When did she become a dentist?

In the 1950s before I was born she became a dentist and later taught dentistry at her alma mater Marquette University after she was done being a Marist missionary nun. She was a kind, loving and bubbly person .

What a blessing, hope you’re still living out the faith. May our Lord watch over you, and our Lady put her mantle over you.

@@michaelcaza6766 she passed away 11 yrs ago but had a good life. Always kind with a smile on her face.

@@monicafedel3307 I hope you continue on her legacy of faith and good works, and always remembering to frequently receive the sacraments of confession and Holy Communion.

Right you are.

@@BJ-fj6jw I've only seen the ladies stand up two other times, one was for Bishop Fulton Sheen and the other was Eleanor Roosevelt.

It was also a time when respect for religion was the norm among most people. Unfortunately that is no longer the case.

A wonderful life lived I'm sure.

ohhh... thanks for the information. I appreciate it.

I got a chuckel out of your "she finally......." as if it's about time. Not being mean--it just struck my "funnybone".

sorry-- my spelling!!!

Reginald Riley thank you for the update. great show!

+Robert Taggett So true! I was just thinking that :)

The shows of today use too much ignorance and vulgarity to get their points across. Plus, this is too much a 'me' generation. People were much more courteous then. Honestly, I've never paid for Cable TV. and I never will.

It's the natural restraint on show ....the show, the panel and the host were of their time. Life was never perfect in human history but today we'd have music, probably some lewdness, loudness and in-your-face brashness... or am I being too cynical?

I’m in my late 30s and just came across this! I CANNOT get enough of it.

there is a channel on now called "buzzr" i think and they do show these b&w games (1950's & 60's) shows and constantly watch them, however they also air games shows from the 1970's and later which i don't watch, am i strange to prefer the ones before my birth

Years of Catholic school instills that habit (ask me how I know!)

John Holton But of course she would!

DORTHY HAD A LOT OF CLASS !!!

John Holton - - - I noticed that too! I love that Dorothy stood as a sign of respect.

She didn't want to get whacked on the back of her knuckles by a ruler.

I wondered why she did that... & I'm Catholic! Thx for info.

In Catholic school we were taught to greet with a bow from the boys and a curtsy from the girls. This was in the 1960's. Even when parents visited or other visitors to our class. This brings back memories.

I also liked how all the panelists stood when Sister Christina was leaving, such respect!

Oh, how I miss this!

Interesting, John Daily described growing up in South Africa, which we know at that time practiced apartheid, and apparently so did "What's My Line", because you never saw people of color as guests, or on the panel for that matter. No Sydney Poitier, no Ella Fitzgerald, no Duke Ellington, no Louis Armstrong, ,........the list could go on and on, apparently they were all the wrong color? Maybe the show should have been called "What's My White Line"?

@@joycejean-baptiste4355 What did the children do when a person of color entered the room? Wait, that would never happen in the 60's, never mind.

This show seemed to have so many epic guests over the years...

I went to Catholic school from 2-12. The nuns were awesome. I know that some people had somewhat negative memories of nuns when they attended Catholic school but I never had a problem. The nuns teaching me were much like Sr. Mary Christina. They helped us learn self-discipline, manners, respect and consideration for others - basically a good foundation for later life. Certainly, the secular schools don't teach that today. Kids today are lucky if they leave school able to read and write let alone know anything about their country and the world around them.

as a small child i do remember visiting an older relative who was a dominican nun in New Orleans and playing billiards with other nuns in a convent, i always thought that was a different memory for me

She served as a missionary nun after this was filmed before ending her career teaching dentistry at Marquette University. She was very loved and was my Aunt.

@@monicafedel3307 was your aunt a dentist before she became a nun?

Bring on a black nun, and that 1950's panels jaws would drop.😆😅🤣😂

@@Orange-Jumpsuit-Time They actually had a handful of black guests on the WML show, regular panel member Arlene Francis from what I've read apparently went bonkers with excitement when Willie Mays was revealed as a "mystery guest". It was pretty progressive, and there are multiple WML episodes where the panelists also did astonishingly suggestive humor (Ms. Francis once asked a young male gym instructor for his business address on behalf of "millions of American women"). Wild stuff.

@@thunderbird1921 That's probably all true, I'm only familiar with the show around the time it started, early fifties, because of KZfaq. While watching those early shows, all I viewed were an all white panel, and all white contestants show after show. Then it dawned on me, oh right, Jim Crow era, this was the time period where the deep South still had "Whites Only" drinking fountains, a few years before Rosa Parks refused to sit in the back of the bus, and several years before Dr. King took up the banner of civil rights and became a national figure. So the show, like society, progressed later on. My mistake was I should have prefaced my earlier comment about the show related to a specific time period.

Not like today's game shows, this one was segregated, so much better, huh?

@@Orange-Jumpsuit-Time How was it segregated? They had plenty of non white guests for one thing, Asian, Black etc. They even had a black panellist/questioner at least a few times.

@@LyingSecret The early years of the show, starting in 1953 when the South was still embroiled in the Jim Crow era all the way up to the late 50's. It got better as civil rights was injected into the American bloodstream thanks to people like MLK.

She still is a beautiful soul.

@@Tao33316 very good point.

No, the entire panel including Dorothy and Arlene stood up for quite a few people.. these are the ones that I remember right off hand that the entire stood up for... Ethel Barrymore Eleanor Roosevelt Bishop Fulton Sheen Frank Lloyd Wright Sophie Tucker Anna Magnani Jimmy Durante James Kilgallen Pearl Mesta Senator Margaret Chase Smith General James A. Van Fleet Helen Hayes Gertrude Berg Senator Karl E Mundt Helen Traubel Mayor Robert F. Wagner Jr. Jayne Meadows Ivy Baker Priest Roy Rogers & Dale Evans

I think they stood for the aged Frank Lloyd Wright.

@@PepsiMama2 Marian Anderson

@@PepsiMama2 Now look at that long list you presented and tell us how many were people of color? Allow me answer for you, none, zero, zilch, nada. Segregation was in full swing on "What's My Line". Maybe you should check to see if the Grand Wizard of the KKK should be on that list?

They all stood up to greet Bishop Fulton Sheen as he was leaving the stage.

Hardly.

Someone else here in the comments mentioned Ms. Kilgallon was raised Catholic, so it may have been only natural for her to be so respectful of the sister.

@@mishtaromaniello8295 As a Nazi would Hitler, or Hitler would the Pope.

@@20alphabet Hitler didn't like or trust the Pope, and saw him as a rival in authority over the Germans. He was raised Catholic but (unlike Ms. Kilgallon here) rejected it as a young adult and did not practice. Private correspondence and interviews with people who knew him well seem to indicate that he was probably, privately, an agnostic or atheist... And also, not a vegetarian. He loved sausage. But I digress... About a third of Germans were Catholic at that time period, so the Nazis couldnt begin by being openly hostile to the church, and they tried to appeal to traditional values, which meant seeming as Christian as possible at first. Meanwhile they tried to weaken the authority structures of the churches, especially any church that resisted them, and the Catholics were markedly resistant. (Catholic Leaders were one of the targets in the Night of the Long Knives) They also tried to gradually mold Christianity into an "Aryan Christianity", with Hitler's goal being the slow transition of the population from a "semitic religion" that encouraged Germans to worship Christ, a Jew, into Germans worshiping a very German Jesus, Into a kind of Germanic neo-paganism and then ultimately into a direct self-worship of and by the Volk. (For example, they encouraged young couples to be intimate in old cemeteries to reincarnate the spirits of old Aryan warriors) Hitler closed German convents and monasteries and confiscated their buildings and land. (A nun who knew Eva Braun sent her a letter pleading for intervention, but she replied "let your hair grow". Many orders of nuns cut their hair short as a sign of humility and celibacy. The message was, he will close your convent and he wants you to become secular German women and marry) Hitler sent so many Catholic clergy to concentration camps that Dachau had a barracks of just priests, and a huge number of Jesuits (a specific order of Catholic priests famous for work in science and education) In time, Hitler sent any religious leader who opposed the Nazis to Dachau, and well over 90% of them were Catholic. (The German priests, unlike Poles, were give the chance to "redeem" themselves and get out if they joined the army, but except for a few who volunteered for medical service, they declined.) They were harrassed and beaten regularly, particularly those who wanted to hold religious services. Many were tortured to death there. Well over 300 died just in an experiment involving malaria. So, no...I wouldnt say that Hitler had an automatic respect for the Pope.

@@20alphabet blocking your nonsense and hatred.

They also stood to shake Eleanor Roosevelt hand

"What's My Line" was segregated, they say it was televised in black & white, funny, all I ever see is the white?

it was considered to be polite to stand for members(nuns) of a religious order, bishop, cardinal, especially if you were of the catholic faith. Watch the episode of "What's My Line " featuring Bishop Fulton Sheen and the panel stands to greet him, also.

Katy Bauer I was thinking of the same thing too.

They stood up for Frank Lloyd Wright also.

All the panelists also stood up for singer Marian Anderson.

I remember both women standing when a very elderly woman greeted them as she was leaving.

Why not? Many nuns were Sadists who enjoyed inflicting pain on young children, dentist just would have been another outlet for them.

Not like today's game shows, this one was segregated, courtesy and etiquettte was reserved for white America back then. Camaraman: Let's have Rosa Parks on? Producer: "Are you out of your mind"

@@Orange-Jumpsuit-Time You really need to do some research.

@@barbarak2836 Said the person who can't provide one iota of evidence to counter my claims. That's real smart on your end.😆😅🤣😂

This was a time when racism was much more common, but as someone who has watched nearly all the episodes of What's My Line I can say whenever an African American or someone from another culture appeared on this show they were always treated with the utmost respect and kindness. All of us are imperfect, but this show was and is as the original comment suggests a wonderful example of courtesy and good manners.

God I feel the same. How well spoken everyone was back then!

I wonder what makes you think that this small sample of some elite represents everyone back then.

I'm sure there's a fairly large subset of society that doesn't miss the 1960s.

Well said ! I was born at the end of the 50's so my parents still treated people like this and I was raised this way. And I'm proud to say my children were raised this way.

@@grandexandino doubt there have always been crude people. But my sense (this is before my time fyi) is that the society standards for behavior, language, social interaction, and so on were higher. People expected more of each other, not less, back then. Now it's truly anything goes.

$45 would be a months rent in the 50s.

@@twc8356 You're so right about that!!

In the 50's my first apt. was a sleeping room and kitchen. I shared the bathroom with 2 other girls. My rent was $9 a week. If I wanted to pay an extra dollar, which I usually did, I would just shove my dirty clothes down the back stairs and my landlady would wash and iron them.

Bring on a black nun, and that 1950's panel would have a totally different reaction.😆😅🤣😂

Sad but true! Morals of country gone downhill last 40 yrs!

And the topics chosen on the talk shows are appalling.

Another dive with Conald - Worst American EV-ER

That's because our culture has become too obsessed with how people think as opposed to how people behave.

@@Thomas-dw1nb Best comment I've heard. I will borrow it. Wonderful

"What's My Line" was segregated, they say it was televised in black & white? Funny, all I ever see is the white?

I"love it! Maybe employed by the school system by the state. What a great thing. Dentistry was not what it has now become and families maybe did not routinely visit the dentist especially with large families of children. Teeth were important.

I have never heard of that but how wonderful that had to be, for the kids whose parents couldn't or wouldn't take them to a dentist. Teeth and gum health are very important.

@@su-rv2uq All schools had nurses in those days. I don't know if they do anymore.They'd even give you your polio booster shot, if your parents signed the permission slip. I can't imagine they do that nowadays (because of lawsuits, etc.) I remember every year at the beginning of the year, they'd send all the kids down to the nurse's office (5 or 6 at a time) for a hearing test. You'd put on these big earphones and they'd play "beeps" and you were supposed to put your hand up when you heard them. I guess if you didn't put your hand up, that meant you were deaf. Anyway, it was a way to get out of class for a half hour.

I went to public school in Toronto in the 1950s and our school had a nurse, and a school dentist who examined the children's teeth annually right in the classroom. He was in private practice but was still designated the school dentist. There was also a speech therapist, a music coordinator and art coordinator who would visit the school regularly.

@@L1V2P9 Where I went to school, they also had a speech therapist. And we had a music teacher to whose class we were taken once a week, but the only instrument I remember playing in her class were Swiss hand bells.

Me too.

Interesting, John Daily described growing up in South Africa, which we know at that time practiced apartheid, and apparently so did "What's My Line", because you never saw people of color as guests, or on the panel for that matter. No Sydney Poitier, no Ella Fitzgerald, no Duke Ellington, no Louis Armstrong, ,........the list could go on and on, apparently they were all the wrong color? Maybe the show should have been called "What's My White Line"?

@@Orange-Jumpsuit-Time stop race baiting. Ella Fitzgerald, Eartha Kitt, Duke Wellington, Harry Belafonte were all mystery guests on WML. POC were also on the panel as guests

@@joyciejd9673 Just saying it's so doesn't make it so. Nice try but there's something called Google, you might want to try it next time you open your mouth.😆😅🤣😂

The good ole days for some. Segregation was in full swing on "What's My Line".

YES

Ginny Lorenz His smile is cute. Impish.

Ginny Lorenz I love to see Bennet Cerf with his endearing smile.

"Articular"?

I misspelling of articulate. Gimme a break.

Mitch Young Pretty ironic isn't it.

Well said. This show is relaxing to watch as a counter today's culture.

They had nice bone joints. I suppose They were arthritis free at the time.

You mean we've learned to be more open and honest and not simply respect someone because they pretend to be morally superior based on some immoral antiquated ancient book? Yeah, we're better off now. You must have been raised back then or something. (something being something like a Trump supporter...)

@@FallingGalaxy Why don't you go someplace else? That's quite enough sir.

@@FallingGalaxy The respect Nuns have did stem from their religious profession, but the respect they usually illicit from people today are due to the nature of their services, as helpers of the poor and non-parented. It isn't always religion, you know.

Oh, brother! What rock did you crawl out from under?

@@FallingGalaxy How in the world did you equate someone who spoke of manners when #45 is the most uncouth, misogynistic, narcissistic, egotistical, racist, pseudologia fantastical, mythomaniacal, egomaniacal..oh, pardon my manners for using three words that essentially mean the same thing. How did you EVER think the gentleman would be a supporter of such a rude embarrassment to this country?

all about making a question reveal (and rule out) enough % of the available universe, if you go too specific you risk a no

I noticed that, too.

It was true, people showed courtesy to different religions, it was Dorothy Kilgallen who was the only one who stood up, and curtsied, not Arlene Francis.

My grandmother who was educated in a convent never genuflected, she curtsied to the Blessed Sacrament. Miss Kilgallen was a true lady.

@@carolynargabright8132 However, at the end of the segment, Arlene and Dorothy both stood to shake Sister's hand.

As a Catholic who went to parochial school in the 1960s, all laypersons stood up for the religious when they walked in a room.

The first few show were without basic etiquette. Mr Daly didn't pull out the chair they blow smoke at each other. Professors were panelists and inspected them quite personally.

The US is at the forefront of the current decline in manners and grace, too.

"What's My Line" was segregated, they say it was televised in black & white, funny, all I ever see is the white?

All but 1 of my sister teachers In the catholic school classes were fair and intelligent. The 1 exception should have been retired from teaching / interacting with young children. She had no patience , was excitable and often cruel to one or another in a 9 month yr. A 60 year old shouldn't be teaching 11-12 year olds.

You've got to be kidding, nuns carried in their pocket two wooden blocks hinged together called a "clapper", they used it to communicate to a line of students when to stop, and when to continue moving in an orderly line, but the sadist nuns, and their were plenty, also used their clapper like a blackjack if they deemed you unruly, and ripe for punishment, believe me when I say most transgressions were minor, whispering to another student, eyes wandering during a class lesson, etc. They would approach their unlucky target and whip out that blackjack, er, I mean clapper, command you to hold out your hand, palm down, and crack. Not only painful as hell, but the biggest welt you ever saw would form on the topside of your hand. But not to worry if you were a girl, no such punishment, the sadist nuns only got off on leveling such punishment on young boys who weren't their pets.

@@Orange-Jumpsuit-Time Not in my experience - ever! Your cartoonish reply begs for some kind of "ghetto lottery" against the Catholic Church. Well good luck with that, and do let us know how you made out.

@@rivaridge7211 "ghetto lottery" ?? Don't look now but your white supremacist is showing. Oh, that's right, ever since criminal Trump arrived on the scene, it's now acceptable to say the out loud what was once only spoken in whispers to like minded folks. Go crawl back under your rock, you haven't a scant of Christianity in your whole being. Whatever the nuns taught you, you ditched that a long time ago.

"What's My Line" was segregated, they say it was televised in black & white? Funny, all I ever see is the white?

Breakdown of family , in home civility education in my humble opinion. Very sad.

@@OpenBook-ej7yw You're one of those people who assumed everyone is evil aren't you?

We didn't go wrong. the shepherds turned out to be the wolves

We did go wrong, the shepherds were not wolves, they were infiltrated by wolves, as was the entertainment industry.

I was thinking the same thing today. So sad 😭 and almost mad 😠

It makes me sad too.

No justice in her death

Patrick coffin has a great segment on the Kennedy connection

Oh, please. Her writing, about Kennedy or whatever, had nothing to do with it. Dorthy Kilgallen was an alcoholic & drug abuser. As her autopsy showed, she did herself in. Do you really think her father (well-known journalist), her associates, and the Hearst Corporation (the many newspapers she was associated with) would have let it slide had it been anything else? Stop the wacky conspiracy theories.

Yes, I think you're right.

Yeah, didn't like that he did that at all. I think this it the worst one I've seen because of that.

Daly gave away her profession as a dentist when she was asked: "Do children enjoy /like coming to see you?" Daly should of kept quiet!!

He knew the panel was too far away from the answer, and had already decided to award the full prize money, so gave it away for a more satisfactory ending

bach baroque I never hated the dentist growing up, though this was obviously 30+ years before I was going to the dentist. It wasn’t right of him to say.

She really was. Played volleyball and laughed a lot with all of us nieces and nephews. Always kind and extremely intelligent.

I know!! This show is ancient when it comes to technology!!

@@pianoman551000 That's not such a bad thing. Our technology has advanced too much in some ways.

@@fordsrule35 You're absolutely correct! The addiction that people have with cell phones is ridiculous!

Mark Walters They would never find celebrities who would be this nice and polite to one another. They wouldn’t be able to joke about anything because everybody is super sensitive now and offended. They would throw politics into everything. The culture has changed. The country has been transformed, and it isn’t an improvement. Sadly.

@@kathyyoung1774 Not to mention the people on the panel would insist on being paid tons of money to appear, the host would be the usual egotistical clod and the mystery guests would probably be people anyone over 30 had never heard of.

Terrific? Trashy is more like it.

@ Kathy Young- What you say is only too true. It saddens me to see what 'humanity' is coming to. (The quote mark because I truly question the humanity of most people I meet or see on tv today)

@@kathyyoung1774 Easy, find comedians.

As a Catholic, I've attended non-Catholic church services and I, too, respect and admire other Christian denominations as well.

Used too, but now they're part of MAGA, so I don't anymore.

She was a sweetheart and a kind Aunt.

Rumor had it, whenever in church, she skimmed off the collection basket as it was passed to her? On bingo night, the attendance head count was always greater than the total admittance fee she collected at the door. Also, whenever prize money went missing, she was always seen in the general area.

Now THAT is a word you don't hear everyday (Genuflect)....Good for you....

I've watched many such episodes and Bennett seems to have an unearthly knack of asking the right questions and naming the right guest/occupation. Perhaps he's from (was) another world?

Pursuit of money

BG Meadows Or be nurses.

Amen! Its a sacrifice to be a nun!

it's a strange world indeed when manners are considered odd

It's funny too that some of us were taught things others our own age were not. I was taught to, under all circumstances, remove my hat when indoors, though it should be made clear we were also taught NOT to judge others for not doing so. Still, I find it odd when I'm indoors and others have NOT removed their hats.

Perhaps because people realized that men and women are equal, and it doesn't matter who sits first. I'd surmise that logically we are better off because of this. Dinner etiquette has slightly altered to something more logical, rather than superficial. We are a species that observes rationally, and we should change with it when we realize our forms or "etiquette" is illogical, even harmful.

I mean, I wouldn’t call that a “common” courtesy since it hasn’t been regularly practiced in decades or more. Someone held the elevator door for me earlier...I’d argue that this much more common courtesy is actually helpful to me, unlike if he had seen me come in, and just stood there haha. I think it’s a bit silly to cherry-pick one thing from your childhood and generalize about the rest of society, with many different perspectives and cultural influences. Seems like a very narrow perspective from which to view things....

@@Jaydoggy531 the loss of that kind of etiquette is what has led to the disrespect of women by men and to the degeneration of society as a whole.

Show this to an under 25 pop today and I’m not sure they’d get it. Really lovely.

The panel actually had control

They can question as long as they get a yes answer. There’s some longer ones, the nudist resort owner is one of the best ones.

spacerazer ah ah, I know about that camp, I did high school with them in Iberville.

It always lifts my heart to see a nun in her habit.I ALWAYS INTRODUCE MYSELF TO HER AND THANK HER FOR HER PRESENCE.

You must get enjoyment from being smacked with rulers.

Habit...but yes, it was nice.

There are still some Religious Traditionalists today & it's so wonderful to show such respect for the Lord & celebrate the rich traditions of the Catholic Church!!!But there is such a terrible attack on the Traditional priests!!! We need to pray for them!!!