Letter from James C. Fanning to his family, October 15, 1953
Title
Letter from James C. Fanning to his family, October 15, 1953
Description
James C. Fanning, Class of 1953, wrote these letters to his family during his four years as a cadet at The Citadel.
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A2013.1
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The Citadel Archives & Museum
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James C. Fanning Cadet Letter Collection
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application/pdf
Language
English
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Text
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https://citadeldigitalarchives.omeka.net/items/show/531
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Charleston (S.C.)
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[Page 1]
10/15/49
Dear Daddy, Mother, and Sandy,
Here it is after 6:00 o’clock, Saturday afternoon, Bob and I aren’t going to eat at school tonight for a change. I guess we will go to the show, also.
Thursday afternoon there was a meeting of the Atlanta Citadel Club. We planned for a dinner before the dance on Nov. [November] 11, told the plebes to write their friends still in high school to get some more boys here from Atlanta next year, and planned parties for the Christmas furlough. I doubt if I will be very active since it takes a little money.
[Page 2]
I decided after I got your money that I shouldn’t waste my time on the plays. I am saving it, using it gradually.
Bob asked me when my birthday was, the other day. I hadn’t up to that time thought it was so close. I want you know that I don’t expect nothing except just a letter. Please don’t send nothin’. I will register for the draft in the Adj.’s [Adjutant's] office.
To go on I practiced wrestling. We run a mile every day and we really “work out”. That night I studied.
Friday, let me see, oh yeh! I went through classes as usual. That afternoon we loafed around until it came time to get ready for the parade. We, Bob and I, got together and paid some upperclassmen who were serving confinements .40ȼ to clean
[Page 3]
our room throughly [sic]. They did a very good job. It saved us many hours of worry and trouble. They are quite efficient at it since they have been doing it so long.
That night Bob, Joe Newsome from Bishopville, S.C., and I went to see Charleston High play Camden High. It was supposed to be one of the best games in the state. (Camden - 24 - Charleston 16)
This morning we got up and ate and straightened up the room for inspection. We didn’t have to stand personal inspection because we had choir practice at the same time as inspection. At 11 the history dept. head gave all history 101a students a lecture on Renaissance Art with slides.
This afternoon I slept
[Page 4]
about 2 hours did some studying borrowed a radio from one of the cadets who was going into town this afternoon, listened to the Tulane-Notre Game. Citadel plays Kent. tonight. I can imagine whose [sic] going to win that one.
Daddy, I met a boy here by the name of Jerry Duckett who goes with Mrs. Bowers’ Daughter. She told him to look me up. He is in the Citadel club and is a sophmore [sic]. I never had heard of Mrs. Bowers at Brown before.
Guess, that’s all. I really have used that sweater. It’s been quite chilly. We don’t go into wools until the Orangeburg Fair.
With love,
Jimmy
10/15/49
Dear Daddy, Mother, and Sandy,
Here it is after 6:00 o’clock, Saturday afternoon, Bob and I aren’t going to eat at school tonight for a change. I guess we will go to the show, also.
Thursday afternoon there was a meeting of the Atlanta Citadel Club. We planned for a dinner before the dance on Nov. [November] 11, told the plebes to write their friends still in high school to get some more boys here from Atlanta next year, and planned parties for the Christmas furlough. I doubt if I will be very active since it takes a little money.
[Page 2]
I decided after I got your money that I shouldn’t waste my time on the plays. I am saving it, using it gradually.
Bob asked me when my birthday was, the other day. I hadn’t up to that time thought it was so close. I want you know that I don’t expect nothing except just a letter. Please don’t send nothin’. I will register for the draft in the Adj.’s [Adjutant's] office.
To go on I practiced wrestling. We run a mile every day and we really “work out”. That night I studied.
Friday, let me see, oh yeh! I went through classes as usual. That afternoon we loafed around until it came time to get ready for the parade. We, Bob and I, got together and paid some upperclassmen who were serving confinements .40ȼ to clean
[Page 3]
our room throughly [sic]. They did a very good job. It saved us many hours of worry and trouble. They are quite efficient at it since they have been doing it so long.
That night Bob, Joe Newsome from Bishopville, S.C., and I went to see Charleston High play Camden High. It was supposed to be one of the best games in the state. (Camden - 24 - Charleston 16)
This morning we got up and ate and straightened up the room for inspection. We didn’t have to stand personal inspection because we had choir practice at the same time as inspection. At 11 the history dept. head gave all history 101a students a lecture on Renaissance Art with slides.
This afternoon I slept
[Page 4]
about 2 hours did some studying borrowed a radio from one of the cadets who was going into town this afternoon, listened to the Tulane-Notre Game. Citadel plays Kent. tonight. I can imagine whose [sic] going to win that one.
Daddy, I met a boy here by the name of Jerry Duckett who goes with Mrs. Bowers’ Daughter. She told him to look me up. He is in the Citadel club and is a sophmore [sic]. I never had heard of Mrs. Bowers at Brown before.
Guess, that’s all. I really have used that sweater. It’s been quite chilly. We don’t go into wools until the Orangeburg Fair.
With love,
Jimmy
Collection
Citation
Fanning, James C., “Letter from James C. Fanning to his family, October 15, 1953,” The Citadel Archives Digital Collections, accessed April 29, 2024, https://citadeldigitalarchives.omeka.net/items/show/531.