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Last Lap Lime '99
This year’s Last Lap Lime was the most successful ever in terms of attendance, fun and financial success. A record crowd kept streaming through the gates all day to enjoy the variety of Guyanese dishes and home made drinks. There was steel pan music, games and painting of children’s faces. There were lots of backslapping between people who had not seen each other for a long time. There were many visitors from the USA, including the entire contingent here for the annual ICQC meeting.
In the evening, a sold out crowd jumped to the rhythms of Guyana’s top band “Jahrusalem”. Kudos must go to all the volunteers from the five schools who worked tirelessly all day and night to ensure this year’s lime was the huge success it was. |
New Release by Ray Luck
The Scribbler has just been informed that QC alumnus and musical virtuoso Ray Luck has just released his recent CD. Ray performed at sold out concerts in Toronto and London organised by the respective chapters. The CD includes pieces he played at both concerts. These included:
"Souvenirs of Venice and Naples" – Ray Luck, Piano
Music by Chopin, Fauré, Poulenc, and Liszt
The CD is available on the internet at the following websites:
www.amazon.com
Let’s support an outstanding alumnus!
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Queens vs. Saints by Albert Ramprasad Bearing the sting of previous defeats, the QC cricket team this year made a determined effort to win this year’s match. A number of new faces were on the team this year. The game was played under hot and sunny weather conditions. The outfield was rather slow and there was not much life in the wicket. The Saints captain, Joe Castanheiro, won the toss and elected to bat. Our bowlers did not get much help from the the wicket and at the end of 40 overs, Saints had scored a total of 211 runs for 6 wickets. The top scoring batsmen for Saints were Jimmy Foster – 65, Andy D’Ornellas – 32 and Mark Dummett - 38. The successful bowlers were Ron Murli 2 for 49, and Ramlall 2 for 22.
The successful bowlers for Saints were Andy D’Ornellas 3 for 13 and Jimmy Foster 3 for 8. The QC performance was commendable in containing the Saints batting to 211 runs, despite the fact that two vital catches were dropped. The QC middle order batsmen did not live up to expectations, hence our low score of 81. Man of the match for Saints was Jimmy Foster and Man of the match for Queen’s was Pierre Ramlall. |
Queens vs. Saints by Joe Permaul
The players on both sides went about their business with great gusto and so did the lightning and thunder. The darkened sky opened up and at the sound of the halftime whistle, with the score at Saints 3-QC 1, it was time to run for cover. Players and patrons huddled together “back-to-back” and “belly-to-belly” under two small tents and any such place that the club house entrance hallway afforded. After what seemed like an eternity, the downpour ceased and so did the lightning, allowing play to resume. In hindsight, it would have been better if the game been abandoned at this time as Saints seized the initiative and went on to put two more goals between the uprights beating QC by a score of 5-1. The second goal scored by Queen’s was disallowed otherwise the final score would have been 5-2 in Saints favour. The QC team, again captained this year by Stanley Chang-Choon, suffered a repeat attack of dysfunctional syndrome. Several of the players had never practised together as a team and in some instances did not even know the names of their teammates. To add to Queen’s predicament, playtime for many of the team members amounted to little more than panting 10-minute spells. The game of “substitution” was more fervently played than soccer. |
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QC took up the challenge on a deteriorating wicket and a slow outfield. Our expectations became suspect when Seville Farley was out without scoring and only 3 runs on the board. Andrew Ying, a newcomer, joined Ron Murli and carried the score to 30 before he was run out. Very little resistance came from the middle order batsmen and as a result the final score was 81 all out in 27 overs. Murli made 20 and Ramlall, batting at number 7, scored 25 to help to bolster the failing QC innings.
Saturday July 17th would turn out to be an adverse day in more ways than one for our soccer team. The family picnic at Scott Westney Park did not live up to the numerical expectations. Nevertheless, those who attended seemed to be having a good time until the whistle blew to begin the annual soccer contest. That’s when the fun really began!