Letter 25, October 27, 1941

Dear Mother and Dad,

How are you two this gloomy and rainy evening? You say you are in for a tough winter. Your not so different. L.A. has had two inches of rain fall in the past week with no sign of a let up in sight. They tell me these early signs of winter, are also, signs of long and wet ones. Let er" rain. I'm prepared and it means more snow in the mountains--10 inches to date.

Which reminds me, if Jimmy Howell inquires about his ski again, tell him it's in Sugden's garage. I intended to match it up with my only good down mountain ski. Then when I got my new skis, as I had planned to get, we were going to sell the matched pair and split the profits, or keep them for emergencies. I told him before I left that they were in sugden's garage. I have got my ski poles there, also, if I remember correctly. I would appreciate it very much if you would save the bindings, irons, --too irons--and poles and I am sure that the Sugdens' wouldn't mind your snooping in their garage. Luggi bindings and Hogg ton irons. You can identify the parts by the broken mate in the basement.

Practically every fellow in department 11--my dept--seems to list skiing as his favorite hobby. A lot of us plan on weekend trips soon now, so don't be surprised if I send for my equipment, if there is any of it left from last winter. I can't quite remember what i did wear out and id break. Believe it or not, I think they get started on the icy slopes here as soon as they do in Salt Lake.

We Californians had quite an experience the night before last. Maybe you read about it in the paper. We had the worst earth-quake we have had since the big quake in "33", which rocked Long Beach to the ground. Everything just rocked and rumbled for a few seconds. Outside of the rumbling and rocking it was exciting to say the most.

Well, I could tell you about last week-end, but as usual I went to a show with the boys, lolled around Sunday, and then went to work. Hope to hear from you soon and in the meantime will be more observing so I will have something to write home about.
Love, Tom

P.S. This is rather a late date to be adding a post script but after reading over Wed. letter I decided to keep it until I could add further to it. This week-end gives me a little more to add. Can you remember the Farber twins and Burt Manily? Well, Burt is going to the U.S.C. Dental school and the twins are living in Arcadia, a suburb of L.A. They came over Sat. evening and we went to a show, then after the show, we discussed the good old days. We concluded the evening by making plans for the big Stanford U. C. game which is going to be played on Nov. 8,. Today I lolled around again and read my course, preparing for another lesson. I have been reading and memorizing since about four this afternoon. Now it is ten thirty and I have got to begin to get ready for work. What did you two do today? Did you by any chance phone Vandy? I wrote and told her that she could count on hearing from you in the near future----Write soon and tell me what you have been doing and seeing and I will do the same. Sorry I have been so long in writing. I think it is fun to write home and then again I know it is helping me to develope a style so I will make my letters more frequent than they have been this past week. Love again, Tom