On 11/11/06, eric pinto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The Rev. Benny and his brother the Rev. Vernon are Kalina-Santa Cruz East > Indians. Benny is 80 now, but he keeps very active. A very urbane duo, > they are also terribly nice human beings, and i treasure their acquaintance. > Fr. Benny was the Examiner editor for what seemed like forever, and Catholic > Bombay is not likely to see another cleric who quotes from Cicero, Thackeray > and Chesterton in the same lead article. > > The Rev. Alfred Aguiar and Pro. Theofilus, Siolim folk, were brothers. > Fr. Alfred used to spend summers at a Ukrainian church in New York and > enjoyed a word game with them that involved finding the sanskrit roots of > Ukrainian words. > > Prof. Theo's wife passed on last week in New York. She was 91. Prof. > Yvette had taught french at St. Xaviers College after returning from > University studies in Paris. One couldn't have met a nicer couple than them: > they belonged to a different era, of genteelness that is not easily > encountered today. eric. >
RESPONSE: Thank you for that correction; I wonder how one got the East Indian connection ? I guess we are all the same at the end of the day ! -- DEV BOREM KORUM. Gabe Menezes. London, England _______________________________________________ Goanet mailing list [email protected] http://lists.goanet.org/listinfo.cgi/goanet-goanet.org
