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February 24, 1945
Dear Mother and Daddy,
Things have become a little depressing. My Spanish test didn't turn out well at all, and I can't under stand why. It was a test on a little book that we had read and I went over all the translations very carefully and after I'd taken the test I felt as though I'd done all right. I don't see why I made such good grades in Spanish 1 and such terrible grades in Spanish 2. I think its partly the difference in professors. The one I have now is known for being awfully hard and that he hardly ever gives B's much less A's. Practically the same people are in my class now as there were last quarter and they are all doing as badly as I am, but still there certainly should be something I could do. There are going to be two more tests before the final and so maybe I can get my grade up anyway I'm certainly going to try. My phy. sci. test, however came out much better that any I've taken this quarter and was higher than almost everyone's in the corridor, so
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that is a little consolation. Ive decided to have a new method of studying for the week-end. I'm going to try and do it all on Friday and then go over it on Sunday. I'm not going out tonight so I think I can probably get a lot of work done.
Last night Barbara Allen who is a girl living in my corridor and whose home is in Palo Alto gave a party for some blind soldiers. Her mother and had some of them out to there house before and wanted to give a party for them. We all wanted to do it too. But it was awfully sad. Most of them were boys you'ed ordinarily ever even think of going out with. A few of them could see a little, but most of them had their eyesight all gone and it was pitiful to see them stumble around although most of them could dance, although I didn't dance with any of them. I just talked to them and it made you feel awfully good to know that you were making them a little happier. But I just wanted to cry the whole evening. The most terrible thing
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was when they all joked about being blind and one of the boys teased another one about dropping his glass eye. One of the ones I talked too had a wife and three small children and I talked to him about them for a while and he immediately nrought me out a stack of pictures of them to show me and they were all awfully cute, but of course he couldn't see them. I was really awfully glad when the evening was over. I think most of the girls had a better time than I did, although I wouldn't have missed going for anything.
Thursday was a holiday. I studied Spanish all morning and wrote in the afternoon. Bob took me to see Othello in San Francisco Thursday night. Gertie Keystone went with us with amother med. student. Sally couldn't go because Jim isn't well yet. I think he probably asked me out because he couldn't take me out on Saturday night, because his fraternity was rushing this week-end. I won't be able to go out with him for the next two week-ends either because of
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dates with George. I'm really not to pleased about it since I'd ten times rather go out with Bob, although I don't know why. George is much much better looking. "Othello" was a wonderful play and I was surprised that I liked it very much.
Sally got my tickets to come home. I'm coming down on the Daylight on the 23ed and going back the night of the 1st of April. I don't know how I should pay her for them. It amounts to about twenty-two dollars. I don't have any more blank checks and I have about thirty-five dollars left. I shall still have to pay Mrs. Belenky and I'll need about eight more dollars for other expenses until the end of the quarter, so my money out to come out just right if you'll give me enough for the tickets. I hate to keep asking you to send me things, but I would appreciate a check book if you'd have time to get one and send it to me.
Love to all, Mary -
