Hamilton College 
Clinton, New York 
Tuesday noon, September 19, 1972 
Dear Carleton, 
I got your exciting and wonderful letter not more than an hour ago and 
I must rush this letter on so you may get it in time. 
A tree or two has the hints of the fall coming and perhaps a bitterly 
cold winter after, but hopefully college does not do the same. So far I 
have found Hamilton a great place to be for studying. All the needed 
materials for studying are right on campus. A library twice the size of 
Chevy Chase Library has been completed and there we do most of our studying 
when our quarters at the dorm are too noisy since we share rooms and each 
student have different ideas how he may spend his time. I have as nice 
desk where 1*11 be doing half of my studies. 1 have, with the help of my 
roommates, built a bookshelf out of four cinder blocks and two boards and 
all of the books I brought up from home are on them now. 
My courses are OK but demands a lot and I understand and want to keep 
with them. Their readings per week are of course unknown [to] high school 
students but they are challenging and thats my attitude. 1 am now taking 
Biology, International Relations, a good and tough course, English, a lot 
of reading and writing, and Japanese which 1 have not started due to lack 
of arrangement by the instructors. They promise to contact the students so 
I hope to hear from them soon. I have always wanted to take Japanese and I i 
was looking at the idea of going to University of Hawaii in the summer to 
pick up Japanese but now 1 can start here at Hamilton. Actually the course 
is at the girls* college. This is their first year to teach Japanese. I |' 
am thinking about an idea if I find Japanese worthwhile to have a summer | 
program at Hawaii and a winter here at Hamilton sometime. If I can dig the | 
money. I will try to contact the people there soon to find out about their 
summer program, etc. 
I have found college enjoyable and hope it stays that way. I hope | 
your trip is enjoyable and perhaps more important productive in whatever |! 
you* re studying. If you give me your stopping points ahead of time I can 
write you. Plese take care work and don*t work too hard as this should be i, 
a pleasant and relaxing trip for you and I think you need it. I got a 
letter from Don only I do not know where it is at the moment. He maybe 
still in Guam, which is not his choosing, and he may already be in Manila. | 
He wrote from Guam last Sunday (9/17) and said he was at the airport 
awaiting his flight and not sure he was getting on since he is on standby. 
He didn*t give me his address in Guam nor in Manila. But I will write to 
Stanford and hope they know where he is and send it to him. So he might 
get letter, but perhaps too late to catch up with you. 
