Langs’ Beach Waipu, N.Z. 03-01 – 77 Dear Donald, Here is my first note written this year. Here I am chief cook, bottle washer, night watchman, burglar alarm, everything. All new roles for me. So please excuse delay. Our (Myra and Hilda) thanks for your letters, which were much appreciated, as also was, and will be, the lovely calendar. You will know that my new role – a feeble performance too – is due to […]
Category: Lang – Donald 1933-2019
Margot reminiscences by Donald Lang
Margot (Marguerite Stringer) was Donald Lang’s mother-in-law, and he wrote this about her. The first time my path came close to Margot – and vice versa – neither of us saw the other in the crowd. She was in Sargood Private Hospital with a new baby. O’Rorke Hall just happened to be next door. When exams finished for the year the University students resident there celebrated. We never discussed that. It was much later when […]
McKenzie – Donald Maxwell Lang 1920 – 1943 (Donald “More”)
Written by his cousin Donald Lang My first cousin Donald McKenzie scrambled his name a bit while learning to talk. He was known as “Dollar” for some of his youth. After a decade or so, when people were about ready to become more formal, two new “first cousin Donald”s arrived for him. My father and his mother were siblings. I was given the first name Donald. Not much later. on the other side of his […]
Niagara – the Mine and the Gold
Reminiscence by Donald Lang I think I knew the name RMS Niagara before she went out of circulation. June 19th 1940, just before the winter solstice, was a day that I remember as clear and sparkling. Don’t ask me about the weather on any other day in 1940. At the other end of the world the then current Republic of France was dying. Until I looked up the dates recently I did not connect the […]
Niagara – the Mine and the Gold
Donald Lang Reminiscence I think I knew the name RMS Niagara before she went out of circulation. June 19th 1940, just before the winter solstice, was a day that I remember as clear and sparkling. Don’t ask me about the weather on any other day in 1940. At the other end of the world the then current Republic of France was dying. Until I looked up the dates recently I did not connect the two. […]
Road trip across the USA in February 1962
The first part below was written as a continuous entry in a separate book. Getting a visa to enter the United States was one thing and it seems the most difficult. There loomed another question. Just how, physically does one get several assorted knapsacks? Of personal effects from New Zealand to Philadelphia. The first two ships sailing went respectively to the West Coast and to England, touching at Miami. Why not see some of the […]