Called By My Name Called By My Name

The S.S. Orion © Alex Naughton Collection. (http://www.oceanlinermuseum.co.uk/orion.html) Shortly after their marriage they visited Wheaton College to bid farewell to their school and Walt’s brother. Their faces were set toward New Guinea. Then on April 6 in San Francisco, they boarded the ship, the S.S. Orion, bound for Sydney, Australia, their honeymoon trip to New Guinea. They spent a day in Hawaii sightseeing and marveling at the tropical flowers on the island. Somehow they missed the ship’s departure and had to be brought to the ship by a tug boat. They had to climb up a lowered rope ladder. Finally they arrived in Sydney and quickly boarded an old DC-6 for the ten-hour flight to Port Moresby, the territorial capital. From there they flew to the northern town of Lae and then on to the underconstruction SIL Linguistic Center, Ukarumpa. It was May 1, 1957 when they arrived in Ukarumpa, almost ten years since Vonnie first expressed interest in mission work in the fall of 1947. 24 | P a g e

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