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Marilyn Eck Writes More About Life
In Africa, Visiting Remote Villages
These are the places that for
most people live only between
the pages of a geography. A
“Bush Clinic” was a new exper-
ience for Marilyn, brought up
in a community where a doctor
can be procured within minutes
when an emergency arises.
Marilyn takes it from here,
through letters written to her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frederick
Eck of Shavertown. :
Sept. 13, 1961
I've been out of reach of a post
On Sept. 4, Roddy and I
took a WNLA barge up the Zambesi
60 miles to Mwandi, then trans-
ferred to a WNLA truck and trav-
eled 50 more miles on an ‘inter-
national highway” to Katima, a
booming city (pop. 100 Europeans)
in Caprivi Zipfield—S. W. Africa.
The road was one lane and sandy.
We stayed with a Dr. Jameson—a
friend of the family. He's the only
doctor within an 80 mile radius. Our
first night there we had an emer-
gency case. Dr. Jameson, assisted
by Roddy, operated on a gunshot
wound in the arm at 1:30 A. M.
‘We were up until 3:30 A.M. waiting
for them to return home. At 8
the next morning we went to the
“hospital” and I was nurse for the
patient until 2:30. I bathed him,
changed his drip bottle, massaged
his hand and arm, etc. Then at
| 2:30 Dr. Jameson came to the room
and we put him (Mr. Hart) on a
stretcher, took him to a waiting
boat, took him across the river,
loaded him in a waiting jeep, raced
him to the airstrip and put him in a
private plane bound for Bulawayo.
I'm glad T had home nursing in
school. I was told what to do and
was expected to know how—if it
weren't for home nursing I would
have been lost.
The next day Dr. Jameson, Roddy
and I made an 80 mile trip into
darkest bush to a “Clinic” in a
remote native village. I was stared
at openly by the half-naked inhab-
itants. In one village I was the
first white woman to have been
there. In the others I was the 2nd
or 3rd. The clinic is a small grass
hut. Inside is one table with a few
medicine bottles on top. A trained
African orderly is the entire staff.
He merely gives out the medicine
to the villagers. The village has a
“school”’—large mud hut with very
crude benches and 2 blackboards.
We made the journey in an open
jeep—14 yr. old. It took 41% hrs.
to go the 80 miles and the Dr. said
that’s the best time he’s made in
over a year. I wish Julie could have
been here those 2 days I've just
described. She'd get a good idea of
nursing in the most primitive con-
ditions.
We stayed there until Sept. 9th,
then took a truck back to Sarandel-
la (place on the Chobe) (while on
this trip with, Dr. Jameson I was on
the Angola border). On the trip
we saw elephant, impala, wilde-
beaste, baboon, monkeys, tseshe—
better known as Gnu, bushbuck,
and various birds. Yesterday we
left Chobe and came back to Bula-
wayo. The governor's son stayed
with us the last 3 days at Sarandel-
la. He's fabulous. Had polio and
must walk with crutches but I don’t
feel at all sorry for him—he’s got
such a wonderful sense of humor
and keen mind. He runs a farm
and is always puttering around with
his land rover and anything me-
chanical—he’s 21 but acts much
older.
I caught a 7 lb. tiger fish while
casting with a light breem rod—
quite a fish and quite an accom-
Rhona is 4'7”, has straight blond
hair—neck length, has blue eyes,
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Enclosing a porch can be the
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living space.
Enthusiastic testimony of this
comes from all six members of
a family in Croton-on-Hudson,
N.Y., who recently added a play-
room, dining room, entertain-
ment center, and overflow guest
room by building an enclosed
porch on the concrete roof of
their attached garage.
Has Many Uses
The porch is actually more
than a porch, say its owners. It’s
a screened-in patio in summer
and a cozy sunroom the rest of
the year. Its uses are almost un-
limited,
Key to low cost as well as
versatility of the project was
the use of 12 combination storm-
and-screen doors of ponderosa
ne for the three outside walls.
Ris doors, nailed in place, ac-
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inserts, quickly interchangeable,
make the porch breezy and cool
in summer, and sunny but
weatherproof in cooler months.
A portable electric heater makes
the glassed-in room usable on
even the coldest days.
Labor was partly professional,
partly do-it-yourself. A contrac-
tor was needed to erect a roof
supported by 4x4 posts, and to
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wide doors between the 4x4
supporting posts and covering
the joints with molding.
The home owner did all paint-
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down a cork floor and installed
ceiling tiles. -
A unique finishing touch that
adds beauty to the interior of
the new room is a wainscoting
Photo above of newly-enclosed porch in Croton-on-Hudson,
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Families who might want to
add a similar room to their own
homes can obtain most of the
materials from building material
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as well as the pine panel doors
used as wainscoting, are stock
items available in many styles
and sizes.
The Croton-on-Hudson proj-
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that a recent reappraisal of his
house by real estate agents
shows that the new addition has
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to the resale value of the house.
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created by butting stock pine
effect of custom-made paneling.
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loves horses and most animals, has
a fiery temper which flares 2 or 3
times a day—usually at Lynne.
Lynne is 5’2”, weighs 110, has
straight brown hair—just below the
ear, is very orderly and neat, very
critical—especially of Rhona, usual-
ly even-tempered.
Roddy is 6’ tall, weighs 150, has
blond hair, blue eyes, average looks.
Likes hunting, fishing, and trapping
snakes. :
Dr. Thompson is 6'1”, weighs 200
lb., has blue eyes—great sense of
humor, very. neat and orderly,
rarely gets angry.
Mrs. Thompson is 5’5”, weighs
115, has blond hair, blue eyes, loves
animals and “roughing it” rarely
gets angry.
I think I've convinced Thompsons
that Wilkes is better than Scranton
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Dr. Jordan what he thinks of the
two schools. So, if Roddy goes to
Wilkes he can stay with us if you
want him. 1 haven’t said anything
to Thompsons but I thought that
we'd have plenty of room with Bev
being the only one home. Anyway,
if you decide you want him at least
for the first couple months, if not
all year, let me know and tell Dr.
Jordan (if Roddy can get in to
Wilkes).
Also, could you get a Wilkes
catalogue and a Scranton U. cata-
logue and send them so we can
compare the courses offered. Also,
please tell me what you think of
the two schools and which would
benefit Roddy more.
{School starts next Tuesday and I
haven’t yet finished one uniform.
I haven’t too much more to go tho.
How’s the mew school? Does
Dort like it? Bev? The teachers?
I really envy them all. I got the
package you sent on Aug. 29—33
days after you sent it. My package
from London got here Sept. 5th.
I've gained 15 lb. 1 just have to
lose 10 of them. None of my shorts
fit except 2 pair.
Enclosed is the article which ap-
peared in the Sunday news. The
woman who wrote it learned all that
in 10 min. talking to me—Hah! I
don’t know what made her write all
that flattery.
Sept. 14, 1961
Please forgive the envelope. 1
tore it open to add this page.
F.R.C.S. stands for Fellow of the
Royal College of Surgeons, WNLA
stands for Wetwaterstrand Native
Labor Asso.
Here are 2 funny stories about
the natives in Katima. They are
TRUE:
1. A prisoner made a plea to the
magistrate to please put a door on
his cell because he was afraid the
lions woul get him at night.
2. While at the native clinic Dr.
Jameson had the following conver-
sation with the orderly in charge:
Dr.: Richard, do you know where.
America is?
Rich.: No, doctor,
Dr.: Have you heard of America?
Rich.: Yes, doctor.
Dr.: Do you know what the people
do there?
Rich.: (pause) No, doctor.
Dr.: Are the people there black or
white, Richard?
Rich.: White, doctor.
Dr.: Some are white, Richard.
Rich.: (pause) Yes, some, Dr.
Dr.: Have you ever seen an Amer-
ican, Richard?
Rich.: No, Dr.
Dr.: Would you like to meet one,
Richard ?
Rich.: (Chuckle) Yes, Dr.
Dr.: Well here’s one now, Richard.
(Dr. points to me)
Rich.: (Chuckle)
PAUSE
Dr.: What do you think of her,
Richard ?
Rich.: Very good, Dr.
rassed chuckle)
Richard, of course, is a native.
Simple like most of them are.
There are so many more stories
I could tell you. And they're all
true.
3. A prisoner complained to the
magistrate that the jail guard was
taking the prisoners’ mealy (corn)
meal and selling it. The magistrate
(embar-
gave the prisoner hell for making |.
up such stories and causing trouble.
However, as a matter of form, the
magistrate called the jail guard in
and asked him if he was selling the
mealy meal that he was supposed to
be giving the prisoners. He replied,
“Yes, Marina.” (‘Marina” is Native
~ |language for master.) The shagis-
trate nearly died on the spot.
Needless to say, the jail guard is
has been brought in.
Marilyn
NEWS ARTICLE
Marilyn Eck — No “hick town”
gal;
If you think most American
teenagers have the pert, precocious
air of the Misses of the glossy mags,
or the combustible quality of flam-
ing youth in Hollywood’s angle on
small-town life, you should meet 18-
year-old Marilyn Eck from *'Penn-
sylvania.
Refreshingly unsophisticated ' and
she is obviously no problem child,
she is probably more typical of the
average American adolescent than
the glossies, paperbacks and movies
would have us believe.
She still looks a schoolgirl. Which
is exactly what she is — a high
school girl who is here to take her
post-certificate course at Townsend
School under Rotary International’s
student exchange scheme,
She likes the idea of wearing a
school uniform as a change from
the -summer and fall dresses of their
own choice worn by most schoolgirls
in the States.
To Marilyn, Bulawayo is a big
city. Back home in Shavertown,
Penn., the population is only 2,500.
But don’t get the idea she’s a hick-
town girl with small ambitions.
She’s aiming at a career in
scientific research or in the diplo-
matic service when she gets through
her studies at the University of
Susquehanna, for which she’s book-
ed on her return home.
She is getting a taste of life in
the bush on holiday at a camp on
the Chobe River, Bechuanaland,
with her Rotary host in Bulawayo,
Mr. Denis Thompson, and his family.
Next year Mr. and Mrs. Thomp-
son’s son Roderick will be going to
America
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