Tues. Feb 9th, 1954
Dearest “G”,
The reason for my long delay in replying is...I still haven’t fully recovered from the shock...YOU wrote to me!
So glad to hear that you love Oxy so much and are having such a terrific time in school. College can be fun can’t it? But... ”G” you mustn’t let all the grades go, the best is to maintain a good balance between school and your social life!
Say, this Ron Chan sounds very very interesting! What is the latest on this? Wow, girl, you can sure send them! What is the secret? So the dating is pretty poor, huh? Do the Caucasian fellows ask you out at all?
...Boy, have I been busy. I’m always tired and sleepy and it’s my own fault! Just can’t say “no“ to any of the invitations to parties and activities! Guess, I’m just like Mother! But I really must slow down as my school work will suffer too.
The dating on the other hand here in NY is quite good! Been having a whoopee of time! It is out every night of the week-end! Marie as you know is going with Johnny Tsu and he is naturally over at least four nights out of a week. We call him the “fourth occupant”.
Then people have erroneously presupposed that I'm going with this J.J. Woo. I suppose by now I needn't go into a vivid description of him as I wrote home about him.
New York! It’s hectic! As I said before, we are lucky if we gals have one night each week when we are ALONE TOGETHER! With guests here all the time or else we going out...we never get any of our personal affairs attended to...like writing letters.
Just this past week for example....Tues. I had a modeling assignment, then we three had a dinner at Genie's house; Wed. it was Johnny's birthday so we had a surprise party for him at a restaurant; Thurs. J.J. over for dinner; Fri., dinner-dance with Benny Gim at the Statler Hotel; Sat. Elaine and I and three fellows drove to Philly for a big day starting with cocktail party, banquet, dance, and then night-clubbing in New Jersey! This occasion was a huge Chinese student endeavor that brought people from all the cities around Philly. Sun. we went to bed at 5 in the morn after the night club and then up to drive to Wilmington, Del. for an all day lunch and dinner party at some friends' home. Incidentally, all these friends are also very good pals of J.J.'s so they were all asking me about him all the time. And I purposely went to Philly with other people so I could contradict these circulating rumors about the two of us! Can't win! Sunday evening we drove back to NY very late, and exhausted. And then Monday I had a modeling assignment all day. So no wonder I’m pooped!
Well, Kiddo, I really must get to my school work, designing to hand in tomorrow. Really on the side I do go to school! You wouldn't know it. Keep me in touch with what goes: Okay?
Much love,
Al
P.S. Feel rather badly about Elaine. Marie is going steady, and I seem always to be dating so poor Elaine is always home alone. And she doesn't seem to mix as easily as Marie and I with the China-born groups so even more difficult. We are real busy this week-end as we are having our first party. “Hard Times” how apropo!
Much work ahead of us but should be fun. And “G”, a very very Happy Birthday to you.
Dearest “G”,
The reason for my long delay in replying is...I still haven’t fully recovered from the shock...YOU wrote to me!
So glad to hear that you love Oxy so much and are having such a terrific time in school. College can be fun can’t it? But... ”G” you mustn’t let all the grades go, the best is to maintain a good balance between school and your social life!
Say, this Ron Chan sounds very very interesting! What is the latest on this? Wow, girl, you can sure send them! What is the secret? So the dating is pretty poor, huh? Do the Caucasian fellows ask you out at all?
...Boy, have I been busy. I’m always tired and sleepy and it’s my own fault! Just can’t say “no“ to any of the invitations to parties and activities! Guess, I’m just like Mother! But I really must slow down as my school work will suffer too.
The dating on the other hand here in NY is quite good! Been having a whoopee of time! It is out every night of the week-end! Marie as you know is going with Johnny Tsu and he is naturally over at least four nights out of a week. We call him the “fourth occupant”.
Then people have erroneously presupposed that I'm going with this J.J. Woo. I suppose by now I needn't go into a vivid description of him as I wrote home about him.
New York! It’s hectic! As I said before, we are lucky if we gals have one night each week when we are ALONE TOGETHER! With guests here all the time or else we going out...we never get any of our personal affairs attended to...like writing letters.
Just this past week for example....Tues. I had a modeling assignment, then we three had a dinner at Genie's house; Wed. it was Johnny's birthday so we had a surprise party for him at a restaurant; Thurs. J.J. over for dinner; Fri., dinner-dance with Benny Gim at the Statler Hotel; Sat. Elaine and I and three fellows drove to Philly for a big day starting with cocktail party, banquet, dance, and then night-clubbing in New Jersey! This occasion was a huge Chinese student endeavor that brought people from all the cities around Philly. Sun. we went to bed at 5 in the morn after the night club and then up to drive to Wilmington, Del. for an all day lunch and dinner party at some friends' home. Incidentally, all these friends are also very good pals of J.J.'s so they were all asking me about him all the time. And I purposely went to Philly with other people so I could contradict these circulating rumors about the two of us! Can't win! Sunday evening we drove back to NY very late, and exhausted. And then Monday I had a modeling assignment all day. So no wonder I’m pooped!
Well, Kiddo, I really must get to my school work, designing to hand in tomorrow. Really on the side I do go to school! You wouldn't know it. Keep me in touch with what goes: Okay?
Much love,
Al
P.S. Feel rather badly about Elaine. Marie is going steady, and I seem always to be dating so poor Elaine is always home alone. And she doesn't seem to mix as easily as Marie and I with the China-born groups so even more difficult. We are real busy this week-end as we are having our first party. “Hard Times” how apropo!
Much work ahead of us but should be fun. And “G”, a very very Happy Birthday to you.
Summer of ‘54: The Scene | 1: Al: Have I been busy | 2: Jigi: Orchid leis | 3: Lil: Go crazy, kid 4: Wally: Don’t change | 5: Ron: Damn nice of you | 6: Mom: A grand success | 7: Mom: My fashion plate | 8: Lil: Who’d’ve understood? | 9: Jigi: The sexy bastard | 10: Mom: That gleam and glow | 11: Mom: So proud of you | 12: Al: Fast Casanova | 13: Lil: Free coaching | 14: Mom: Simply heartbroken | 15: Al: Most scandalous | 16: Lil: Men!! | 17: Jigi: Gush it up | 18: Mom: Keep it to yourselves | 19: Lil: Bitter today | 20: Lil: Your future brother-in-law | 21: To the convent | The Anniversary Party