Newsletter for alumni of The Abbey School, Mt. St.
Benedict, Trinidad and Tobago, W.I.
Caracas, 22
August 2022. No. 1066
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Dear
Friends,
Do you
remember the clinic at The Abbey School?
Here are some of the comments that might interest you and make you want
to write.
I must ask your support for the TEAM GEORGE fund collection for needed
Venezuelan Old boys. See the las page for details.
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MSB EXPERIENCES AT OUR "CLINIC" - MEMORIES
OF MY 14 DAY QUARANTINE AT THE ABBEY SCHOOL
GEORGE MICKIEWICZ <amickiew@att.net>
Mon, May 23
Dearest Brothers,
With all the pandemic and
quarantine stuff going on around our world in the past few years, a related
memory popped up yesterday in my mind.
Circa 1959, I came down
with chicken pox at our school and had to spend 2 weeks isolated/quarantined in
our little clinic.
Nobody else contracted it
at that time.
It was a lonely and boring
experience being down there all by myself.
The only person that I saw
was our kind nurse whose name I no longer remember.
Nights were a bit scary
when an external noise in the bush would wake me up wondering: “Who/What is
that?”.
During our Mount days, I
suspect that everyone of us had to visit our nurse due to this or that.
I invite you to share your
related experience(s) with us and Ladislao can use it/them in a future
Circular. Thanks.
I was recently diagnosed
with Covid.
Thank God, my symptoms were
very light and I fully recovered after one week.
Hope and pray that you and
yours are doing well.
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Andres LARSEN <larsen.andres@gmail.com>
Mon, May 23
During my extended stay at MSB, no do not recall
whatsoever as to any clinic or nurse. Did open my right knee once in a fall
during a football game and Enrique Gomez assisted me as I was taken on the way
to the doctor in Tunapuna who stitched it up and when I was brought back again.
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Oscar Cantore <oscar_cantore@aincosa.com>
Mon, May 23
I do remember the Clinic and of course, small
quarters
If I recall correctly my brother Fulvio did also
some time there due to an infectious disease but I cannot recall what was his
sickness.
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My experience at the
clinic: by Ladislao Kertesz, EDITOR
On an average once a
year I was sent to the clinic.
In all
cases it was for minor reasons, flu epidemic.
Of course, fever etc.
During
pandemic periods that also happened about once every trimester, we were
confined in our bed at the dormitories.
The
clinic had a small room at the entrance and bathroom.
In the
main room there were six beds.
Hospital
beds, as these had a taller legs to facilitate the work of the doctors and
nurses.
Nurses?
Well there was one in service but sometimes there was a need of two when there
was a pandemic.
The
doctor used to visit the school when needed and was the same one that looked
over the patients at the monastery.
The
view was very good towards the north and east, as the clinic was in the NE
corner of the small boys building, it was below the dormitory.
There
have been stories about the biscuit container that was over the cabinet at the
entrance.
It seems
that a couple of boys, hungry boys decided to raid the “cookie jar”, the result
was pathetic and were caught soon after the event.
Usually
this meant expulsion but the boys were pardoned at the last moment because
there were no airplane tickets available.
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6/7/20 21:30
- Ladislao Kertesz: Hola, necesito un ingeniero químico para la elaboración de
producto de limpieza .
Si conoces de
alguien favor contactame.
Saludo
Ladislao Kertesz
7/7/20 09:43
- Msb Most Gerhard: Hola. Pirnsas fabricar productos de limpieza
7/7/20 10:01
- Ladislao Kertesz: Hola Gerhard, es una empresa de un oldboy de Trinidad,
tiene el material base y desea fabricar shampoo, limpia platos etc.
7/7/20 10:01
- Ladislao Kertesz: Dónde estas ahora, marini te está buscando en miami
7/7/20 10:03
- Ladislao Kertesz: https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/Sodium-silicate
7/7/20 10:03
- Ladislao Kertesz: Este es el producto que adquirió y desea utilizarlo
7/7/20 13:07
- Msb Most Gerhard: Dejame contactar ing quimico que trabajo conmigo. Deberia
saber
7/7/20 13:39
- Ladislao Kertesz: Dónde estás?
7/7/20 13:41
- Msb Most Gerhard: Aqui en la Lagunita. El Hatillo
7/7/20 13:49
- Ladislao Kertesz: Ok,. El trabajo lo solicito un oldboy de Trinidad
7/7/20 13:52
- Msb Most Gerhard: Cuando tenga el telf. conocido mio comento lo que
quiere hacer el Old Boy y te llamo
18/7/20 09:32
- Msb Most Gerhard: Lamento. Nadie conoce el paradero del colega que sabe sibre
este tema. Mala suerte
18/7/20 09:44
- Ladislao Kertesz: Gracias Gerhard,. Creo que cerca tienes a Kendrick allum
OLD BOY de la tienda Allums Maracaibo.
CD,
audio Y SONIDO.
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7/6/20 21:30 - Ladislao Kertesz: Hello, I need a chemical engineer to
prepare a cleaning product.
If you know of someone, please contact me.
7/7/20 09:43 - Msb Most Gerhard: Hello. Are you thinking to manufacture
cleaning products
7/7/20 10:01 - Ladislao Kertesz: Hello Gerhard, it is a company owned by
an oldboy from Trinidad, he has the base material and wants to manufacture
shampoo, dish cleaners, etc.
7/7/20 10:01 - Ladislao Kertesz: Where are you now, Marini is looking
for you in Miami
7/7/20 10:03 - Ladislao Kertesz: This is the product you purchased and
you want to use it
7/7/20 13:07 - Msb Most Gerhard: Let me contact the chemist who works
with me. I should know
7/7/20 13:39 - Ladislao Kertesz: Where are you?
7/7/20 13:41 - Msb Most Gerhard: Here at Lagunita.
7/7/20 13:52 - Msb Most Gerhard: When I have the telephone number of the
acquaintance of mine I comment what the Old Boy wants to do and I call you
7/18/20 09:32 - Msb Most Gerhard: Sorry. No one knows the whereabouts of
the colleague who knows about this issue. Bad luck
7/18/20 09:44 - Ladislao Kertesz: Thank you Gerhard,. I think you have
Kendrick Allum OLD BOY from the allums Maracaibo store nearby, CD, audio AND
SOUND.
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JUAN
CARLOS GOLIK
So,
for the first time, here is news on Juan Carlos Golik.
He
lives in the State of Merida to the South West of Caracas, in the Venezuelan
Andes, near the capital of that State, Merida.
He has
a Web page describing the beautiful scenery of his resort houses.
I have
included a couple of photos of the housing complex.
I
recommend you to look into the Web page as the propaganda has photos and
pictures, difficult to reproduce in this Newsletter.
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This
is the venture that Carlos has going in the Andes.
"A single
photo is worth a thousand words"
Just off the Transandina Road, and only 30 minutes (19 miles) from the
heart of Mérida is a setting of majestic tranquility where solid, high quality
American style wood cabins join in harmony with the majesty of the Andes.
Re-new and refresh your life.
Draw from the tranquil power of our Andes Mountains Paradise.
We offer:
5 Cabins (aprox. 950 sq. feet) for 6 people.
1 Cabin (aprox. 575 sq. feet) for 4 people.
2 small Cabins -studio design (aprox. 290 sq. feet) for 2 people.
Price includes Breakfast and evening Dinner meals-"Comida Casera"- (The same good food as served to the owners)
Recreation Room-ideal for meetings, reading, games (billiards) Direct TV
(including premium channels). Bar-B-Q.
Swimming pool with natural mountain water from the Paramo.
Many Green Areas. Children's Play Park.
Excursions to the lagoons, rappel, parapet, etc.
And, if you like, "draw" your breakfast milk direct from our
prize Holstein milk cows.
This beautiful mountain retreat is attended by the owners: Giusi and
Juan Carlos.
We speak English, Spanish and Italian.
CAMPING IN JULY, AUGUST AND SEPTEMBER
Visit our Photo Album http://www.andesholidays.com/micata/index.html
We like to establish personal communications.
Please include your telephone number in your email
E-MAIL: cabanasmicata@hotmail.com
cabanasmicata@cantv.net
Carretera Trasandina. Finca Sky Way
Telefax: 58 (274) 808-1502
(0274) 416-0264
Celular: 0414-974-1277 - 0416-474-1046
0414-374-1277
[Carlos,
I tried to call you but no contact, please return call, ed.]
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Another
old boy, WBLADIMIRO DIAZ
So, I
am going to start with my Dentist.
His
name is Wbladimiro Diaz, who left Mount in 1973 when the school was closed for
boarders.
He was
in Form III at that time.
He
managed to get his Venezuelan High School diploma? at Nuestra Señora de Lourdes
in Puerto La Cruz after having to go through the official regulations, spent
one year at the Universidad Javeriana in Bogota 1977 and then went to the
Universidad of Los Andes for his dentistry degree, graduating in 1986.
Sport
Karate do 6th Kyo, archievement: Green red belt.
He
spent 16 years in practice with his tutor, Dr. Nelson Canache a famous Dentist
here in Venezuela.
I know
this story because before I let him look into my mouth.
I had
him show me his credentials.
His
wife Walkiria, and has two daughters, Katherin 10 , Ana Patricia 5.
Lives
a pleasant leisure life in Puerto La Cruz, although no yacht as yet.
Sport:
Having
misplaced his green red belt, he took up Aikido for a replacement belt, and has
achieved: 6th kyu, although
he did not tell me if it comes with a belt
Sometimes
he is available for a dinner or two.
You
may call him at: Home: 0281 808.0308
Or in
a dental emergency at. 0416 684.3967
Ladislao
Kertesz
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PHOTO
There are 8 boys in
this photograph.
All
are wearing white vests, with printed numbers, and they’re located at the MSB
Sports Field.
I
think they must have been students at MSB in the 1970’s, and probably were
members of an athletic team.
I
believe this was the school's first marathon between the various inter-houses,
prior to the school Athletics sports in one of those years.
Thanks
to Adrian Chandler, who called from St. Ann’s, Trinidad, and to Ian Gomes, Glen
McKoy, Neil Charles, Conrad Boney, Gabriel Faria and Salvador Coscarart, all of
whom contributed to identifying the boys.
(Salvador
thinks the picture was taken between 1972 and 1973; Conrad thinks the picture
was taken between 1973–74.)
[I have
included the dates they would have graduated of all the boys, need your help in
making possible corrections, EDITOR]
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George Mickiewicz <amickiew@att.net>
Sat, Apr 30
Hi Don
Thanks for your efforts to
get our school history and related records archived in the T&T National
Archives.
You are one of only a dozen
or so alumni who have actively supported many school-related activities over
the past decades.
I am very proud and
appreciate very much your love, dedication, energy, time, and $$ that you have
devoted to these valued contributions.
Cheers,
George
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EDITED by Ladislao Kertesz, kertesz11@yahoo.com, if you would like to subscribe for
a whole year and be in the circular’s mailing list or if you would like to
mention any old boy that you would like to include, write to me.
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Photo:
76LK0001FBMIX1976GRP, see last paragraph
22LK0729FBTFE, Terrence Ferreira
66LK0426FBMMK, Miss Marcus Kitty
10BV0112BVIGRP, Bro Vincent and group