UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS

April 27, 1943

My dear Friends:

I received your thoughtful Christmas present a few days ago and was not only surprised but was very much pleased with the sweater. Tell me, how did you know my size? It arrived in good condition even if it was a little late.

Since I last wrote my address has been changed.

It now is:

Stf Sgt. Robert E. Wyatt
Office of the Division Paymaster
First Marine Division, F. M. F.
c/o Fleet Post Office, San Francisco, Calif.

I like my new place very much. At last I’m doing the type of work I’ve been longing to do ever since I’ve been in the pay office, that is, auditing of payrolls.

Would someone on the correspondence committee please write me and tell me what some of the other boys in the service, who were former Bryant Graduates, are now doing? I’m mostly interested in William McCaughey, Donald Seaton, Roger Gaioni, and Clarence Scott.

Say hello to the faculty for me and tell them that I’ll drop in and see them some one of these days. Has Uncle Sam’s Army caught up to Mr. Lambert, Mr. Naylor, Mr. Lee, Mr. Gulski, or any of the other faculty members yet? Remember me to them all.

Thanking you again for the very nice sweater I remain,

A loyal friend,
Stf Sgt. Robert E. Wyatt
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29 December 1942

Sgt. Robert E. Wyatt

Dear Friends:

I was very much pleased and surprised to receive the College paper “On the Campus” and also the Alumni Bulletin.

It has given me a chance to see what all my old friends back at Bryant are doing these days. I know one think [sic], you at Bryant haven’t forgotten the boys in the service. If you had you wouldn’t have sent the paper or the bulletin to me.

It was just a little over a year ago that I left Bryant to join the Marines, and I’m not at all sorry I did. I have had the good fortune to have gotten in the Pay Office of one of the Regiments. This is just the type of work I wanted to get into. It is very interesting work and it is in the Pay Office where I have earned my different ranks, just making Sergeant a few days ago.

It is interesting to see where the fellows are stationed over the world. Roger Gaioni, Arthur Bowler, Earnest Jordan, Alfred Rockwood, Varad Varadian, and the rest of them. I know them all. But other than knowing where these men are it does me good to know what the Bryant Service Club is doing for these fellows, besides doing things for defense. Keep up the good work and best of luck for what you are doing.

Remember me to all of the members of the faculty. Bryant will be at a loss if such teachers as Mr. Lee, Mr. Mercier, Mr. Shore and the others are taken through the “draft”. To them I send my best wishes.

With that I must bring this letter to a close and get back to work. Best wishes again to you all and may 1943 be the best year ever had at Bryant.

Always a friend,

Sgt. Robert E. Wyatt
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