Dear Folks,

Another week has ended and I am one week nearer next May. The time seems to have gone fast but when one counts the weeks to go it seems like it goes slowly.

This week ended with a nice trip as planned but all the fun went to smash when Navy was beaten. It begins to look hopeless for the plebes and for Navy. I feel rotten and so I won’t write much. Plebes don’t rate being “sour on everything” but that is the way the game left me.

We left Annapolis yesterday about nine thirty and got in Philadelphia so that we were in the stands of Franklin Stadium at ten minutes of two. Of course we had lots of fun on the way, both up and back, but all the high spirits we nursed going up were dampened. Anyway, there is some elation over Colgate’s beating Army.

All the time we were marching in Philadelphia I looked to see if I might possibly see Steve Hopkins. There was no luck and I am not sure rather he went back there to school but it seems like he did.

Tell Liz next time she writes to send me a couple of those little insurance books. They come in handy for keeping things that I have to remember.

Your letter came today and everything was O.K. Thanks very much for getting the powder and all. It will come in very handy. The reason I wanted the money is that neither Archie or Charlie has sent money for their tickets and I have to get the application in with the cash or I can’t get tickets for them. I suspect Charlie will pay me when he sees me but Archie was supposed to send a money order.

Dave wrote the other day and told me how things were at Cornell. I guess Sodus is pretty well represented over there. He spoke about his trip through Wayne County with the Democrats and about Un and Ruth driving him back for the dance that nite. I suppose by the time this reaches you, good old Election Day will be well underway. The election is about the first big event outside the walls that I have got enthused about for a long time. I really am anxious to hear how it turns out.

Every year the Regiment have their own Christmas card to send and the sample of it is on display here now. The price is ten cents apiece, pretty stiff but worth it when you consider them. I have been trying to figure out my mailing list and it’s hard to choose just the ones to send to. If I send to Grandma, should I send to Aunt Dess? Also, if I send to Aunt Riggs should I remember Mrs. Wake and the Simses. I would like to send Aunt Ola one but I can’t send to all my Aunts and I don’t want any hard feelings. Maybe there wouldn’t be any but I don’t know.

There isn’t much more to day this time. I had a tough week but a tougher one is coming. Seldom a meal goes by that I don’t sit on air half the time and balance a butter chip on my head all the time. Not only is it hard at the mess table, but every month down here we change instructors, and last week being the beginning of the second month meant a change in teachers. That’s hard to used to and so everything I did all week long went “ass end to”. It looks like this week would be a boner too, seeing that everyone feels so tough. There was a nice hop last nite and I guess that helped matters a little.

As I have a composition to write this afternoon, an exam in math to study for and a parody to write for happy hour tonite, I guess I will close.

Love to all,

Reg.

P.S. John says that he doesn’t know whether he will go home with me or go to Chicago. I guess his folks want him to go west so I told him that I didn’t want to stand in the way. However, it is decided between us that he won’t stay here, but will either go to Chicago or Sodus.

Did you get the logs I sent you?