In this letter, Marcy is preparing for the end of the school year—her junior year at Antioch—and for the summer.<\/p>\r\n
This letter includes the first mention in these letters of Aunt Stelle; I\u2019m still a little vague on who she was, but I remember her name from childhood, and she appears more prominently in later letters. Also the first mention in these letters of a guy that Marcy was seeing; she doesn\u2019t mention his name, and I gather from mention of other (also unnamed) guys in later letters that this one didn\u2019t last long.<\/p>\r\n
And the mention of welding here is mildly amusing because of her mention in another letter years later of Peter being a welder.<\/p>\r\n
These early letters are full of references to various friends; none of them are people I\u2019ve ever heard of. I wonder whether she kept in touch with any of them in later years. I\u2019ve desultorily searched online for a couple of them, but haven\u2019t found much of interest.<\/p>\r\n
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\r\n\r\n Friday\r\n [pencil: 6\/5\/65]\r\n\r\nHullo.\r\n\r\nAnother quarter draws to a close. Still have tons of work to\r\ndo, like 2 xxxxxx sets of papers to mark, and a kiddies art\r\nproject to complete (making a papier mache animal and some\r\nother junk) and some reading for another course and a final\r\nor two that won't bother me much. And and and and.....\r\n\r\nThe quarter is over on Wednesday, the 16th. Graduation is\r\nthe 19th, and I intend to stick around till then, as Carolyn\r\nand some of my other dear friends are graduating, and it\r\nought to be fun. After that, I plan a rather segmented\r\nnearly-two-weeks. I should have my Ohio drivers license by\r\nthen; will thus come to Phila and get a Penna license xxxxxx\r\nif I can without turning in the Ohio one. If not, I'll keep\r\nit. On the way to phila, if I can arrange some sort of ride\r\n(which looks pretty feasible) I'd like to stop for a day or\r\nso to see Janie, the gal in Mechanicsburgx who Sally and I\r\nvisited once before on the way out to ys. Thence to Phila\r\nfor a few days; then NY, to see some people I barely got to\r\ncall on my way through that weekend and go to a party for a\r\nbunch of kids who are leaving for Europe for a year and I\r\nprobably won't get to see for a good long time, as I'll have\r\ngraduated by the time they get back. THENCE have a couple of\r\ninvitations to visit various people on Cape Cod....Sally and\r\nsome other friends will be up there, probably;.and a\r\ntentatively planned two-or-three-days at a hotel owned by\r\nsomeone's family (thus free) in upstate New York, depending\r\non rides and tourist seasons and the like. Then back to\r\nPhila. for another few days, then on to school. starts July\r\n3 or 5 or something but I have to get back early to find a\r\nplace to live. I figure x if I get to do about half of all\r\nthis I'll have a pretty damn fine time; but that's all the\r\nthings I want to do. So far.\r\n\r\nNowthen. In answer to letters: sorry I never got time to dig\r\nout the brownie recipe, but I do thank you for the pretzels\r\nand soforth. the soforth kind of melted, as did the\r\npretzels, but they were well x worth the trouble of\r\nseparating. Also got the check, for which also thanks. If\r\nyou'd like to contribute to my trip home I won't mind. Don't\r\nworry about the record; they're always a fur piece behind\r\nthemselves; you'll probably start getting it sometime next\r\nyear. (ie. summer; academic rather than calendar year...)\r\nBest to Aunt Stelle, if this gets there before she leaves.\r\nwish her a good trip for me, and all that. No idea whatever\r\nwho it was that said hello to Daddy; I'm told Carl is\r\nsupposed to be in California, and don't really know anyone\r\nelse in the city with a very long beard. But then, your\r\ndefinition of a very long beard is probably about three feet\r\nshorter than mine..... They were right, by the way. It is\r\nlike an egg without salt. New minor romance is clean-shaven,\r\nand there's really something missing. Daddy, you should grow\r\na mustache. Justx to see.....\r\n\r\nThe workmen building a new dorm directly outside my window\r\nare welding today. Listening to the torch crackle and\r\nsmelling ozone...xxxxxxx good way to spend a morning.\r\n\r\nAlso working hard at the moment on a Benefit Showing of\r\nstudent films tonight. Benefit of Mike, Mike and Rick, the\r\nfilm makers. Mike and Rick are driving out to Colorado xx to\r\ncamp out over div x change, and the other Mike needs money to\r\nsurvive next quarter. We figure that at two showings, ca.\r\n100 people each, they ought to get nearly $50 apiece (75\u00a2 a\r\nhead; payment in kind--chickens, roasting ears, camera\r\naccessories--accepted in lieu of money) but I guess about\r\nhalf of that is much more realistic.\r\n\r\nBack to the salt mines. see you soon\r\n\r\n[handwritten: Love Marcia]\r\n<\/pre>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n<\/p>\r\n
Postmark: Jun 8, 1965, Yellow Springs, Ohio. Handwritten: “Rec\u2019d this 6\/10” and “Ans. this 6\/13\/65.”<\/p>\r\n
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