Ithaca, New York
March 26, 1937
Dear Folks,
I just received the package this afternoon after returning from Botany lab. Everything is very nice and I surely appreciate your thoughtfulness. I also received your letter Tuesday and was very sorry to hear about Peter’s death as it will be very hard for his wife and children, won’t it.
It has been a very blustery day here with a hard wind and plenty of snow and ice along with it. I believe it snowed harder than it has any time yet this winter, but only for short periods of time. Nobody seems to think that it is a very “Good Friday” after all.
I have plenty of work to do over the weekend as I have four prelims coming along near the beginning of next week. I had two this week. I am not sure when I will be coming home so will make no definite plans – probably Thursday or Friday – but don’t expect me until you see me as my plans have been changed and I probably won’t come home with Wesley. I am looking forward to my vacation very much because this life is getting rather monotonous and a change will do me good.
I didn’t go to the 4-H meeting this week because the last time I went I sat up half the night doing my Chemistry, and besides I have been going quite a bit lately. In Hygiene Monday we were shown moving pictures of the sewage disposal systems at various state hospitals, two of which were Wingdale and Hudson River State Hospitals.
I am planning to go to the Easter Service at Sage Sunday and may also go up tomorrow afternoon when they broadcast a program over the Columbia Network. The Cornell choir and orchestra are participating.
I am glad Papa sent me $10 instead of $5 because I have had to get my laundry done and buy some school supplies. I will not bring any dirty clothes home with me as it makes too much luggage and I can get them done here very reasonably. No, I don’t think I really want a radio now as I probably wouldn’t use it very much.
One of the boys told me that Professor Bevan spoke here last year and that he liked him quite well. I can’t think of anything else to say now but will make up for it when I get home. I hope the roads don’t get too bad.
Loads of Love,
Hall
Gilbert Hall Flint was born August 14, 1918 and raised on Flint Hill Farm in Amenia, New York. His formal education began in a one-room schoolhouse in Smithfield. He graduated from Amenia High School in 1936 and from the Cornell University College of Agriculture in 1940. He taught high school agriculture from 1940 to 1944, served in the U.S. Army from 1944 to 1946, taught high school agriculture from 1946 to 1963, and finished his career as a school principal from 1963 to 1975.
Gilbert Hall Flint passed away on December 16, 2009. The letters are published in his memory. To view the letters in chronological order, please click a timeline label from the side bar menu, scroll to the bottom, and read up.
Gilbert Hall Flint passed away on December 16, 2009. The letters are published in his memory. To view the letters in chronological order, please click a timeline label from the side bar menu, scroll to the bottom, and read up.