sf Jammary 28, 1941 I om answering your good letter of Jamary 10. Exmninations are just about over and we will soon know how many casualities we have on the basketball squad. However, —— on rather few because the boys are really excellent students, We might ens, but I am hoping note i want to assure you that the bacCurdy's were more than weleane, and the sandwich or two that you ate I hope did not give you indigestiaons | How to tell you the background of Mrs, Babcooks Her gon, Phil, is « freshman here in the School of Engineerings They live in White Plains, New York, Chi Gallowny, head of Fraternities , tame to me saying that he had a letter fron a Mree Babcock who was worried about her sone He said that he had thought a great deal , about what member of the faculty he could approach with the idea of talking S to Phil, and he had struck upon my name and wondered if I would write here Phil being a student in the Engineering School and a member of gm Wu Fraternity, was difficult to locate but I finally made arrange to meet him after many unsuccessful attemptae I had a conference with which I wrote the mothers She wrote me, thenking me for doing vld for the boy, end stated that she would like to see me when we rk and talk more about Phil, | be was for her to procure & ticket =” to the game end she would visit with ue after the gums, She, being a widow, , had no way | | thet she made arrangements to have a neighbor drive | wc Phil's best girl, who lived in White Plains, along with theme ‘That is how they hap to be in our party. It was the me while we were in New Yorks : : f 3 ! 5 : E z