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334 Eighth St., N.E.,
Atlanta, Georgia,
​June 6, 1935.

Dear Kathleen,

We all went over to see Roger graduate this morning and receive the Point Cup.  Billy went over to Tech first and then was ahead of us and got a seat in the back row downstairs.  The girls and I landed in the third row of the balcony, but I think that was probably better than the back seats downstairs.  Roger said his speech very well, as well if not better than any of the others.  Besides receiving the cup, he had to stand twice: once for representing the school in the latin contest, and the other time for having made the honor roll 11 times out of 12.  There were about 6 or 8 who made it 12 times.  Mr. Hasting's son was the runner up in the point contest.  Roger's picture with the cup is in today's Constitution.  The girl's have gone down town and I am having them stop at the Constitution office to have copies sent to Mother and the other relatives and to Mrs. Lackland.

Billy got his drawing mark this morning and it was an "A", which makes him all "A's".  Roger's card was all "A's" too.  So was Pickle's: some plain, some plus, and some minus.  Her deportment was "A minus".  She said she could not let any of the girls see her card on that account or they would call her a "sissy".  "B" seems to be the highest respectable mark.

Margaret and Martha Allen are invited to go to a festival at Asheville.  They are to stay with a girl who was in their class last year.  I told M she could go.

Roger has gone to a show with Philip Kelly.

When Margaret had her piano lesson, Missy told her how well Billy had played at his recital.  She said it was the best violin playing they had ever had at the school, better than Lucile Busch's.  I was very much surprised to hear that, because I thought Lucile's was the limit in the mathematical sense - that is it could be approached but not equaled.

Margaret did not have to memorize the Rhapsody in Blue, but the other day she found she knew it all from memory without having tried to memorize it.

The Dorothy Perkins and other "June" roses were all gone before teh N.A.P.S. graduation, so they had the mothers make artificial roses for the chain.  They looked all right.  I did not know about it until afterward.

New numbers have been painted on the curbs, also street names.  This time they are black on yellow.

I think that is all of the news.  I hope Mother and Ruthie are both better.

With lots of love,

Will.
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1935-06-06: ​​​tour stops---images---audio---transcript---~NOTES~---pictures---links---site navigation
1.
We all went over to see Roger graduate this morning and receive the Point Cup.
Roger eventually became a lawyer in a big Boston firm.  Your average lawyer displays various diplomas on the wall of his or her office to display his credentials.  Not Roger.  The diploma he displayed was pre-high school - probably this one, but I need to locate it and check.

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The girl's have gone down town and I am having them stop at the Constitution office to have copies sent to Mother and the other relatives and to Mrs. Lackland.
"Mother" would be Kathleen's mother, Ann Gray Farmer, whom Kathleen was visiting.

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I hope Mother and Ruthie are both better.
So the purpose of Kathleen's visit was to help her ailing mother and sister.  Ruthie died the following month, on July 17, 1935.  I don't know the cause of death.  Maybe it was this illness, or maybe this illness left her vulnerable to some other illness.  Kathleen's mother, age 84, survived, but died the following year.

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Here's the picture of Roger that was in the Atlanta Constitution on June 6, 1935.  Thanks, newspapers.com!

I like this picture.  Earlier pictures of Roger - i.e. my father - don't look familiar to me, but this looks like my father.
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