Circular No 576

Newsletter for alumni of The Abbey School, Mt. St. Benedict, Trinidad and Tobago, W.I.

Caracas, 17 November 2012 No. 576

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Dear Friends,

Let me write to you a few lines about the Circular.

As you know the Circular lives by the emails that you send and the articles that I manage to scan, etc.

I would like you to send me a Christmas Card, or a short note, so that I may start year 2013 with lot to publish, if you feel that the Circular should stop, write me, but if you wish it to keep on, write me also and say why.

The collaborators are few but thanks to them you are getting it every week.

I see some of you whom I have never met connected in internet, and I am glad, because you are there but it would be even better if you make your presence known.

Your humble Editor

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Roti and cold Carib with friends ... sounds like a great combination !5

FROM: andres federico freytez borges

Friday, March 23, 2012 1:43 PM

Hi Cornel,

Freddy is OK.

Yes, I did receive your wonderful remittance... thanks for the photographs...

Do I envy all of you???

Actually living in Venezuela but will hopefully be residing in Toronto in the very near future...May, perhaps!!!

The embassy keeps retarding my papers!!!

My eldest daughter ( got six ) and son in law are Canadian and so are my two granddaughters (they all hold both nationalities).

Next daughter is in NJ and so is my grandson Gianluca.

Of the other four daughters, three will be going to Canada in the months ahead.

I spent 32 years of career working in the insurance/reinsurance market.

Went to Zurich to study insurance / reinsurance technologies and stayed in northern Europe working for PDVSA´s corporate insurances and reinsurances for a time.

Went independent when 50 (now 64) doing whatever.

Finally I own an education sector company representing diverse foreign ed institutions mainly in Canada, USA , Ireland and the UK.

We send students to study abroad. Languages, post degrees and the like.

I also hold an Insurance Broker Credential but rather work with the educational company. www.globalfast.net .

On the sports side I continued my swimming spree in Venezuela even at an old age representing the country in diverse Masters´ competitions, in swimming pools and off shore.

Left swimming two years ago because of a serious sinus complication and I do not want to undergo surgery.

No more pool´s chlorine for me. Can swim at sea though. Keep fit doing other sports but not as seriously as swimming.

I remember the names Sehuelts and Norman Smith but quite can not recall their looks.

Terrence got in touch with me a few weeks ago via facebook. Told me he is living in NJ but planning to fly south to Fla....told me he remained single forever ....

I also remember you being from Aruba ..so was Paul Zeven if I recall well....wow Paul became CEO of Phillips for the Americas and now retired .. Cheers for Mount Boys

During my Lesser Antilles travels I met (in St. Lucia) the De Veer family (they are both from Venezuela and from Curacao), I also met one Geoffrey Devaux (relative to our Abbey School Devaux brothers), the actual Castries Archbishop is also an ex Benedictine seminarian from Mount..

I went to St Lucia to visit my mother´s cousin Fita Alleyne Tardieux , mother of ex Mt.St. Benedict Father Abbott Alleyne who is actually Georgetown´s Archbishop.

Small world this is.

Our cousins now live in Barbados in a beautiful place named Ape´s Hill Plantation. But Barbadians are so damned British!!!!! Jolly bloody!!!

I am copying this email to some of our Old Boys brothers and Knights as well!!

Best regards,

Andres (Freddy) Freytes

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From: Cornel de Freitas

Sent: Friday, March 23, 2012 12:14 PM

Hi Andres or ... Freddy (which do you prefer?)

I sent you a response and attached some photographs of our little 'reunion at "Rotilicious",

I didn't have enough time to put all of the faces to names.

Did you receive it?

Next time you must let me know all that you've done with yourself since the Mount and where you are/live,

I don't believe you live in Venezuela, (I must have missed that somehow).

I am just wondering, I'm sure you remember Norman Smith, but do you remember the two Sehuelt brothers, they travelled to Colombia during Christmas Holidays.

I remember them because Brother Vincent booked their passages via Aruba.

They travelled together with me one year when I was home that year to Aruba, and spent a day or so with me and my family, to get connecting flights to Colombia.

As I remember it, they couldn't travel via Venezuela, because of the dangers to do with some kind of uprising there at the time, Norman travelled with us as well. ...?

I believe one of the brothers names was "Anthony".(?)

You mentioned that you will be coming up to Toronto, the guy to get a hold of would be Nigel Boos, he resides in Ajax, that is where "Rotilicious" is located.

I would like nothing better than to spend some time enjoying a real good 'Roti' and Carib with an old classmate.

I have been trying to get Glen McKoy to come to Toronto (are you reading this Glen), and we could maybe get some more that are close by to join us.

I am sure Salvador Coscarart would also like to join us if he is available.

I will copy all mentioned in this e~mail.

Looking forward to hear from you,

All the best,

Cornel......

P.S.: You mentioned getting in touch with Terrence Ferreira?

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FROM: Nigel Boos

Monday, October 22, 2012 8:48 AM

Dear Maria,

Thank you very much for your kind help in sorting out our puzzle.

I'm sure Msgr. Llanos must be tickled pink that we're trying to claim him as "one of our own".

Ah well. . . . .

Fr. Harold, I think that this should settle the question for us all.

Have a great day, everyone. And God bless us all.

Nigel

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On 2012-10-22, at 8:35 AM, Archbishop of POS Secretary wrote:

Dear Nigel,

Msgr. Robert Llanos' date of birth is Feb. 3rd, 1958. According to his CV, he attended Fatima College 1970-1978.

There is no indication that he ever attended the Abbey School.

Hope this info is of some help.

P.S: Msgr. Llanos just called me and verified the above info. He says that there are a few other 'Robert Llanos', but they are all younger than he is.

Maria

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From: Nigel Boos

Sent: Sunday, October 21, 2012 11:56 PM

I guess we'll have to wait until tomorrow, when Ms. Afong returns to work, to sort this one out for us. (Of course, we could always ask Msgr. Llanos himself, but we've gone this far already, I suggest we should just let it happen, and not get the good Msgr. involved.)

Nigel

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On 2012-10-21, at 9:12 PM, Father Harold Imamshah wrote:

Hi Nigel,

I went to Fatima with Msgr. Robert Llanos in the 70's and the Robert Llanos in the photograph looks either Venezuelan or Spanish.

Fr. Harold

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On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 8:41 AM, Nigel Boos <nigelboos@yahoo.ca> wrote:

Interesting, Fr. Harold.

I have a photograph of a Robert Llanos in the uniform of the 2nd MSB Scout Troop, which, I've been led to understand, was taken in or about 1947.

As in so many cases, without further input and using whatever detective skills I allow myself, I guessed that he might have graduated from MSB c. 1949.

I stand to be corrected, of course, and perhaps Ms. Maria Afong, Secretary of the Archbishop's office in TT, might be able to advise us more definitely.

Ms. Affong, would you please find out for us, and let us know for sure, whether Msgr. Llanos was ever a student at the Abbey School, Mt. St. Benedict? Thank you.

(Or then again, maybe there were two Robert Llanos boys, one of whom attended MSB and the other Fatima College.)

Nigel

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On 2012-10-20, at 2:17 PM, Father Harold Imamshah wrote:

Hi Nigel and Glen,

Msgr. Robert Llanos is an alumnus of Fatima College; when I was in Form IV he was in Form I when I invited him to be an altar server for the daily Mass in 1971.

I celebrated my 57th Birthday this past Wednesday and Msgr. Llanos is in his early 50's so he could not have left Abbey School in 1949.

Thanks,

God bless for your continued admirable work with the Abbey connections via email,

Sincerely,

Fr. Harold Imamshah

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On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 5:29 AM,

Glen Mckoy <mckoy43glen@hotmail.com> wrote:

Thank you Nigel,

Bandit must know Monsignor Robert Llanos, left in 1949.

Keep in contact with this guy Nigel, we may need him in the future, we might be playing some mas on the Mount ha! ha!

Graham Gonsalves heard the name, I think my father did business with him, don't know anything about him really,

Cheers Glen.

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Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 14:51:48 +0000 (GMT)

From: "Andrés Freites" <andresfreytez2005@yahoo.co.uk>

Subject: Re: Circular No. 234, The Abbey School MSB

Dear Lad,

When and where will the next dinner be??

Last time I could not make it for some plausible reasons.

Gabor gave me a bottle of spicy mango chutney made by a cousin of his.

The amazing fact is not the chutney but Gabor´s free handedness !!!!! Just a joke....

Andrés O:S:B:

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From: laszlo kertesz kertesz11@yahoo.com

Sent: Sunday, 28 May, 2006 7:17:26 PM

Subject: Re: Circular No. 234, The Abbey School MSB

Dear Andres

Yes, his brother is Gordon and lives in TT.

They used to talk a home-made language also.

Will you be at the next dinner??

God Bless

Ladislao

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Andrés Freites <andresfreytez2005@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

Hola ladislao,

Algo recordé con la foto de los 60 de Don Mitchell...

Una pregunta ...el tenia un hermano que estudiaba tambien en mount???

El recuerdo es el siguiente:

Al salir de una de las peliculas que nos pasaban empezamos a dejar notas de un tal mr. X...tu sabes dejabamos mensajes firmados por mr. X y el o los que los recibian debian descubrir quien se los dejaba... Si mal no recuerdo este don era experto en descubrir quienes eran los que dejaban estos mensajes...

Una vez deje un mensaje con un "clue" ..el "clue" eran dos signos de interrogación como se escriben en español y don utilizandolo llego a descubrir que yo era el que habia dejado el mensaje.......el comenzo a buscar la persona entre los venezolanos siguiendo la pista de la doble interrogacion.

Saludos,

Andres (freddy) freytes

Something I remembered with the 1960 photo of Don Mitchell ...

One question ... he had a brother who was studying at Mount???

The memory is as follows:

After having seen one of the weekly movies, we begin leaving notes by Mr. X. ..

You know, we were leaving messages signed by Mr. X and those who received them or must discover who left them ...

If I remember, Don was an expert in discovering who left these messages

After leaving a message with a "clue" .. the "clue" were two question marks (¿?) as they are written in Spanish, and using it Don came to discover that I was the one who had left the message.

He started ....... to find the person among Venezuelans on the trail of the double interrogation marks.

Regards,

Andres (freddy) Freytes

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Ladislao Kertesz at kertesz11@yahoo.com,

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Photos:

12NB0058REUNIONAJAX, Visit of Andres Freytez and George Mickiewicz

12NB0059REUNIONAJAX,

251707LK12FACEBOOK, Group of old boys from Trinidad

07JD0006BJDBRU, Brother Rupert and Bro. Dorset