RE: Mrs Cuffy &group photo

2009-OCT-30-2220Hrs
Hello Errol,
Great job,may God continue to bless you richly.
Mrs Cuffy lives in a Gated Community, so you;ve got to call first. 640 5948
The Group photo has people from 1970 -1973
Could you add Sintra Mohammed 75-77 sintymoham@hotmail.com
Thank yo so much
Phyllis Mottley

Re: MAUSICA WEEKLY EMAILS - REUNION 09 PHOTOS I

2009-OCT-29-2207Hrs
Hi Errol
The group picture of the 64-66 year group sent by Rodney and Majorie did not show all those who were present. Therefore, I'm sharing this one with the fraternity.
Regards
jay bee (JP)
Joan Parris

RE: MAUSICA WEEKLY EMAILS

2009-OCT-29-2109Hrs
Carl Smith!!!!!!!! where have you been all this time? Welcome back. It seems we have been into cloning long before Dolly the sheep... I picked out at least 3 63-65 lookalikes in that 71-73 photo! Never mind the volcano, it's doing its thing and we are doing ours. Life goes on... 14 years and counting! have a look at www.visitmontserrat.com for more about the island. Pat

Pat Ryan

RE: MAUSICA WEEKLY EMAILS - REUNION 09 PHOTOS III

2009-OCT-29-2045Hrs
Hi Rodney and Marjorie, thank you for the reunion photos.I's really nice to be reminded of special occasions like those.Of course I'm eagerly awaiting the release of your latest work.

Lynette Thompson

RE: MAUSICA WEEKLY EMAILS - REUNION 09 PHOTOS III

2009-OCT-29-0628Hrs

Mausicans seem to have discovered the secret of real life! Thanks again. I appreciate the scroll down facility. Pat

Pat Ryan

RE: Email address change request

2009-OCT-28-2136Hrs
Hi Errol,
Let me first of all congratulate you on the magnificent job you are doing keeping us Mausicans together. John and I truly appreciate your efforts.

I also want to request a change in my email address to hya@hyacinthvanderpool.com

Thank you for all that you do, and keep up the great work!

Hyacinth (Yorke) Vanderpool

1970 -1972

RE: MAUSICA WEEKLY EMAILS - REUNION 09 PHOTOS II

2009-OCT-28-1850Hrs
Many thanks. pat
Pat Ryan

RE: MAUSICA WEEKLY EMAILS - REUNION 09 PHOTOS II

2009-OCT-28-0841Hrs
Thank you Marjorie for the beautiful pics. Certainly sent me right back to Grenada. Wished I were there right now,"Far from the Madding Crowd." How is everybody doing? Trinidad and Tobago still heaving with negativity. Some people broke into a Security Firm in Woodbrook and stole 15 loaded guns. Some reports say 15 and some say 12. No matter how much it is, there is cause for concern. Please, those of you who pray, do not stop. Police raided the Muslimeen, they say looking for the guns. Of course, they had no search warrant and dey mash up d place. You all know that the Muslimeen is infuriated. Still "Sweet, Sweet Trinidad, How ah love dis country bad, ever since a small." What do do?

Anna Maria Mora

Re: MAUSICA WEEKLY EMAILS - REUNION 09 PHOTOS II

2009-OCT-28-0820Hrs
Oh mih, Lord...............what a difference 46 years make ! ! ! !
Jack Warner

RE: MAUSICA WEEKLY EMAILS - REUNION 09 PHOTOS I

2009-OCT-27-1405Hrs
Hey Errol!
Is there a way to indentify the people?? I'm at a lost as I don't seem to recognize most of them!! maybe selwyn Jacob & Felix(Progues)
F
Feizal Mohammed

FW: mausica picture

2009-OCT-27-1331Hrs
Hi, This is a picture of some Mausicans,1971 - 1973.See if you can recognise yourself.It is mostly Wingate and Fairhaven.

Patricia Aqui Abraham

RE: Mausica Alumni

2009-OCT-27-1521Hrs
Hi, Kindly provide me with updates about Mausica and Mausicans.
Whitfield Cummings
(Alumni Class of '71)
wec
Whitfield Cummings

Re: Passing The Torch

2009-OCT-27-0226Hrs

My fellow Mausicans,

I am writing my third book entitled "Passing The Torch". It will include a compilation of responses to this question, "What does passing the torch mean to me?" I have answers from both Mr. Williams and Mrs. Cuffie, written about five years ago. I would appreciate your contributions.

Kindly forward your pieces, no more than three hundred words, to rodneyfoster4050@comcast.net. Deadline December, 31st, 2009.

Thank you, in advance, for your participation.

Rodney Foster

RE:

2009-OCT-27-0206Hrs
Hi Errol,

Congratulations to Desmond. Music is the joy of his heart.

Pat, while the ash makes a pretty picture, let us pray that the volcano spews no more.

Pat Gill, Mrs Cuffie's address is 22 Majestic Boulevard,Millenium Park, Trincity,Trinidad. She'll be happy to hear from you.

Barbara Mellowes.

RE: photos

2009-OCT-25-2230Hrs
Rodney and Marjorie Foster

RE: reunion 09

2009-OCT-25-2226Hrs
here are some more photos
Rodney and Marjorie Foster

Re: MAUSICA WEEKLY EMAILS

2009-OCT-25-1453Hrs
Hello Mr lashley
thank you for the email - can you please forward the email with Mr Cuffy so that i can send it to my daddy.
thank you
Rose Hasan

RE: reunion 09

2009-OCT-24-1531Hrs
Hello Errol and fello Mausicans,
Here are some photos of our memorable Grenada reunion
I will be sending some more in other albums
Enjoy,
Rodney and Marjorie Foster

RE: My contact information

2009-OCT-23-2353Hrs

RE: My contact information

From: cbsoftt@hotmail.com

To: cfthomas60@hotmail.com

Subject: My contact information

Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 12:19:34 -0400

Sorry that I have been missing all the reunions and updates. I met with Neville Ferguson and Jack during my latest trip to Trinidad over the last 8 days and heard of the great things being done. Can you add me to your distribution listing and Directory.

Carl B. Smith

Graduate 1965

609-876-5033

15 Gaskin Drive

Burlington, NJ 08016

cbsoftt@hotmail.com

Please advise if additional information is needed.

Carl Smith

Conrad Thomas

Re: MAUSICA WEEKLY EMAILS

2009-OCT-23-1659Hrs

Hi Folks,

It is so good to read the messages each week . I am at a meeting in Washiington and stealing time to read the weekly Mausica Mail on my colleague's laptop.

Can't wait to get back to the hotel to read it. Too much ccompetition for the internet service there.

Mrs.Cuffie lives at Millenium Gardens at Trincity. Can't say the exact address but will check it out when I go to Trinidad at the end of the month.

Gotta go.

hazel

Keep well all.

Hazel Thompson-Ahye

RE: MAUSICA WEEKLY EMAILS

2009-OCT-23-1307Hrs
Hi Erol,

Desmond came in last evening. He asked about you and Arhur Small. I don't know when he will be leaving Toronto. Other than his lecture tonight, I think that a get-together is being planned for him on Saturday. Please let Arthur know that Desmond would like to see him too. I suppose you are aware that he is now well.

Thank you,

June Martin

RE: Mausica Alumni

2009-OCT-23-1240Hrs

Errol,

I visited with Jack and Fergie while I was in Trinidad over the past week. Fergie thought you handled most of the distribution etc. for the Mausica Alumni. If that is correct I am passing on my contact information.

Carl B. Smith

cbsoftt@hotmail.com

15 Gaskin Drive

Burlington, NJ 08-16

609-876-5033

Sorry I have missed so many of the reunions over the years but I was unaware they were taking place.

Thanks

Carl Smith

RE: MAUSICA WEEKLY EMAILS

2009-OCT-22-1750Hrs
You see this thing they call GOAT MOUT' ? Who asked me about the volcano? Well the wind blew to the North yesterday and today so we were in solidarity with the people in the southern inhabited area. The first thing I saw when I opened the door this morning ,was an ash dusted trio of "elephant ears"... they made a beautiful picture. When I went on to check out the car ,I noted that someone had left me a message... in case I had forgotten what it could be! Oh well... t hat's life.. .we had almost a year's break so it's time to be reminded. Nevertheless, Montserrat is STILL HOME, STILL NICE! I have the song and Arrow sells the T shirt! Pat

Bonus shot of Norman washing ash off the cucumber plants... the neighbourhood hens had already eaten their fill of some fine specimens... they apparently laughed at the scarecrow!

Pat Ryan

Re: MAUSICA WEEKLY EMAILS

2009-OCT-18-2107Hrs
Hi Errol,

It was just wonderful to see Ma Cuffie, since over 35 years ago. There's so much I remember about her that was special. Her enthusiasm and zest with the choir, her motivational comments on utilization of time and talents. These stand out with me. I wish I had an opportunity to tell her how her words have affected my life to this day. I hope she's physically all right.

Do you have an address for her where I can mail her a card or something? I'd appreciate that. In your own time if possible.

It was also great toa her about Desmond Waithe and his contributions. I smile, feeling special that I was a student of his year group 64-66.

Thanks also for all the other chats.

Happy Thanksgiving,
Pat Gill (Robbins)

RE: Mr Maunday

2009-OCT-16-1542Hrs
Hello Mr Lashley If anyone know Mr Maunday from Mausica Teachers College - he is gravely ill at this time.

Please pass the word on.

Thank you

Rose Hasan

Re: MAUSICA WEEKLY EMAILS

2009-OCT-16-0525Hrs

It was such a joy to read below of accolades extended to Desmond Waite the music icon from T & T who delivered the Lise Waxer Memorial Lecture at York University.

Desmond is indeed an enduring national treasure and my postgaduate students at the Arthur Lok Jack Graduate School of Business, University of the West Indies still recall his memorable guest lecture on "Bringing a Steelband to the Pan Trinbago Music Festival". This was in the Masters in Human Resource Management course, Training Systems and Instructional Development.

Congratulations are truly in order to Desmond and may God continue to bless him richly. Our 'Harry Jo' must be looking down beaming at the immense contribution of yet another Mausican..... So too, Mrs. Cuffie and Mr. Williams... indeed, all Mausican!!

Gwendoline Williams

FW: Final Version Waithe Waxer lecture

2009-OCT-15-2330Hrs

FYI...let's get the word out...hope we can make contact with him while he is here.

--- On Thu, 10/15/09, Lindy Burgess wrote:

From: Lindy Burgess

Subject: FW: Final Version Waithe Waxer lecture

To: conradt@rogers.com

Received: Thursday, October 15, 2009, 10:19 PM

Hi Conrad,

Frank has a copy of this doc.

Lindy.

Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2009 13:55:47 -0400

From: amy.stewart@yorku.ca

To: lindyburgess@hotmail.com; mcoghlan@yorku.ca

Subject: Final Version Waithe Waxer lecture

Amy P. Stewart

Communications, Faculty of Fine Arts, York University

N.B. my *new* tel 416.650.8469

fax 416.736.5447

amy.stewart@yorku.ca

www.yorku.ca/finearts

4700 Keele Street, Toronto ON Canada M3J 1P3

“T&T Legend Desmond Waithe delivers the 2009 Lise Waxer Memorial Lecture at York U:

‘Steelpan and Calypso – Trinidad and Tobago’s Troubadours’

Toronto, October 13, 2009: Caribbean music icon Desmond Waithe will be the featured speaker for the 2009 Lise Waxer Memorial Lecture in the Department of Music at York University on October 23. His talk on “Steelpan and Calypso – Trinidad and Tobago’s Troubadours” will be framed by vintage calypso music performed live by a guest quintet comprising keyboards, bass, pan, percussion and quarto.

Waithe’s lecture will cover the history of steelpan and calypso, from the pan’s ‘tamboo-bamboo’ roots in the 1920s and ‘30s, through the evolution of the instruments using oil drums in the ‘40s, to calypso’s important role in spreading news about current events, fighting the censorship of the British government and pushing the boundaries of free speech.

A native of Trinidad, Waithe is an internationally recognized expert in calypso and pan music. His career spans well over four decades of composing, arranging, teaching and promoting steelpan music. Currently on faculty with the University of Trinidad and Tobago, he is also a regional coordinator for T&T’s Ministry of Education, developing curriculum for pan in the classroom. As a musical director, he leads the champion Exocubs Junior Steel Orchestra and the Renegades Steel Orchestra, who recently performed to standing ovations at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. with T&T’s finest opera singers in celebration of the 47th anniversary of the independence of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago.

“I have the pleasure of knowing Mr. Desmond Waithe for over four decades as friend and as a mentor” said Lindy Burgess, who directs the Caribbean ensemble in York’s world music program. “He’s an extremely talented, accomplished musician who has travelled the globe promoting the music of Trinidad and Tobago. Along the way he has amassed numerous awards and accolades for his contributions. His visit to York University will have a lasting impact on those privileged to hear him.”

“Bringing this world-renowned musician to York is a natural choice for the Lise Waxer Memorial Lecture, since Ms. Waxer's primary area of research was Latin American music, said Professor Michael Coghlan, Director of York’s Graduate Program in Music which is hosting Waithe’s visit. “We are honoured that our students will have the opportunity to learn directly from a true pioneer of T&T’s most treasured instrument.”

The lecture commemorates musician, ethnomusicologist, author and educator Lise Aerinne Waxer, an alumna of York’s music program who passed away in 2002. Waxer's work in ethnomusicology included producing and hosting one of Toronto's first world music radio programs on CIUT 89.5 FM and conducting fieldwork on salsa music in Cali, Colombia. She also authored two books: Situating Salsa: Global Markets and Local Meanings in Latin American Popular Music (Routledge 2002) and The City of Musical Memory: Salsa, Record Grooves, and Popular Culture in Cali, Colombia (Wesleyan University Press 2002), which received the 2003 Alan P. Merriam Prize and the 2003 ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award for popular music. At the time of her death, Waxer was a faculty member in the music department at Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut.

Waxer's family, friends and colleagues established the Lise Waxer Memorial Lecture at York University to celebrate her love of music of all cultures and her joy in sharing that passion with others. Previous speakers in the series include acclaimed Canadian jazz artist Jane Bunnett; York music Professor Michael Marcuzzi; T.M. Scruggs, professor of ethnomusicology at the University of Iowa; and Gage Averill, then Chair of the Music Department and director of the Program in Ethnomusicology at New York University.

The music curriculum at York University features numerous courses which expose students to a wide variety of Latin American music styles. Offerings include Caribbean steelpan; Cuban music; bossa nova workshop; ska, reggae and dancehall; Escola de Samba; Latin and Caribbean popular music; music of the Americas; and popular music of the world.

What: Desmond Waithe delivers the 2009 Lise Waxer Memorial Lecture at York U: ‘Steelpan and Calypso – Trinidad and Tobago’s Troubadours’

When: Friday, October 23, 7:30pm

Where: Sterling Beckwith Studio, 235 Accolade East Building, York University, 4700 Keele St [map]

Admission: Free

Information: www.yorku.ca/finearts/music/events

Media Contact:

Amy Stewart, Communications, Faculty of Fine Arts, York University

416.650.8469

amy.stewart@yorku.ca”

Conrad Thomas

RE: MAUSICA WEEKLY EMAILS

2009-OCT-13-0809Hrs

What a boost to my heart to see photos of Aunty Daph! Thank you all so much. In the same set of photos... who is the lady in a brightly coloured ( African print?) top? I want to know. Also thanks for the info on the books. Good going.

At home the volcano is vooping again... same old, same old. The info website is www.mvo.ms so heak it out as things change from day to day. Still safe i n the North. Love and blessings, Pat

Pat Ryan

RE: a recommended view--cultural aspects and writing by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie--- feel free to share

2009-OCT-08-2137Hrs

Also, could you post the tag line for this video? Check it out first, you'd see why.

Already sent to three mausicans, bt, they could get it again. Linda

A must view for those concerned about educating children in TnT and other small places., forwarded from my Saudi Arabian friend, the poet Ni'mah Nawwab.(www.theunfurling.com)

Feel free to forward. Linda

--- On Wed, 10/7/09, Nimah Nawwab wrote:

From: Nimah Nawwab

Subject: a recommended view--cultural aspects and writing by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie--- feel free to share

To:

Date: Wednesday, October 7, 2009, 12:49 PM

http://www.ted.com/talks/chimamanda_adichie_the_danger_of_a_single_story.html

Our lives, our cultures, are composed of many overlapping stories. Novelist Chimamanda Adichie tells the story of how she found her authentic cultural voice -- and warns that if we hear only a single story about another person or country, we risk a critical misunderstanding.

About Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Inspired by Nigerian history and tragedies all but forgotten by recent generations of westerners, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s novels and stories are jewels in the crown of diasporan literature

Nimah Nawwab

http://www.nimahnawwab.com/

مولاي صلي وسلم دائما أبدا

على حبيبك خير الخلق كلهمِ

"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere" - Martin Luther King Jr.

"Nothing pains some people more than having to think" - M.L. King Jr.

"All that is necessary for evil to succeed is that good men do nothing."-Edmund Burke

"Artists are the antennae of the race…"- Ezra Pound

"When the voice of the Silent touches my words

I know him and therefore know myself."- Rabindranath Tagore

Linda Edwards

RE: Call, Then Wait For Police

2009-OCT-08-2134Hrs

This would be a long piece to post to the Mausica E-mails, but I wish you could. Linda

Call For Help, Then Wait For The Police.

By Linda E. Edwards- on Domestic Violence

A man called the police emergency number in my county four days ago, and waited outside his house until the police arrived. He was holding a six-inch blade knife, and was covered in blood. “I just killed my wife “ he said. True to his word, the police found her body stabbed more than twenty times lying on the kitchen floor. They arrested him at the scene. A slam dunk of a who-done-it. The police also picked up their only child, a twelve year old boy, from school, and took him to the hospital, in case he needed to be treated for shock, before releasing him to his aunt.

Two neighbors, interviewed in what is euphemistically called an upscale neighborhood, said the usual ”The community is shattered”. ”Things like that do not happen here”.

His community as pictured by the media coverage of the murder scene, is called Pearland, an upscale community ($250,000. and up) in the cheapest housing market in the country. There had been no calls, the police said, about domestic violence. The two neighbors, both youngish African-American women admitted that they did not know their Chinese neighbor very well. They had all moved there about four years ago. The housing market was hot then.

What pressures lead a man to stab his wife more than twenty times, and leave a twelve year old without either parent? What seismic shift in societal values, sent this couple from China, all the way to America, to meet violent death in the heartland of upscale prosperity? Mrs. Lu can no longer tell us, and Mr. Lu wears his inscrutable Asian face; his glasses slightly skew in the arraignment photo.

The ethnic backgrounds of the commentator/neighbors and of the murderer and victim together are a comment on the changing face of surburbia, where people move in, and keep their friends from elsewhere, and perhaps do not get to know their neighbors. Domestic violence, in addition, continues to be the secret sin, that when it finally explodes, smashes so many lives.

Asian people, by tradition in the USA, have lived in Asian communities, where they shop, go to church and visit with friends, but in recent years, they too, move to upscale neighborhoods in the exurbs, where the lots are bigger , the children have more room to play, the lawns, by deed restriction are immaculate, and where, perhaps, no one drops over to anyone else’s house for a cup of coffee or tea, and people do not talk to their neighbors except on National Night Out, which was last night, October 6. On such a night, the focus is on keeping the community safe, by getting to know your neighbors, so when you see some stranger lurking around, you know he does not belong there.

Mr. Lu belonged there. Did anyone know Mrs. Lu was in danger? Apparently not. Was domestic violence the topic of crime in that Pearland , TX neighborhood last night? I doubt it.

There is no community in the world where domestic violence does not happen. We could fool ourselves if we want. We like to think of crime as that little thug like guy, with the baggy pants and the earring, that little African-American or Hispanic American boy and his pals, or the tattooed, hedonistic muscled guy in the athletic shirt, with two earrings and a Mohawk haircut, who belongs to gang, and may be running a meth. Lab..

Few types like that, pictured in the media for this or that carjacking, or minor drug bust, have wives, though many may have girlfriends who get slapped around. So, few murder their wives.

It is the spectacular murder, among the people who are “living the American dream,” that catches our attention. We love to think that a nice house in the suburbs, the two or more car garage, the lot fenced at the rear but sweeping vistas of manicure at the front, the two story brick buildings, were a kind of paradise. Every now and then we get a glimpse of the nightmares within those walls. From behind such walls, a Columbian doctor emerged in rage, and drove her Mercedes over her cheating husband, three times. From behind such walls, an Indian businessman mowed down his wife, with another Mercedes. From behind such walls, an Indian movie producer in the US shot and killed his wife and business partner.

The neighbor next door may be a wife abuser, but we mind our own business, until its too late. We should watch out for the woman next door who is not too friendly- perhaps her husband does not want her talking to the neighbors? We should watch out for the woman who is not seen outside, except entering and leaving the house- isn’t that strange, that she never picks a flower off her own bushes at the front?

All over North America and Europe, these women accompany their husbands in search of a better life. It usually means a better life for the husband, and more space and appliances to clean and maintain for the wife. The freedoms available to American women are not available to new immigrant wives from repressive cultures. I remember seeing some parents come to pick up their children from elementary school. The man and his eleven year old son rode up front, the woman rode in the back seat with her daughter! He was bearded, she was veiled, and they had switched countries, they had the mandatory child seat for the four year old in the back. That was all. So, when such a family is stressed by the business of being in America, or the west, who does the woman turn to? If they were poorer, living in a cheap apartment, the wife could meet other women in the Laundromat, but in a prosperous, new suburban home, all your appliances are installed, making your house an elegant prison, but a prison nonetheless.

From such a prison, a wife may be liberated only by death, while the husband, the cause of that death, heads to another type of prison. It is the boy child of twelve that causes me the most grief. That poor thing needs a lot of hugs, and some explanation as to why. I hope he gets both.

Elaine Edwards

Re: MAUSICA WEEKLY EMAILS

2009-OCT-08-2111Hrs
Please do tell who the people are in the other pictures enclosed.
Rose Hasan

Re: MAUSICA WEEKLY EMAILS

2009-OCT-08-2110Hrs

Thank you for the email it was wonderful to see Ms Cuffie its been more than 25 years that I seen her.

I will have daddy (Mr Lochan see it)

Rose Hasan

RE: MAUSICA WEEKLY EMAILS

2009-OCT-08-2049Hrs

Beautiful pics, Barbara and Hazel. Nostalgia when I look at Mrs. Cuffie's pic. Pat, I heard that the volcano is acting up. Is that true? There was talk about ash being spewed around a wide area. What is happening? Please keep me in touch. Remember that I am an honarary Montserratian.

Anna Marie Mora

RE: pics from grad and grenada

2009-OCT-07-1941Hrs
Hi Errol,

Perhaps you can use these long-promised Grenada pictures for this week's newsletter.

The non-Mausican chap in the photo is the current Minister for Carriacou, the Honourable George Prime, a former law student of mine and a revolutionary, who dropped in to say Hello and see us off the island.

Take care. Love to all.

Hazel Thompson-Ayhe