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COMPLETE OPTICAL DEPARTMENT
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LETTERS
14 ~!arch 194-t.
Dear 1\Ir. Gannaway:
I had hoped to stop in Lynchburg
before I reported. It happened so fast ...
I got my degree in political science. Our entire class totaled about 250. There were only SO N. R. 0. T. C. sen- iors and only 20 got degrees. That isn't a very good showing. Paul (Simmons, '40) and I were really split up for the first time in about 7 years. He reports aboard the "U. S. S. Denver" today ...
I was fort unate. I got destroyer s. I am now going to the Destroyer Schools here at Naval Operating Base in Norfolk.
Paul and I differed on the ships. I w a n t e d somethin~ I w a s s u r e w o u l d see action. He asked for the cruiser; it is a little more stable, and he thought he would learn more there . . .
I .arrived last week, and I have com- pleted one school specializing in heavy anti-aircraft.
\Ve have nice quarters here. It re- mindsmeofV.E.S.inthatweall sleep in one big room (no stalls). We don't have to sweep out or make the beds, however. This being an officer is spoiling me . . .
(The course) lasts 7 days a week from 8 to 2:30; plus physical educa- tion. This really gets me . . .
... I hope I can get a chance to go soon because I have been waiting so long that I want to get in and get it over with ...
Looking back on college I am a little disappointed. This war has kind of messed me up . . . I don't think I learned much more than I did at V. E. S. A number of us from various
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Accredited
High stondord in schol- arship ond athletics . . Gymnasium . . . 140 ocres healthfully ond beautifully situoted in Virgi nio mo unr oms.
FOR CATALOGUE WRITE TO
George L. Barton, Jr., M.A., Ph.D., Headmaster
V. E. S., Lynchburg, Va.
states were discussing education in general, and all of us who had finished college agreed that prep school was