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:::: You stated QUOTE I Was born there in mid-thirties? when a little German influence was still there after they lost the colony to Great Britain at the end of the First World War. Was born in Ocean Road Hospital (then known as European hospital) and my original birth certificate was signed by R. Bergner.. Was baptized at St Joseph Cathedral? which was run by German Swiss priests, It was known as Catholic Mission. The priest who signed my baptismal certificate was Fr. Vincent Schoenenberg. .....END QUOTE::: Antonia you make me think that you were in the other St Joseph's School. The Building still stands behind the Kilimanjaro Hotel and next to the Masonic Lodge where the FM meet. During the First World War , which lasted a bit longer, the old St Josephs School (Next to the Cathedral was used as an Hospital. Very few Swiss Priest actually taught. The names you mention are all priest Germans .... A few years ago talking to a Goan FM, he told me that he disliked the SJCS school, he was Surprised I went there and not to Bombay. He told me that SJCS was meant for Half Castes (He used a strong word beginning with B:::: ::::I let it pass...There were more Lay teachers, Goans, Indian, Seychellois, Irish, English, South Africans, a "English/French red head who was a spy, .... and students who were Sikhs, Bohras, Hindus, Comorians, Chinese both from Hong Kong and Mainland China . :::::The Mission House that you may be alluding to is still standing. its a single storey building ..its only when you look at the decoration at roof level that you realize it was not an Administrative building ....Next to it is the Town Hall ...Absolutely Gothic. On the side of it ..was the BOMA ( Boma is not a Swahili word it is an acronym ...which my friend Vivian knows means BRITISH OVERSEAS MILITARY ADMINISTRATION. ........It was built before the Germans arrived ....the walls are thick, quite a bit of mangrove poles were used and even on a warm day it is cool. So in many ways we were prepared to be a multiracial community in DSM Yes I agree with you they were HAPPY GOOD DAYS ... :::: Do Keep in Touch ::::: Adolfo