degree here, and doing well.
To you all, and all others who you know
that I know and can pass this message to, especially Aunts Suzanne and Mille,
and also Lisa, I send from the three of us our Greetings, and our wish that you
and yours have had a Happy Christmas and will enjoy a Prosperous and Untroubled
2005.
With Love,
Christopher.
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From: Chris
Knowles <knowlescb@hotmail.com>
Date: February 13, 2008
7:58:35 PM GMT-05:00
Dear Nigel,
In spite of what I wrote below, I have
always received Ladislao's Circulars on my non hotmail address, by choice
(easier for me to file - computers and I have always had a weird non
symbiosis).
I did let him have my flowtrinidad
details last year, but for some reason he still sends stuff to my soon to be
terminated address.
The last one, No 323, was received on
Jan 13. I think that am in a confusion as to how to contact him, and I would
really appreciate it if you could let me know his best contact address.
My regards to Jackie. Was it not about
37 years ago, yikes!, that she introduced me to artificial pseudofood? I
remember that it tasted fine. Time flies.
All the Best,
CBK.
ps: I am back in T&T since ~ September.
That should explain my recent address adventures!
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From: nigelboos@yahoo.ca
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008
23:44:32 -0500
Dear Chris,
How nice to hear from you. I hope you're
keeping well.
I have no idea where you live these
days, but Jackie has always told me how much of a support you were to her many
years ago, when she lived and was studying in the UK - for which I sincerely
thank you.
Now, I understand and appreciate your
need to keep certain email addresses confidential.
However, I would appreciate if you would
kindly let me know exactly WHICH one you would like me to publish on the MSB
Old Boys' Database.
Thanks for your kind contribution.
Nigel
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On 11-Feb-08, at 9:11
PM, Chris Knowles wrote:
Dear Alan and Nigel,
You have my correct email address!
Nigel, this flowtrinidad address is what
I use for swapping jokes, contact with family and certain friends etc. and I
would appreciate it if it does NOT get into the MSB contact lists generally,
although my Trini connections past and present have already blurred the separation.
Que sera, etc.
If and when I see any of the 58 non
respondents (Tilson is one that I do see), I will get current contact
details.
God Bless,
CBK.
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EDITED by Ladislao Kertesz, kertesz11@yahoo.com, if you would like to be in the circular’s mailing list or any
old boy that you would like to include.
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Photos:
59LK0012GH, Grasshopper at mount
13LK3767FBLCH, Leonardo Chacin
65LK1553FBMFADPH, Michael Farah and Derek Philipps
09LK5850FBRLEWFE, Robert MacLean
