Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/05/28

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Subject: [Leica] CAMPIONS!
From: hlritter at bex.net (Howard Ritter)
Date: Sat, 28 May 2011 23:17:02 -0400
References: <6946DEDD-F38D-4FF9-96F9-6F0AB965B165@gmail.com> <BANLkTin_5cj4Sha2seM_NNV4G2QKRHRKKA@mail.gmail.com>

I'm going out on a limb here, but considering that Barca just won the 
CHAMPIONship today in the football CHAMPIONs League (?congratulations 
Lluis!), I'm gonna guess that "campions" means...er...let's see...ummm...  
Naaah. I got nothing.

?howard

On May 28, 2011, at 10:50 PM, Jayanand Govindaraj wrote:

> Luis,
> This triggers memories. What does Campions mean?
> 
> I went to a Jesuit school called Campion School, which was set up by a
> Spanish missionary, Father E.F.More SJ, who was a tremendous influence on
> all students that he came in contact with. His grave is still at our school
> in a place called Bhopal in Central India. On his birth centenary a few
> years ago, over a hundred students of the first batch of the school met
> there, and there were guys who had specifically come for the occasion from
> Australia, USA, Canada, UK, Middle East, Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong, 
> etc
> - that is the sort of respect we all felt for him.  An earlier Campion
> School that he started in Mumbai is, even today, considered one of the top
> three schools for boys in that city.
> 
> Cheers
> Jayanand
> 
> On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 7:09 AM, Lluis Ripoll
> <lluisripollquerol at gmail.com>wrote:
> 
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/luisrq/Miscellaneous/L1020076w.jpg.html
>> M8, Sumicron 35
>> 
>> Thanks ...
>> 
>> Saludos cordiales
>> Lluis
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