SC0019_b25_f210_Crandall_1945-06-11

84th Bomb Squadron 47th Bomb [Gp?] APO - 650 C/O PM, NY 11 June 1945

Dear Sir: -

In reply to your letter addressed to alumni in the service, doubt that I have much that is unique to contribute. However, as you ask for comments here goes:

1. - For the benefit of the statistician my return to college unlikely, return to pre war employment probable. University training, if any, would be on a part time basis with some institution located near the place of employment (Texas) and

offering technical subjects directly applicable to my specialty - pretroleum engineering.

2. - With respect to the treatment. A review of basic principles is necessary but an elementary coverage is useless as this knowledge is easily acquired during one's daily work. The subjects should be carried through to the advanced stage, necessary for practical application and to permit intelligent reading of the frequently difficult and highly technical publications of the engineering societies. For instance a course in electrical well logging should be carried to [p?] where the [st?] is able to cope with the idiosyncracies and seeming inconsistencies that make interpretation difficult.

He should be competent, after a little experience, and with due regard for other sources of information to make decisions on well completions or abandonments that involve relatively large seems of money. I mention this as one of the things I did not learn at Stanford and of which I'm still rather ignorant.

3. Many of the returning students will be married and have children. For them inexpensive but adequate house keeping quarters will be essential. This will also probably lead to a demand for social clubs dedicated primarily to the married men and their wives.

4. The single students may choose to live in groups as in fraternities but are surfeited with the restrictions and indignities, real or fancied, of army life. They probably will not take very kindly

to the customary [h?] and invitations considering them child's play and an insult to their dignity as matured men. Their private lives and morals will not be considered any concern of the university authorities. Also is rather dubious whether enough idealism remains for effective operation of the honor system. In this I hope to be proved unnecessarily pessimistic.

I trust that this may be of a little help at least in pointing out some of the problems even though not presently the solutions.

Sncerely, L.T. John R. Crandall