July 18, 1943

Gentlemen:

Thank you for the candy and also for the list of addresses. I really think it is a grand idea sending out the addresses.

My new address is:

Pvt Carlo Conte
519^th Hq + Air base Sqdn
Myrtle beach Bombing Range
Myrtle Beach, So. Car.

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July 4, 1943

Dear Chairman,

I wish to thank you from the bottom of my heart for the wonderful box of candy you sent me. One thing about Bryant it never forgets its Alumni and I hope it develops into one of the topnotch colleges in the country after the war.

My new address is:

Pvt Carlo Conte
519th Hq & Air Base Sqdn
Myrtle Beach Bombing Range
Myrtle Beach, So. Carolina

Thanks again,
Your former student,
Carlo P. Conte
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3 April 1945

Bryant Service Club,

I wish to acknowledge receipt of your wonderful Easter package. I certainly did appreciate and I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart.

Army Life is still about the same as ever for me. My job deals with appropriation of funds and it is quite interesting. It is surprising how the accounting knowledge I picked up at Bryant helps me now.

Most of my spare time is spent in playing softball. I am on the base softball team and this certainly takes most of my leisure hours. It is quite warm down here now and I have acquired a good tan by going down to the beach.

I wish to thank you again for the package you sent me. Bryant certainly never forgets their graduates.

Sincerely yours,
Carlo Conte
Class of ‘40
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To the Bryant Service Club:

The other day I received your most enlightning [sic] letter and I wish to thank you very much for it. There is really no other event I look forward to more than receiving letters for it brings back sweet memories to me.

Since I have been in the Army I have been very lucky for I have seen Miami Beach, Florida and from there I was sent to Los Angeles, California for training in the Administrative and Technical School. There I studied to be an Engineering and Operations Clerk which deals mainly in forms and the preparation of them for planes and their flights. It is really most interesting and I only hope that I can continue in this type of work.

After Los Angeles I was shipped to the Army Air Base at Colorado Springs, Colorado where I was put through thirty days of overseas training which every one who comes on this field must go through. My thirty days has just ended and now I am in the 11th Photographic Mapping Squadron for additional training in my type of work. However, so far they have me in the supply department, but this is only temporary as we are waiting for our Line Passes so that we can go on the field and work in either the Engine ring or the Operations offices. I believe that by the end of next week I will be stationed in the office where I shall get trained for the type of work I shall do.

Receiving your letters brought back many of the events that happened to me during the years 1938-1940 and started me thinking about the many friends I had made during the time I spent there. It really was the best two years of my life, and I shall never forget the good times I had there. I only hope that some day I will be able to get near enough to Providence so that I will be able to come in and say hello to all of you.

I must at this time convey my best wishes to Prof. Shors and Prof. Lee for their commissions in the armed forces. I am sure they will go just as far in their new endeavor as they did as professors. I had both of them and they did much in getting over to me the complicated subject of Accounting. Also, I wish to send my regards to all the other professors that I had at the time I was in Bryant and hope they have continued success in whatever they are doing.

Well, I guess I must end this letter now as work never stops in the Army. However before I do I wish to say that the Bryant Service Club is one of the best organizations I have found since I have been in the Army, and congratulations are really in order for all you have done and will do.

Your former student,
Carlo Conte

My new address:
Pvt. Carlo Conte
11th Photo Sqdn (H)
Peterson Field, AAB
Colorado Springs, Colorado
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March 29, 1943

To Bryant Service Club:

I have received your package of candy and I wish to thank you ever so much for it. Your generosity will never be forgotten.

I wrote a letter to you about a week ago so I haven’t much to tell you now. Thanks again.

Pvt. Carlo Conte
11th Photo Sqdn (H)
Peterson Field
Colorado Springs, Colo.
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January 7, 1943

Gentlemen:

I received your package & I wish to thank you ever so much. It really made me feel fine to think you remembered me. My address now is:

Pvt. Carlo Conte
7 c—43—Room 411
Hotel Knickerbocker
551 S. Fremont Ave.
Los Angeles, Calif.
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