Saturday, January 15, 1944
"The glorious sunrise gave promise of a beautiful day, but the promise remains unfulfilled for we have been driven into our 2x4 cabin several times by rain. During the downpours our companion ships are almost invisible. No one who has not traveled in a convoy can imagine what a thrill it is to see the other ships around and behind us. The one that is supposed to be delaying our progress flounders along seeming to have difficulty keeping a direct route. The latest report is that we will reach Pearl Harbor next Saturday. Mass is scheduled for 9:15 tomorrow on the boat deck, weather permitting. All the Sisters assembled for choir practice a few minutes ago. Father Chisholm has a sermon prepared, so we hope all will go well. The Congregationalist and Baptist Ministers are planning to have services.
"We are learning about our fellow passengers by degrees. The majority are to be Civil Service and Defense Workers in the Islands. Some of the women are going to join their husbands. Mrs. Johnston, who shares our cabin is a reporter, as is her husband, whose headquarters are in Honolulu. (P.S.- 1953 - Our other cabin member was Miss Alladine Bell, teacher of speech at the University of Hawaii.)
"The four priests are to receive their appointments from Bishop Sweeney. The Senior, Father Chisholm, entertains us with his accordion. He learned to play it during a period in his missionary career when for seven years he was isolated from the company of other white men. He and two of the Maryknoll Sisters in the present group returned from the Orient on the Gripsholm last year. The Baptist minister aboard, Mister Taba, is a Filipino. Sister Ramona Marie knows his family, all Catholics in the Philippines. The Baptists sent him to the United States to be educated. Mr. Foley is an interesting character and certainly an asset to the group. He lent his relic of the True Cross to one of the prostrate Maryknoll Sisters, who immediately went down to her first meal in days. He played his harmonica all evening long, while most of the passengers on B deck sang. Gone with the war are the deck games, nightly movies, etc. that our dear Sisters think we are enjoying. All entertainment on the Permanente is of our own making, with a bit of help from the Maryknoll Sisters' checkers, solitaire, etc."
Remembrances of Sister Mary Aloysia Dugger (Sister Virginia) of the St. Louis Province of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet who was one of the four Sisters missioned to Hawaii during the war in 1944.
"The glorious sunrise gave promise of a beautiful day, but the promise remains unfulfilled for we have been driven into our 2x4 cabin several times by rain. During the downpours our companion ships are almost invisible. No one who has not traveled in a convoy can imagine what a thrill it is to see the other ships around and behind us. The one that is supposed to be delaying our progress flounders along seeming to have difficulty keeping a direct route. The latest report is that we will reach Pearl Harbor next Saturday. Mass is scheduled for 9:15 tomorrow on the boat deck, weather permitting. All the Sisters assembled for choir practice a few minutes ago. Father Chisholm has a sermon prepared, so we hope all will go well. The Congregationalist and Baptist Ministers are planning to have services.
"We are learning about our fellow passengers by degrees. The majority are to be Civil Service and Defense Workers in the Islands. Some of the women are going to join their husbands. Mrs. Johnston, who shares our cabin is a reporter, as is her husband, whose headquarters are in Honolulu. (P.S.- 1953 - Our other cabin member was Miss Alladine Bell, teacher of speech at the University of Hawaii.)
"The four priests are to receive their appointments from Bishop Sweeney. The Senior, Father Chisholm, entertains us with his accordion. He learned to play it during a period in his missionary career when for seven years he was isolated from the company of other white men. He and two of the Maryknoll Sisters in the present group returned from the Orient on the Gripsholm last year. The Baptist minister aboard, Mister Taba, is a Filipino. Sister Ramona Marie knows his family, all Catholics in the Philippines. The Baptists sent him to the United States to be educated. Mr. Foley is an interesting character and certainly an asset to the group. He lent his relic of the True Cross to one of the prostrate Maryknoll Sisters, who immediately went down to her first meal in days. He played his harmonica all evening long, while most of the passengers on B deck sang. Gone with the war are the deck games, nightly movies, etc. that our dear Sisters think we are enjoying. All entertainment on the Permanente is of our own making, with a bit of help from the Maryknoll Sisters' checkers, solitaire, etc."
Remembrances of Sister Mary Aloysia Dugger (Sister Virginia) of the St. Louis Province of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet who was one of the four Sisters missioned to Hawaii during the war in 1944.
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