At last! The Peterson men finally washed the bathroom walls. Dart does a comical riff on the powerful “Peterson’s Wall Elixir, the special cleaning solution they used for the job. “The elixir we compounded got dirt, enamel, plaster, and some of the lath, off the wall.” He tells tall tales of this stuff dissolving spoons and the bucket it was mixed in, turning rags into microscopic pieces of fiber, and eating the flesh off his fingers. After they diluted it, the dastardly solution still removed all the bristles from a nylon toothbrush and created a noxious gas by “liberating the sulfur from the vulcanizing process when it dissolves rubber gloves.”  It can also be used to “remove silverware from tarnish.”

If he’s accepted at Cleveland College, he’s not sure what he’ll choose as a major — probably English or Journalism. He’ll take either German or Spanish, try and finish the physics he missed at Case, and avoid math and chemistry as much as possible. He’ll also try to get a literature and a typing class in as soon as he can.

He was sorry to learn via phone call that her bad tooth had to be pulled. He hopes she’s not in a great deal of pain, and he promises to try his best to comfort her when he comes to Kent with Al this Friday night.

Yes! He absolutely wants her to send the bus schedule. If his friends get tired of driving him to Kent, he must find a way out there to see her. He wants to remind her, however, that the newly-formed model RR club will meet on the 24th, so unless there’s something special going on at Kent that day, he won’t be coming out then.

For her information, the Cleveland College summer terms are : June 18 – July 26, July 30 – September 6. He’s not sure when the fall term starts, but hopefully in late September.

He didn’t proof-read this letter, so he’s surely made more mistakes than Dot ever does.

No letters again until May 19th. See you then.