Haddock and Dill: November 10, 1947 The Sun was Bright, The Winds did Blow, The Disappointment was Great and The People are Older

Dear Mother & Daddy,

"It sounds strange that you still have gardens and lots of leaves--but maybe you haven't now from what the radio has been reporting about the cold and snow in the midwest. Our winter has really started and it is supposed to be 30 degrees in the morning. It didn't seem so cold this morning when I walked but the sun was bright. The afternoon was gloomy though and we stayed in all day except to get the paper.

What was wrong with Charlotte? I had a letter from Beulah yesterday but she didn't say she had been sick. This is probably just the beginning. She'll catch everything at school. Seems like Jody is sick half the time now that she's in school.

We went to Hartford yesterday to do some shopping and got quite a bit done considering it poured rain. We got home before the real storm started though with 50 m.p.h. winds. They really did blow.

We have invited B's students out this Wed. evening and we'll know tomorrow if they can come. There are always so many college things going on it's hard to get a group together.

The Faculty Wives meet again this Thursday. I think it is to be just a social meeting--sewing, etc. It's nice to see them all once in awhile and I enjoy going. There is to be an assembly that night, too and I want to go. It is to be a two hour program of Shakespeare's plays.

B is going to N.Y. tomorrow afternoon to a meeting of the Philosophy of Ed. Society. He can't go till after his classes and will barely make it in time. The invitation didn't include me--much to my great disappointment for the speaker is to be John Dewey. He's 88 years old and the greatest of American educators.

We're invited to a supper next Sunday at the Waggoner's. I don't think I ever mentioned them for we aren't in the same crowd very often. They are older people and he is superintendent of the training schools where the college students do their practice teaching.

Hope to have a letter tomorrow and that you're both fine."

                  Lots of love,

                          B & Bonnie

NOTE from Ann: B considered the annual meetings of the Philosophy of Education Society to be academic highlights of his time in Connecticut.

To read the text of Dewey's presentation: http://www.siuc.edu/~deweyctr/about_influence.html
And for the NY Times article at the time of his death: http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/1020.html

B's books pictured above: The Theory of Inquiry, Democracy and Education, How We Think and Experience and Education