Evening star., 1944-04-18
|Dr. Dun's Wife Stresses Wish
For Easy Relationship Here
Describes Friendly
Life They Lead
At Seminary
BY HARRIET GRIFFITHs.

The Vile OF the new fourth
bishop of Washington wants IAN
easy relationship" with the people
of the diocese and she gives promise
of being just the person to make
one possible.
when you become official there's
a little wall between you and other
people," Mrs. Angus Dun told a
press conference today. For in
stance, when my husband was elect
ed dean there was a little reserve
among the clergymen the very first
day-after all he was the one who
could fire them!"
Neatly attired in navy blue
dress with white touches at the
neck and wrists, Mrs. Dun ap-
peared hardly the type to whom one
would apply nicknames. Yet back
in Cambridge the seminary stu
dents called her Kitty" some
what behind my back and to my
face, too. Usually they were seniors
before they really called me Kitty"
she said.
Fond of Cycling.
1t was the family custom there to
be at home for tea at o'clock every
afternoon and Mrs. Dun made her
home a hospitable center for the
students and faculty of the semi
nary.
A spirit of fun was evident as
Mrs. Dun told of her own and the
bishops love of bicycling-it used to
be along the Charles and Concord
Rivers, but now they hope the Po-
tomac may prove good substitute.
They have just come from Beau
fort, S. c., where they vacationed
for a while after leaving Boston to
come to Washington. There they
bicycled about the islands over a
20-mlle radius, including the marine
base at Paris Island. Another of
their favorite sports is canoeing.
The people of Beaufort were sur
prised one day when they saw Dean
and Mrs. Dun marching down the
street carrying a canoe on their
headS
The Salem-born Mrs. Dun, who
asserted she spent 27 years moving
around one block at Cambridge, is
an ardent nurses aide, and plans
to continue this work in Wash
ington.
Aided in Disaster.
For years she has been interested
in nursing, perhaps because IT like
using my hands and feet and I
have a great concern for sick
people"
She nursed at the Cambridge
Hospital, the Holy Ghost Hospital
"a Roman Catholic hospital for in
curables) and in Boston at the
Massachusetts, General and the
Boston City Hospitals. She volun-
teered for the emergency following
the Cocoanut Grove disaster, work
ing at the Boston City Hospital for
many weeks.
She laughed. telling of one of her
encounters as nurses aide, with
a faithful Episcopalian" patient,
who almost went through the bed
and died when she found I was the
deans wife"
Born Catherine Whipple Pew on
May 10, 1893, Mrs. Dun was one of
the four daughters of William An
dreWs Pew, Salem lawyer. Mrs.
Dun first saw Washington through
the high windows of train ca
booSe when she and her sisters
came through with their father, at
that time colonel of the 9th Regi-
ment of the Massachusetts Militia,
on their way to Lexington.
In those days wars were fought
as family affairs, and all the chill
dren went along with father" she
said.
Graduate of Radcliffe.
Mrs. Dun grew up in Salem and
entered Radcliffe College in Cam
bridge in 1910. At the end of her
freshman year she left college for
year to work as assistant to Dea-
coness Gardiner of Grace Church
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