[Letter] 1945 July 23, Nice [to] Dr. Stoughton
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Title
[Letter] 1945 July 23, Nice [to] Dr. Stoughton
Subject
Jones, Edward Joseph
Gollnitz, William
American Red Cross
Nice (France)
Description
Buck tells Stoughton of meeting two Wagnerians in the Red Cross club in Nice. She also talks of her work with the recreational programs of the Red Cross.
Creator
Buck, Margaret Bambach
Source
Wagner College Archive, Horrmann Library
Date
7/23/1945
Contributor
Wagner College, Staten Island, NY
Is Part Of
A complete index to the letters in this collection can be found here: http://library.wagner.edu/wagnerarchive/StoughtonPDF/Correspondence index.pdf
Format
application/pdf
Language
eng
Type
text
Identifier
Buck1
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Text
Nice, July 23, 1945
Dear Dr. Stoughton,
The circular and your note caught up with me several weeks ago — and I am sorry to have been so very lax in answering them both. I am happy to enclose a check for one hundred dollars payable to Wagner College, and I hope it reaches you before you leave. It’s quite impossible to think of Wagner without you — but I know you must feel strongly about your new work.
I have been in Nice for just two and a half months now — and I’ve already met two Wagnerians. Ed Jones was in Cannes, the officer’s leave area, for a seven-day leave in May and I saw him walking down the street as I was leaning out a bus window. Bill Goelnitz tapped me on the shoulder in the Red Cross club in Nice several weeks ago and we spent an evening “reminiscing” and wondering at the trite but true “smallness” of the world.
Red Cross work is still far too new for me to give a really good description — but in general we run a recreational program for the fifteen thousand men who spend
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seven-day leaves in Nice. It’s tremendously interesting and satisfying — a good combination for work.
Please give my very best wishes to Mrs. Staughton and Jean and Don. It’s Wagner’s loss — but I hope, too, that you will have the greatest possible success in your new position.
Sincerely,
Peggy Buck
Dear Dr. Stoughton,
The circular and your note caught up with me several weeks ago — and I am sorry to have been so very lax in answering them both. I am happy to enclose a check for one hundred dollars payable to Wagner College, and I hope it reaches you before you leave. It’s quite impossible to think of Wagner without you — but I know you must feel strongly about your new work.
I have been in Nice for just two and a half months now — and I’ve already met two Wagnerians. Ed Jones was in Cannes, the officer’s leave area, for a seven-day leave in May and I saw him walking down the street as I was leaning out a bus window. Bill Goelnitz tapped me on the shoulder in the Red Cross club in Nice several weeks ago and we spent an evening “reminiscing” and wondering at the trite but true “smallness” of the world.
Red Cross work is still far too new for me to give a really good description — but in general we run a recreational program for the fifteen thousand men who spend
[Page 2]
seven-day leaves in Nice. It’s tremendously interesting and satisfying — a good combination for work.
Please give my very best wishes to Mrs. Staughton and Jean and Don. It’s Wagner’s loss — but I hope, too, that you will have the greatest possible success in your new position.
Sincerely,
Peggy Buck
Original Format
http://library.wagner.edu/wagnerarchive/StoughtonPDF/Buck1.pdf
Date Digital
2014
Citation
Buck, Margaret Bambach, “[Letter] 1945 July 23, Nice [to] Dr. Stoughton,” Wagner College Archives and Special Collections, accessed April 19, 2024, https://wagnercollections.omeka.net/items/show/16284.