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Gordon A. M.
Lambda Chi Alpha
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania

February 4, 1940

Dear Mother,

I’m getting in the groove again. As soon as I get back to
school it seems as though I’d never been home. It’s an
entirely different world.
This is a dance week-end here at the College. Friday
night there was the Junior Prom and last night the Soph-
Frosh Hop. I didn’t attend either. There were a lot of
girl guests over at the fraternity as is the custom on
such an occasion. Last night a few fellows and I went
over to the gym and listened to the orchestra, which
was Les Brown’s, and later went up street to Butt’s
Restaurant and danced. They had a small dance band
up there composed of college students. Dancing cost
one dime.
I got my fraternity picture several days ago and will
send it home in the next laundry.
I got a new unbreakable crystal for my watch yesterday.
It cost 35 cents.
I saw “The Hunchback of Notre Dame”
(over)
last Friday afternoon. “Gone With the Wind” is coming
the 22nd of this month.
Have you got my grades yet. I haven’t got a formal
notice yet. But I know I got “C’s” in French, English,
and Orientation. I probably got a “D” in Math. He
hasn’t given us our grades.
It’s now 2:45 and this has to be in the mail by 2:55 if
you are to get it Monday.
I can’t think of anything else so so long.

Love,
Gordon

PS. Enclosed is my Personality Test results and some paid bills.

The Personality Inventory (By Robert G. Bernreuter, published by Stanford University Press) consists of six criteria, all on a scale of 0-100. Gordon scored as follows:
Neurotic Tendency – 76% “Persons scoring high on this scale tend to be emotionally unstable.”
Self-sufficiency – 18% “Those scoring low dislike solitude and often seek advice and encouragement.”
Introversion-Extroversion – 67% “Persons scoring high tend to be introverted”
Dominance-Submission – 23% “Those scoring low tend to be submissive.”
Confidence in Oneself – 84% “Persons scoring high on this scale tend to be hamperingly self-conscious and to have feelings of inferiority.”
Sociability – 50% “Average.”

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[One bill is from the College. Tuition for the semester was $175, Light $5, Room Rent and Heat $38.50, Locker Fee $1, Athletic Fee $10, Student Chest Fund $5, and Health Service $5. Total= $239.50]

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[The other bill is from the fraternity, dated Feb. 1, 1940. Theta Pi (Greek letters) Chapter of Theta Kappa Nu Fraternity (which is crossed out with a line through it, and LCA Greek letters penned in after it).
Balance Forward (blank)
Initiation Fee (blank)
Chapter Dues (6.50 crossed out) 3.00
National Dues (5.00 crossed out)
Room Rent (6.00 crossed out)
Board 25.60
Assessments (blank)
Miscellaneous (crossed out) Disc Chg 1.45
Total: $30.50-$1.45 = $28.60
Marked PAID, signed by Robert Rhoads]