NATHAN
MALTUS DAVID
- In
Proverbs Solomon wrote "Train up a child the way he should go, and
when he is old he will not depart from it' (Pr. 22:6). This is
exactly what I owe
- Barnes. It may
not seem much to others, but I feel the way I am
is because that's
how Barnes trained me. Punctuality,respect, keeping your word, are
still a part of me. (O! I almost forgot,getting up at six, yes I
still do that).
- I was
„dumped in Barnes in 1975, I was just five and
a half. I
was there for nearly four years and those
years are
the ones that I cherish the most. The
teacher
who I remember most was Mrs. Samson who taught
me in Std.
Three, her moral lessons still keep me in
check till
today. The Samson‚s used to live in the
Gate
House, I remember them having a daughter, she
should be
in her forties now. They retired sometime in
1978. Mrs.
Daniele (or something like that) taught me
in Std
Two, I was her favourite!! she got married in'77.
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- I
remember my first appearance on stage in'75 'I‚m a Bow Legged
Chicken ", does anyone have a picture
of that???
In
'77 I took part in a play "In Jamaica Where The
Hearts Are
Gay". In '78 I took part in boxing,I was one
of the
smallest boxers then, barely 19 kilos. Ofcourse I lost the match,
but I remember messing up my opponents
jaw. I was supposed to have won, but if I
did I
would have been beaten to pulp in the next
round.
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- I
remember Mr. and Mrs. Gamma, they had two sons (I think). If any
of you guys
are reading this, then try to remember the family
- who
used to host your parents in New Delhi, when you
used to
come to take part in Boxing. They were kind of
my
guardians while at school.
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- I
remember getting mumps in ‚77 and Zion coming on
Sunday to
give me flowers to cheer me up (I told you
Mrs.
Samson taught us stuff like that), it was really
sweet of
him. And to show him how much I appreciated
his kind
gesture, I gave him a dose of mumps and
brought
him flowers the following week.
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- I was
really small then and used to be a courier for
the senior
boys. They would ask me to call a
particular
girl to the boxing ring and in return they
would buy
me a cream roll or a drink at the tuck-shop!
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- I
remember taking cholera shots, messing with
beehives,
fishing with our plastic sponges like nets
in the
streams on Sunday's, going for walks in the
evenings,
grinding glass (yes glass) for what I do not
know; the
list could go on and on and on.
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- The
guys I remember from my stay there are: Carlton
Dawson,
Raju Kapoor, Earl Darling, Cheryl Taylor,Debra (she was a year
ahead of me, but most the guys mentioned
here, including me had a crush on her),David Sinclair, Zion and
Rahul (they used to live in
- the
middle east).
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- Above:A
recent photo
- Well
now I am in Nigeria, have been living there since'82, and would
probably continue to live here for a while. I finished my first
degree in '90 in Computer Science
and Engineering, then completed a post
graduate
diploma in Business Administration in '91. I
- worked
for nearly 10 years and am now back in the
University
completing a Master‚s in Electronics (kind
of a
refresher course as I see it).
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- Above:My
parents
- My dad
works here in Nigeria. He is an Architect. My
mom is in
UK trying to get her citizenship, she is an
Anglo
Indian and is having problems getting it. I have
two
sisters one is working in the States at UCLA and
the other
is in UK married with a daughter.
- I had
a brother, he too went to Barnes during the same
period as
I did (Christopher), and was a class ahead of me. He died in a
swimming accident in Feb'98.
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- Above:Karen
is my immediate younger sister and she is in the States working at
University of California, Los Angeles.
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- Above
left:Sabrina
is my youngest sister, and she works in UK in a database company
called Haygroup.
- Above
right:Davinna,
Sabrina's daughter.. From the picture you can see that she was
eager to return to the UK this year, having spent Christmas in
Nigeria.
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- I am
still single and intend to be like that for the
next
couple of years or so. I actually have not been
to India
since '82 and have completely lost touch. I
was
basically brought up by my mom‚s side, and most of
her
relatives are either in UK or Australia.
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- Nathan
David <cdxix@yahoo.com>
