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ing, but was unable to see him as he was busy all morning. I'll see him early next week. So altogether I feel quite pleased with the turn affairs have taken.

[[underline]] To Mother, September 14, 1925: [[/underline]] Yesterday, Frank Carlton and I ate dinner at Pelop's with Del and George. After dinner, Del suddenly suggested that we take the Ford and drive over to Pittsfield. It sounded good to us so we straightway started. Of course, you are more familiar with the drive than I, having driven over twice to my once. Isn't the view from Lebanon Summit perfectly beautiful? It was very hazy and gray yesterday but even for all that the countryside and the mountains were beautiful. We reached there about four, drove around town a bit. We tried to get into the Works there but were informed that had we been Gerard Swope himself, we could not have got in on Sunday without a pass. We got back here about eight. ...... I started up in A.C. Engineering this morning. Am at the next desk to Ed Brainerd from Syracuse. I am starting off by filing a lot of dope on various motors and generators. In that way, a fellow begins to get partially familiar with what the various types of machines are and how they are designated. I am in the Alternating Current Generator and Synchronous Motor Section and now know for the first time how to interpret a thing like this: ATI 20 - 240M - 300SD - 2200V - 350HP - 1.0PF - DS2. In English that means a three-phase, self-starting, super-synchronous motor with twenty poles, rated at 240 kilovolt-amperes at 50 [[degrees]] C rise in temperature at 300 revolutions per minute, and delivering 350 horsepower at unity power factor, delivered with shaft and two bearings. I'm sure you understand all that. I believe that I will even get a chance to do a little design before my time is up, which will be great experience. Regarding Erie, I understand that it is doubtful that I can go there this fall, so I'll probably be here in Schenectady for several months at least. ...... I feel the need of study even more than ever now that I am going to be playing around with synchronous impedences and ATI's and ATB's, etc.

[[underline]] To Willie, September 18, 1925: [[/underline]] I am awfully glad to hear that the Phi Delts have accepted you as one of their sisters and am glad they are nice boys. Give my unknown brothers my very best regards. I should like to meet them sometime. That little pin will raise friends anywhere one happens to go. Perhaps if it had not been for that little pin, you and I would never have met for it was my finding Fred Wulfing, who is a Phi you remember, up at Shoals that had quite a bit to do with my coming over to your table as I did the second week. So I really think that I owe an awful lot to that pin. Had I not come over, we probably should never have become intimate. How much does hinge on little things sometimes! ...... I am not forgetting our radio date at 10 p.m. Sunday evening, or 8 p.m. for you Sunday. ...... I'm reminded of that story someone told at the marshmallow roast