Phyl and Ann

It was easier to write to Phyl and Ann since they were in the same college. When I wrote to Phyl I would tell her to pass the letter on to Ann. When I wrote to Ann I would tell her to pass the letter on to Phyl. We wrote to each other quite often to keep our telephone bill down.

Both girls traveled home by bus. They had to take a few different buses. Whenever their father could get away he would pick them up and visit a few relatives at the same time. Many times they brought one or two friends home for a weekend and sometimes they went to their friends' homes for a weekend.

Phyl had a friend named Don DeCastro who graduated with her from high school. He went to Seton Hall College. Sometimes he would go to Saint Elizabeth, pick up Phyl and give her a ride home. Phyl never asked him to come in and have a drink of soda. I would say to her, “Ask Don in next time. Give him a drink. He must care for you to pick you up and give you a ride home.”

She said, “He gives me a ride because he lives in Closter. He is more like a brother.”

Don had to go out of his way to pick her up. She never took any fellow seriously.

Ann was a little different from Phyl. She enjoyed being alone at times. It gave her time to think things out. She would enjoy walking the campus and sit under the beautiful trees to study. She mixed her work with her social life. She was good in school. She was smart, but not 'tops' in her class, like her sister Phyl. Phyl would work so hard on her school work to be 'tops' that it didn't leave her too much time to socialize.