Wednesday
Dear Pat,
Received your Sunday letter yesterday and note you want us to kill the fatted calf (also fatted lobster, fatted turkey, etc.) for your homecoming with friend. Next time you are in Holyoke, you'd better ask for a time-table and inquire as to train fares including the advisiability [sic] of buying a through ticket versus separate tickets to New York and New York to Lancaster. If you keep spending money like on your last budget card you may have to ride the rods home. Also advise whether you expect to arrive in Lancaster on a specific train or prefer to telephone from the station when you arrive. It might be better for you to wait a half hour for us to come when called rather than have us waste hours waiting for you in the station.
Regarding the finances, you wont [sic] lose anything on the deal. I have been keeping a running analysis taken from your cards so that you have been building up a credit consisting of all the items for which we intend to re-imburse you. So far I have charged about $30 to "Personal" i.e. Non-reimbursable. I am enclosing two more undated checks for the balance of your own money. [no longer with the letter] After this, each check we send you will be charged against the credit you have built up in such columns as "Books and School Supplies" "Furnishings and Equipment," etc. The system is subject to appeal, which may be filed in writing by the penshioner [sic] after review of the records at Xmas. The Appellate Court will sit Dec. 26, 1954.
I am still trying to peg your faculty with the help of last year's catalogue.
Math: Associate Prof. Grace Elizabeth Bates
Physics: " " Raymond Voiles Adams
English Assistant Prof. Constance Meadnis Saintonge
French: Instructor ___ Lavallee
Lab. Theatre: Director Instructor Louise Wotherspoon Wallis (Quel Wallace?)
Associate Prof. of Speech Nadine Shepardson
Technical Director, Larry Wismer (OO's EE?)When does the first marking period end? Who gets the report?
Did you find the Times drama section in the package we mailed Monday? Also "News in Review" (Shades of Hugh Sullivan. Ole Sunday Times Hugh). Did you see Atkinson's article in the Sunday Times Magazine last Sunday on Theatres and stages? I'll save it for you if you didn't.
See where Pennsylvania elected the first Democratic Governor since two years before you were born? And from York county yet!
Love,
Dad