Document <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><?xml-model href="http://www.tei-c.org/release/xml/tei/custom/schema/relaxng/tei_all.rng" type="application/xml" schematypens="http://relaxng.org/ns/structure/1.0"?><?xml-stylesheet type="text/css" href="null"?><TEI xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"> <teiHeader> <fileDesc> <titleStmt> <title>Zeller letter September 27, 1942</title> <author>John Zeller</author> <respStmt> <persName>Susan Falciani Maldonado</persName> <resp>University Archivist and Director of Special Collections</resp> </respStmt> <respStmt> <persName>Diane Jakacki</persName> <resp>Digital Scholarship Coordinator</resp> </respStmt> </titleStmt> <publicationStmt> <distributor>Special Collections/University Archives, Bertrand Library</distributor> <authority>Bucknell University</authority> <address> <addrLine>Lewisburg</addrLine> <addrLine>Pennsylvania</addrLine> </address> </publicationStmt> <sourceDesc> <p>John F. Zeller Papers</p> </sourceDesc> </fileDesc> <xenoData><rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#" xmlns:rdfs="http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#" xmlns:as="http://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#" xmlns:cwrc="http://sparql.cwrc.ca/ontologies/cwrc#" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:dcterms="http://purl.org/dc/terms/" xmlns:foaf="http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/" xmlns:geo="http://www.geonames.org/ontology#" xmlns:oa="http://www.w3.org/ns/oa#" xmlns:schema="http://schema.org/" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#" xmlns:fabio="https://purl.org/spar/fabio#" xmlns:bf="http://www.openlinksw.com/schemas/bif#" xmlns:cito="https://sparontologies.github.io/cito/current/cito.html#" xmlns:org="http://www.w3.org/ns/org#"/></xenoData></teiHeader> <text> <body> <div> <opener><dateline> S.+ F. - F.A.S. - Materiel<lb/> Ft. Sill, Okla.<lb/> April 8, 1943<lb/> </dateline> <salute> Dear Mother, Dad, + Grandma -- </salute> </opener> <p> First of all I'll answer your Friday letter, Dad, and your Sunday letter, Mother. </p> <p> If you can get Sid Appelbaum's address, I'd like to have it. If he is here at Sill I certainly want to look him up. </p> <p> Thank you for the curtains + for sending the radio. They haven't arrived as yet -- but I suppose they will either Saturday or Monday. I certainly will be glad to get the radio. I really haven't had the use of a radio since I came into the Army, and you have no idea how interesting the other radios in the barracks sound. </p> <p> By the way, before I forget. The laundry, cookies, + candy arrived. Thank you very much. We are saving the cookies and eating them each evening with ice cream or sherbet from the PX. Last week Shay had a show-fly pie he brought from home. So this week it is my turn to treat. </p> <p> No, I don't need any bureau cover. I wouldn't have anything to put it on. All I have in the room is my bed -- a metal folding chaìr -- a plain wooden table which serves as a desk -- and my footlocker. Later I hope to get a little bookcase on which to put the radio. </p> <p> I see by the church calendar that we got some new members at communion. Who joined? Anybody I know? The shaving cream, etc., wasn’t mine -- I use an electic shaver -- but thanks anyway. It may come in landy later. on. </p> <p> I am inclosing a money order for $50. Will you pease deposit it to my account, Dad. I got my pay from Mar 18th to Mar 31st -- total $74.80. I feel like one of the high salary men. </p> <p> The refresher course material is proving very interesting + helpful. We continue on it until Sat. morning. As yet we have not been told definitely what we shall do beginning Monday -- but I'm sure we shall start in OCS material. </p> <p> This has been a busy week. Monday night the Dept. softball team had a ball game. I played again and again we were defeated. The game wasn't over til 8:30 and then (transportation being what it is at that hour) we didn't get back to the barracks until about 10:00. You see I'm living in the OCS area and working so far on the main post -- about 3 miles away -- and there is no direct bus service. We have to transer and wait for the bus -- one every half hour. During working hrs there is an an army car running a free taxi service -- so that it is easy to get over in the morning + back at night if I don’t have to stay late. </p> <p> Tuesday night I had to attend the Gunnery class held for the members of the Dept. We ran a survey. Wednesday night I stayed in + did the computation & plothing of the survey so that I could hand my solution in today. The idea is to keep us on our toes + not let us forget the things we learned in O.C.S., but which we don't ordinarily come in contact with as Material instructors. </p> <p> Tought Lt. Dean (one of the other new Material instructors) and myself went into town for dinner + then went to a movie. </p> <p> Tomorrow night we have to attend a lecture by the head of the department. They do keep us busy. </p> <p> I had a very nice letter from Fred Schaffer. today. He tells me Jean had a serious operation. I guess I should have gone to see them while I was home. </p> <p> The weather has been lovely -- until today when I decided to shower. But all in all it has been ideal since I returned. The trees & grass are that fresh + new shade of green that makes spring so attractive. Things are at just about the stage now that they reach up home along about houseparty time. </p> <closer> I guess its time to stop & go to bed -- so until Sunday --<lb/> <salute>Love,</salute><lb/> <signed>John</signed> </closer> </div> </body> </text> </TEI>
