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515 Bash Court
Champaign, Illinois
June 3, 1959

Dear folks,

When you write to the Hawks, tell them to send the picture here; we will have a copy made for them. We had not thought the picture would be usable for them, but they seem so pleased with it that of course they shall have a copy. (They wrote us.)

I was pleased to find that I got an "A" in the physics course after all, and the highest grade in the final. I certainly studied well for that exam. The other final, in Russian, occurs tomorrow night, and is nothing to worry about, I won't study until tomorrow. 

The forestry abstracts translation proved to be a large job. I am just about at the stage of typing up it [[strikethrough]] . [[/strikethrough]] A $44 job. Forestry is more difficult than physics for me to translate, being well laden with technical words. I had the assistance of Prof. Spaeth of the forestry department here, and will give him a copy of the some 30-page typewritten result. 

Tonight we are going to a dinner of a group which regularly dines at the Union, whom we join perhaps once a week. This time it will be at one (or two) of their homes.

Yesterday there was a big excitement, the destruction of the old fire tower across the street from us. At 11:30 Jack got me out (a.m.) and things took longer than the large assembled crowd had expected, with the result that the tower finally toppled about 2 o'clock. There were dozens of cameras and T.V. station movie-takers from the top of a building. Jack borrowed his camera from the apparatus