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1007 West Oregon
Urbana, Illinois
April 25, 1956

Dear folks,

I am glad to hear that the members of the robbery gang are being tried. They seem to be the children of relatively-well-to-do people. So young!

We got some good news today: Control Systems Lab. has offered Jack $450/month for full-time work, for all summer, as contrasted with about $300/month for two months from the University. No choice! He will probably work 3/4 time, still raking in money we hadn't counted [[strikethrough]] o [[/strikethrough]] on seeing. Having saved approximately [[strikethrough]] fro [[/strikethrough]] $500 by buying a used Volkswagen, that puts us close to renewing our $1000 in Washington bank and keeping a sizeable balance here (I'm sure we can).

We have heard from Ina Swart and her husband. Koen is getting a better job at Agnes Scott college, a high-class college in Atlanta, an associate professorship at last. She will be in D.C. in the summer and you may see her then. She [[strikethrough]] i [[/strikethrough]] is finishing up in her correspondence courses in landscape architecture, which, I understand from work, is not accredited.

Jack is studying very hard these days. His hardest course seldom assigns problems (in relativity) because any problem in that subject is too complex, and when it does assign them, the students sweat. 

We have both decided to take Russian, I next fall and Jack the following summer. We have some friends the wife of whom has recently begun study, also being a physics student. She is getting a correspondence job paying 8-10¢ a word for translating Russian journal articles. I will be taking math and physics as much as I can too and perhaps can make a good home industry out of her type of work. It will be Jack's second language instead of German. By the way, he takes