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by Paul Doherty
"No, I thinkthey use the media toplay
up all the bad points; and lflt's something
good It's insignificant."
Mission work...
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The sisters" community in Chanmagua will soon In-
Clude four nuns, Slezak said.
Sister Mary Lee D'Arche. who has received a degree in
, Joined the Sisters of Mercy in Chanmagua in October.
The fourth member of their community will Join the
sisters on Dec. 12, when villager Natividad Alonzo. 51, pronounces
her vows as a Sister of Mercy. This will mark the
first vocation in the village. Slezak said.
*I never thought of being a nun." Slezak said. She
admired her elder sister Sophie when she became a nun in
Januaryof 1947. but she hadn't considered following in her
footsteps.
Afew months later, one ofthe SistersofMercy at Sacred
Heart High School in Waterbury, where Slezak was in her
senior year. asked her If sbe'd ever thought of becoming a
nun. In May. after discussion and prayer with this nun.
Slezak said she made her decision to devote her life to God.
Her fate was perhaps changed when she transferred
• from Lewis High School In Southington to Sacred Heart.
$1€ k said she made the move after three years at Lewis
because her friend Lorraine Kennedy told her that she'd love
the nuns there. Kennedy had herselftransferred from Lewis
to Sacred Heart In her sophomoreyear.
SInce she took her vows as a nun 41 years ago, Slezak
has received a degree in education from St. Joseph College
In West Hartford and has taught in elementary schools In
the cities ofWaterbury, New Britain. Bridgeport, New Haven
and Hartford.
While she was making her decision about a five-year
commitment to mission work In Guatemala. Slezak spent
one year working with Father Ed Nadolny at St. Vincent's
Church In Naugatuck. Slezak speaks highly of Nadalny's
missionary accomplishments in Third World countries. She
said hc had urged the digging of wells In Ethiopia, and has
helped foster an orphanage in the Honduras.
Donations of money and materials for the families of
Chanmagua come from a variety of sources. Slezak said,
such as a woman from Torrlngton, NadoIny's parish in
Naugatuck. and a clothing company in Westport called
Reprl. which gives some of Its monthly profits to a poor
village fanuly.
Slezak said the Sisters of Mercy manage the money
donated to the poor villagers, because they wouldn't know
how to spend it wisely. With donations, Slezak buys the
designated farnfly six pounds of beans, six pounds of corn.
six pounds ofsugar, six pounds ofrice, a bar oflaundry soap
and a bar of hath soap. and some cookies for the children.
These Items total between 13 and 17 quetzales, and would
last about two days, she said.
The lifespan of the avcrsgc Guatemalan is not long.
Slezak said. Ofevery 100 Guatemalans who die. there are 40
children under the age of five who have perished from
malnutrition, she said.
There's a free clinic in the village, where every six
months doctors come in to do their residency. A doctor
recently set up practice in Chanmagua, Slezak said. He and
the sisters work closely with the five neediest families on
health education and nutrition. "We're trying to teach them
how to balance their diet," Slezak said, which seems almost
an Impossibility.
TALK
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"No, because the candidates are "Yes, they are portraying the candigoing
after each other instead of the Is- dateaLas they actually are. And it Is the
sues. The media is concentrating too public's job to decipher between what's
much on how the candidates feel about true and false and make their choice."
each other and not the Issues."
Do yo th! k'the media has presented a
fair profile Of the presidential candidates?
*No, I don't believe they have. Simply
because they don't offer a fair portrait to
present as part of the campaign game.
Candidates show only what the media
wants to see."
T e,Observer, Thur ay, N' ember 3, 1988
"Yes, considering what they have to
work with. They have presented them "
very accurately."
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