US Naval Reserve Midshipmens School - Capstan Yearbook (Notre Dame, IN)

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Deemed ,' Things certainly have been dull around here . . . what with finals three weeks away and nothing much to do but sit and wait and hope for the best. However, Iive tried to keep busy and make good use of my time, especially the weekends which give me a chance to catch up on all my back workg you already know how much effort it takes to get through here successfully. In your last letter you seemed to be somewhat worried about my getting a little conceited over my zoot uniform and not behaving myself on the weekend. Gosh, Honey, that should be your last worry in the world. You know thereill never be anyone else but you. just as a sort of clinching argument in my behalf, I'd like to outline one of my typical weekends for you . . . say this last week. Ijust hope you arenit as bored hearing about it as I was undergoing it, because it' was really a calm one. The first thing we did when liberty was declared, the four of us, my roomate and two other guys, was to go into South Bend and stop at Sweeney,s,' fThat's one of these places where all the high school kids hang out, like f'Hart's Malt Shopn back homej for a milk shake to fortify us for the afternoon. It was pretty nice in there, sort of like being a football hero again the way all those young girls were looking at us, so we took our time and hung around for a while. Telling an elderly lady about my plans for the future. We left Sweeney's at about 1700 and went out to see some of the sights of South Bend. A After walking around and just looking things over for about half an hour, we went into the Stratigon, which specializes in palatable dishes and had a really good steak dinner. That was probably the best part of the whole evening, eating that delicious meal. Of course, it would have been a lot better to have had you there, but we'll just have to dream about things 'like that. A After dinner I left the other three fellows, as they had dates, and went up to the Service Center to watch the dancing. Standing there, watching all those guys and girls enjoying themselves out there on the dance floor really made me miss you, I'll have to admit that the temptation to grab one of the hostesses and do a little rug-cutting myself was pretty strong, but the thought of you was enough to keep me on good behaviour. However, after about an hour I did run into an old Nawfriend that iI'd met at the Air base in Dallas and we had a swell time talking about mutual friends and old times. It was prettycrowded and noisy up at the center, so at about 2100 we wan- dered down to the park and shot the breeze for a long time. Needless to say, you were number one on our topics of conversation. After we had just about talked ,ourselves out we went up to the Blarney Inn and had a couple of cokes, then parted for the evening. By then I was getting pretty sleepy. Since we have to be in our billets by 0100 and the last bus leaves for Notre Dame at 0030, I decided that I had better do some good sarnaritan work and go hunt for my roomate as he drinks a little and sometimes forgets he has to get back to the school. So, as much as I dislike going into those smelly, smoke-filled places, I started making the rounds of bars looking for jack. After trying half a dozen places, I finally found him taking it easy at the Bowl-Mor, not at all worried about getting back on time. To make things worse, he had a girl with him who had a pretty possessive attitude and didnit want him to leaver her. It took quite a bit of persuasion on my part, but I finally made them both realize that we had to get back so we started out the door. However, just as we were leaving, I ran into some of the townspeople that I've met up here and they insisted on holding us up for another thirty minutes. We hemmed and hawed and tried to get the idea across to them that time was Heeing, but they just couldn,t for wouldn'tj get the idea. I finally told them outright that we had to be back in twenty min- utes, or else, 'so they very generously offered to take us out to the school. We wasted another ten minutes or so saying good-night to them at the car and finally had to run to get in before the 0100 room check. That was the end of may wildi' liberty in South Bend. , Well, I hope that you are now sufficiently reassured that your Angel-piei' is really an angel and will stop worrying yourself into a head of gray hair. Honestly, Darling, you mean too much to me to let another girl even distract my attention. The way I feel about you Iid rather go to a movie or read a good story than go out with someone else. As far as drinking goes, you know I never touch the stuff. It always gave me a stomach ache. Write soon, Dearest, at times when the going is rough your letters are all I have to keep my morale up. As ever, All my love, 55.4 M841

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