May 13, 1943 School's Out, Women in the News and Rhubarb Crunch

Dear Mother & Daddy,                                  

"School is out at last.  That is--all but graduation which will be in June.  It sounds funny doesn't it?  But it takes quite a while for the teachers to read the papers and decide whether the students have done their work well enough to get a degree.  Graduation is going to be very simple this year.  They aren't even having caps and gowns.

Sully and Griffins have gone and Caughlans are going to a farm for the summer, so we are going to be left all alone.  One good thing is that the Dames are going to keep meeting all summer.  Tuesday night we went to a dinner that the Education Department was having.  All of the big bugs of the department were there and the speaker was from Columbia University in New York.

Sully ate supper with us Friday night and then he took us to a show.

Today we went out to Caughlans' for dinner.  She had a nice duck dinner, with dressing, carrots, broccoli and salad.  For dessert we had coffee and rhubarb cobbler.  You notice I didn't say potatoes.  We can't buy a potato of any kind.  We have been using rice instead.  I almost envy you of the lettuce and onions.  Lettuce is .19 a head here.

New Haven is really beautiful now.  I have never seen so many flowering trees in one place.  There are white and pink dogwoods, tulip trees and flowers I never saw before.  It is still rather chilly but spring is here I guess.

B is going to look for a job in a few days.  He doesn't know what he'll try to do.  Write soon and often."

                                                 Worlds of love,

                                                              B & Bonnie