Arnold's Story: November 2, 1950

A letter from a very active and enthusiastic Jan Schuck to Arnold:

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Arnold's Story: November 1, 1950

Hazel has been busy with church work, Girl Scouts and PTA. She messed up the payments of Arnold's life insurance again. Leonard, with Pat's assistance, is applying to medical schools around the country. 

Hazel's sister-in-law Belle Bettencourt and her daughter JoAnn visited a few weeks earlier. Her niece-in-law Amelia Bettencourt Hyer and Amelia's husband Burnett Hyer stayed overnight on their way back from a convention. 

Hazel's brother Elwood and his wife Rubye visited with their teenage son Walter. Her other brother Leslie and his wife Lenore came after that. 

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Arnold's Story: October 20, 1950

Normally I do not post empty envelopes, but I suspect this one contained an application and therefore will play a role later in Arnold's Story. Note that the Sanford University School of Medicine was in San Francisco at that time, moving to the present-day campus near Palo Alto in 1959. 

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Arnold's Story: October 11, 1950

Jan plays around with Arnold's name, calling him Harnie. She does something similar with Harvard–Army (Arvard–Harmy).

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Arnold's Story: October 10, 1950

Amelia and Burnett had two children — JoAnn and Geoffrey.

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Arnold's Story: October 1950

An undated note from Jan Schuck to Arnold:

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Arnold's Story: September 30, 1950

Arnold gets an at-home invitation for the wedding of John and Frances Mason. Arnold stayed in touch with John Mason into the 1970s. 

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Arnold's Story: September 28, 1950

Apparently Jan Schuck missed seeing Arnold in Boston on his return from Newfoundland. She recently hiked Mt. Washington in New Hampshire with Ruth and Clem in a blizzard.

St. Anthony is a town on the tip of the Great Northern Peninsula of Newfoundland.

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Arnold's Story: September 26, 1950

Hazel updates Arnold with some family news. They enjoyed sailing on Leonard's boat at Balboa Island, Newport Beach. 

In the 1970s we visited Leonard's family and went sailing on his boat at Newport Beach. I don't know if it was the same boat or a newer one, but by then he had bought a small house to spend the weekend in.

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Arnold's Story: September 22, 1950

Laura Hall writes from McCloud.

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Arnold's Story: September 17, 1950

Tor Richter, another classmate from Harvard Medical School, writes Arnold with news from his class at Harvard Medical School. Some new names show up now: Al Skinner, Sarah, Bill Manson, Rutch, Al Damon, Marv Gordon, and Dave and Frances and Donald.

Arnold is now deciding whether he should pursue medical research or stick with his original plan to become a medical missionary in Korea.

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