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				<title>Zeller letter</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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				<authority>Bucknell University</authority>
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					<addrLine>Lewisburg</addrLine>
					<addrLine>Pennsylvania</addrLine>
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				John F. Zeller Papers
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					<dateline> O C S Faculty - Materiel<lb/> May 26, 1943<lb/>
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					<salute> Dear Mother, Dad, + Grandma </salute>
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				 I'm glad Grandma had such a nice day last week -- and I'm glad too that she was
					pleased with the handkerchiefs. It is awfully hard to know what to get for her. 
				 The box of nuts has not yet arrived, Mother, but I suppose it will be along in
					this afternoon's mail or tomorrow's. Your Sunday letter arrived this morning.
					Just another ten years and you can sit on the platform at commencement too,
					Mother! 
				 I'm glad business is so good at the store, but for the life of me I can't
					imagine what it is you're selling 
				 I've first returned from lunch and I'll have to hurry to get this written before
					class time. This morning I had four hours of class and I have four more this
					afternoon. The last two hours I'll have to talk above the rattle of machine guns
					-- so I fully expect to be hoarse by supper time. 
				 Monday night I had my 1st session. teaching our enlisted instructors something
					about Gunnery. It went off fairly well. I have another session tomorrow night. 
				 Yesterday, being the newest man in the department, I got stuck with a job. I was
					a PX Inventory officer. I spent the day counting shoelaces, cigarettes, and
					chewing gum. I had to certify to the exact amount of stock on hand in the PX to
					which I was assigned. It was quite a job. And then last night I had Study Hall. 
				 Paul Everhart came to see me Sunday afternoon just after I had mailed my letter
					to you. We had quite a nice chat. 
				 Wells came over last night. He lives on the main post now. He missed Airplane
					connections too became of priorities and had to go home by train. And coming
					back he was a day late because of the floods. 
				 I had a note from Dorothy Griffith yesterday inviting mw to supper Sunday
					evening. I'll tell you about it next time I write. 
				 The B.U. boy who was a Demie + graduate in '36 is here now. I gave him quite a
					surprise when I slipped him the Demie grip. We had a chat together last evening
					in Study Hall. 
				 I have another new lecture on Friday What I thought on Sunday would be an easy
					week has turned out to be my hardest. Monday the schedule was revised and I
					pulled a more than full schedule. The new lecture is to be delivered to a class
					of officers in the officer's basic course. I expect plenty of trouble with it,
					for the officers seem to delight. in asking difficult questions. But I guess
					I'll survive. 
				 I'm writing up my own lecture notes this week too -- so I really have almost too
					much to do, for a change. 
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					<salute>Love,</salute><lb/>
					<signed>John</signed>
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