Dear Asif,
Congradulations.  You are doing very good for yourself and I am proud of you.  I do hope and pray that this note finds you in the very best of health and happiness.  As for myself, all goes well.
1. I will get a website message to you by the 15th when I return from travels.
2. I also get to you a personal history.  Can E-mail transmit 1000 page document????
3. Concerning the history of the school, I think there was a very good history of the school written in the 1979-1980 yearbook.  If you contact Mr. Moinuddin Ahmed at MOINS@bangla.net  and he might be able to send it to you.  If not then request the Headmaster of the School,  Brother John Rozario, CSC, and  he will be able to help you and request him to send you the 79-80 yearbook if there are any copies of it left.  Tell him what you want it for and he will co-operate with you.  Even the school seal is on the letterhead of the stationary. (Scan and copy, and paste it to your web site.)
4. concerning the former Brothers:  Brother Robert Bellermine id dead.  He died 3 years ago.  Brother Thomas More is residing at the Narinda Technical School. and his address is:  32 Shah Shaheb Lane, Narinda, Dhaka 1100, Bangladesh. Brother Ronald Christenson, who taught at St. Joseph's, lives here with me.  Brother Gerald Kraeger former Headmaster, is dead.  Now, as for myself, all is going well. I am back to working 6 days a week with computers in the Archives of the Brothers of Holy Cross.  Healthwise I am doing very good.  My doctor who gave me a check up a
couple of days ago, said that my 22 year old heart was sounding  good.  There is practically no rejection of the transplanted heart.  My medicines are reduced to minimum ( 9 a day).  I feel great and by the grace of God and His continual blessings, I will continue to improve.  I can do anything I want except Bungee jumping and return to Bangladesh.  I really miss the place and the people.
Let me know some news of yourself.  Married, children, studies finished, yor parents and relatives and the old Josephites.  I have very fond memories of St. Joseph and the students.  I will cherish them all my life.

Thank you again for the surprising e-mail and concern.  God bless and keep you and all the Josephites in the best of health and happiness.  Let us continue to pray for each other in our daily
prayers.   Peace and Love,    Brother Ralph, CSC (Moga Miah)

Dear Naurose,  thank you very much for your kind letter and news.   I periodically tune into the Josephite web page to see what has been added. It is due for an overhaul and fix-up.  Good luck on your work.
Concerning:  A history of St. Joseph,  contact Brother John Rozario, CSC, present Headmaster and ask him for a copy of the history of St. Joseph that I wrote in the yearbook for the 25th Anniversary of St. Joseph High School.  I think it was the 1979-1980 issue.  Another source of information would be Mr. Moinuddin Ahmed,  your beloved teacher.  He would know where to get it.  His email address is :  MOINS@bangla.net Concerning my history and comments about me and the batch of 89.  I will work on that this weekend and e-mail you material for that.  Please be patient.
Concerning my health:  I have a great 22 year old heart in my body and my body is not rejecting it.  In fact, the doctors are beginning to wean me off the rejection drugs, to see how the heart will do.  I feel great and am working 5 days a week, 7 hours a day.  Now that winter is going, I am looking forward to walking 4 miles a day to keep in shape.  I have gained some weight due to the prednizones and neoral pills that I have been taking.  Hopefully, my body likes my new 22 year old male heart. Praise the Lord for His many blessings.

Again thanks for the concern and greetings.  I return the prayers and greetings and cherish the memories of the "old" days at St. Joseph's.  Peace and prayers, Moga Miah
 
 
 

Subject: Number One???
Date: Sat, 20 Mar 1999 19:56:51 -0500
From: Ralph Baird 
To: ras@gvn.net

Dear Ras,
Dear Ras, There is one and only one Brother Ralph, also known as Moga Miah, whsose first words when entering your classroom were: "Number One!' Also I was the one who ran the sports program, gave beatings to the students (I can't recall giving you one) and was most beloved by all his students. I am he. I do hope and pray that this letter will find all of you in the very best of health and happiness. As for myself, all is well. I do not know if I have enough time and space to let you know what happened to me since you left. The students in Karachi must have teased you about you coming 
from St. Joseph's School (A girls school in Karachi) I stayed at St. Joseph's until 1974 when it changed over to Bengali Medium and the Cambridge syllabus was dropped in favor of the Board syllabus. I then went to our village school in Bandura in the Dhaka District to re-learn Bengali. I taught out there for 5 years and returned to St. Joseph's to help the aging Bro. Robert, who has since died.
IIn 1980 I was appointed Headmaster of St. Joseph's and held that post for 5 years. In 1984, I had my first of many heart attacks and had to resign my post and return to the States for treatment. In 1989 I had a massive heartattack and was flowed from Dhaka to Chicago via London. In Chicago an
ambulance took me to South Bend, (Notre Dame) and I received a quadruple by-pass. I returned to Bangladesh and worked at St. Gregory's and St. Placid's for a couple of years each. I then reutrned to Dhaka and become the Secretary of the Brothers' Provincial and kept the books. In 1996 weakened 
with more heart troubles I returned to Notre Dame. There the doctors told me that there was nothing they could do for my heart. The did recommend a Heart Transplant which I had on the 5th of November, 1997, at Lutheran Hospital in Fort Wayne, Indiana after 8 months of waiting for the heart in 
the intensive care connected to tubes and an left ventricular heart assistance pump which kept me alive. (There is more to this part of my life which I can save until a later date.) I returned to Notre Dame with my new 21 year old heart and recovered and recuperated and then after 5 months I went
back to work in the Provincial Archives 5 days a week, 7 hours a day. I am putting all the info since 1853 into the computer records. I feel great and daily I praise the Lord for His great blessings given to me. I have recovered and right now I do not have any rejection for the last 16 months. Let us continue to praise the Lord for His continued blessings to me an all my friends. Other news, Brothers Gerald Kraegar and Lorenzo Powers have died. Bro. William Sheehan left our Brotherhood and I lost touch with him. Brother John Harris is out in Mountain View, CA. He just has surgery for possible Cancer of the Unirary bladder. He is recovering nicely. He is still in the hospital. His house where he lives with other Brothers is: 1885 Miramonte Avenue, Mountain View, CA, 94040-4098. Tel: 650-967-2530. e-mail jlharris@sfhs.com
I am running out of time. I will write more when you answer this note but let me know all about your times and parents since "little" Ras left Mohammedpur. I am proud of your achievements. Keep in touch. It was very nice to hear from you. Let us pray for each outhger in our daily prayers.

Peace and Love, Brother Ralph Baird, CSC
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