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17 April 1945
Dear Dr. Tresidder,
I was very happy to receive your letter to "Alumni in Military Service." It is rather nice to know what is going on at the "Farm." I still recieve a copy of "The Stanford Alumnus," and that keeps me up on most of the school activities.
Your letter contained several questions, the answers to which I would like to answer here. First of all, I do hope to return to Stanford after the war, and I plan on going ahead with my Pre-med course. I have had an opportunity to complete most of my pre-med work in the Navy V-12 unit at U.C.L.A. however there are one or two courses I will have to complete before applying for med. school.
There is one thing that does worry me though, and from all the discussion I have heard on the subject, I know it is a very important item for Stanford to consider. I am with the opinion of all the other Stanford men I have talked with recently that if there are no fraternities to go back to there will be only half a school to return to. I think that one of the major factors in any university is the fraternity and sorority
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life at that school. While at U.C.L.A., I met many many people there who would have gone up to the "Farm", but instead enrolled at U.C.L.A only because the fraternity and sorority life was still going there.
For the school records, I guess I had better give you all the corrections in this letter before I forget about it. I would like to have the records of my address changed most of all. I gave for the city "Westwood." The post office where I live get the letters addressed to "Westwood," but there is sometimes much delay. I would like to have the "Westwood" in your present records changed to "W. Los Angeles." Along with that I have finally gotten my commission, and instead of the old A/S, it is Ensign. John Lewis DEE U.S.N.R.
In closing, I would like to thank you again for your letter, and I hope I will be able to meet you personally soon.
Very respectfully, John Dee Ensign John L. Dee USNR 10731 Le Conte Avenue W. Los Angeles 24, California
