December 10, 1930

December 10, 1930

Dear Mother,

Thank you so much for your encouraging letters; they did me a lot of good. I have a bit of good news to tell you and Dad here: about a week before Thanksgiving we had an examination in Social Science over our whole term’s work. We just got the results today and little sonny here pulled down a two. There were only four in the class who received as high a mark as that, and out of a class of one hundred three that is very good. I was so darned elated that I couldn’t do anything in Military all the next hour. No foolin (sic), I have been going around here with a wild look in my eyes and a song on my teeth all day.

After supper this evening, I went over to the Gamma Phi house and sat on the davenport with Helen Burns for half the evening. I may come home on the train with her Thursday afternoon at four-twenty. My gym exam comes off five o-clock Monday evening; so I will be able to get home Thursday instead of Friday. Boy I will be plenty glad to get home.

I made sixty cents taking tickets at a basketball game the other evening and eighty cents at a concert las night; so the University now owes me a dollar and forty cents if I add correctly. I still have a dollar and a half left from Grandpa’s five dollars and with twenty dollars and fifty five cents in the bank, I am sitting pretty.

Not much more to say except that Thursday evening I would like to go to a Hi-Y meeting if you won’t think me too neglectful in rushing off.

Love, George