Following in Ledyard's Footsteps four friends

Two centuries after John Ledyard, classof 1775, sailed the Pacific with Captain James Cook, Jason stern '94 and four friends set out to circulnnavigate the globeaboarda 55-foot sailboat.Naming themselvs the Ledyard Group,they Planned to visit many of the same islands Ledyard had ezplored. In Tonga they met an 84-year-old woman renowned for her knowledge of local lore.Her name:Pauicia Ledyard Matheson. She came to Tonga in the thirties as a newlywed when her doctor husband came to care for the residents of the tiny island" There were only two People in my family who ever traveled, "she told Stern "I am One of them. The toher was ...John Ledyard"

Patricia Ledyard Matheson buzzes around Tonga in her 7-foot fiberglass dinghy.