Ithaca, New York
Saturday afternoon, November 1938
Dear Folks,
I just received your letter on my return from work so will answer it right away. It snowed here yesterday and this morning, and the trees and shrubbery were beautiful while it lasted.
I am sorry to hear that Pop and Aunt Julia are not feeling too good. It is very changeable weather and one has to be very careful the way he dresses.
It's too bad that so many cows went, but you are much better off potentially and the loss will pay for itself in a few years. It will be important to see that the cows get all the hay and silage that they can eat, as long as you will probably have more than enough. A cow is the only animal alive that will utilize all the feed it eats.
I don't know just when I will be home for sure, maybe not until late Wednesday night. If I get Catherine Robinson to let me off at Keller's it would save any confusion, and I would call up the next morning. I haven't even seen her yet, but have been in contact with a boy from Poughkeepsie who is going home with her.
I have been invited over to a fraternity for supper Tuesday night so will sell my ticket at the Coop to somebody else, as that is my last meal. It will seem nice to get away from the place for a few days.
We had our pictures taken for the Annual at the 4-H meeting I went to Monday night. I also sent in my project record sheet as soon as you sent it to me to fill out.
Wednesday night they had a celebration for the 12th anniversary of Willard Straight Hall. They had the large memorial room all decorated up and a huge 50 pound birthday cake with 12 candles in it. The head of the board of directors of the hall and Mrs. Day spoke for a few minutes. There were about a thousand students who attended the celebration. Afterwards they had dancing, but I came home as I had a lot of work to do.
One of the boys who rooms across the hall went down to the Infirmary with jaundice a couple of days ago and is quite sick. Irving is going to stay here over Thanksgiving as he has a lot of work to make up, and it is only about three more weeks until our Christmas vacation from the time we get back. I'll bring my dirty clothes home with me when I come and then will have enough to last me until Christmas.
Please don't go to any extra work for us as I probably won't have much of an appetite after riding all the day before, and I don't imagine Martha will. Is Catherine going to be home?
Well I still have some studying to do so will get at it. Hoping to be seeing you soon.
Lovingly, 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.
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Post #33: A date for the dance
Ithaca, New York
Saturday afternoon, October 1938
Dear Folks,
Thank you very much for the apples and the interesting letter. I will enjoy the apples as they arrived in very good shape.
Do you have to get rid of the cows that react to the blood test immediately, or aren't they testing for awhile?
The weather is very miserable here as it probably is all over. It's rained incessantly since last night. Our Dining Club had a dance last night and I helped them decorate the place. Mr. and Mrs. Truax were chaperones and we had a very nice time. I took a girl from Sage whom I met at a 4-H meeting Monday night. She went to Albany Teacher's College last year but didn't like it so she is in the Home Ec College now, planning on teaching when she gets out.
I find I have a lot of studying to do this term and was up till after 12 every night all week. I am going to try and get a decent night's sleep tonight.
I am going down to the Presbyterian Church Sunday night with a couple of boys from the Coop. I have been elected an alternate member of the board of directors at the Coop to represent the 30 boys who are working there.
One of the boys who lives here and works with me on some of our reports is from Palestine. He said that they turn the lights off at 9:00 every night and that he used to read by candle light afterwards. As a result, he has spoiled his eyes so that he will have to get glasses.
Mrs. Roosevelt spoke to the girls in the Home Ec College this morning. She seems to get around about every place.
No, I haven't made plans for any trips yet as I am tied down at the Coop every day unless I get a sub. I have to make up the time anyway so it's not really worthwhile now.
I will find a way home at Thanksgiving but it's a long way off yet. If I can have a $25 check as soon as is convenient, it will last me until then. I have been broke for two weeks and have several minor expenses as well as my rent to pay.
One of the boys here was operated on for acute appendicitis within an hour after Mrs. Truax took him to the Infirmary last night. He came out of it alright so far, but his term will be all shot as far as his studies are concerned.
I hope Teddy and everyone else is alright, and remember me to the men.
Lovingly, Hall
Saturday afternoon, October 1938
Dear Folks,
Thank you very much for the apples and the interesting letter. I will enjoy the apples as they arrived in very good shape.
Do you have to get rid of the cows that react to the blood test immediately, or aren't they testing for awhile?
The weather is very miserable here as it probably is all over. It's rained incessantly since last night. Our Dining Club had a dance last night and I helped them decorate the place. Mr. and Mrs. Truax were chaperones and we had a very nice time. I took a girl from Sage whom I met at a 4-H meeting Monday night. She went to Albany Teacher's College last year but didn't like it so she is in the Home Ec College now, planning on teaching when she gets out.
I find I have a lot of studying to do this term and was up till after 12 every night all week. I am going to try and get a decent night's sleep tonight.
I am going down to the Presbyterian Church Sunday night with a couple of boys from the Coop. I have been elected an alternate member of the board of directors at the Coop to represent the 30 boys who are working there.
One of the boys who lives here and works with me on some of our reports is from Palestine. He said that they turn the lights off at 9:00 every night and that he used to read by candle light afterwards. As a result, he has spoiled his eyes so that he will have to get glasses.
Mrs. Roosevelt spoke to the girls in the Home Ec College this morning. She seems to get around about every place.
No, I haven't made plans for any trips yet as I am tied down at the Coop every day unless I get a sub. I have to make up the time anyway so it's not really worthwhile now.
I will find a way home at Thanksgiving but it's a long way off yet. If I can have a $25 check as soon as is convenient, it will last me until then. I have been broke for two weeks and have several minor expenses as well as my rent to pay.
One of the boys here was operated on for acute appendicitis within an hour after Mrs. Truax took him to the Infirmary last night. He came out of it alright so far, but his term will be all shot as far as his studies are concerned.
I hope Teddy and everyone else is alright, and remember me to the men.
Lovingly, Hall
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