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Lambda Chi Alpha
Gettysburg, Pa

Sept. 25, 1939

Dear Folks,

Thanks for the candy and things and stuff. The bottom
edge of the box was pretty well pushed in when I got it.
I don’t know whether it happened going to or fro.
I’m going to see the Dean tomorrow about having my
French I changed to French A. I don’t know my French
well enough to continue on with the advanced course. I
think all changes in schedules were supposed to be
made by last Thursday. I’m going to see Dr. Basset
before the Dean and maybe he can use his influence
because all changes are supposed to be brought up
before some board.
We had a very informal dance last Saturday night at the
frat. We took the tables and chairs out of the dining
room and danced there. The attendance was about
thirty.
I had a blind date with a girl named Helen Houser from
Clearfield (don’t we know somebody from there?) We
had talked together and danced some for about three
quarters of an hour when we decided to go out and sit
on the porch. She had impressed me as being very nice
(She is a minister’s daughter and told me that all of
them were bad). After we ad sit there awhile she pops
up with the question, “Do you mind if I smoke”. You
could have knocked me over with a feather. Naturally I
said “No”.
So she puffed away. We discussed it some and she said
that she thought she might quit it. That was my first
experience of that kind. Perhaps the proper thing for me
to have done would have been to strike a match and
light it for her. But I didn’t. I was dazed.
Later when talking it over with Wally he said a lot of
the nicest girls around here smoke and a lot don’t, so
what have you?
I never studied so much in all my life. I’m always busy
at something even if my grades don’t show it.

Love,
Gordon

PS. I’m glad I joined the frat. It’s more like home.