Miss Blaney:

You are doing a “swell” job. Hope to see all of you, some time in the future.

Bill Shors

New address

Naval Air Station
Grosse Ile
Detroit Mich

Bryant Service Club
Bryant College
Providence R I

I received the pound of [?] [?]. I will think of all of you each time I full my pipe and start blowing smoke rings. Keep up the good work. It is wonderful to be remembered at times like these.

Lt. William F. Shors

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Bryant Service Club
Bryant College
Providence R I

Dear friends:

I received the pound of P. A. and I want you to know how much I appreciate your thinking of me and the Bryant boys who are scattered all over the world. We all appreciate your efforts in bringing happiness to all of us and we are looking forward to the end of this war and to seeing all of you.

Lt Wm F. Shors
[torn--indecipherable] U. S. N. R.
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1901 Richmond Ave.
Portsmouth Va.
April 10 1943

Dear Miss Blaney:

I have finally squared myself away so that I can begin to do a few personal things. I reported to the yard on March 5th and have been assigned to the Supply Office in Bldg 30. Our bureau does about 90% of the buying, paying for, storing and issuing material for the naval activity here. This place is very much like a gigantic factory employing about 45,000 people in the repair and building of ships. Plenty of naval activity, many of the battle marked ships come in here for the necessary operations.

Mrs. Shors and I encountered considerably [sic] difficulty in locating suitable quarters. We are now living in one room but expect to move into the house which we have leased, about May 1. This city has a terrible housing problem due to the expanded Naval Activity. Enough about what I am doing.

I certainly would like to receive the Alumni News and On the Campus, or anything else that would tell me what is happening at Bryant. My heart is still back there, even though I am now working for the Navy and enjoying every minute of it. Let me hear from you. Mail will reach me better at the above address or at the following

Norfolk Navy Yard,
Supply Office Bldg 30
Portsmouth Va

Your friend
Wm F. Shors
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17 South Colin Drive
Portsmouth Va
June 21, 1943

The Bryant Service Club
Bryant College
Providence R I

I was very happy, to be remembered by your very timely gift (1 lb of tobacco). It makes one proud to have been associated with a college, which not only remembers its former students but also its former faculty members. I do not know of any other college which is doing as much for its service men as you are doing. Keep up the good work, for the sake of the Bryant boys who are fighting this war, all over the world, some may never come back but they will always remember what you have done for them. With best wishes for a continuation of your good work.

Your friend
Lt Wm F Shors
S.C. U.S. NR
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WILLIAM AND IRENE SHORS
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Bryant Service Club
Bryant College
Providence R.I.

Dear friends:

It was a pleasure to receive the news bulletin with all the news concerning my former students and associates. The Easter box of candy arrived in perfect condition and I enjoyed it very much. It is gratifying to those of us who are away from Bryant to know that we are remembered by our old friends.

At present I am attached to the Office of Supervisory Cost Inspector USN, 1st Naval District and I hope that my work will take me to Providence and that I will have the opportunity of renewing old acquaintances.

Yours sincerely
Lt. Wm F. Shors SC USNR
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