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				<title>Zeller letter 1942-11-19</title>
				<author>John Zeller</author>
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					<persName>Susan Falciani Maldonado</persName>
					<resp>University Archivist and Director of Special Collections</resp>
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					<persName>Diane Jakacki</persName>
					<resp>Digital Scholarship Coordinator</resp>
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					<addrLine>Lewisburg</addrLine>
					<addrLine>Pennsylvania</addrLine>
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						D-8-3 FARC<lb/>
					<date>Nov 19, 1942</date>
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					<salute>Dear Mother &amp; Dad--</salute>
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					I'm glad you enjoyed your trip
					so much. I only wish I could have spent
					more time with you -- and I really appreciated
					being with you, just as much as you
					did being with me.
				
				
					As you know, I've always been
					pretty proud of my Mother &amp; Dad, and
					the past week-end only made me more so.
					One of the boys paid you quite a compliment.
					He remarked that you make a very good-
					looking couple.  Of course, I've always
					thought so too -- but it nice to know it's
					not just prejudice that makes me think
					so.
				
				
					I suppose you arrived home
					pretty much tired out after your train
								
					ride. It's just like you, Mother, to find
					a traveling companion. It never fails to
					happen.
				
				
					I'm so glad you got the crossed-
					cannon. It will make me proud to know
					you are wearing them, Mother. Sort of
					like the knight in days of old -- with the
					fair lady wearing his colors. I'm glad
					you gave one to Alice too.
				
				
					So Dave and Franklin are in California.
					I wonder what branch of service.  They
					certainly got to see the country anyway.
					If you get Dave's address, send it to
					me, please!
				
				
					We just had a blackout. Why
					they always choose moonlight nights
					for them, I don't know. It was like
					daylight outside. I was over at the
					school study hall when it came off.
					If I had been in the barracks, I would
					have had to march off to a "safe" area.
				
				
				
					Center School is proving much
					harder then expected. The difficulty is in
					the amount we are expected to learn in
					such a limited time.
				
				
					At Penn I took approximately
					an hour &amp; a half to two hours to prepare
					for a class hour. Here it takes about an
					hour for the hardest and less for the
					easier ones -- but we have twice as many
					classes to prepare for -- so I'm working
					harder and longer with less time to do
					it in than at Penn or Bucknell.
				
				
					I'm beginning to catch on better
					and by the end of next week, I shall
					know fairly well whether I'll be able
					to make it the 1st time or not. I'm quite
								
					sure I shall, for all the tests so far have
					been favorable. There are many repeaters
					in my class.  If you flunk the 1st time, you
					start over again.
				
				
					My recreation time is practically nil.
					I take time off only to eat &amp; read mail.
					Tomorrow's schedule is comparitively light
					and I’ve finished studying at 10.00.
				
				
					But now I must get this in the
					mail and get to bed. When you're up
					at 6:00, in class from 8:00 to 12:00
					and 1:00 to 5:00, and then studying
					til 11:00 every day - you don't feel
					too peppy by bed time. That bugle
					in the morning is most annoying.
				
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					<salute>Love,</salute><lb/>
					<signed>John</signed>
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