November 6, 1932 - Sunday

I studied this morning and after lunch went up to the library until four thirty, then George and I went to the Organ Concert. After that we went to the Anchorage for cinnamon toast and chocolate.

Jane’s Note: This was a favorite Sunday ritual that my parents carried over to our family life. Winter Sunday evenings, after a big mid-day dinner we’d have cinnamon toast and coco. Mom had a brown Weller ware chocolate set and we’d get that out and make the coco on the stove. It was fun to all dive in together to prepare the treat.

George's Letter Home:

Dear Family,

The Oregon State game is past now, and you have no doubt heard of our victory. It certainly makes all of us kids feel great. Ann and I did not go. Ann has the flu; and confidentially, I didn’t have any money. So although I hate to see her ill, she did help me out a lot. The poor little girl certainly feels awful; I stayed with her most of last evening and she just didn’t have any pep at all.

I have put the November house bills out, and I find that I will need $17.88 for it together with a few other bills that I have. That is a pretty inexpensive month compared with others that I have had. I certainly don’t know what I will do spring term when I do not have this job. Maybe I can find something to do then.

Some few of our alumni are here, but not very many. One of them is a charter member of our Alpha. It was started in 1921, you know, and he was the first man to be initiated. Right now he is in the west visiting his relatives and friends; he has some position in Washington D.C.

I hope the mother’s club does not attempt to do anything for us in the way of fixing up this house. Anything that they wish to do, should be done with an eye to its use in the new home. Wednesday after the election, the alumni association is having their annual meeting; and there, they are going to make definite plans to build us a new home. If the bill fails, they will build it here; and if it passes, they will build it in Corvallis.

It is just about ten thirty in the morning now, and I am going to study until dinner. After dinner I am going to study until five. After five I am going to call for Ann and we are going to the twilight organ concert. After the concert I am going to study nigh onto ten o’clock. After ten o’clock, Jim and I are going to work on the books, and then bed ---- hurray for the last. That is just the way it goes. If college does nothing else for you, it teaches you that there certainly isn’t much time to throw away in this old world (at least it teaches some people that).

I will write another letter at the beginning of the week. Last week we both did quite poorly with our correspondence, but from now on, all that will change --- how about it?

Love, Brother