Pound for pound the penguin nuns [or is that Penguin Nuns?] at St. Mary's on Young Street were ten times tougher than the United States Marine Corps.
Case in point, Sister Mavis Jewell, from the Albany area in New York. As Humberto Martinez writes in this morning's Albany Times-Union, Sister is celebrating her 50th anniversary as a nun and at her party last night at DePaul Provincial House in suburban Albany she was asked to recount some of her more memorable fights as a Sister of Charity.
Number one was in her student days when a man came into a ward that she was working in. He had a gun and told her to give him a key to the narcotics cabinet or be shot. Bad idea. "I took my shoe and threw it straight at his Adam's apple, knocking him out." Crook with gun; nun with shoe. What ever was he thinking?
I still think that Sister Anna Clare, St. Mary's principal, would have taken her in out in two rounds, especially if allowed to use her yardstick.
Still, impressive work by Sister Jewell.
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