Saturday, October 15, 2005

Circular No 206



Newsletter for past alumni of The Abbey School, Mt. St. Benedict, Trinidad and Tobago, W.I.
Caracas, 15 October 2005. Circular No. 206
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Dear Friends,
Here is a sad note from Anthony Vieira:
Date: Sun, 09 Oct 2005 19:45:32 -0400
To: "Don Mitchell, QC" <idmitch@anguillanet.com>
From: "Tony Vieira" tandjv@networksgy.com
Hi Guys,
My father died on Thursday 6th October 2005, he was 85.
Did anyone hear from Michael "Joe" Azar?
Tony.
(Heard that he is all right but no email from his hand has been received to confirm. Ed.)
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Here is another oldboy that has paid his dues, Thank you, thanks for the written 50 words and the USD 75.00:
From: Baknal@aol.com
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 12:23:58 EDT
Ladislao,
The answer is "yes"
Here are a few lines:
Graduated from MSB in 1964 (I think).
Studied in England from 1966 to 1973 (took the scenic route!).
Obtained ONC, HNC and BSc in EE from Stratford Tech and the University of Manchester.
Worked one year in England after graduating (military communications).
Obtained scholarship at the California Institute of Technology for PhD but decided to leave for industry (after obtaining an MSEE) for industry.
Engineering director at Compaq Computer (now HP) for 14yrs in the field of switching power supplies.
Presently VP Tech Marketing/ USA Sales for Liteon (Taiwan), Power Supply Division, for the last 5/ 6 years.
Spent a couple years at CARIRI in Trinidad and came back to the states, Bay area (Silicon Valley), Austin, Dallas and then Houston.
That's it in a nutshell!......all the best,
Howard.
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From: "Csaba Jakobszen" csabajakobszen@yahoo.es
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 13:47:31 +0200
Hello Ladislao,
Concerning your Circular No. 200, on my part the answer is YEAH, please keep the circular with the photos.
As far as my resume is concerns it is as follows:
Graduation at MSB with Cambridge School Certificate, 1st Grade, in December 1957.
1958 - 1963 Studies at Saint Mary´s University in Halifax Nova Scotia, Graduation with Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) with concentration on Physics and Chemistry.
1964 - 1965 First year of the Master of Business Administration (M.B.A) equivalent to Diploma in Management at University of Windsor, in Windsor, Ontario, Canada.
1965- 1975 Sales Management jobs for companies in Venezuela (GE, Cartones de Venezuela, Hoechst Remedia S.A,).
1975 June Moved to Germany with the company (Hoechst)
1975 - 1978 Sales Employee of HOECHST AG in Frankfurt
1978 -1986 On my own in the Export-Import Business
1986-1994 Export Manager of IBERO Anlagentechnik, an engineering company engaged in waste-water treatment plants and fish farms
1995 -2003 Credit Control Manager of "Eurodis Microdis Electronics" for Eastern Europe Limburgerhof, Germany.
2003 June: Moved to Spain for good, (next to Valencia) and I am happily married and happily retired. Three children, Gabor, (34) (living in Hungary and getting married next week) and Peter 32 and Christine 27 (married, 1 son)
God bless you and please keep up the good work also in the future.
Un abrazo
Csaba
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From: "Nigel Boos"
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 18:18:51 -0400
YEAH, Ladislao, YEAH, YEAH, YEAH!!
I sent a whole bunch of lines about a month ago. Do they count?
Nigel
(Yes, Nigel, it counts, thanks. Ed.)
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Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 10:33:10 -0700
From: "Sherry Lloyd" < sherryl@sfu.ca >
Hello;
Yes, I would like to continue receiving the circulars.
Thank you.
Sherry Lloyd
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Subject: Estamos bien= We are okey .
Date: 9/28/2005 8:24:23 AM
We are okey and safe . Salvador .
Estamos bien y saludables .
Salvador.
Hurricane RITA made a lot of destruction in south western Louisiana.
El huracan Rita hizo mucha destruccion aqui en el suroeste de louisiana .
God bless .
Bendicion .
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Subject: Re: Fw: Ref: Ferguson brothers
Date: 7/26/2005 4:56:32 PM
traducir
Hola Ladislao,
Espero que todos esten bien por venezuela.
Acabo de regresar de mi viaje a EUSKADI (EspaƱa).
Fui por 21 dias y me fue de maravilla.
Mis telefonos son los siguientes : (337) 668-4595 Home. / cellullar 337-319-6058. Office :337-837-4230.
My address : salvador coscarart 1746 Hwy 356 Sunset La 70584 USA.
Bueno hasta pronto saludos
salvador.
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Anyone want to give it a try? I have only the phone number and address:
Da Costa Simon D P
4 Seaside Ave Waterview Auckland
0-9-828 5474
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From: Tony Vieira
Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2005 10:22 PM
Subject: Re: Class of 1964
Don, Edward, Lazslo Howard,
I am in Guyana, preparing to launch the political party on the 24th October for next year's general elections, so I may not even go to the US in October this year as I usually do.
I may go with the Guys to raise money in New York and Toronto for the Campaign, but no more holidays this year.
Glad the hurricane missed you, so sad that the previous one did so much damage to the people of Louisiana! do you know that Georgetown the capital city of Guyana and most of the coastal plain where 90 percent of our population live is also below sea level.
Earlier this year 24.66 inches of rain fell in 5 days!! from the 14th January to the 18th January 2005 we were flooded in 6 feet of water for nearly two months 13 people died from Leptospirosis and other medical complications billions [guyana dollars] in property was also lost.
As my gardener Fazal would say "everybody getting it good boss!"
Portland, Oregon? You are wide afield Howard what are you doing there?
Are you close to Michael Azar, the guy seems to have dropped off the planet! no one has been able to raise him.
The last telephone number I have for him is 503-254-4101 give him a tinkle if you have the time.................
whilst I was writing this to you I said to myself, what the hell I may as well call the guy myself, so I called his number it has been disconnected, Joe's silence now takes on a sinister aspect.
Is anyone in contact with the Michael Azar? the last time i spoke to him he was not well guys, so lets find out what happened shall we?
Does anyone know how to contact the real Big Joe in Trinidad?
he's the older brother that owns the Mall near Port of Spain.
I ran into him patrolling his empire in his Mercedes last year when on a visit to T&T.
It was a hilarious encounter, I saw him and I recognised him right away since, I used to see him working at Joseph's arcade when I went to town with Michael on Saturday's, so I asked him what he was doing patrolling the place, I even accused him of stalking some woman or the other since during the time when I was waiting for my wife [a notorious shopper] I saw him drive by several times looking around, he laughed and told me that he was actually working since he owned the place and he was inspecting it.
Tony
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Tony,
Good hearing from you!
Houston fortunately was on the "good" side of Rita and sustained relatively little damage.
"Bacchanal" survived as well, estimated sustained winds in the marina was about 65 MPH...
the biggest impact to the Houston area is gasoline shortages, electricity outages daily as they balance the load (since capacity was lost) and finally, traffic...it'll take a couple more weeks to recover....
Are you in Guyana or US at present?
All the best,
Howard in Portland.
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In a message dated 9/28/2005 12:16:40 AM Central Daylight Time,
Subj: Re: Class of 1964
Date: 9/28/2005 12:16:40 AM Central Daylight Time
Cheers Howard,
I was asking Edward Lloyd if he had heard from you and how you fared in the hurricanes with that monster boat of yours?
Glad to hear that you're OK.
Tony
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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
Photo: Howard Ho´s boat, Tonys boat with Francis Alleyne and Fr. Hilderbrand Green
Look us up at http://www.theabbeyschool.com, an all class msb web site.
Look at www.paxabbey.com, for information on the Monastery, Mt St. Benedict.
For those that want to communicate with the web, use, webmaster@theabbeyschool.com,.
You can also get there by going to the Home Page: http://jgioannettiphotography.com/ Then going to the Extreme Sports Section
John
Send information to: Ladislaokertesz@hotmail.com, if you would like to be in the circular’s mailing list or any old boy that you would like to include. Telf. 0 (212) 263.5346 Caracas.
Use kaviacion@cantv.net, or kertesz11@yahoo.com, for photos as I leave enough storage space for these.


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