Miss Lou, my mentor Miss Lou, my mentor The Editor, Sir: Miss Lou has been my mentor from the days of Ring Ding. I was not fortunate enough to be among the many children who joined her each Saturday morning for what I call a session of cultural awareness. Apart from the fact that my parents were Seventh-day Adventists, my mother's beliefs were Eurocentric, hence she had very little tolerance for patois and anything of African ethnicity. Continue