Dear Folks,
I have been sitting here in the office since 12 yesterday noon and I have 5 hours yet to go. The one good thing about this job is that you don’t have to go to classes. The official title is C.Q. (charge of quarters) you have to answer all the phone calls, get the officers’ mail, see that everyone signs in and out, make a bed check after taps, and get everyone up at 5:15. However, this morning the switch-board operator didn’t wake me up and a result the whole squadron slept till 15 till 6:00. I haven’t heard what’s going to happen yet.
We really had a swell weekend. Mrs. Perkins met us downtown Sat. afternoon and took us out to her home. We weren’t able to get a hotel room and when they heard this rather than letting us go back out to school they had us stay there.
The Perkins home, in 2016, imaged through Google Street View.
This home is really beautiful in fact it would run a close race with anything Hollywood could offer. Anyway they told us they wanted us to stay there every weekend and that that room was ours as long as we were here. In case you wonder who who we are, Sam went with me and they really took a liking for him. Sat. for dinner they took us out to the country club and we had a turkey dinner on the lawn. After this they took us to the movie which they already had tickets for. We came back to the house and sat around and talked till about 1:30. Didn’t get up till 10:30 and she even had a great big breakfast ready for us. Mr. Perkins gave us one of his electric razor to use, after shaving lotion, and by this time they were calling things our room so he said he would put the things in our drawer in our room for us to use every weekend. To top things off, after breakfast he told us he wanted us to use his car on the weekends so he gives us the extra car keys and says he will leave them in the drawer. They have an Oldsmobile and a Buick, both new. Even yet all this seems like a dream. Each room has its own bath and our room has one of those glass comfortment showers made out of frosted glass.
I thought you never saw things like that except in the movies. They even wanted to drive out here and get us every Sat. afternoon but there isn’t any need for that. I think they were afraid we wouldn’t come back. Mrs. Perkins told us she had ordered extra milk for us on the weekends so we had to be sure and stay there. Talk about hospitality.
When we came back Sun. afternoon our squadron won first place in the parade which gives us two merits apiece. Out on the parade ground it was 110 degrees but I guess these salt tablets are doing the stuff because no one passed out.
I received your letter yesterday and it appears that you have really been rushing around.
I hope by this time everything is back to normal. It doesn’t hardly seem possible that Karen pulled herself up to a standing position but it won’t be many more days till she will be having her birthday cake.
Phoenix looks a lot different than the time were were there before in fact I couldn’t remember much of anything. You asked about the fellows in my room. All are from Ill. Brink is from Amboy and he went to U. of I. Bolles from Chicago went to N.U.
I wasn’t in the hospital just confined to quarters for 2 days. C.T.D. means college training detachment. The corp. was just in and I have to sort mail so will close.
With love, Tom
