RE: Mausica Weekly Emails

2010-MAY-31-1547Hrs
Hi Mausicans,

It's very refreshing to read about the Mausican family. Hello to Marie Louise. Congrats to all the Mausican MPs.Sorry about Maria but I'm sure that she can still make a worthwhile contribution

Sheila Miller Warner

RE: MAUSICA WEEKLY EMAILS

2010-MAY-29-0651Hrs

Note that new minister Rudrawatee Nan Ramgoolam is a Mausican, 66-68. Husband Keith alos a Mausican, 67-69.

Theodore Lewis.

Re- Mausica Graduates.

2010-MAY-28-2119Hrs
Can you include Ken Atherton on the blog and on the graduate list?
Brenda
"And this too will pass."

--- On Fri, 5/28/10, Ken Atherton wrote:
From: Ken Atherton
Subject: Re- Mausica Graduates.
To: baperez44@yahoo.com
Received: Friday, May 28, 2010, 1:52 PM
Hi Brenda,

I'm glad to see so many Mausicans getting together on Errol's blog. He is doing a wonderful job. On the last email I got, I clicked on to your link regarding the Reunion in The Big A. I also took a look at the graduates and email lists. I would like you to add my name also. It is Kenny Atherton 1966 email-atherton@mts.net. I also noticed that a lot of names are missing and I guess that these people haven't made contact with whomever had put the list together. Is there any way of getting these records of names from the Board of Education in T&T or from some other archives.

Ken Atherton
77 Charter Dr.
Winnipeg,
Manitoba
R2R1H8
Ph.-204-697-9187.

Brenda Alexander-Perez

Re: MAUSICA WEEKLY EMAILS

2010-MAY-28-0445Hrs
Dear Errol,

Please add the names of the following 1965-1967 graduates who are deceased.

Colley Thompson, Canute Mc Clarence, Dolores Vincent, Greer Duke, Grenville King, Kamal Baig, Selwyn Gibbs, Phyllis Lewis

Angela Cato-Ifill

RE: blog

2010-MAY-27-0837Hrs

If anyone is looking for the survey it can be found here, in addition to more info about the 2011 reunion - http://home.cogeco.ca/~elashley/mausica/mausicareunion2011.htm#top

Brenda

"And this too will pass."

Brenda Alexander-Perez

Re:

2010-MAY-25-1111Hrs
Hi Errol,

Thank you for including me in your listings.

Hello to all Mausicans out there .Glad to read of the numerous developments in your lives.

Keep well. Keep close to Our Lord.

Marie-Louise Felice-Reid

RE: MAUSICA WEEKLY EMAILS

2010-MAY-22-2256Hrs

" pray without ceasing" for TnT. God knows everything. God is in charge. Shall we pray then, that God choose the best people for us in this time of dire need. And may we follow his choice with our fingers. as we pray,

"Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven."

May God have mercy on us, for we have all fallen short of the glory of God.

May our prayers be lifted up for our Mausican candidateswho are giving of themslves for the good of our twin isles and our people. Love to you all. Pat.

Patricia Scott-Phelps

Re: MAUSICA WEEKLY EMAILS

2010-MAY-21-1739Hrs

Hi Errol, and greetings to all Mausicans. It's great getting all the news here in Noblesville, Indiana. My condolences to all who have lost family members, and peace be with all who were closest to our Mausica family who passed away recently. My heart is touched whenever I hear mention of another gone home to God. Faith is a wonderful thing. We'll see them all again some day.

Yes, I'm planning to be at the reunion in New York God willing.

Thanks also for all the pics submitted. I enjoyed perusing to see all whom I could identify. What a treat!

May God's supernatural blessings keep your hearts joyful.

Sincerely,
Pat Gill-Robbins
(64-66)

Re: MAUSICA WEEKLY EMAILS

2010-MAY-21-1641Hrs

We wish all four mausicans - Clifton De Coteau, Jack Warner, Maria Mora and Vernella - well in the elections.

Peter O'Neil

Re: MAUSICA WEEKLY EMAILS

2010-MAY-21-0809Hrs
Brenda.

Gyul tell NEW YORK dat AH COMIN', AH COMIN', AH COMIN'. Ah see d survey jus' out ah d cornea ah mih eye, had intentions of responding, buh den Papa God put mih on a new path, sen' mih on a journey here dat have evryone in shock. I mihself does be shakin' mih head at times. Papa God tell me dat ah was getting too settled and dat ah have to come out ah d comfort zone dat ah was in. Workin' wid young people and chirren is a breeze, leh mih tell all yuh. It easy, easy. Workin' wid big people? WHEW!!!!!! So de Fadder say "nah you goin' along too good, yuh need to step up yuh 'game' to anodder level". He say to mih dat it eh go be easy, buh he know how ah like a good challenge, an he know dat I have never taken de easy way out in anything dat I have to do. He know dat, when ah resign from de Govament Service, when ah pick up mih handbag an walk out of a principal office after fighting wid him over d expulsion of a young man (he wanted to expel him, an I wanted him in school so dat I could work with him). It is expedient for principals to expel children and make the problem somebody else's) He knew that day when I walk out a d school, where I was headed. It took twenty years of blood, sweat and tears, but He knew where ah was headed. So ah in d ting an dis nex 3 days will look like 3 years. Monday 24 is Liberation Day in T &T, no matter what. Mannin' eh know what he do. African Liberation Day is in dis time too, he eh know what he do. Anyway remember me in your prayers. Dis nex 3 days will be pace an thunder. Imagine in our beautiful country the threat of violence is hanging over our heads. Ah cyah believe it. Luv mih Mausica family. I end wid mih mantra "Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven."

Remember me in your prayers. Anna Maria Mora (doh fuhget to write mih name dong in whatever book allyuh writin' wid d list ah people who comin' New York.. Ah eh makin' joke wid dat allyuh. Allyuh eh want to see mih wrong side).

Anna Maria Mora

RE: To all Mausicans

2010-MAY-20-1925Hrs
My friends:

Each time I read the weekly update, there is the news of someone's passing on- a reminder to those left behind, to make each day count.

In the long tradition of educated people taking an active role in politics, a number of Mausicans have thrown their hats into the political ring.( Did you know that all of Africa's great leaders of the independence era were former teachers? So was Eric Wlliams too.

I wish you all well. Remember that you were educated at state expense, for free.

If you are successful, regardless of party affiliation, I hope you would help continue the tradition of free public education, for all Trinbagonians, up to the university level.

I hope too, that you would do something to inprove both the quality of education, and the active participation of students in their own education. Children have minds ,imagination and opinions, but too often, education seems to require them to sit quietly and listen to miss. I saw this as recently as 2007, when I read stories to children in an Arima school.

Here are a couple of "hello's" from my garden, where I try to make sure I spend at least half an hour, quietly, each day.

I recently completed filming for a DVD of my poetry, one of which is attached here.

Stones of Passion
I watch the diamonds sparkle in the sun,
Light bouncing off each, and together, glittering fire,
And think of Christmas.
Standing in the kitchen, we opened the box,
And he slipped it on,
His eyes closed tightly in prayer,
whispering the words of bonding, in a language I do not speak.
A binding ring, I named it ,not a ring of earthly marriage,
but we know, we are bound together by it.
I thought of the stones dancing fire on my hand,
Thirty-six little diamonds, fragments of passion,
That may have cost lives, African lives, in being wrestled from the earth.
Diamonds and gold- the precious things of the destruction of a continent.
I move the emeralds over to my right hand, my fingers splayed out,
Making room for the heavy metal band,
Female to the one he wears.
Given at Christmas, to commemorate the Birth.
Gold was one of the Three Gifts.
That King must have been the one from Africa.
Gold, a foreteller of his passion, and kingly status
Symbolizing my lovers passion, and mine.
.I hug the ring to me at nights, alone, remembering.
Linda Edwards dec.1998.

Three Modern Voices
The heavy truck, symbol of industry
Moves noisily back and forth across the wood behind my garden.
Beyond the greening trees, its heavy roar
drowns out the drone of highway traffic
heading towards the city.
Its only in its quiet moments, I can locate the hum of commute,
A distant throbbing of the earth.
Near me, under my son’s window, the AC unit roars into action, to drown out the natural feel of summer.
Its noisy vocalizations, an interruption of thought.
Together, truck and traffic, and AC form a symphony of noise
Against which modern writer tries to think.
I pick up my things and flee into the chemically cooled house,
Where the beauty of the garden can be seen through glass
and the sounds of the breeze, whispering in the trees,
and the songs of the birds, are silent.

JUST A FRIEND
“And how is the book coming, now?”
No real interest here, but a hint of derision in the voice that is usually so pleasant.
And the typewriter bothered him,
Even at the furthest part of the house, on the table, in the breakfast area, on delay print.
I was a morning noise when he wanted to sleep late after a night of TV.
And “Do you have a Bible?” ,I asked needing one for reference.
”There’s one around here, somewhere.”
I looked from high to low, but could not find it.
Later, I sent him a King James Version, Identical to the one I bought for myself-large print in a presentation case.
The next summer, there was no sign of that one, but his big family Bible was prominently displayed, but I no longer needed to check it.
And he fed stray dogs and cats with scraps of food,
encouraging them around.
but would not have a dog of his own,
though he would admit to giving mine a pat or two,
enjoyment without ownership, like our relationship.
He walked her proudly in the town, letting her out of the back of the wagon. You’d think it was his dog, they looked so good together.
You’d think I was his woman, we looked so good together.
Until, introducing me to the mayor of his town, a woman, he said “Just a friend.”
I heard in it “I’m still free, in case you choose to call on me, mayor, just a friend, you know.
I have many friends, so she should not think she’s special. Just a friend, OK? I’m still free.”
And I,I didn’t want freedom to sleep around.
A woman like me needs a sense of belonging,
Permission for sex granted in the relationship forged between two, serial monogamy.
And so, that Christmas when he came, bearing bikini underwear, that I would struggle forever to fit into, I was wearing someone else’s ring.
That bothered him.
He had been part of my family for so long.
A woman does not leave a man for another ,
She leaves him for herself.

Linda Edwards
 

RE: MAUSICA WEEKLY EMAILS

2010-MAY-19-0705Hrs
Fellow Mausicans

My mind is totally on the up coming election on Monday 24th. The timing seems good and I trust that the lingering Spirit of Pentecost will guide the hearts and minds of voters so that the final result will be a Government totally committed to the people. For too long, frustration has engendered the violence which seems to be the order of the day. We are a people of peace who seem to have lost our compass. Please God we will recover it. Love and blessings to all. Pat ps I am not testing the photo jumbie again... he keeps making my pictures vanish!

Pat Ryan

RE:

2010-MAY-18-2009Hrs
Hi Errol,

Thanks for keeping up in touch with one another. Kindly include Marie Louise Felice-Reid on your mailing list. Marie Louise was in the 67-69 group. Through some past emails that I sent her, she made contact with FitzJames Williams., 'D Warden'. Marie's email address is felicelouise@yahoo.com

Carol-Ann

Never regret anything that made you smile

Carol-Ann Doolam

RE: !973 graduate list

2010-MAY-16-1853Hrs

Hi, Both #6 , Anne Cyrille and #64, laura Sharma are deceased. Dates I do not have. Anne's was several years ago. She was Knocked down outside the Catholic Cathedral on Independence Square. Laura Sharma taught for years at Williamsville jnr Sec. I only recently learnt that she passed on.

Cynthia Weatherhead
cjarvis@tstt.net.tt

RE: MAUSICA WEEKLY EMAILS

2010-MAY-15-0547Hrs
To: errollashley@gmail.com

Hi fellow Mausicans, Someone sent me an email informing me that Ms. Bernice Bruce-Dick has passed away and that her funeral service was held earlier this week at the San Fernando Open Bible Church. I know she lectured in Home Ec. during our stay at Mausica in 1972-1974. My condolences to her family. Joy

Joy Valdez

Re: MAUSICA WEEKLY EMAILS

2010-MAY-14-1303Hrs

Vernella Alleyne-Toppin, candidate for Tobago East, is also a Mausican. Year group 1972-1974. She used to play the piano on Saturday nights to entertain those who were left on campus over the weekend.

I wish the Mausicans in the Elections race all success!

Jasper Joefield

RE: MAUSICA WEEKLY EMAILS

2010-MAY-13-2155Hrs

Hi Errol,

I am truly sorry that I have not been able to attend any of our reunions so far. I trust that I will be able to attend the next one.

Thanks for the magnificient job. We really appreciate news about our Mausica family.

Please convey my condolences to Feizal and Claire on the loss of their son. Claire and I shared a classroom at Eastern Boys' Government, before they migrated.

Please also convey my condolences to Cynthia. on the loss of Andrew. I read this piece of news only today. My prayers and good wishes to all Mausicans especially my Pioneer family.

Germaine Holder Gomez.

RE: Mausican 1966 - 1968

2010-MAY-13-1541Hrs
Hi Errol
by chance looked at directory.....make the following changes
Mervyn Sandy smervynclifford@yahoo.com 736 2433 665 6005
mervyn

RE: Please put me on your blog mailings

2010-MAY-12-1443Hrs
Referred by Carol Ann Patrick-Doolam
Thanks
Patrick Musaib-Ali
(1966-68)

RE: MAUSICA WEEKLY EMAILS

RE: MAUSICA WEEKLY EMAILS

May day fishing contest on Montserrat.... some of the catch

The Silk Cotton tree at Cudjoe head

These first two did not reach you last week.

The goat in the Library... May 11th, 2010 ( we boast of access to education for all )

Thank God for a short Electoral campaign in T and T and may the best men/ women win. Blessings, Pat

Pat Ryan

Re: MAUSICA WEEKLY EMAILS

2010-MAY-10-1555Hrs

Thanks for sharing the political updates Errol.

I didn't know our Anna Maria was in the political arena as well.

Mausicans are everywhere.

First there was one, then there were two, now there are three.

Some of us might remember that Jack and Clifton started practising their politics since the Mausica College days as "Ministers of Entertainment", all those many years ago.

The story is not finished yet.

Let's see what happens after May24th.

Interesting!!

Myrdith Brumant

RE: Elections 2010

2010-MAY-08-2227Hrs Hi,

Congratulations to all Mausicans who have entered the political arena. May the Force be with you.

On another note, Marie Felice visited Trinidad recently to visit with her family. Told her about this blog. Heard from Peter Pariag this week also. Its good to keep in touch.

Carol-Ann Doolam

RE: MAUSICA WEEKLY EMAILS

2010-MAY-07-1250Hrs
Hi Errol,

This is for Kyle. I know that Mrs. Roopchand had a son who would be in his mid to late 60's now. I don't know whether she had other children.

Marina Mamsankar (64-66)

RE: MAUSICA WEEKLY EMAILS

2010-MAY-07-0859Hrs
Pat,

I have been thinking of making a trip to your beautiful island sometime but will certainly let you know when I decide.That was a good catch of fish,my favourite food.

Who is the other Mausican living in Antigua ? I am not aware.

Best wishes to all the Mausicans who will contest the general elections.

Regards,
Maureen Ranjitsingh Lewis

re: reunion in New York

2010-MAY-06-2142Hrs

Further to Patricia Abraham's inquiry - The reunion will be in 2011, not 2012. It would be nice to visit the African Burial Ground Monument as one of the activities. The display is well put together and I found it quite informative. It was opened a couple of months ago @ 290 Broadway in NYC and entry is free but a donation is suggested.

I ran into Janice Quamina last week in Queens, NY and that was a pleasant surprise.

Brenda

Brenda

"And this too will pass."

Brenda Alexander-Perez

RE: MAUSICA WEEKLY EMAILS

2010-MAY-06-2115Hrs

I am proud of the Mausican candidates all, and wish them well in these upcoming elections. I feel this way especially for Maria, whose gift clearly is to serve and to be selfless. Her contribution to her party and country will be abundant integrity and grace to go with her boundless other professional talents.

Theodore Lewis
67-69

RE: MAUSICA WEEKLY EMAILS

2010-MAY-05-1923Hrs
Fellow Mausicans

"So they framed a partnership and called it Alex and Her... they called it Alex and her " I woke up with this song on my mind and found the lyrics via google. It may have gone beyond 63 - 65.... extremely funny play on words in the last line of each verse. Uncle Fitz had a really wide and interesting repertoire.

We had the usual May day local fishing contest on Monday... sending a photo of some of the catch. Also took a shot of our historic Silk Cotton tree which has been in my neighbourhood for hundreds of years... a runaway slave is said to have been hanged there... the village where the tree grows is called Cudjoe Head need I say more? I now know that there are 2 Mausicans in Antigua... are there more? what about the Leewards? We sometimes have a boat ( shared with Barbuda) which makes day trips to Montserrat from Antigua... does that give you an idea???????? It's meant to be a regular service but that is honoured more in the breach... www.visitmontserrat.com is a good site to check

All the best. Pat

Photo showing closed and open silk cotton pods.

Some of the ones that didn't get away!

Pat Ryan

RE: Emailing: With_much_affection

2010-MAY-05-0036Hrs
Hi Errol, Can you send me some info about the New york reunion 2012?.Thanks.
Patricia Abraham

Re: MAUSICA WEEKLY EMAILS

2010-MAY-02-2102Hrs
Hello Maureen,

This is great! Are you still teaching? I live in New York(yes, still teaching). Looking forward to seeing you next year, God's willing. Ummh?

Melvina Dick

RE: MAUSICA WEEKLY EMAILS

2010-APR-30-1049Hrs
Hi Errol,

This is just to let you know that the Mausica Weekly emails is a "must read" for me on a Friday. I look forward to reading all the emails and hearing of all the reunions that take place through this medium. I know that many people are excited about this method of getting news about deaths, missing relatives etc, etc. I must congratulate you for keeping us all informed and updated through your weekly emails. Keep up the good work.

I trust that all Mausicans are praying for Jack Warner our fellow Mausican. He is surely climbing the rungs of the political ladder in our country. Congrats Jack! All the best on May 24th.

God Bless,

Judith Lennard-Hills

Re: MAUSICA WEEKLY EMAILS

2010-APR-30-0711Hrs

Dear Kyle,

I am a Mausican who was taught by Fanny Roopchand. She had a very handsome son, John , ( named after his Dad, I believe),who worked with British American Insurance Company before he emigrated to Canada, I believe he told me. We used to chat when he worked at British American. I last spoke to him at his Mum's, Ms Roopchand's funeral. He and his lovely wife have at least two children. I used to visit Ms.Roopchand when she lived on the Eastern Main Road in St. Augustine. I was really sorry that I did not know she had moved to the Home run by the Presbyterians before she died. I would have visted her there as it was very close to the law school where I was working at the time. I understand they took good care of her,though. She was a dear and was kind to me.She was a very frank person and always told it like it is.

Her brother, Roderick Roopchand, was a magistrate. I believe he might have been Chief Magistrate at one time.There was also a James, who was a doctor. There is a magistrate called Rae Roopchand whom I believe is related to them. He was a student of mine at law school. I will ask him if he can provide any further information on the Roopchand family and pass it on to you, or ask him to get in touch.

To all Mausicans

On another note, are there any Mausicans in Sweden? I will be there for a week in May and would love to get in touch.

Hazel Thompson-Ahye