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          to be the role model, the church worker and storyteller. Secondly, these women
          showed a great degree of humbleness by abandoning the lives that they could have
          enjoyed had they had chosen to live abroad but felt a sense of duty to serve.
                 This is the life that Catherine Mary Ajizinga Chipembere chose to live.


          Raf Mbwana works in human resources and is a writer.


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                                Letter to the Editor

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                 I have just read the Colin Baker obituaries  by John Lwanda and David
          Stuart-Mogg and want to add a short piece about Colin as an educator.
                 Back  in  1969,  I  was  a  ridiculously  young  and  inexperienced  senior
          lecturer in education at the University of Malawi, which was barely five years old;
          Colin was a college principal and a seasoned administrator.
                 Some  of  us  thought  that  students  who  were  to  become  teachers  in
          Malawi’s secondary schools needed to have their horizons broadened; becoming
          competent in their fields and learning something about the psychology of teaching
          was not enough.  So, we asked various people to come and give mini-courses on
          topics that interested them on Friday afternoons.  No homework; no tests.
                 I asked Colin Baker, who, as Dr. Lwanda indicates, already had two full-
          time jobs, whether he would be willing to drive at least half an hour each way and
          teach for us once a week.  His response: instant enthusiasm.
                 This incident, from half a century ago, confirmed Colin’s love of Malawi
          and his commitment to our students’ success.

          Jonathan M. Daube,
          Northampton, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
          February 2019.


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