Bates_B2278_F1_178

2016 Santa Clara Avenue.
Alameda, Calif.
Oct, 13,1918.

Dear Edward;

Perhaps your Mother has
told you of how the students
of the Alameda High School
have been asked to write
to the boys "over there", who
were former Hi students. So I
decided to write to you [underlined], and
I guess you would like to
hear some of Alameda's "doings".

By the way, I don't suppose that
you know that I was now
a "Scrub" in High School, did you?
Well, I am, and am finding
everything simply splendid. Here
are some of my teachers names, you
probably had or knew them in "Hi" School.
Miss Connoley is my advisory
teacher, she certainly is [underlined] delightful.
I have Miss Hewitt for Algebra,
Miss Osborn for English (do you know her [underlined]?)
Miss Chase, for typing, and Miss
Garretson ["Garretson" underlined] for French. Well I can
hardly [underlined] say politely that she is