Julius Rosario Carneiro, age 77, loving and devoted husband of Hilda (Pinto) for 40 years, an international educator, a leader and emissary of life and goodwill, currently of Revere, MA, died Wednesday, February 16, 2011 at the Kaplan Family Hospice House in Danvers following a courageous battle with lung cancer. He was a loving father and father-in-law to Jacqueline Valatka and her husband Joseph, Jeannette McLaughlin and her husband Dermot, Herman, Hubert, and Julia Carneiro and her husband Sebastian. He was a grandfather to Jeremy Alexander and Jessica Anne Valatka, and the late Julius Raphael Carneiro.

The son of Jose Menino Carneiro and Ana Quitera, he was born and raised in Mysore, India. There he earned his Bachelor of Science and Bachelor of Education degrees. The eldest son of 12 brothers and sisters, he pursued his own education and then worked hard to ensure that each of his brothers and sisters would also a good education. He actively promoted equal opportunity for women in education. Despite the norm of the time, he was determined to see his sisters receive an education and two of them became doctors. His achievements in education were so significant that the Maharaja of Mysore awarded a gold medal to him for excellence in teaching practices and business administration. This was just the beginning of his career.

Mr. Carneiro later taught mathematics at Fr. St. Germain's College in Bangalore for many years. His expertise and methods of education were so unique that he was recruited by the Ethiopian ministry of education to teach there in 1960. During his short time in Ethiopia he had the opportunity to meet and spend time with then-Emperor, Haile Selassie. Surviving the coup d'état about a year after his arrival, Mr. Carneiro relocated to Mombasa, Kenya, where he landed a job with His Highness The Aga Khan Education Board. He was hired to teach mathematics to the then senior Cambridge classes.

There were rumblings of a storm in the brewing on the political horizon in Kenya and the movement for Independence from the British were the fiery. Most of those who could get out of the country did. Mr. Carneiro decided to stay behind and brave the storm. It was in this environment that he commenced teaching in an Ismaili school. The headmaster was an Irishman from County Cork and was a devout Catholic. They got on well with one another.

Mr. Carneiro spent five years in Mombasa and, in 1965, the headmaster, Mr. Corkery was transferred to the Aga Khan High School, Nairobi. Mr. Carneiro was invited to join him on the staff, and that brought him to Nairobi.

Mr. Carneiro felt like a fish out of water at first and longed to get back to the coast. Practically twice a month, he used to leave Nairobi after class on a Friday afternoon and drive over 500 km in his second-hand Volkswagen and drive to Mombasa.

The roads were not tarmac then. The tarmac stopped a little past the airport at Embakasi and then murram section began. The 'highway' was a two lane road, one for vehicles going down and the other for those going up-country. Often the big stones kicked up by passing vehicles crashed the windscreen of his car. He had no choice but drive through the 'bundu' (forest) trying to ward off all the rare African insects from kissing him.

He soon began to like Nairobi and the trips to Mombasa decreased.

After Independence in 1963, Kenya was a peaceful country under the leadership of President Jomo Kenyatta. Mr. Carneiro's love for tennis was growing and he ventured into its national administration by attending one of the annual general meetings. He was elected to its council and held various positions in the committee for the following six years.

In 1985 and 1986 he managed Kenya's Junior team at the World Junior Championships, sponsored by Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida. He also managed Kenya's junior team at the All Africa tennis Championships in Zeralda, Algeria and later managed Kenya's Davis Cup Team in Cairo, Egypt.

The Kenya Lawn Tennis Association (KLTA) sent him to represent Kenya at the International Tennis Federation annual meeting in Barcelona, Spain which was chaired by none other than the French lawyer, Phillipe Chartrier. He was interested in promoting tennis among the Kenyans. They were natural athletes but lacked the facilities and the equipment. Some of the kids could not even afford the bus fare from the surroundings to come to Nairobi.

The International Tennis Federation provided a lot of equipment and encouragement. The All Africa Games were held in Nairobi at that time and Jules was elected the organizer of tennis for the games. In 1987, Jules was elected Chairman of the Kenya Lawn Tennis Association (KLTA) and became the first Goan to hold that post. It was during his tenure as chairman that first Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) Championships were held at Nairobi. He was re-elected the following year when tennis was at its zenith. In appreciation of his contribution to the game, he gained recognition and an award from the International Tennis Federation at their annual general meeting in 1988 at Paris. He was one of only two people in Africa to gain this honour.

Being the chairman of the KLTA also gave Mr. Carneiro the opportunity of meeting the then president of Kenya, Daniel Arap Moi and the current president, Mwai Kibaki.

Meanwhile, in his career as an educator, Mr. Carneiro became the headmaster of the Aga Khan High school, Nairobi. This brought him in contact with various cabinet ministers like Mr. Robert Ouko, who was actually his neighbor. He also had the opportunity of meeting His Highness the Aga Khan and taking him around the school in 1982. The prize giving day at the school brought many well known people like the Nobel Prize winner Ms Wangari Mathai to the school. Our sports day guests of honor included Kenya's star runner Kipchoge Keino.

Mr. Carneiro loved Kenya as it exposed him to a wealth of experience. The visits to the National Parks like the Nairobi National Park, the game sanctuary at Amboselli, Lake Nakuru with its gorgeous flamingos and the mass migration of the Wildebeest
at Masai Mara were a blessing to study animals and to 'shoot' them on camera. Mr. Carneiro had the unique opportunity of broadcasting a talk on tennis over the Voice of Kenya radio station on Sunday mornings and interviewed on Kenya Television when they
had leading tennis personalities.

But as the years rolled on, instability began to surface. The gap between the haves and the have-nots became wider. Non-citizens could not get employment, nor could they get their children into University.

It was sad to leave the land where he had spent thirty seven years of my life. The family eventually received visas in 1997 to immigrate to the United States of America. Mr. Carneiro made the brave move to the US where he spent the rest of his years doing the things he loved.

He continued his award-winning photography, oil painting and calligraphy. He was an avid listener of BBC Radio. He enjoyed playing woodwind instruments, writing, presenting speeches, fixing anything, and reading.

A funeral mass will be held on Saturday, February 19, 2010 in St Anthony of Padua, 250 Revere St., Revere, MA 02151. Relatives and friends are respectfully invited to attend. The family has requested no visiting hours. Internment will be private. Those who wish to do so may make memorial contributions to Massachusetts General Hospital, Cancer Research c/o Massachusetts General Hospital, Development Office, 165 Cambridge Street, Suite 600, Boston, MA 02114.

For online guest book or additional information please contact the Murphy Funeral Home, 85 Federal St., Salem. MA 01970, tel. 978 744 0497 or visit www.MurphyFuneralHome.com.