2 FRIDAY, JUNE IS, 1962 MCDtOHD MAIL. THIBUWC. MtUtOMU, OnEGON
Wycliffe Translators Live With Indians in Southern Mexico
(Ediior't n o t ti "Sam"
Lambert Huffman, a pub
lisher from Winona Laka,
Indiana, recently returned
from Mexico where he vis
ited American translator!
working with isolated In
dian tribes to bring them a
written language. In a se
ries oi dispatches, he tells
oi the dedicated linguists
and their work.)
By
"SAM" LAMBERT
HUFFMAN
Written for UPI
"Guess next time he comes,
'. we'll just shoot him and eat
him," said Elizabeth Murane
as she cooked biscuits on a
. mud stove in the Mexican
jungles near the Guatemalan
. border. Her 5 month old
, daughter played happily near-
. by-
She was talking about her
face-to-face meeting with a
boa constrictor, large, calf
swallowing snakes that abide
in the rain forests near La
Victoria, Mexico, in Chiapas
state.
She explained that when
she and her husband, John,
first arrived they had to build
their own "champa," a hut
made of cane poles. Before
it was finished they slept out
side. Slept in Sleeping Bag
"I had to feed the baby so
she and I slept in the sleeping
bag on the ground. I think
it was about the second
night," she said.
"I heard a faint noise like
a freight train off In the dis
tance. I knew there was no
train here, so I listened and
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Cosas, Chipas, Mexico, is trade center for go out among these tribes to learn their
many tribes of southern Mexico. Wycliffe languages and bring Christianity to them in
Translators - a nondenominational group of
linguists dedicated to giving unlettered peo-
the Indian's
tongue. (UPI)
finally decided it was some the hammock, it just disap-
anunai iiiuvuik mmuubu mc pearca in me unaemrusn.
dry unaerorusn.
" "I wriggled my flashlight
out of the sleeping bag and
flashed it on. There, about 10
feet from us, was a boa con
strictor in an attitude of
watchful waiting, sort of try
ing to decide whether he
should retreat or coil up for
the night.
'What did you do?"
"I called John. When the
snake heard John stirring in
"What will you 1 do if he
comes back again?" I asked.
Both Elizabeth and John
laughed.
"Guess next time he
comes," Elizabeth smiled,
"we'll just shoot him and eat
him."
As the 28-year-old brunette
Elizabeth, who couldn't weigh
more than 110 pounds, fin
ished breakfast and tidied up
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the mud-floored champa, I
asked her why she had come
to the jungle.
She has advanced nursing
degrees from Columbia uni
versity and religious educa
tion training at Biblical Sem
inary in New York. Her hus
band also studied at Bible
Seminary after getting a de
gree from Stanford.
"It's the challenge the
challenge to help others, to do
God's work," she said.
"Life back there seemed
empty and purposeless," John
broke in. "I now have a call
ing, a purpose, a goal, and
I'm able to measure my prog
ress here mentally, physical
ly and spiritually day by
day."
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John and Elizabeth are Wy
cliffe translators, non-denom-
I inational missionary-linguists
1 who live with remote tribes
j around the world while they
study the spoken language
1 and reduce il to writing. Then
AT JUNGLE CAMP - Sam Lambert Huffman, a publisher
from Winona Lake, Ind., recently returned from Mexico
where he visited American translators working with isolated
Indian tribes to bring them a written language. Here, Mrs.
Elizabeth Murane, a Wycliffe Translator, holds her baby,
Marianne, while standing in front of banana supply at a
Wycliffe jungle subsistence camp, where new translators are
given final training before going to live with tribes whose
language they hope to decipher. Mrs. Murane's husband,
John, is also a translator, and the entire family will "move
in" with a tribe, in the remote Mexican jungles. (UPI)
they teach the tribe to read
their own language.
Founded in 1935 by a mis
s i o n a r y named Cameron
Townsent, Wycliffe translat
ors, named after the late
famed English Bible translat
or, are working in 266 lan
guages now. Of these, 200
have been reduced to writing
and the New Testament trans
lated into six of them.
There are about 5,000
known languages in the world
today, and only 1,170 of them
have been reduced to writing.
After Wycliffe finishes the
job, denominational church
missionaries are encouraged
to come in and take over the
tribal church and use the
native
ment.
language New Tesia-
John and Elizabeth Murane
were at the Wycliffe jungle
subsistence camp where new
translators are given final
training before going to live
with the tribe whose language
they hope to decipher.
Translators stay with their
tribe for five years at a time
and get monthly salary of
$115 for each adult and S50
for each of their children.
Also at the jungle camp
were Lee and Lynn Henrik
sen. He had been a construc
tion worker in Philadelphia.
She was a nurse. Married just
10 months, they considered
the jungle training a honey
moon.
Down the path from their
cane hut lived 23-year-old
blue-eyed blonde Donna Het
teck of Lucerne, Calif., and
brunette Marjorie Crouch, 22,
Northridge, Calif.
Alone, the girls had built
their champa and had killed
a possum for Sunday dinner.
But before they could get it
cooked, army ants ran them
out and ate the possum. Un
daunted, they returned.
When I went by they were
frying bananas in lemon-flavored
telimon weed.
Nearly all Wycliffe trans
lators are college graduates.
many with masters' degrees
and 20 or more with Ph.D.'s.
Before being sent out, they
attend a summer institute of
linguistics where they learn
how to break down the un.
written language, form an
alphabet, and finally, teach
Indians how to read in their
own tongue.
They also study at the
advance camp, main camp
and at Wycliffe's translation
center in Mexico City before
being assigned to a tribe
where they will work.
This is what they're work
ing for to live with, help,
study, understand, and in
struct the Indian tribes.
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