Sunday
Dear Pat,
Glad to learn you lived through your exams but our joy may be short-lived come report day. I'm not surprised you achieved a "1" on your Lab Theatre drawings. You always did have an easier time with illustrating than any other phase. However I don't believe you could get a job drafting, as you suggest. Drafting is a very formalized trade. The draftsman must be familiar with all of the standardized symbols, methods, etc., peculiar to the craft so that his drawings, when converted to blue prints, can be read accurately and universally. So the ability to draw must be coupled with a certain amount of formal training. Anyway, I don't think you should subject your eyesight to that kind of work, if you don't have to.
You mentioned all of your subjects, in passing, save Physics. Was that a studied omission?
The Wecor Model 2110 is probably the 1955 version of the Model 2010 we were interested in at Davega last summer. Do you remember the Hi-Fi model they had and we didn't consider because it looked too big and heavy? That was probably the 1954 counterpart of Model 2130. It's too bad they don't give the weight in the circular. The catalogue weights I listed for the other machines aren't too accurate because they vary from one catalogue to the other for the same model, but they do furnish a guide. I'm sorry Webcor wasn't listed in any of them. The Pentron Hi-Fi and the RCA Executive are the only other ones listed having three speakers and they both weight 35lbs. Happy lugging!
Regarding summer employment, there comes a time when one should stop dragging his feet and help to row. These semi-part-time-temporary jobs are all right if you can't land anything else but the remuneration there-from seems mighty piddling compared to the $2,186.06 we paid out for your benefit during 1954. As you can see without any help from Professor Bates, this comes to over $40 per week. I am sure you can find enough spare time for reading while holding down a regular job of 40 hours per week. I suggested Met-Ed because you have something to offer them in the way of experience.
Why do you especially want to catch the Menotti thing in NY? Wouldn't you rather stay at a mid-town hotel than up at Greystone? Maybe Eleanor can recommend a good hotel that isn't too expensive. I'll have to ask her. I've read Feb. Theatre Arts and will send it along if we send you another package. Helen Throne says they had bought Sue a laundry kit and, although she does the laundry at school and doesn't need to use the kit for that, they have alot of use out of it sending things back and forth. Saves hunting cartons, packing, sealing, etc. Do any of the girls up there use a laundry kit for this purpose?
Our weather has been lousy. Three-four inches of snow Wednesday and freezing temperature since which slowed the melting of it. Now it's raining. Hope it continues long enough to wash away the snow.
Did you read Cole's review of YLT's last effort. They'll probably haul him up for court martial and recommend at least a Bad Conduct Discharge at the next board meeting.
Maybe you noticed the last toll house cookies looked alittle [sic] funny. Grandma goofed somewhere along the line. And that was the second attempt. You should have seen the first batch. They looked like she used Salvatore Dali's recipe. Chocolate chips held together by cobwebs. Seems it was your fault. You told her to use butter for the shortening.
I told the man to make the last package (cake and popcorn) special handling but it only cost 70¢ so I am wondering if he sent it regular mail. Hope you liked your cake. Did the cream chocolate icing rub off in transit? Actually, it was what Grandma calls a "Church cake." Perhaps "Almshouse Cake" would be more appropriate.
Keep plugging.
Love,
Dad