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1944 - West Indians in Britian During WWII PDF Print E-mail

One of the speakers is Justice Ulric Cross who was inducted into The St. Mary's College Hall of Fame last year.

Last Updated on Monday, 10 May 2010 02:41
 
50 Years Ago - Sports PDF Print E-mail
We are glad to see that St. Mary’s names continue to figure in representative teams in most forms of sport. Pat Gomez was chosen captain of the first ever West Indies Football team to tour the U.K. Also on the team are Willie Rodrigues, Tyrone de la Bastide and Eddie Aleong. Robert Hamel-Smith captained the Trinidad team against Jamaica last year.

Peter Valdez has been Trinidad Tennis champion for the last two years, representing Trinidad in the Brandon Trophy both years and the West Indies against Argentina at Buenos Aires in the Davis Cup series. Eric de Verteuil captained the Trinidad Tennis team in the Brandon Cup series in Barbados this year and has also been chosen captain of the Hockey team to tour British Guiana. On the hockey tearn with him are Deverard Warner, Leonard Gomes, Neil Jardine, Hylton Young and Peter Donawa. Willie Rodrigues toured India and Pakistan with the victorious West Indies Cricket team this year.

John Sellier, has been Golf Champion of Trinidad for the last two years, and played against Jamaica for the Hoerman Cup.

Joe Hadeed was on the Trinidad Water Polo team that went to Jamaica last year.

Joe Crooks won the Governor General’s Trophy for the highest aggregate when shooting for the Trinidad rifle team in British Guiana earlier this year.

Shah Hosein represented Trinidad in the West Indian Table Tennis Tournament in Jamaica.

Joe Goddard ran for Trindad at the British Empire Games in Cardiff in 1958. Mike Agostini ran for Canada at the same meeting, and we are happy to say that Mike, whose exploits need no labouring here, is once more running for Trinidad and the West Indies at the Pan-American Games in Chicago.

Desmond Hackett and Lennox Morris are on the six-man cycle team representing the West Indies at the Chicago Pan-American Games. They have been the island’s two top sprinters for the last two years.

 
50 Years Ago - Government Exhibitioners to St. Mary’s College PDF Print E-mail
Today, they are Past Students of St. Mary’s College but fifty years ago, these individuals whose names appear below, entered the hallowed halls of the College as Government Exhibitioners. In that year, 1958, the Government awarded a total of 250 Exhibtions to male and female students of primary schools, based on the Exhibition examination (later to be known as Common Entrance and then SEA).

Seventy-eight of the male exhibitioners chose to attend St. Mary’s College.

GOVERNMENT EXHIBITIONERS
ENTERED JANUARY 1958
(In order of Merit)

Denalli, Norman
Watty, Victor
Bideshi, Harold
Anatol, Franklyn
Kumar, Victor
Sinanan, Solomon
Downes, Kenneth
Franklyn, Anthony
Furlonge-Kelly, Guido
Mc Intyre, Keith
Achille, Horace
Harridial, Bill
Chang-a-Shing, Ronald
Hyles, Rudolph
Perez, Desmond
Lalsingh, Leon
Ferreira, Andrew
Pyke, Ian
Chow, Conrad
Robley, Michael

Stafford, John
Jones, Aldwyn
Darbeau, Don
Toney, Michael
Gail, Clarence
Frank, Rodney
Bunting, Ruthven
Brunton, Ian
Abder, Clyde
Tang Choon, George
Ali, Tahzeeb
Germain, Michael
Manickchand, Paul
Montoute, Earle
Gonzales, Winston
Baptiste, Clarence
Knox, Dudley
Chang, Errol
Nunez, David
Pierre, Lennox

Brown, Everold
Marchack, Dixon
Baldwin, Leonard
Springer, Joseph
Assing, Garth
Garcia, Aloysius
Steele, Anthony
Cockburn, Francis
Ferreira, Errol
Lopez, Dennis
Smith, Anthony
Mar, Harold
Farrell, Trevor
Harracksingh, Felix
Saunders, Ramsey
Manswell, Vivan
Rodriguez, Patrick
Cobham, Kenneth
Kwok, George
Gibbs, Bernard

Kuei Tung, Bernard
Jackman, David
Khan, Benedict
Renwick, Dennis
O’Connor, Brendan
Castor, Victor
De Govia, Winston
Holder, Trevor
Mohammed, Hayden
Martin, Gary
Lambert, Nestor
Tom Yew, Bernard
Rickhi, Badri
Yetming, Gerald
Bodden, Richard
Lewis, Franklyn
Baptiste, Roland
Durity, Michael

Last Updated on Friday, 02 January 2009 00:16