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RCRAFT- CORPORATION:

GENERAL BFEPLE ES! 11-7 WEST. NINTH STREET
CABLE ADDRESS "'TIMMAERO”’ + LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA

January <1, L944

Dear Doctor:

Don't faint - because this is not really a letter from the
dead, so to speak,

I know that I seem to be a very weywerd and errent Corres-
pondent, but so darn much has been hapvening since I last wrote you
thet I haven't really had sufficient time to settle down and try to send
you a half-way decent missive,

I guess the best way to 'let you know! about me is to start
from the last tie I wrote a letter to you,

As you may recall, 1 was teaching in the physical education
department at the University of California at Los Angeles, Well, in the
late spring, just before the school year was up, the assistant football
coach ssked me if I would like to be his head Counsellor for his summer
boy's ranch camp, Naturally I said "yes", So during the summer of 1941 ~
I was on his ranch, which is lécated about 200 miles north of San Francis-
Co, I had charge of overseeing all of the activities for his 'charges'
and seeing to it that the other counsellors did their job, It was really
@ marvelous experience, as we had all kinds of facilities for recreation,
Horses, swimming, boating, mount*in hiking, and trips way up into the for-
ests of the 'Redwood Empire', But all good things must end, so back to
Los Angeles we Came,

I resumed my teaching for the second year at U.C.L,A, and was
really enjoying my duties very much,

: Just before the end of the Fell semester (Jan,-1942) one of
the other department instructors told me of a place where I might be able
to pick up some extra money by working nights, The 'place' is the firm
on the letterhead, It seems they wanted a man to handle their First Aid
work for industrial accidents on the Swing shift (5:30 PM to 3:00 AM),

I went out to the firm's plant and was intervieweé to some
length by the Employment Manager and the Director of Industrial Relations
who finally said I could have the job, The reason for the need for the
night First Aid man wes thet the company was just in the first throes of
a long-range expansion progrem, and the guards (who had formerly hendled
ell of the accident cases) were mot able to teke on the extra work that
wes resulting.