Wednesday, January 12, 1944
"Since there was no Mass today, we rose at seven. It was quite light since we had turned our watches back an hour the night before. We watched the magnificent sunrise before going down to a delicious breakfast. The meals continue to be very good. Rumors are as numerous aboard ship as they were on land. They say we are to be joined by six oil-tankers coming out from San Pedro, though as yet there is no sign of them. It was and is very windy today, so that many of the passengers are carrying their blankets besides their life jackets. The latter are our constant companions by compulsion. We were met at the dining room door with: 'No life jacket, no eat!' Sister Evelyn Joseph promptly dubbed them 'dinner jackets.' During the afternoon, on the boat deck, we met and revised our opinion of our Captain. He proves to be a man of wide experience, genial humor, and contrary to our first impression, is not bigoted. He said it is the first time he has ever carried Sisters on his ship. He spoke to us for at least an hour, telling us many things of interest about his voyages, the war, etc. Our ship is forty-one years old; it now belongs to Henry Kaiser who used it for hauling cement and has now leased it to the Navy for the duration. Captain Baker says he ought to donate it to the Japs for scrap when the war is over.
"It has grown increasingly more windy so that we are anticipating a rough night."
Memories of Sister Mary Aloysia Dugger (Sister Virginia) of the St. Louis Province of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet. She was one of four Sisters missioned to Hawaii during the war in 1944.
"Since there was no Mass today, we rose at seven. It was quite light since we had turned our watches back an hour the night before. We watched the magnificent sunrise before going down to a delicious breakfast. The meals continue to be very good. Rumors are as numerous aboard ship as they were on land. They say we are to be joined by six oil-tankers coming out from San Pedro, though as yet there is no sign of them. It was and is very windy today, so that many of the passengers are carrying their blankets besides their life jackets. The latter are our constant companions by compulsion. We were met at the dining room door with: 'No life jacket, no eat!' Sister Evelyn Joseph promptly dubbed them 'dinner jackets.' During the afternoon, on the boat deck, we met and revised our opinion of our Captain. He proves to be a man of wide experience, genial humor, and contrary to our first impression, is not bigoted. He said it is the first time he has ever carried Sisters on his ship. He spoke to us for at least an hour, telling us many things of interest about his voyages, the war, etc. Our ship is forty-one years old; it now belongs to Henry Kaiser who used it for hauling cement and has now leased it to the Navy for the duration. Captain Baker says he ought to donate it to the Japs for scrap when the war is over.
"It has grown increasingly more windy so that we are anticipating a rough night."
Memories of Sister Mary Aloysia Dugger (Sister Virginia) of the St. Louis Province of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet. She was one of four Sisters missioned to Hawaii during the war in 1944.
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