Newsletter for past alumni of The Abbey School, Mt. St. Benedict, Trinidad and Tobago, W.I.
Caracas, 14 of May 2005. Circular No. 184------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Dear Friends,
Instead of sending out a copy of O.A.S.I.S. Bull, I am going to send you a photo of a reunion that took place in Barbados just a few weeks ago:
From: Elizabeth Ince
Subject: Mount Boys
Date: 5/1/2005 8:56:36 PM
Dear Ladislao,
Further to my email earlier today with photos, here with approximate years of attendance at Mount:
(Photographs taken at my home when Jack and Arthur visited Barbados recently.
LEFT TO RIGHT (PHOTOS)
CECIL INCE - 1948/49
SCIPIO SOODEEN - 1946/51
JACK KNAGGS - 1945/47
ARTHUR KNAGGS - 1945/51
CECIL INCE
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From: Elizabeth Ince
Date: 4/11/2005 2:53:51 PM
Dear Ladislao,
Yes, receiving your circulars but have been travelling the islands a bit.
Forgive my silence.
I want to remit some funds to you.
Would US $100 be adequate - please advice as not sure of costs and your personal effort is not measurable in dollars.
Caracas, 14 of May 2005. Circular No. 184------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Dear Friends,
Instead of sending out a copy of O.A.S.I.S. Bull, I am going to send you a photo of a reunion that took place in Barbados just a few weeks ago:
From: Elizabeth Ince
Subject: Mount Boys
Date: 5/1/2005 8:56:36 PM
Dear Ladislao,
Further to my email earlier today with photos, here with approximate years of attendance at Mount:
(Photographs taken at my home when Jack and Arthur visited Barbados recently.
LEFT TO RIGHT (PHOTOS)
CECIL INCE - 1948/49
SCIPIO SOODEEN - 1946/51
JACK KNAGGS - 1945/47
ARTHUR KNAGGS - 1945/51
CECIL INCE
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From: Elizabeth Ince
Date: 4/11/2005 2:53:51 PM
Dear Ladislao,
Yes, receiving your circulars but have been travelling the islands a bit.
Forgive my silence.
I want to remit some funds to you.
Would US $100 be adequate - please advice as not sure of costs and your personal effort is not measurable in dollars.
(Thank your for the check which shall be put to good use. Ed)
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Dear Las,
Enclosed as promised USD 100.oo.
I telephoned Paul Carrington, who is now retired.
He sends his best wishes.
After a bout with a heart problem last year, he is keeping very well.
All for now
Cecil
Do you know what this means UIOGD??
P.S. Ut In Omnibus Gratia Dei.
In my years (48 + 49) we had to head each written page with PAX (Pease) and end with UIOGD
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MAURICE CORREIA says he received your e-mail but apologies for his silence - he started the term after College opened - thinks 1946.
He e-mail is correm@sunbeach.net
He may need pushing a bit.
CLIVE's telephone - 34968-537082 and his address is
APTDO 13
LA MANGA CLUB
30385 - LOS BELONES
MURCIA
SPAIN
Two weeks ago, Arthur and Jack KNAGGS and their wives were visiting Barbados - had them around to our home for dinner along with SCIPIO SOODEEN plus Clive's sister Terry Foster and husband Tony.
We telephoned TREVOR EVELYN at his home in Canada, so as to include him in spirit.
Took some photos - will send soon.
Looking forward to hearing from you.
Sincerely
CECIL INCE
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From: Elizabeth Ince
Date: 10/25/2004 10:57:44 PM
Dear Las,
Scipio's e-mail which we seem to have omitted is soodeen@caribsurf.com - you can reach Stephen Tempro at
Date: 28 Apr 08:37 (PDT)
DEAR LAS,
I used to be one of the recipients of Arthur Knaggs - oasis - I really enjoyed reading the exchanges on the history of the takeover by yourself.
Arthur, as has been said, deserves a lot of praise for his efforts.
Jack Knaggs lives in Tobago with occasional trips to Barbados to visit his daughter Eve who is married and lives two houses west of me.
His Tobago telephone is 868 639 6284 and his cell is 760 9795.
All for now - continue to enjoy your reports and hope some of my l948/49 contemporaries begin to surface.
CECIL INCE
(Just wonder if this time Jack Knaggs would like to get the Circular?, ed.)
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"Cecil & Liz Ince"
Date: 10 Mar 15:08 (PST)
Dear Laszlo,
Richard de Verteuils recollection of the Boy Scouts from Mount in Arima 1948 - 56 years ago.
I actually lived opposite Lord Harris' Square where the group stayed under tents (I think).
I spent a lot of time with the boys I knew - ALAIN DEVAUX (Raymonds younger brother) - Arima was then a quiet town so the invasion of school friends (I was a day boy) from Mount was a great interlude.
My recollection of Father Ildephonse - he expelled me from his History classes - I just could not grasp the subject due to a rather sketchy earlier education.
In my more mature years, I developed a great love for the subject in general - a bit of irony.
I wrote to 'SCROOTS' in the early 80's for some special occasion in his life, and he replied saying that he had not been a contented person, for most of his life and that it was only in the late 60's to early 70's that he had found the Lord.
So we reconciled any hard feelings of my youth and his History classes.
Father BERNARD VLAAR, just weeks before he died, visited Barbados and for the first time, he and I spoke as adults - he said that the original objective of the Mount was to cater to a select elite group of boys.
I was only a day boy from Arima - one of about nine or ten day boys - inference was that we were seen then as rather second class citizens - a bit of tokenism to the community on Mounts part.
So of course, my achieving the Cambridge Exams of l949 at First Grade was significant in my life.
NOEL LLANOS was l948 - brilliant boy (I think 14) and he gained 1st Grade and was awarded the JERNINGHAM Medal for his outstanding marks.
I called PETER BOOS - he was there l954-55 and says he hears from you.
I tried STEPHEN TEMPRO who runs Smugglers Cove, a hotel on our West Coast (Payne's Bay) but got no reply.
SCIPIO SOODEEN lives 3 houses East of me - we became very friendly over the past several years - he celebrated his 72nd birthday some weeks ago.
One of his daughters, NEYSHA, publishes from Trinidad - a highly successful glossy magazine called MACO - covers architecture and some culinary fancies indigenous to the Caribbean.
RICHARD DRIVER is a cousin of mine and lives somewhere on the West Coast of Canada.
My telephone number is 246-427-752l - my fax at home is 246-228-l8l0.
JOHN DULIEU lives in St. Lucia - as per my last contact some years ago - sorry I cannot help more on him.
Years, ago, he and his family lived several houses East of me on the same ridge when he was a Captain with the airline LIAT.
Regret, I do not have any class photos - but my Form Four classmates (and most moved up to Form Five - with some who were in Form Five doing a repeat year.
ANGUS FRASER (studied for the Priesthood and was last heard of somewhere in Africa)
LOUIS ACHE, SCIPIO SOODEEN, TREVOR EVELYN (lives in Canada but we are in occasional phone contact)
HAMIL MARCELIN, FATHER VINCENT COMPTON (then a Seminarian)
GERALD FARINHA (from then British Guiana) - aborted his Seminarian studies when last I saw him over 30 years ago
SYDNEY RAYMOND ( I think now a Priest) รข€“
RAYMOND DE VAUX, RAYMOND 'FRENCHIE' VIVIES (Guadeloupe - where he became a Prefect in Government).
ANTHONY INKIM (also from Arima).
I do not recall if there were others.
Our Masters were DOM BASIL MATHEWS, former was English Literature
FATHER ILDEPHONSE, Geography and History.
FATHER PAUL, Math
FATHER LEO, Latin,
FATHER CHYSOSTOM LEE SING - French and Spanish.
All for now - congrats on your superb effort to cement the group of yesteryears.
P.S. On February l5th - I spent one night at the Mount Guest House - Room #l4 - overlooking the airport and what has become a tapestry of colourful lights after sunset - sat on the bench which we used as day boys waiting for our Abbey Bus - some of my friends in that group were FRANKSIE COOK, IAN LEE KAM (Guinea was his nickname) - ARCHIE DIDIER and ANTHONY INKIM (the three of us usually came to Tunapuna from Arima on the same bus) - DESMOND BRUNTON (brunts) - PHILLIP (PIP) VIRE who were also in my class
I was unable to get into the College on this visit.
CECIL INCE
(Dear readers: need help with the above old boys. Ed.)
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De: "Cecil & Liz Ince"
Fecha: 14 Jan 11:20 (PST)
Dear Ladislao,
I have been receiving your e-mails regularly.
While I am interested to read them I belong to the l948/49 years - as a day-boy from ARIMA where I lived.
I went to work at l6 at Huggins & Co - as an office boy.
After two years, I joined BWIA - transferring to Jamaica l954 - Barbados where I have lived since l956 - with a transfer to Guyana and Antigua during l965-68.
Arthur Knaggs persevered for years with another newsletter - OASIS - but I think he eventually gave up some years ago.
I could supply, from Memory, some names of my contemporaries at Mount.
PAX/UIOGD.
Sincerely
CECIL
IP.S. In l969, I joined a small Travel Company here of which I was part owner.
Since then the Company - Foster & Ince and its associates have grown nicely.
I am retired (2001) but stayed on as Chairman in what is now a fairly substantial service supplier to cruise ships.
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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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Photo: Reunion Barbados
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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
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.
Please note: you may have missed some of the circulars, if you have not received one every week, do not hesitate to ask for the missing number to idmitch@anguillanet.com
For those that would like to contact me here I include my telephones:
Telf.Office: 58 (212) 263.5346, 267.2416, From: 11:00GMT to 22:00GMT
FAX: 58 (212) 261.0829,
Home: 58 (212) 238.4084. From: 00:00 GMT to 04:00 GMT
Cellphone: +58 (0416) 612.5695
Remember that Venezuela's time is the same as Trinidad's, -04:00 GMT.
__________________________________________________________________
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Dear Las,
Enclosed as promised USD 100.oo.
I telephoned Paul Carrington, who is now retired.
He sends his best wishes.
After a bout with a heart problem last year, he is keeping very well.
All for now
Cecil
Do you know what this means UIOGD??
P.S. Ut In Omnibus Gratia Dei.
In my years (48 + 49) we had to head each written page with PAX (Pease) and end with UIOGD
----------------------------------------------------------------------
MAURICE CORREIA says he received your e-mail but apologies for his silence - he started the term after College opened - thinks 1946.
He e-mail is correm@sunbeach.net
He may need pushing a bit.
CLIVE's telephone - 34968-537082 and his address is
APTDO 13
LA MANGA CLUB
30385 - LOS BELONES
MURCIA
SPAIN
Two weeks ago, Arthur and Jack KNAGGS and their wives were visiting Barbados - had them around to our home for dinner along with SCIPIO SOODEEN plus Clive's sister Terry Foster and husband Tony.
We telephoned TREVOR EVELYN at his home in Canada, so as to include him in spirit.
Took some photos - will send soon.
Looking forward to hearing from you.
Sincerely
CECIL INCE
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
From: Elizabeth Ince
Date: 10/25/2004 10:57:44 PM
Dear Las,
Scipio's e-mail which we seem to have omitted is soodeen@caribsurf.com - you can reach Stephen Tempro at
Date: 28 Apr 08:37 (PDT)
DEAR LAS,
I used to be one of the recipients of Arthur Knaggs - oasis - I really enjoyed reading the exchanges on the history of the takeover by yourself.
Arthur, as has been said, deserves a lot of praise for his efforts.
Jack Knaggs lives in Tobago with occasional trips to Barbados to visit his daughter Eve who is married and lives two houses west of me.
His Tobago telephone is 868 639 6284 and his cell is 760 9795.
All for now - continue to enjoy your reports and hope some of my l948/49 contemporaries begin to surface.
CECIL INCE
(Just wonder if this time Jack Knaggs would like to get the Circular?, ed.)
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
"Cecil & Liz Ince"
Date: 10 Mar 15:08 (PST)
Dear Laszlo,
Richard de Verteuils recollection of the Boy Scouts from Mount in Arima 1948 - 56 years ago.
I actually lived opposite Lord Harris' Square where the group stayed under tents (I think).
I spent a lot of time with the boys I knew - ALAIN DEVAUX (Raymonds younger brother) - Arima was then a quiet town so the invasion of school friends (I was a day boy) from Mount was a great interlude.
My recollection of Father Ildephonse - he expelled me from his History classes - I just could not grasp the subject due to a rather sketchy earlier education.
In my more mature years, I developed a great love for the subject in general - a bit of irony.
I wrote to 'SCROOTS' in the early 80's for some special occasion in his life, and he replied saying that he had not been a contented person, for most of his life and that it was only in the late 60's to early 70's that he had found the Lord.
So we reconciled any hard feelings of my youth and his History classes.
Father BERNARD VLAAR, just weeks before he died, visited Barbados and for the first time, he and I spoke as adults - he said that the original objective of the Mount was to cater to a select elite group of boys.
I was only a day boy from Arima - one of about nine or ten day boys - inference was that we were seen then as rather second class citizens - a bit of tokenism to the community on Mounts part.
So of course, my achieving the Cambridge Exams of l949 at First Grade was significant in my life.
NOEL LLANOS was l948 - brilliant boy (I think 14) and he gained 1st Grade and was awarded the JERNINGHAM Medal for his outstanding marks.
I called PETER BOOS - he was there l954-55 and says he hears from you.
I tried STEPHEN TEMPRO who runs Smugglers Cove, a hotel on our West Coast (Payne's Bay) but got no reply.
SCIPIO SOODEEN lives 3 houses East of me - we became very friendly over the past several years - he celebrated his 72nd birthday some weeks ago.
One of his daughters, NEYSHA, publishes from Trinidad - a highly successful glossy magazine called MACO - covers architecture and some culinary fancies indigenous to the Caribbean.
RICHARD DRIVER is a cousin of mine and lives somewhere on the West Coast of Canada.
My telephone number is 246-427-752l - my fax at home is 246-228-l8l0.
JOHN DULIEU lives in St. Lucia - as per my last contact some years ago - sorry I cannot help more on him.
Years, ago, he and his family lived several houses East of me on the same ridge when he was a Captain with the airline LIAT.
Regret, I do not have any class photos - but my Form Four classmates (and most moved up to Form Five - with some who were in Form Five doing a repeat year.
ANGUS FRASER (studied for the Priesthood and was last heard of somewhere in Africa)
LOUIS ACHE, SCIPIO SOODEEN, TREVOR EVELYN (lives in Canada but we are in occasional phone contact)
HAMIL MARCELIN, FATHER VINCENT COMPTON (then a Seminarian)
GERALD FARINHA (from then British Guiana) - aborted his Seminarian studies when last I saw him over 30 years ago
SYDNEY RAYMOND ( I think now a Priest) รข€“
RAYMOND DE VAUX, RAYMOND 'FRENCHIE' VIVIES (Guadeloupe - where he became a Prefect in Government).
ANTHONY INKIM (also from Arima).
I do not recall if there were others.
Our Masters were DOM BASIL MATHEWS, former was English Literature
FATHER ILDEPHONSE, Geography and History.
FATHER PAUL, Math
FATHER LEO, Latin,
FATHER CHYSOSTOM LEE SING - French and Spanish.
All for now - congrats on your superb effort to cement the group of yesteryears.
P.S. On February l5th - I spent one night at the Mount Guest House - Room #l4 - overlooking the airport and what has become a tapestry of colourful lights after sunset - sat on the bench which we used as day boys waiting for our Abbey Bus - some of my friends in that group were FRANKSIE COOK, IAN LEE KAM (Guinea was his nickname) - ARCHIE DIDIER and ANTHONY INKIM (the three of us usually came to Tunapuna from Arima on the same bus) - DESMOND BRUNTON (brunts) - PHILLIP (PIP) VIRE who were also in my class
I was unable to get into the College on this visit.
CECIL INCE
(Dear readers: need help with the above old boys. Ed.)
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
De: "Cecil & Liz Ince"
Fecha: 14 Jan 11:20 (PST)
Dear Ladislao,
I have been receiving your e-mails regularly.
While I am interested to read them I belong to the l948/49 years - as a day-boy from ARIMA where I lived.
I went to work at l6 at Huggins & Co - as an office boy.
After two years, I joined BWIA - transferring to Jamaica l954 - Barbados where I have lived since l956 - with a transfer to Guyana and Antigua during l965-68.
Arthur Knaggs persevered for years with another newsletter - OASIS - but I think he eventually gave up some years ago.
I could supply, from Memory, some names of my contemporaries at Mount.
PAX/UIOGD.
Sincerely
CECIL
IP.S. In l969, I joined a small Travel Company here of which I was part owner.
Since then the Company - Foster & Ince and its associates have grown nicely.
I am retired (2001) but stayed on as Chairman in what is now a fairly substantial service supplier to cruise ships.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
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: Reunion Barbados
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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
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.
Please note: you may have missed some of the circulars, if you have not received one every week, do not hesitate to ask for the missing number to idmitch@anguillanet.com
For those that would like to contact me here I include my telephones:
Telf.Office: 58 (212) 263.5346, 267.2416, From: 11:00GMT to 22:00GMT
FAX: 58 (212) 261.0829,
Home: 58 (212) 238.4084. From: 00:00 GMT to 04:00 GMT
Cellphone: +58 (0416) 612.5695
Remember that Venezuela's time is the same as Trinidad's, -04:00 GMT.
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