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February 9, 1946
Dear Mother and Daddy,
I am getting ready to spend a nice long after noon in the library, which I need very badly. As usual I had an awfully nice week-end. The symphony Thursday night was the best I have ever heard. After it was over I felt as though I would just love to sit right down and hear the whole thing over again. First they played Beethoven's fifth symphony, and afterwards they played a lot of Wagners opera music, which was all just wonderful. Some of it I had heard before. We had rather a wild goose-chase during the evening - We had to get Delight Downs' skis back to her. She was the friend of Illie's that went skiing with us for a while, and when she left she left her skis with Illie so that she would be able to use them the rest of the time Illie was there. Well, she was going skiing on Friday, and wanted the skis. So there was this long arrangement whereby we could check them at the terminal. Of course no one knew where the terminal was and we just couldn't see trapsing all oved town trying to find it. So we took them to the symphony with us, and I approached the Cal. Phi box. Delight is a Pi Phi there. I didn't expect to see a soul there that I knew, but there was Nancy Majors; so I asked her if she could help me out, and she said she could take them Cal. the next day if I could leave them at their apartment. Evidentally her family is living up here now. So we found her apartment and parked them outside. George Grimes and a Virginia Titus went with us, and we also took Kay up with us, but she met Bill after she got up there. I also ran into Bob, and stopped and spoke with him for a while and introduced him to Jack. It was the first time I had seen him since before Christmas.
Friday afternoon three of the girls in the house gave a surprise shower for Jackie McCurdy; it was given at this Anne Bubb's house in
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Palo Alto. It was a Kitchen shower, and I gave her some pink and white mixing bowls. It was so much fun because she was really quite surprised, and most of the girls in the house were there.
As she opened all the presents Judy took down everything that she said and made her read it afterwards. It was just hysterical. Then we played all the little games you are supposed to with the ribbon. After that we had all kinds of food, and naturally I just completely stuffed myself.
That night we went to a party at a boy's house out in Meno Park. His name is Ted Nell. I went with Art, and Ruth, and Illie, Dilys Jones, Evie, and lots of other girls that I knew well were there. I also knew most of the boys, having met them all up skiing. They got ahold of all these crazy pieces and they played schottishes, polkas, and a put your little foot dance all evening. It was lots of fun, but rather tiring. The house {?}ney had it at was just adorable. It was new and not quite finished, but it was made out of adobe bricks, and had more windows than walls. It was built around a great big patio with a wonderful big play room and two rooms for the two boys on either side of the room on one side of the patio and the rest of the rooms on the other side. It was all furnished with oriental furniture, but it was the delicate kind rather than the ornate kind. Mr. Nell was quite a fascinating person, being quite elderly but very spry. He told me all about a tiger hunt he went on in Indo-China about six years ago. There were tiger skins, beautiful ones all around, that he had killed.
Yesterday I spent the entire day studying, except that I tried on this formal one of the girls, Janet Spear wants to sell. It was just adoreable, but I decided I couldn't afford it. She had only worm it two hours in a wedding, and had them had it sent to the cleaners, and they had shrunk it terribly. It is made out of white
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Last night I went to the Officer's Club at Moffat Field with Jack. It is getting to be quite the place to go, everyone seemed to be there Ruth, Jane Smith, Sally Teachout, Virginia Walker, Jean Crowell, and lots of other people. In fact everyone knew just about everyone else there. It is always so much more fun to go some place where you know every one that is there.
I have to go to the library now, and get another book to read for history. I think I'll read about Henry Clay this time.
Love to all,
Mary
