Hello,
I’m
Sr. David
Ann. I came
to the College
of St. Francis
as a postulant
in 1947.
At first
it was quite
a fear as
to what I
would do
in this college
with people
who knew
so much more
than I did.
However,
as a postulant,
I wanted to
be a Biology
major. When
I went into
the Registrar,
Sr. Mildred
said "What
would you like
for your major?" And
I said, " I’d
like Biology." She
said "We
have too many
of those around
here." She
said "You
look at something
else." I
went down the
line & I
thought <sigh> what
am I going
to do? So,
I picked Math.
Well, you know
that was to
my advantage
because I had
a wonderful
Math teacher.
She was so
good, Sr. Claudia.
Everybody
remembers Sr.
Claudia. One
of the things
though, other
than Math,
I found that
she was a very
talented woman.
She could crochet,
she could tat,
she could do
artwork, and
there was a
surprise. But
to have her
as a teacher
in Math, I
know that’s
why I got through
those classes
because she
was so understanding
and so good.
You could come
to class with
the wrong answer,
but as long
as you produced
something she
was happy with
that. Then,
she would call
you to go to
the board and
find your own
mistake. You’d
go so far and "Oh,
here it is." It
could have
been a plus
sign instead
of a negative
sign.
Then
there was Sr.
Mary of the
Angels. As
a postulant,
she had her
hands full
with me. We
had our English
Literature
class right
after lunch
and she had
a very odd
voice. When
she would do
rhyming or
try to get
us to get the
rhythm of the
poem, she would
go "ti
ta, ti ta,
ti ta, ti ta." Well,
I got to a
point that
I went "ugh<sigh>" and
I would fall
asleep. So
finally she
called me and
said "Ms.
Rosemary, I
think I could
put you in
any chair in
this room and
you would fall
asleep." I
think that’s
true, I probably
would have
because I just
found it so
boring but
yet she was
very interesting.
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I
really enjoyed my
classes at College
of St. Francis. It
was the
prompting from a
Sociology class that
I went on to get
a Bachelor’s
in Social Work while
I was in St. Louis.
