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will also be possessed of great balance, and firmness of purpose. I am hoping, and have been greatly consoled by the idea, that you will continue to serve Tuskegee from your new position with the Phelps-Stokes Fund, as well as a position on the Trustee Board. Also please accept my congratulation on your new appointment. I am aware of the significance of your new duties. I am very happy for you and your family, if we must lose you from Tuskegee.

As you will note I am still with the Army. Just how I have come to still be here is almost unexplainable. Infact I did not come to stay at all but here I am. I have been offered work on a state level if I would return  to agricultural work in this state which I may yet consider. However I have my weighted reasons for not returning before now. I am presently stationed here at Fort Bennings, and plans to make Columbus my residential headquarters while I am in the Army. I am presently building me a home here. I am planning to take my Wife, Mother, and two children and spend an entire day at Tuskegee before the current school term is over. I am hoping you will be on campus and that your schedule will permit me to at least briefly speak with, and introduce my family to you.

I regret very much that, although it might be for valid reasons, we do not receive appeals from the United Negro College Fund in the Army anymore. I use to have excellent success with these campaigns. The last one I participated in was in the late forties and my battalion alone raised something like five hundred and fifty dollars here in the states where there is a great deal of competition for a serviceman's dollar. Overseas it was very easy to to raise more than double that amount in a similar size unit. I am hoping that in some way we will be able to again participate in these campaigns. However, with integration finally being realized, added objections to such a campaign might be encountered.

I realize that your crowded schedule precludes any possiblity of you writing anytime in the immediate future. I do hope however when you can find the time I will hear from you. I am hoping that Mrs Patterson and your Son are enjoying good health and that they are going to be happy in their new location. My very best wishes to both of them. I am hoping that all good will come to you in assuming your new duties, and that you will be afforded the opportunity to live an equally as fruitful but more selected life. I am going to cling to the idea that one day when I return to my permanent country home over near Brunswick, Georgia, you will find it possible to come down and so some wild turkey and deer hunting. With best wishes.

Sincerely yours, 
[[signature-William R. Morris]]
William R. Morris
CWO  USA
Class of 40