Maxwell Pereira to Peter Fernandes
Friday, 18 Dec 2009.... 02:22am
Hello Peter...
Sorry I did not reply to you earlier. Like mentioned in my mails and postings, I sing for the Capital City Minstrels of Delhi and we have just concluded a string of our Christmas Concerts of this season - which kept me extremely busy this past fortnight. In addition, many of us from CCM who live in Gurgaon have joined hands to form a new Gurgaon chapter of CCM calling ourselves "Incidental Art" to fill the void for choral singing that was being felt in this millennium city - and we have just finished the first ever concert of "IA" just 2 days ago at Gurgaon's Epicentre auditorium.
From your mail, I gather you celebrated the wedding of your son recently. Over the last week of October, I too was heavily preoccupied with the wedding of one of my two daughters. She and her now husband met in the US, the boy who owns a well known IT company in the US, is by ethnic origin a Rajastani Marwari whose parents live in Surat/Gujarat and the Bride's parent lives in Delhi - but the couple chose Kolkata for their wedding. It wasn't easy doing every thing by remote control and proxy.
Thank you for sending me updates on you. Perhaps you too do not recall that I was also in the "engineering" section in the High School, where we learnt carpentry, eletrical wiring, backsmithy, lathe and grinding/filing/fitting works - and exempt from the regular routine classes of history, Geography and other humanities. I am sure a little more interaction will jingle the memory cells better.
Our Headmaster in Middle School was Fr Bertram Sequeira (not Bertrand). Somehow, I do not recall any Denis Albuquerque. The ones I remember from the earliest days are:
1st class: Isobel teacher
2nd class: Cecy teacher
3rd class: Hilda teacher
4th class: Saver (Xavier) mistry (class teacher), Delphine teacher, Benna Monteiro; Rasquinha (Geography)
5th class: Delphine (class teacher), Benna Monteiro (Maths), Rasquinha (History and Geography); Delphine teacher took special classes to coach us in English for those of us who had opted for and with extra fees, to join the "D" section English Medium in the Ist Form. From the IIIrd Form (and onwards) when we moved from the Middle School to the High School, the English Medium class became the "E" Section.
Ist Form (English Medium): do not recall any one specifically
IInd Form: do not recall anyone specifically
IIIrd Form: Acchu Mistry (class teacher)
IVth Form: Do not recall anyone particularly
Vth Form: Fr Michael Saldanha (class teacher & Asst Headmaster); Fr Stany Coelho (English); Fr Denis Rasquinha (English non-detailed); Aithala (Kannada)
VIth Form: Fr Stany Coelho (class teacher & Headmaster); Aithala - Kannada; Kasappaiyya- ; Bhandary-Maths & Physics; Salu Fernand-Chemistry; Alexander (Acchu) - physical Director.
My interactions with the rest of my classmates suffered to a great extent once I joined the Boarding House, IIIrd Form onwards. Fr Ligoury Castelino who was my Boarding House Director was also the College Bandmaster - who bullied and coerced me into joining the College Band (where I played brass instruments for five years continuously) by denying me permisssion to join coaching classes for the school teams for Hockey and Football in which I had great interest.
Happy to touch base with you.. Will look forward to meeting you in person.
Warm regards,
Maxie
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