Another monster was the male supervisor at St Philip's school in east-central Saskatchewan in the 1960s. This man, who often tried to teach the boys what he thought were Indian ways such as sweat lodge ceremonies, inflicted severe physical punishment on both male and female students at the Oblate school when their behaviour displeased him. One girl who at twelve or thirteen ran away from the school with two companions got the worst punishment because, she said, she was the ringleader. All the girls had their heads shaved, but she got extra attention. The boys' supervisor punched her in the face when he caught the runaways, and her complaints about the incident to a priest yielded only unbelief. Further, she was strapped at least ten blows with a big strap on her naked back. The same supervisor, recalled several other students of the same school, indulged in a variety of other punishments. These ranged from the petty, such as taking the boys' marbles away from them, to the cruel and sadistic. On occasion this man would heat the metal top of his lighter in the lighter's flame and then press the hot metal on a boy's exposed flesh. Another favourite of this brute was a 'whipping with five belts.' On spotting an infraction, the supervisor would collect belts -- those with metal studs preferred -- from five of the boys and lash the offender with them. It was not at all uncommon for this punishment to leave scabs that stuck to clothing and left scars.