Sunday, March 14, 1943

Dear Walt,

Surprised to be hearing from me? Well I thought I’d drop a line, since I expect you’ll soon be going to Officers Candidate School, and would be moving from Fort Sheridan.

I received a card from Dick several weeks ago and I thought perhaps you would send me his address in Miami, Florida so that I can write him. He mentioned in his card that he had just gone to South Carolina to see Barbara. It is swell to know they are still within visiting distance even though he is in training. And speaking of Air Cadets we have about 300 here in Cleveland that just came up from Florida. They are training now at the Fenn Tower. Fenn college has practically all been turned over to them now. By this summer we expect to have over 1,000 cadets. Who knows perhaps Dick might come here too.

Needless to say the Stage Door Canteen is really plenty busy these nights. Next Saturday the 300 cadets will march up en masse. And since I am in charge of the Check Room I must prepare an auxiliary Check Room to accommodate them. It really is fun even though it takes all my time just knowing the fellows are enjoying themselves.

All the servicemen who have been to The Stage Door Canteens in New York and Hollywood and Washington still think ours is the best so we really are proud of it. I hope you can get to Cleveland and see it sometime Walt.

By the way, I read about Fort Sheridan the other day in some special reference material which we have at the station and it really must be a lovely place to see – almost like a beautiful park I’d say. You are fortunate to have such pleasant surroundings. I’ll bet it is really going to be grand in the spring.

Since everything is quite the same here, there isn’t much to write and I must be leaving shortly for the Canteen so I’ll be closing for now. Here’s hoping you are feeling swell and write soon and send me.