2023-APR-29-0139Hrs
The Branch - Executive House - 6 ensuite rooms - queen bed - private veranda - ocean view - pool, jacuzzi, to include breakfast - $700.00 per night per room - French Fort, Tobago.
Lydia Naimool-Jones (70-72)
Saturday, April 29, 2023
Sunday, April 23, 2023
Re: MAUSICA WEEKLY EMAILS 2023-APR-21
2023-APR-23-1054Hrs
As I look at the list of names.....so overwhelming....There is a Reynold Mendez listed in the 67-79 group...and we did not have anyone by that name in the group.....there was Raymond Mendes....who is listed....Missing from our group is John White (Toco)....who is sadly deceased.. Also Elizabeth Romain (from Grenada)......whose status needs to be double-checked... there is also Pearl Khan.. (either 67-79, or 68-70)...needs to be checked...there was tragedy....
Scratchy
Theodore Lewis 69
Saturday, April 22, 2023
Re: MAUSICA WEEKLY EMAILS 2023-APR-21
2023-APR-21-1334Hrs
That account by Hubert Garvin of how the college ended, is the saddest thing I have ever heard. Do they know what they killed there, back in 1975.? That place was the germ of something that could have gone on for centuries. It was one of the most original creations of the country, the backdrop being folk culture. It did not quite die. Good lord. They did not check to see that the heart was still beating. Death Oh Death. The Mauscia jumbie is still there, like the phantom in the basement of the opera house, singing.
Scratchy
Theodore Lewis 69
Friday, April 21, 2023
RE: Accommodation
2023-APR-20-1431Hrs
Our Tobago activities begin on Tuesday evening [18th] for those getting there early.
The activities on Tuesday and Wednesday evenings are at Kariwak Village. Kariwak Village has been adopted as the "Reunion Village". Mr. Allan Clovis - Owner/ Manager is a Mausican.
Cost
Kariwak Village
Store Bay Local Road
868 - 639 - 8442
- $1000.TT double per night.
Carol Brown 74
Thursday, April 20, 2023
RE: Accommodations
2023-APR-20-1347Hrs
MTC Reunion 2023 [17 - 23 July 2023]
Suggested Accommodations:
Tobago [July 19]
PeSheres Inn & Spa!!!
John Gorman Rd;
Crown Point
868 – 678 – 1216
Our rates range from $800 - $1000.
A Standard Room - with double Queen size bed, which can sleep up to four persons is $800 per room.
The Executive Room, - with 1 king size bed $850 per couple,
The Self Contained Apartment - with queen size bed $850 per couple.
The Executive Suite, - with king size bed, kitchenette living room set,
Single room $1000,
Double bed room $1500
Papa Joe’s Place
Cor. Grorge & Guy Streets
Canan
868 – 727 – 2563
$660TT per night Double/Single Occupancy Self-contained Rooms.
Please note: Book for Tobago early as the National Heritage Festival will be taking place around that time
Trinidad
Gala Venue – Radisson Hotel
Wrightson Road;
Port of Spain
Overnight
Double Occupancy - $1200 Single Occupancy. - $1018
With Complimentary Breakfast
Carol Brown 74
RE: Mausica Transition
2023-APR-14-1837Hrs
Students of the 73 - 75 intake were in this transition. I was one of them. We straddled both phases, in that our first years, the 75 - 76 intake commuted to the College while we were still residential. All of us residential students were housed in the female hostels--the majority of males in Wingate and the rest in one of the bungalows on campus next to Mrs.Cuffie's. We had to make our own way to and from our schools for our 2nd and final teaching practice. The campus was not just the same without the residential first years. Some of them would stay on after class on some afternoons to lime with us, but once they left for home that hostel/campus camaraderie was gone. We even had to have our own graduation ceremony at the Scarlet Ibis Hotel rooftop in St. Augustine, because a few days before the end of the term we were greeted with a notice (just like our 2nd years, 72 - 74) which indicated the date of the last day of the term, the time of the last meal, the time to hand in keys, and the time by which we were to off the campus.
Oh Mausica...
Herbert Garvin 75
Friday, April 14, 2023
RE: Passing of Django (Udho Rambarran)
2023-APR-14-1504Hrs
I mourn at the passing of Udho Rambarran (Django). My year group, 67-69.
Very happy that our group is so wired, that someone was able to find out about this.
Django was a real Mausican. Absolutely Bohemian spirit. Easily the champion Orange field man, perhaps across all year groups. His exploits almost always solitary, and midnight....returning with stocks for the all of the Villa.
Bags- full, deep into the night. Solitary and sometimes bareback.
He epitomised the place....made a mark...one of us...A character.
I have a special sadness about this passing because Django, who was from the Villa, as I said.. along with Bobby Satram, his roomate, came out at the wrong end of a Fairhaven "take" one night.
I hope he did not have long memory about that...I would understand if he did.
I have a special acquaintance, mother of our daughter, who has not forgotten that Anna Alexander, from Grenada, 66-68, poured starch on her hair during initiation....
Kudos to Carlsbury for refusing to participate in the take of Django on principle. It is true that the "take" was an unwritten rule...Carlsbury taught me that night what maturity in essence looked like...
But in Mausica what would have been the point of maturity? So you want UWI men to be in our fete?
But a rule is a rule....My pardnah Clyde Maurice and I conformed to received oral characterization of rules for a "take".
Martin Brathwaite agreed with us.
First, there has to be some infringement in one hostel by a party from another hostel.
Django, for reasons that I am yet to work out, since we had never had any untoward exchanges......and since he and my roomate Sto never had noise....climbed to our window, second floor.. Haven and threw cow-itch on a bed....it was mine.. He could not have known who lay in what bed...so it maybe was just a random attack on Fairhaven...I did not take it personally....but it was an attack on Haven.....and there was a remedy according to unwritten hostel rules....
Clyde and I went to the Villa, and got him....hiding in a cupboard....
According to the rules.....he had to be brought back to Haven for the ceremony....as it were....
Martin Brathwaite was downstairs of us....and had spent that day in the dorm.....and saw the climber use his window sill....
Rodney remembers the night well, because Carlsbury was his room-mate.....and the unwritten rule of a "take" was that if you are a hostel man and there is a "take", which requires application of wet towels, by everybody present in the dorm.....and youb refuse to participate...then in turn....you will have to endure the fate of a take for non-compliance....
Suffice it to say that Rodney was not at all pleased that his roomate Carlsbury was ambushed in the Fair haven corridors....by offended Havenites....by men including deceased Martin Brathwaite....a fellow Red Guard man....and me and Clydee, and a HOST of other towel-carrying men....defenders of Haven....
This is a Mausica story on the death of a Mausican, and I have some guilt that it bears some hint of irreverance, but it seems to me that Death oh Death, Death Oh, When ah me body go down in de grave...den a mih soul go jump for joy...
Mausicans never die.
The death of Django provokes me. I can see him now with a very large bag of oranges, and about 1.00 am, crossing Fairhaven square. We wnet in there together....late August...1967, 56 years ago.
I saw Sahadeo chasing Kenneth Paul with a cultlass across that square one night, just because he felt like it...and because first years have to be put through their paces if they are to get full Mausica membership.....
This has been my ode to Django.....Udho Rambarran, A true true Mausican. I loved him. A real spirit.
We were forged in that place. Our last chance to be adolescents, before adulthood appeared at the door...at our first teaching practice on those buses, up all night making charts....and then when the real teaching start...after Departure....and no bus coming to pick you up.....No more teaching practice again!....and you on your own....in life.
Udho Rambarran, Django, had the Mausica spirit. A true Mausican he was. But a man can't just breach Fairhaven defenses without penalty. It was not personal...just a matter of Mausica and hostel honour...it just happend that it was him who breached our defenses....but is could have been anyone else.
We would have followed the, uhmm, law.
Respect and love to his family.
Scratchy.
Theodore Lewis 69
Herbert Garvin 75
RE: Passings
2023-APR-14-1341Hrs
Felix, not good at all to hear of the passing of a pioneer.....Condolences to the loved ones of Madge Stuart.
Respect all all remaining pioneers. You started the journey for us, and continue to lead.
Theodore Lewis 69
Re: Fwd: MAUSICA WEEKLY EMAILS 2023-APR-14
2023-APR-14-1314Hrs
Oh dear, I am saddened to hear of Madge Stuart's passing. She was a delightful, generous, and helpful person. I could ask her any question and she would respond readily. Her smile was always there to greet others. May her soul rest in eternal peace and may her family be consoled.
Bernice Stephens 65
RE: gone to glory
2023-APR-13-2041Hrs
Udho Rambarran aka Jango - 67/69 made his transition December 2022.
May this brother's soul rest in peace.
Brenda Alexander-Perez 65
Re: Mausica Reunion 2023
2023-APR-13-2028Hrs
Everything is set and it's our time to REGISTER, as we celebrate 60 years that have gone "Beyond Friendship..."
THE REGISTRATION FORM IS ON THIS SITE IN ANOTHER POST
Monday 9:30am - Registration and Opening @ YTEPP (Chaguanas)
with brunch $350.
Tuesday Travel to Tobago ($)
5pm - Mausica Nostalgia @ Kariwak "Reunion Village" $0.
Wednesday 10:00am -Tobago Bus Tour with lunch @ Jemma's (Speyside) $300.
6pm - Mausica Forum @ Kariwak "Reunion Village"
followed by We Limin' (BYOB) $0.
Thursday Return to Trinidad
Friday 6:45am - meet at Tunapuna Regional Corp. to enjoy
Totally Toco trip with stops along the way for snacks;
lunch; beach $350.
Saturday 8:00pm - Gala @ Radisson $500.
Sunday Brunch @ Radisson for guests who stay there
Remember that our Tobago activities (July 18 & 19) are taking place during Tobago Heritage Festival week. So it's important that accommodation and travel plans are made in a timely manner.
Tuesday and Wednesday evening events are being held at Kariwak. Allan Clovis who is a Mausican has given us permission to use the facility free of charge. In this regard, we have dubbed Kariwak "Reunion Village".
THE REGISTRATION FORM IS ON THIS SITE IN ANOTHER POST
Brenda Alexander-Perez 65
RE: Final Version
2023-APR-13-1849Hrs
Errol is included in this email.
Carlston A. Gray
On Thursday, April 13, 2023 at 08:37:47 AM EDT, Brenda <brenda.3ba44@gmail.com> wrote:
Can we add our theme "BEYOND FRIENDSHIP..." some where at the top of the Registration form?
On Thu., Apr. 13, 2023, 8:24 a.m. Carlston Gray, <carlstongray@yahoo.com> wrote:
PDF Version
Carlston A. Gray
On Thursday, April 13, 2023 at 08:21:48 AM EDT, Carlston Gray <carlstongray@yahoo.com> wrote:
Updated Version:
Changed:
Opening Activity $350
Gala Dinner $500
Added:
Nostalgia/Memory Lane 5.00 pm @ Kariwak
Sunday Morning Brunch @ Radisson
Carlston A. Gray
On Thursday, April 13, 2023 at 12:49:00 AM EDT, Carlston Gray <carlstongray@yahoo.com> wrote:
Carlston A. Gray
On Thursday, April 13, 2023 at 12:47:55 AM EDT, Carlston Gray <carlstongray@yahoo.com> wrote:
Please check my numbers for each event.
Carlston A. Gray
On Wednesday, April 12, 2023 at 03:25:17 PM EDT, Howard Spencer <howieaw51@hotmail.com> wrote:
Sent from my Galaxy
-------- Original message --------
From: Carl Spencer <carl.spencer@lxgconcepts.com>
Date: 4/12/23 3:03 PM (GMT-04:00)
To: howieaw51@hotmail.com
Subject: MTC Reunion 2023
Howard Spencer is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
Topic: MTC Reunion 2023
Time: Apr 12, 2023 09:00 PM Port_of_Spain
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/89628133562
Meeting ID: 896 2813 3562
Carlston A. Gray 74
Thursday, April 13, 2023
RE: Beyond Friendship - 2023 Reunion
2023-APR-13-1150Hrs
Take a walk down Memory Lane.
Kariwak Hotel - Tobago. July 19th 2023 @5.00 pm
Carlston A. Gray 74
RE: Passing
2023-APR-12-2034Hrs
Dear Mausicans, we are saddened by the departing of the pioneer Madge Stuart who went to her eternal rest on April 6th.
Felix Edinborough 65
Friday, April 07, 2023
RE: Reunion 2023 - Beyond Friendship...
RE: Reunion 2023 - Beyond Friendship...
2023-APR-06-1819Hrs
READY, SET, HERE WE GO ....
for this unforgettable experience from July 17 to 23, 2023.
Please see the flyer which is attached.
Registration Forms and further details will be available shortly.
We would like to invite all staff to the reunion. If you have the name and contact information for anyone who worked at Mausica, please forward the information to me.
brenda.3ba44@gmail.com.
Brenda Alexander-Perez 65
RE: Graduates 1967/69
2023-APR-05-1801Hrs
This priceless photo is from Naranjit Johnson.
Extreme left, Robert Satram(deceased) Kelvin Newton, Errol Jones, Naranjit Johnson ( Rugby
Brenda Alexander-Perez 65
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