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January 16, 1946

Dear Mother and Daddy,

I just had the typewriter out to type a psychology report; so I thought I would take advantage of it. There isn't really much to tell. I had two tests today, one in German and another in psycholoyg; so I really haven't done much of anything but study for them. I guess you're glad to hear that. I think that I did alright on the German test, but you can never tell about psychology. The very answers you think you have right are the ones you have wrong, and the ones you think you got wrong are the ones you got right. It's most confusing.

Last Tuesday was a big day though, Bob Hope broadcasted his radio program from here and we all got to see it free if we were able to get a ticket. That was a little job, since there were only a certain number of tickets and the veterans got them first, that left about five hundred for everyone else. However I managed to get one; so did Sally, Jane, and Ruth. We all went over a little early so that we would be sure to get good seats. In fact we went over quite early, early enough to warrant our taking plenty of things to study. But it isn't everyday that you can see a Bob Hope show free.
We certainly saw it too. We sat right in the front and saw and heard everything that went on. It was awfully funny, he is even funnier to watch than to hear, and he said lots of funny things about Stanford. If people haven't heard of Stanford before, they certainly have now. Before and after the broadcast, he also entertained us along with Jerry Colona and Walter Pidgeon. I wish you could see a Bob Hope show sometime, they really are awfully funny. It certainly surprised me that he would come here to give his broadcast or that the University would let him. I wonder what will happen next - Stanford was in LIFE in December and the site and subject of the Bob Hope show in January, something ought to happen in [?] February. (I got a little mixed up.) It certainly is obvious that Stanford's is just about the most wonderful University there.

They say that all the veterans are going to U.S.C. Well they are all wrong. They are all coming here, at least the ones with any intelligence at all are. The place is literally running over with them, and you can almost see them dripping from the chandeliers.