Journal

The fourth and final journal for 1946 covers July 15 to December 31 and is written in a spiral notebook. Lundquist finds employment cleaning and remodeling the basement of the Soil Conservation building, shocking grain, and working on a housing project at the city park designed to furnish housing for returning servicemen. For the latter job, he is paid seventy-five cents per hour. Other summer activities include picnics, visiting lakes, building a raft, hiking, time spent downtown, roller skating, movies, Scout meetings, baseball games, playing chess and pool, studying calculus, and giving a talk on astronomy at the Izaak Walton meeting. Lundquist returns to State College, rooming at Mrs. Swanson’s rooming house with Verl Cutler, a navy veteran. He continues to work at Mrs. Graham’s boarding house. His classes include Physics and Physics Lab, Calculus, French, Principles of Economics, Military, and Phys Ed. His Physics class meets at 8 am on Saturdays, which he terms a kill joy. “A person can’t relax and have a good time Friday night with a Physics class next morning at 8:00.” He describes football games attended and provides extensive coverage of Hobo Day preparations and events. He is appointed chairman of the float committee for the sophomore class. The float is shaped like a scale indicating “the ratio of boys to girls now and during the war.” The theme of the Swanson Hall float is “Hobo Orchestra.” Lundquist and fellow Swanson Hall roomers receive permission to drop leaflets from an airplane on Hobo Day. He describes the Blue Key Smoker, held in the Stock Pavilion with over 700 people served cafeteria style. In the Hobo Day parade, Lundquist rides on the Swanson Hall float and notes that “our leaflet campaign worked out nicely.” State’s football team defeats Augustana and the evening features the “big Hobo Day Dance.” At the University of South Dakota’s Dakota Day homecoming, Lundquist plans the distribution of 8,000 leaflets that are “permits to surrender” and writes copy for an imitation of USD’s newspaper the “Volante,” calling it the “Volnutte,” commenting that “the U is going to be snowed under next Saturday.” He is pleased to report that the distribution goes as planned and that State beats the U in the afternoon’s football game. Lundquist returns to Webster for Thanksgiving, enjoying time with family and friends, watching high school basketball practice, and ice fishing. Back at State, he attends basketball games, and goes on dates. The Engineering Physics students meet to organize the Society of Engineering Physicists, with a plan of studying the Smyth report on atomic energy during the next quarter. Lundquist finishes finals and takes the bus to Webster on December 19. In Webster he does Christmas shopping, plays chess, listens to the radio, and ice skates with his sister. On December 26, he notes that his dad has gotten a coroner’s case. In the final days of the year, Lundquist watches high school basketball practice, goes to the library, and does some reading on nuclear physics. On New Year’s Eve, he and his dad play chess. At the end of the 1946 journal, Lundquist includes a list of expenses from September through December 1946.

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