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May 27, 1945

Office of the President
Stanford University

Dear Dr. Tresidder

In answer to your March leter, I have been wanting to write that I do hope to return to Stanford for a refresher course in foreign languages after my military service is over. I majored in chemistry at Stanford and I held a job with [DuPont?] for 4 years which demanded a reading knowledge of German and French. I wish to brush up on these two languages, in which I am quite rusty, and I would like to study Russian and possibly Chinese. Since I believe I am only