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Volume XXV, Number VI
Montreal-Anderson College
December 11, 1991
’’Spearhead" to Mexico
By Keith Robinson
Staff Writer
As one of the nine M-AC
students who spent this past
summer in Mexico City, I have
a vast array of stories and
anecdotes that I can relate on a
moments’notice. This is proba
bly also true of the other mem
bers of our group as well. We
wentto Mexico with Spearhead,
an international program ofthe
Miami, Florida based Latin
America Mission, as young
missionaries to Mexico. The
1991 group from M-AC con
sisted offaculty sponsor Dr. Ron
Brunson and students Paulette
Mixon, Jennifer Estep, Frances
Domingues, Bryan Hinkle,
Hunter Stevenson, A1
Goodman, Dean Peteet, An
drew McCaskill and Keith
Robinson. We comprised a part
of some one-hundred and
twenty-five members of the
1991 Spearhead team in Mex
ico City.
We set out for Mexico in
one of the
College
vans (yes,
w e
DROVE to
Mexico
City) from
the cafete
ria park
ing lot on
June 3 of
this year.
Some
forty-five
driving
hours
later, we
arrived at
our desti-
nation-the
Hotel
Estoril in
downtown
Mexico
City. No
soonerhad
we arrived than we saw our
first major demonstration of
Spearhead Missionaries, Pauiette Mixon, Frances Domingues,
Brian Hinkle, Jennifer Estep, Ai Goodman, Andrew McCaskili
and Dean Peteet
God’s providence. Dr. Brunson
left the van to check us into our
Observing the Obvious
By Justin P. Ramb
Editorial Comment
Many of the students here at
Montreal have already heard about
the wondcrous Crick played by Mr.
Michael Sonnenbcrg. the biology
teacher. But some have not heard
about it, so please bear with me as 1
tell the trick-of-the-year story.
Last Thursday, December 5,
all Biology students had a final lab
exam. There were many plants,
kingdoms, and geology aspects on
the test. As you enter the exam it is
the type of exam where you walk to
each ‘station’ and answer each ques
tion. The stations carried on tlirough-
out the lab room until the end ques
tion that was right next to tlie chalk
board. Written on the chalkboard
was a nice phrase by Mr. Sonnen-
berg himself, it said, “1 wish you a
Merry Christmas and a happy new
year. Ho Ho Ho.” (1 think 1 got it
right?) It turns out that each letter in
this phrase was each letter on the
test. For example, the first question
the test was asking us if a sample
was either poison oak or prison ivy?
The answer was poison ivy which in
turn was the first letter of Mr. Son-
nenberg's phrase, "1”.
Needless, to say not one col
lege student taking the exam figured
out the Biology Department’s little
game. But I think it taught us more
tlian it was a cute little joke. Mr.
Sonnenberg stressed in the begin
ning of his class to observe. Don’t
ever take anything for granted.
Observe things, touch things and
figure it out by thinking. Many of us
did not observe before we answered
all the question that we thought we
knew (except for Ann Louise, that
came oh so close to figuring out the
joke.)
hotel and, upon returning to it,
found that the engine had died
and the brakes failed. Twenty-
eight hours from Montreat to
the U.S.-Mexican border and
fifteen hours through Mexican
mountains and desert without
so much as a hint of mechanical
difficulty and two major things
happen in the parking lot of the
hotel in Mexico City. If that is
not Divine Providence, I don’t
know what is.
Once in Mexico City, we
were there for good. One of the
major ideas of the success of
Spearhead is that of complete
cultural immersion. For this
reason, in Mexico we lived with
Mexican families and went to
Mexican churches on Sundays.
So, after three days of orienta
tion, we found ourselves nerv
ously meeting and going home
with the generally non-English-
speaki ngfamilies that we would
come to know and love over the
Cont. on pg. 4
This lesson has taught us all
something and here is to things that
I think we shall all observe at this
Cont. on pg. 5
INSIDE
Note from the Editor Pg.2
Parking Laws Pg. 2
S tate of U nconsciousness Pg.2
Music Review Pg.3
Around Campus Pg.3
Cavalier Spotlight Pg.4
C. S. Lewis Society Pg.5