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Bob Yarbrough to Jean Calloway Letter, October 29, 1943

Yarbrough writes to Jean Calloway, also a member of Alpha Iota Chapter, from Georgetown University, where he is in an Army Specialized Training Program (ASTP) studying Chinese. Yarbrough mentions playing a piano program on a local radio station and attending a recital by pianist Vladimir Horowitz; he also discusses his family and mutual friends. Yarbrough includes a line in Chinese, with an English translation and anglicanized pronunciation in parenthesis, at the end of the letter.