University of Windsor - Magister Yearbook (Windsor, Ontario Canada)

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A rim Anyone? We all long for the summer sun. To us it means vacation time but to Vic Fath- ers, a Windsor Teachers' College Mas- ter now teaching in Ghana, vacation time is announced by heavy rains. Last year's rainy season sent us a rainbow: An hour after Mr. Fathers was intro- duced, the student body had a greater V- R- Fathm, B-A-, B-ECL awareness of the small African nation and many were asking for information about teaching abroad with the Canadian Overseas Development Agency. No one seemed to be deterred by the fact that the mosquito proof home provided by the Ghanaian government was bare and lacked glass in the windows, that the food was hardly Canadian fare Cdry milk and corn flakes lined the larderj, that it wasn't safe to go out after dark because of snakes, that the jungle would soon grow over the house if not cut back often, that the Master wasn't allowed to sit down while in the classroom Qsix month's pay is the penaltyj, or, that witch doctors still made their rounds when in need of a head. Naturally, there are some compensations. There are no meals to cook, no car to wash and no house to clean. I-Ie had a houseboy who would be deprived of the right to make a living should he care for himself. The golf course, some miles away is challenging, the native ladies, delightful, the Opal Kadett, dependable, the students, a joy, eager to learn, the travel, great, and, he still had his head. In April of l968, Mr. Fathers was approached to teach at St. Mary's Training School, six miles out of the town of Tokoradi, Ghana. Along with his thirteen associates, he has been training 210 male students involved in the four year program for prospective teachers. ln one of the six classrooms cut out of the jungle he teaches our equivalent of grades seven to ten English. We owe a debt of thanks to Mr. Fathers for sharing his first year's experiences with us and it is our hope that the second year will be as satisfying, as reward- ing, as the first. Shelley Jewell l l l 9 86

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