Arnold's Story: June 1, 1948 Chuck Cutler

Chuck Cutler had visited Arnold in Boston and followed up with this letter.

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Arnold's Story: November 22 & 24, 1947

Here is another empty envelope, this one from Chuck Cutler:

This letter from Ken Shauer confirms that his nickname was "Guernsey". The train from Pelham, New York, to Grand Central Terminal on MetroNorth still takes 31 minutes in 2021 as it did in 1947.

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Arnold's Story: October 20, 1947

Chuck Cutler writes to Arnold in October 1947:

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Arnold's Story: January 15, 1945

Ralph Winger writes with news of their Caltech classmates.

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Arnold's Story: early 1944

This letter was probably from late 1943 or early 1944, but it had no date, so I cannot say for sure. Arnold was at Camp Kohler already in November 1943. Charles Cutler is in the Navy but training at Caltech with other Caltech classmates. 

J. Edgar Hoover on Juvenile Delinquency, 1946, was a treatise on the importance of involvement in the community and the role played by family and faith a child's developmental years.

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Arnold's Story: November 25, 1944

Chuck Cutler writes from Caltech:

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Arnold's Story: April 28, 1944

A letter from Charles Cutler to Arnie, still training in the Army Air Force at Yale University:

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Arnold's Story: January 23, 1944

A January 23, 1994, letter from Chuck Cutler to Arnie:

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Arnold's story: September 25, 1943

 A letter from Charles "Chuck" Cutler in September 1943:

I suspect that the magic Mystery House is the Winchester Mystery House in San José, California. Wendell Willkie's book One World was published in 1943. 

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Arnold's story: July 1943

The previous posts were all about my Uncle Leonard and his experiences in World War II. Today I start posting about my father, Arnold Hasting Nevis. Leonard is the older of the two brothers, and there were two younger sisters as well. My dad went by Arnie his whole life, except that his parents nearly always called him Arnold, rarely Arn. He was born in 1921, so he was twenty when the war started for the United States. Like his brother, he was keen to sign up and defend his country and to see battle against the enemy. As his son, I was truly surprised at his youthful fervor to serve in the military since later in life he seemed rather embarrassed by it and rarely spoke of his time in the Army. I learned of his eagerness to sign up only from my mother. 

Arnie graduated from Herbert Hoover High School and was attending California Institute of Technology at the beginning of the war. His parents convinced him to finish college before enrolling in the Army. But he first had to clear up an attendance problem with his physical education class.

He enrolled in Officer Training for the U.S. Army in July 1943. The City of Glendale honored his enlistment:  

The earliest letters to the family have not turned up; the first is from November 1943. But a letter from Charles "Chuck" Cutler dates from July 20, 1943:

undated photo of Arnie Nevis with unidentified friends, 
probably from the late 1930s or early 1940s

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