Marie-Claire Matip Marie-Claire Matip Marie-Claire-Eléonore-Débochère Matip (born 1938) is a Cameroonian writer living in Paris. The daughter of a tribal leader, she was born in Eséka; her father had about fifty children from several different mothers. She was schooled at home at first and then attended school locally. Then, she studied at a college for girls in Douala, where she wrote her novel "Ngonda". In 1956, she won a contest sponsored by "Elle" magazine and Air France that allowed her to travel to France; she returned the following year. In 1958, she studied for her baccalauréat at the Lycée Général Leclerc in
Sister Claire Marie Wick Sister Claire Marie Wick Kathryn Whitener Wick (born July 16, 1915), in religion Sister Claire Marie Wick, O.S.F., was an American Religious Sister and founder of charitable programs in Wisconsin and Kenya. Wick was the daughter of Oscar and Pearl Whitener and had one sister. Wick grew up in Fredericktown, Missouri and received a bachelor of science degree in music from Webster University in 1938. She married John Wick, who died in 1942, shortly after their marriage and the birth of her only son. After her husband's death, she entered the Hospital sisters of St. Francis on Sept. 8, 1954,