Remember When?

1. "Mausica is not all love and kisses" ...Mr Osborne
2. "D.D., I see you looking resplendent in your cricket uniform. Now all you need is your pick" ...Mr Joseph.
3. Between 1967 and 1969, I planted with the help of students, the two rows of palm trees that run from the main entrance of the college to the administration building. We planted crotons, and started a vegetable garden near the male hostels, which drowned in the floods. I lived alone there with my two sons, and that could be why the student I have closest contact with now, remembers me for sexy legs in miniskirts, when I was really a History and English lecturer. I rescued Ana Alexander of Grenada from Harry-Jo's wrath when she chased a girl from the dining room with a table knife, and many of you helped my young sons, Nigel and Larry, to use dirty language, you wicked things! You were young then, and so was I. I am Linda Edwards, formerly Linda Edwards Romain, now living in Texas. I teach. I write. I remember. My latest novel, which I hope to market widely is The Sun, The Snow, The Sea, …see a preview at www.lindaslovebook.com. I would like to be included in plans for the re-union in Canada in 2005. Please pass this information on to all Mausicans on your list. We were a unique bunch and have gone on to do tremendous things with our lives.
   With pride in the past and great hopes for the future, .... Linda Edwards (ROMAIN).
4. I have a couple for remember when. One of them is quite sad, and the memory is of the Sunday morning in 1969 when we woke up to the awful news on the radio that there had been a car crash and that two mausicans had died. A group of us went to Port of Spain to the Hospital. We came face to face grief. Cheryl Gittens and Horatio Hospedales had died. That was easily the saddest day in Mausica history. Equalled only by the day the school closed for good. ...Theodore Lewis.
5. A second memory is that of the pudding tumbling down. In formal dinner there used to be a pudding ceremony. In our year group, 1967-1969 there were three very tall men, Noel Duncan, Errol Jones and Raymond Mendez. They were bringing in the pudding, which was now flaming. As these three men entered the aisle the tray titled, and could not be saved. The pudding fell, unfortunately on Cheryl Gittens. Pearl Mulren has immortalized the event in a calypso.
   
   "An the pudding tumble down 
   when the Joe was speaking
   an the pudding tumble down
   Put a halt to the proceedings."
    ...Theodore Lewis.
6. Christopher Osbourne, who had replaced Harry Joe as principal, announces that for graduation the girls could not wear bare shouldered gowns. They had to wear “boleros”. That did not go down well. Some of us men got into the act. How come this newcomer telling people what to wear. He had already lost most of us with his comments that there were too many dogs on campus. (Which prompted my winning calypso in 1968). Osbourne called an assembly to reiterate his point. When he was walking out of the assembly, yours truly shouted out “Bolero” to raucous laughter and derision. He came back, asking for “one name”. Someone squealed. He called me up to the office. A very 
   large delegation of students followed. He blinked. ...Theodore Lewis
7. Mausica Anthem
8. Tribute to Ma Cuffie by Dennis Conrad
9. 40 Year Reunion - Rodney Foster