Post by Heneith Samuel on Jan 17, 2013 14:49:29 GMT -5
He left us too soon. May he rest in God's eternal peace.
In memory of Anthony Todd, I have retrieved copies of his contributions to the forum along with the messages he responded to below.
They are in chronological order, so please start reading from the bottom. Please note his contribution to Kernon John's arrival. :-)
Todd joined the forum on the same day as Darrel "Dangle" Joseph, SMC boy resident in the UK, on Friday June 8th 2012.
Ironically, his last message to the forum on Aug 30th was a condolence to Darrel on the loss of his dad and to John and Tony Francis on the loss of their mom.
Anthony's passing is another sudden reminder of how fickle and unpredictable our short stay on this planet is.
Like my buddy Racoon and I were saying a couple weeks ago "it's now our turn - we're now at the front of the line".
It is incumbent upon us all to lighten up and be tolerant and supportive of each other starting right here on our beloved forum.
May the good Lord bless all of you, and grant peace, health and prosperity to you and your families in 2013.
I will keep Anthony's email address in the forum. At least he will be with us in spirit.
Rest in peace Todd.
Bourru
-----Original Message-----
From: anthonybtodd <anthonybtodd@gmail.com>
To: smcaa2010 <smcaa2010@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Thu, Aug 30, 2012 8:22 am
Subject: Re: Sad news
Condolences to John, Darrel and their families.
Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device from LIME.
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From: hsamuel101@aol.com
Sender: smcaa2010@googlegroups.com
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2012 08:13:06 -0400 (EDT)
To: <smcaa2010@googlegroups.com>
ReplyTo: smcaa2010@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: Sad news
Deepest sympathies to John, Darrel and their families.
Heneith
-----Original Message-----
From: johnfevrier <johnfevrier@aol.com>
To: smcaa2010 <smcaa2010@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Wed, Aug 29, 2012 7:10 pm
Subject: Re: Sad news
My sympathies to John and Tony Francis and also Darrel Joseph. I am here to support them in getting through this tough period
Howard
Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile
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From: "Trevor A Philip" <trevor-tpagency@candw.lc>
Sender: smcaa2010@googlegroups.com
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2012 20:33:53 +0000
To: Forum<smcaa2010@googlegroups.com>
ReplyTo: smcaa2010@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: Sad news
Just heard of the passing oof the mother of John Francis. Also Darrel Joseph lost his dad a few days ago. Condolences to the brothers and their families
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-----Original Message-----
From: Anthony Todd <anthonybtodd@gmail.com>
To: smcaa2010 <smcaa2010@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Mon, Jun 18, 2012 6:38 pm
Subject: Re: THE FORUM is a...
Hi guys,
Hope the fathers in the house had a good Father's day. I want to add my little bit to the discussion on the influence of SMC and the Brothers on our lives. While the Brothers were not perfect (Ti Plon had his issues for eg.), we were socialised to play valuable roles in the system by them, the teachers, organizations such as the Scouts and Cadets, the Church through its indoctrination (some of us were acolytes), our parents and neighbours. I however cherish the education I got from my peers such as Kingsley, etc, who introduced me to books like Soul on Ice, and all the black persons mentioned by him who were involved in the social revolution in North America in that period. We learned to critique the very system we were preparing to enter. This experience helped to bring balance to our development and i think helped to make us the men and women we are today.
Anthony Todd
On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 11:23 AM, trevor blanchard <tblanch01@gmail.com> wrote:
I am also aware that even though he never directly connected with me I was still affected.
I don't think he ever spoke to me other than calling my name on the roll call.
But I was very aware of him. A totally different relationship than what I had with
Joachim Stack, and he too was violent with some students.
Why the difference ?
Why did I not fear going all the way to St. Vincent and Dominica with Joachim or trust
him when camping out in the woods somewhere, yet I did not trust the bastard Ti Plon.
I never smiled at him and he must have sensed something, because he never made an attempt to know me better, even when alone in his presence.
I was around him in the Brothers home on occasion waiting for Joachim and we just glanced at each other.
Could I have murdered this guy as a youth ?
Do you ever get a natural sense to protect yourself around certain personalities ?
Black, white or yellow, not a race factor. just a natural sense to protect.
He could have sensed that in me and that is why there was so much space between us.
Sadism motivates defense in a victim.
He never victimized me, but he endangered himself just by letting me a little into his nature.
Bones.
On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 9:19 AM, Baxter Bushell <baxter.bushell@gmail.com> wrote:
In my view, you're right on target, Bones. Ti Plon was not only a highly deficient excuse for a teacher, but I remember him to exhibit a clearly discernible sadistic streak. Racist too, talking about not "giving him any guff" and "let no pup bark!"
Bax
On 18 June 2012 07:54, trevor blanchard <tblanch01@gmail.com> wrote:
It's a classroom, that's what the Forum is.
An extension of the past where we delight in being both student
and professor. We are the authority. That delights in many ways depending
on the kind of students we were forty years ago.
We all made observations and came to many conclusions about any and
everything, and held them in, as our little secrets.
Check yourself if you don't believe that.
Just stop right now and revisit yourself at seventeen or eighteen, noticing and
judging, opposing and agreeing, while you remain the only one doing all that.
Those moments were some of the most powerful, when it comes to the formulation
of individual personality.
The outcomes can shock us upon examination.
I can hear some of you saying ' education today is valued at what it can give you
instead of what it can make of you 'we had it better Bones !
I think Ti Plon the Presentation brother was the worse that they let out of
Ireland and allowed to land on the shores of SLU.
He must have taught me at the most four or five sessions, for my entire time at
SMC.
He was not too smart either. I think I was always smarter and will always be smarter
than the man students called TI Plon.
When you make a spectacle of a student getting out of his seat without permission
such that it eats up about ten valuable minutes of class time, you're a looser.
You ain't that smart.
You're a dumb ass, and trust me when I tell you I enjoy saying that .
More students probably got out of their seats or created interruptions in his classes
than in all other SMC classes combined.
I was terrified of him.
I had such a fear of this man, that it interfered with my digestion at
break or lunch.
He never knew that I wanted him off the island. And I entertained thoughts of all the
possible ways, of defending students against his terror. Fear can make you brave.
He never hit me, and there probably was some design to that as maintenance.
What was his success record as a teacher ?
Did he serve us at some optimum level ?
It takes skill as a teacher, to know that one cannot reach and teach everyone.
The exchange between teacher and student requires an environment where
violence as control varies in it's ineffectiveness. I said ' ineffectiveness '
The Irishman was in the wrong place and at the wrong time, because even today
my judgement of him still stands.
I cannot be convinced that back then it was so and so......
Not for me.
In my mind he is still an endangered species.
For others it may have been a totally different experience, one that was a lot friendlier and
more at ease.
Who in their right mind would suggest putting Irishmen in control of education
in a post colonial setting in the Caribbean anyway ?
Some teachers become cynical after a while.
The Presentation Brothers assumed the control which they used was the right one
but how long as effective, with people like myself plotting in the background ?
Even above and beyond the control, they must have had a growing sense of being
put down and ignored and opposed.
Why did it all change ?
I am being cynical here myself, but why, when we were made to believe that we
were enjoying the best.
Well, here is something you can put in the bank.
It was not them.
All the while, it was you and I.
That's what made it worth the while.
JUST ASKING
BONES BROOKLYN
-----Original Message-----
From: Anthony Todd <anthonybtodd@gmail.com>
To: smcaa2010 <smcaa2010@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Tue, Jun 12, 2012 10:24 am
Subject: Re: Another SMC boy has joined us
Hi guys,
Wow, Kernan " Sidney Poitier" John. I remember him teaching Lit. The spin, then chalk flying to some talkative or inattentive boy and the reprimand a la Poitier. Boy, theater at its best.Good teacher though, loved by most of us. I remember some of us having to scramble while liming early after school near HB or Rajow, so as not to be seen in uniform by an approaching " Poitier. Welcome Kernon "Poitier" John.
Anthony Todd
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 10:55 PM, <hsamuel101@aol.com> wrote:
Forum,
It's my pleasure to introduce to the forum none other than Kernan John, brother to current member Cameron John.
A former SMC master, Kernan now resides in Canada. I was first introduced to him in 1966 when he taught us math in Form 2B. Fellas in my age group (plus and minus a few years) like Thaddeus, the Pastor, Bloaters, Spence and Leo should remember him !!
I met Kernan about 3 years ago in Miami at the wedding of his brother Irving. Fellas the guy has not aged !! The sad thing is that he didn't remember me - maybe because I have grown since 1966.
Kernan was a super athlete and as you would expect, belonged to Presentation House. :-) :-) Heng Heng !! (Kernan, I'll explain the term heng to you later)
He was the first to introduce the Western Roll style of high jumping to SMC. Like I said before, we called it the "John style". All of us high jumpers wanted to perfect the "John Style". Hermingild did it in 1972 when he cleared 6ft at SMC. The first St Lucian athlete to accomplish this feat. Hervon Henry wrote about that feat as a headline on the Voice newspaper. I daresay that such a feat could not have been accomplished with the traditional scissors, straddle or straight jump style of jumping.
Kernan's resume since he left SMC is too rich and diversed to present here in any detail. Suffice it to say that this Samarian has done us proud. Subject to correction, I understood that he has received many high level teaching awards in Canada.
I am quite certain that the majority of the forum remembers this icon from SMC.
Did I say, he belonged to Presentation House ? :-)
Please join me in welcoming Mr Kernon John (John K from Pres) to our forum.
Standing ovation please !!!
Sammy
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From: Anthony Todd <anthonybtodd@gmail.com>
To: smcaa2010 <smcaa2010@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Sat, Jun 9, 2012 4:04 pm
Subject: Re: Forum introductions
Thanks Wazzo, seeing all these nick names brings back memories. Thaddeus, maybe you don't remember me because I tried to stay out of trouble at SMC except for the odd occasional instances of injustice like the time Pistache sent some of us to Marcus (LOL). Don't remember the LEO, but I remember Thaddeus. Boy, you really bring back memories, "Red Head" at R.C Boys! I remember getting beat with his special leather strap on my back. Some boys used to place books in their shirts, but of course he always found out.
Todd
On Sat, Jun 9, 2012 at 3:14 PM, Leo Thaddeus Donnelly <zaponlucia@hotmail.com> wrote:
Welcome to my Bro Dangle...we sure had fun. Spoke with you brother a few months ago. I ask about you and found out that your are in England. Welcome also to Anthony Todd...so how I don't remember you.
Thaddeus
Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2012 11:59:27 -0400
Subject: Re: Forum introductions
From: tblanch01@gmail.com
To: smcaa2010@googlegroups.com
Welcome Darrel and Anthony,
It's the best place to be. Feel free to speak your mind
and tell us what you have been up to since you last saw any of us.
Looking forward to the rap.
Bones.
-----Original Message-----
From: Anthony Todd <anthonybtodd@gmail.com>
To: smcaa2010 <smcaa2010@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Sat, Jun 9, 2012 11:35 am
Subject: Re: Forum introductions
Hi guys,
Thanks for the welcome. Its great to see all these names. Brings back memories. Well I presently live and work in Barbados. Spent most of my working life in Education and am currently attached to the Higher Education Development Unit, a Project Unit of the Ministry of Education. We advise the Ministry on Tertiary Policy and are responsible for facilitating development projects of the tertiary institutions on the island. I am enjoying the project management aspect of the job. I have a daughter who is a teacher and son at UWI. Presently a widower. As for the Sea Scouts, spent most of my years at SMC in that organisation, but joined the Cadets during my final year. Remember guys like J.J.and Roger Eudoxie in the Cadets. Roger was the Cadet Under Officer and seemed older and more mature than some of us; maybe it was the Rank. Any way its great to be on board.
TODD
On Sat, Jun 9, 2012 at 10:56 AM, Trevor A Philip <trevor-tpagency@candw.lc> wrote:
Welcome guys. (Two of the finest individuals eh!) Well Dangles be careful here because both Nat and Hiram are on
Trevor P
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From: hsamuel101@aol.com
Sender: smcaa2010@googlegroups.com
Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2012 10:37:31 -0400 (EDT)
To: <smcaa2010@googlegroups.com>
ReplyTo: smcaa2010@googlegroups.com
Subject: Forum introductions
Ladies and gentlemen,
Please join me in welcoming the following newest members to the forum:
Darrel Joseph (alias Dangle) - Currently resident in the UK, he is from the La Pansee area and brother to Victor.
Darrel was one of those troublesome, pain in the rear (from canning), students at SMC.
A super athlete who belonged to Tapon House,( I think :-() , he was a stable at college sports and did well in the field events. He and I experimented often with the newly introduced Western role style of high humping. Prior to that we all used the Scissors, straddle and straight jump style. It wasn't until the venerable Kernon John (Pres House Master :-)) jumped the bar while lying on his side that we all began jumping that way. It was an immediate hit. So much so, we called it the "John style" because we didn't know the real name of the style. It was adopted by many of us including our best jumper at the time Hermingild Francis - the first St Lucian to jump 6ft !
Darrel gave many point to Tapon in the high jump and other events.
Anthony Todd (we all just called him Todd) - Anthony was one of the nicest guys I knew at SMC, I don't know where he resides now. I'm sure he will tell us. His foray into "pain in the ass" was very infrequent from my memory :-). He was also a life long Sea Scout, and I clearly remember him consistently being awarded the title of Best Dressed Scout by Bro Joachim. Don't know his house, but I'm sure he will tell us also.
Please welcome two of the finest individuals that I knew at SMC to our forum.
Sammy
-----Original Message-----
From: Anthony Todd <anthonybtodd@gmail.com>
To: hsamuel101 <hsamuel101@aol.com>
Sent: Fri, Jun 8, 2012 12:43 pm
Subject: New member-SMC forum
Hello Samuel,
Thanks for the invitation. This is to confirm that I have registered for the SMC discussion forum. Appreciate the opportunity to link up with school mates of a memorable era. Looking forward to my participation. Family ok for now. Best wishes to you and your family.
Anthony Todd
In memory of Anthony Todd, I have retrieved copies of his contributions to the forum along with the messages he responded to below.
They are in chronological order, so please start reading from the bottom. Please note his contribution to Kernon John's arrival. :-)
Todd joined the forum on the same day as Darrel "Dangle" Joseph, SMC boy resident in the UK, on Friday June 8th 2012.
Ironically, his last message to the forum on Aug 30th was a condolence to Darrel on the loss of his dad and to John and Tony Francis on the loss of their mom.
Anthony's passing is another sudden reminder of how fickle and unpredictable our short stay on this planet is.
Like my buddy Racoon and I were saying a couple weeks ago "it's now our turn - we're now at the front of the line".
It is incumbent upon us all to lighten up and be tolerant and supportive of each other starting right here on our beloved forum.
May the good Lord bless all of you, and grant peace, health and prosperity to you and your families in 2013.
I will keep Anthony's email address in the forum. At least he will be with us in spirit.
Rest in peace Todd.
Bourru
-----Original Message-----
From: anthonybtodd <anthonybtodd@gmail.com>
To: smcaa2010 <smcaa2010@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Thu, Aug 30, 2012 8:22 am
Subject: Re: Sad news
Condolences to John, Darrel and their families.
Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device from LIME.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
From: hsamuel101@aol.com
Sender: smcaa2010@googlegroups.com
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2012 08:13:06 -0400 (EDT)
To: <smcaa2010@googlegroups.com>
ReplyTo: smcaa2010@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: Sad news
Deepest sympathies to John, Darrel and their families.
Heneith
-----Original Message-----
From: johnfevrier <johnfevrier@aol.com>
To: smcaa2010 <smcaa2010@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Wed, Aug 29, 2012 7:10 pm
Subject: Re: Sad news
My sympathies to John and Tony Francis and also Darrel Joseph. I am here to support them in getting through this tough period
Howard
Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
From: "Trevor A Philip" <trevor-tpagency@candw.lc>
Sender: smcaa2010@googlegroups.com
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2012 20:33:53 +0000
To: Forum<smcaa2010@googlegroups.com>
ReplyTo: smcaa2010@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: Sad news
Just heard of the passing oof the mother of John Francis. Also Darrel Joseph lost his dad a few days ago. Condolences to the brothers and their families
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Digicel
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-----Original Message-----
From: Anthony Todd <anthonybtodd@gmail.com>
To: smcaa2010 <smcaa2010@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Mon, Jun 18, 2012 6:38 pm
Subject: Re: THE FORUM is a...
Hi guys,
Hope the fathers in the house had a good Father's day. I want to add my little bit to the discussion on the influence of SMC and the Brothers on our lives. While the Brothers were not perfect (Ti Plon had his issues for eg.), we were socialised to play valuable roles in the system by them, the teachers, organizations such as the Scouts and Cadets, the Church through its indoctrination (some of us were acolytes), our parents and neighbours. I however cherish the education I got from my peers such as Kingsley, etc, who introduced me to books like Soul on Ice, and all the black persons mentioned by him who were involved in the social revolution in North America in that period. We learned to critique the very system we were preparing to enter. This experience helped to bring balance to our development and i think helped to make us the men and women we are today.
Anthony Todd
On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 11:23 AM, trevor blanchard <tblanch01@gmail.com> wrote:
I am also aware that even though he never directly connected with me I was still affected.
I don't think he ever spoke to me other than calling my name on the roll call.
But I was very aware of him. A totally different relationship than what I had with
Joachim Stack, and he too was violent with some students.
Why the difference ?
Why did I not fear going all the way to St. Vincent and Dominica with Joachim or trust
him when camping out in the woods somewhere, yet I did not trust the bastard Ti Plon.
I never smiled at him and he must have sensed something, because he never made an attempt to know me better, even when alone in his presence.
I was around him in the Brothers home on occasion waiting for Joachim and we just glanced at each other.
Could I have murdered this guy as a youth ?
Do you ever get a natural sense to protect yourself around certain personalities ?
Black, white or yellow, not a race factor. just a natural sense to protect.
He could have sensed that in me and that is why there was so much space between us.
Sadism motivates defense in a victim.
He never victimized me, but he endangered himself just by letting me a little into his nature.
Bones.
On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 9:19 AM, Baxter Bushell <baxter.bushell@gmail.com> wrote:
In my view, you're right on target, Bones. Ti Plon was not only a highly deficient excuse for a teacher, but I remember him to exhibit a clearly discernible sadistic streak. Racist too, talking about not "giving him any guff" and "let no pup bark!"
Bax
On 18 June 2012 07:54, trevor blanchard <tblanch01@gmail.com> wrote:
It's a classroom, that's what the Forum is.
An extension of the past where we delight in being both student
and professor. We are the authority. That delights in many ways depending
on the kind of students we were forty years ago.
We all made observations and came to many conclusions about any and
everything, and held them in, as our little secrets.
Check yourself if you don't believe that.
Just stop right now and revisit yourself at seventeen or eighteen, noticing and
judging, opposing and agreeing, while you remain the only one doing all that.
Those moments were some of the most powerful, when it comes to the formulation
of individual personality.
The outcomes can shock us upon examination.
I can hear some of you saying ' education today is valued at what it can give you
instead of what it can make of you 'we had it better Bones !
I think Ti Plon the Presentation brother was the worse that they let out of
Ireland and allowed to land on the shores of SLU.
He must have taught me at the most four or five sessions, for my entire time at
SMC.
He was not too smart either. I think I was always smarter and will always be smarter
than the man students called TI Plon.
When you make a spectacle of a student getting out of his seat without permission
such that it eats up about ten valuable minutes of class time, you're a looser.
You ain't that smart.
You're a dumb ass, and trust me when I tell you I enjoy saying that .
More students probably got out of their seats or created interruptions in his classes
than in all other SMC classes combined.
I was terrified of him.
I had such a fear of this man, that it interfered with my digestion at
break or lunch.
He never knew that I wanted him off the island. And I entertained thoughts of all the
possible ways, of defending students against his terror. Fear can make you brave.
He never hit me, and there probably was some design to that as maintenance.
What was his success record as a teacher ?
Did he serve us at some optimum level ?
It takes skill as a teacher, to know that one cannot reach and teach everyone.
The exchange between teacher and student requires an environment where
violence as control varies in it's ineffectiveness. I said ' ineffectiveness '
The Irishman was in the wrong place and at the wrong time, because even today
my judgement of him still stands.
I cannot be convinced that back then it was so and so......
Not for me.
In my mind he is still an endangered species.
For others it may have been a totally different experience, one that was a lot friendlier and
more at ease.
Who in their right mind would suggest putting Irishmen in control of education
in a post colonial setting in the Caribbean anyway ?
Some teachers become cynical after a while.
The Presentation Brothers assumed the control which they used was the right one
but how long as effective, with people like myself plotting in the background ?
Even above and beyond the control, they must have had a growing sense of being
put down and ignored and opposed.
Why did it all change ?
I am being cynical here myself, but why, when we were made to believe that we
were enjoying the best.
Well, here is something you can put in the bank.
It was not them.
All the while, it was you and I.
That's what made it worth the while.
JUST ASKING
BONES BROOKLYN
-----Original Message-----
From: Anthony Todd <anthonybtodd@gmail.com>
To: smcaa2010 <smcaa2010@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Tue, Jun 12, 2012 10:24 am
Subject: Re: Another SMC boy has joined us
Hi guys,
Wow, Kernan " Sidney Poitier" John. I remember him teaching Lit. The spin, then chalk flying to some talkative or inattentive boy and the reprimand a la Poitier. Boy, theater at its best.Good teacher though, loved by most of us. I remember some of us having to scramble while liming early after school near HB or Rajow, so as not to be seen in uniform by an approaching " Poitier. Welcome Kernon "Poitier" John.
Anthony Todd
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 10:55 PM, <hsamuel101@aol.com> wrote:
Forum,
It's my pleasure to introduce to the forum none other than Kernan John, brother to current member Cameron John.
A former SMC master, Kernan now resides in Canada. I was first introduced to him in 1966 when he taught us math in Form 2B. Fellas in my age group (plus and minus a few years) like Thaddeus, the Pastor, Bloaters, Spence and Leo should remember him !!
I met Kernan about 3 years ago in Miami at the wedding of his brother Irving. Fellas the guy has not aged !! The sad thing is that he didn't remember me - maybe because I have grown since 1966.
Kernan was a super athlete and as you would expect, belonged to Presentation House. :-) :-) Heng Heng !! (Kernan, I'll explain the term heng to you later)
He was the first to introduce the Western Roll style of high jumping to SMC. Like I said before, we called it the "John style". All of us high jumpers wanted to perfect the "John Style". Hermingild did it in 1972 when he cleared 6ft at SMC. The first St Lucian athlete to accomplish this feat. Hervon Henry wrote about that feat as a headline on the Voice newspaper. I daresay that such a feat could not have been accomplished with the traditional scissors, straddle or straight jump style of jumping.
Kernan's resume since he left SMC is too rich and diversed to present here in any detail. Suffice it to say that this Samarian has done us proud. Subject to correction, I understood that he has received many high level teaching awards in Canada.
I am quite certain that the majority of the forum remembers this icon from SMC.
Did I say, he belonged to Presentation House ? :-)
Please join me in welcoming Mr Kernon John (John K from Pres) to our forum.
Standing ovation please !!!
Sammy
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
From: Anthony Todd <anthonybtodd@gmail.com>
To: smcaa2010 <smcaa2010@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Sat, Jun 9, 2012 4:04 pm
Subject: Re: Forum introductions
Thanks Wazzo, seeing all these nick names brings back memories. Thaddeus, maybe you don't remember me because I tried to stay out of trouble at SMC except for the odd occasional instances of injustice like the time Pistache sent some of us to Marcus (LOL). Don't remember the LEO, but I remember Thaddeus. Boy, you really bring back memories, "Red Head" at R.C Boys! I remember getting beat with his special leather strap on my back. Some boys used to place books in their shirts, but of course he always found out.
Todd
On Sat, Jun 9, 2012 at 3:14 PM, Leo Thaddeus Donnelly <zaponlucia@hotmail.com> wrote:
Welcome to my Bro Dangle...we sure had fun. Spoke with you brother a few months ago. I ask about you and found out that your are in England. Welcome also to Anthony Todd...so how I don't remember you.
Thaddeus
Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2012 11:59:27 -0400
Subject: Re: Forum introductions
From: tblanch01@gmail.com
To: smcaa2010@googlegroups.com
Welcome Darrel and Anthony,
It's the best place to be. Feel free to speak your mind
and tell us what you have been up to since you last saw any of us.
Looking forward to the rap.
Bones.
-----Original Message-----
From: Anthony Todd <anthonybtodd@gmail.com>
To: smcaa2010 <smcaa2010@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Sat, Jun 9, 2012 11:35 am
Subject: Re: Forum introductions
Hi guys,
Thanks for the welcome. Its great to see all these names. Brings back memories. Well I presently live and work in Barbados. Spent most of my working life in Education and am currently attached to the Higher Education Development Unit, a Project Unit of the Ministry of Education. We advise the Ministry on Tertiary Policy and are responsible for facilitating development projects of the tertiary institutions on the island. I am enjoying the project management aspect of the job. I have a daughter who is a teacher and son at UWI. Presently a widower. As for the Sea Scouts, spent most of my years at SMC in that organisation, but joined the Cadets during my final year. Remember guys like J.J.and Roger Eudoxie in the Cadets. Roger was the Cadet Under Officer and seemed older and more mature than some of us; maybe it was the Rank. Any way its great to be on board.
TODD
On Sat, Jun 9, 2012 at 10:56 AM, Trevor A Philip <trevor-tpagency@candw.lc> wrote:
Welcome guys. (Two of the finest individuals eh!) Well Dangles be careful here because both Nat and Hiram are on
Trevor P
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Digicel
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
From: hsamuel101@aol.com
Sender: smcaa2010@googlegroups.com
Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2012 10:37:31 -0400 (EDT)
To: <smcaa2010@googlegroups.com>
ReplyTo: smcaa2010@googlegroups.com
Subject: Forum introductions
Ladies and gentlemen,
Please join me in welcoming the following newest members to the forum:
Darrel Joseph (alias Dangle) - Currently resident in the UK, he is from the La Pansee area and brother to Victor.
Darrel was one of those troublesome, pain in the rear (from canning), students at SMC.
A super athlete who belonged to Tapon House,( I think :-() , he was a stable at college sports and did well in the field events. He and I experimented often with the newly introduced Western role style of high humping. Prior to that we all used the Scissors, straddle and straight jump style. It wasn't until the venerable Kernon John (Pres House Master :-)) jumped the bar while lying on his side that we all began jumping that way. It was an immediate hit. So much so, we called it the "John style" because we didn't know the real name of the style. It was adopted by many of us including our best jumper at the time Hermingild Francis - the first St Lucian to jump 6ft !
Darrel gave many point to Tapon in the high jump and other events.
Anthony Todd (we all just called him Todd) - Anthony was one of the nicest guys I knew at SMC, I don't know where he resides now. I'm sure he will tell us. His foray into "pain in the ass" was very infrequent from my memory :-). He was also a life long Sea Scout, and I clearly remember him consistently being awarded the title of Best Dressed Scout by Bro Joachim. Don't know his house, but I'm sure he will tell us also.
Please welcome two of the finest individuals that I knew at SMC to our forum.
Sammy
-----Original Message-----
From: Anthony Todd <anthonybtodd@gmail.com>
To: hsamuel101 <hsamuel101@aol.com>
Sent: Fri, Jun 8, 2012 12:43 pm
Subject: New member-SMC forum
Hello Samuel,
Thanks for the invitation. This is to confirm that I have registered for the SMC discussion forum. Appreciate the opportunity to link up with school mates of a memorable era. Looking forward to my participation. Family ok for now. Best wishes to you and your family.
Anthony Todd