Stanford Student Letters and Memoirs

11.5.60

Dear Folks,

Well, one month from tonight that big jet flies into S.F. airport! I'm already more excited about that prospect than I have been about any event over here so far. I don't know how I'll be able to stand it in Vienna, just wandering around - I'll probably want to hop the next free plane from there and fly home early. Say, in rereading the letter from the Travel Agency I just noted a question: my flight (#125 on Pan American Airlines) is to arrive in San Francisco at 8:30 p.m. But I don't know whether that's daylight or standard time - check with some Fresno travel agency and let me know will you? And arrive accordingly in S.F., since I don't especially want to stand around for an hour at that point!

Nothing much special has happened since I wrote last week. I spent the weekend here on the Burg mainly - to get some studying done. Friday I drove a bus load (8 of us) into Stuttgart, to meet Herr Zimmerman (our German instructor) and tour the modern art exhibits with him. There is one temporary exhibit, to be sold in an auction on May 17, and a recently acquired permanent exhibit in the city art gallery. Both are excellent and the hours we spent there very interesting - they have several Picassos (they can keep him), Cragallo (whom I like), Noldes, and many others, mostly German of course.

Saturday morning I spent a couple of hours packing and mailing things home - a suitcase full of clothes, and a carton with several things in it, some of it that I've bought over here. They should arrive around the 1st of June; I addressed them to me at 607 Equitable Bldg - you may get them without any problem, but more likely they will be held for customs clearance (which I must obtain in S.F. on return). If you get them however, please do not open them, but just keep them until I get there.

The rest of the weekend was spent about 3/4 studying and 1/4 enjoying the gorgeous warm early summer weather we have here. I spend most of each day in my bermuda shorts now - we can wear them to class too! - and have played lots of hours of volleyball in the past few days. With all the trees green and tulips and other flowers (and lilac bushes in pale purple) in bloom, the air fresh and warm, it is delightful beyond description.

Did I tell you, our Luxembourg trip is cancelled, since the authorities there will need our meeting rooms for their own conferences. But we have a 4 day weekend on our own instead and I'll be going with a carload of kids up the Rhine to Holland, back through Luxembourg, Treves and Strasbourg. Some familiar country to see again much that I haven't seen. That will be my only real trip until after finals,