![Transcription Center logo](/themes/custom/tc_theme/assets/image/logo.png)
This transcription has been completed. Contact us with corrections.
[[year??]] [[??]]. This summer is quite vague still. Jack [[??]] just been told he [[strike-through]] should [[strikethrough]] take his [[??]] in August (end of), since [[??]] is going to Europe for a year often that and would be a [[most?]] valuable member of the testing committee. This is an oral exam (3 hours) testing the candidate's knowledge of all the [[??]] he's taken [[??]] the qualifying exam, a is the last major hurdle before the [[??]]. [[??]] be [[??]] do this, the only time we can come to D.C. would be early in the summer- in June, perhaps. Jack has a 12-month appointment [[??]] must [[??]] in Champaign; he sets a 2-week vacation at the end, but this must be spent studying for prelims. I am not sure what work I'll have, it may be just translating, [[??]] I may get a job regularly. We do hope you get to [[??]] the [[??]] [[??]]. You haven't been out of the [[??]], for awhile now, have you? [[?]] the time for new tires has arrived (almost) for our car : I am reminded of Dad's brakes. We'll wait until the present [[strikethrough]] [[??]] [[strikethrough]] have seen 50,000 miles, sometime this summer. Love, Dorris P.S. another handkerchief from the [[??]]