Word from overseas.(The Editor's Review)(Letter to the editor)

One of the sixty-five CPMs serving overseas, Frederick Wayland of Boston, Massachusetts, now a Pfc. In the Fifth Army, says his Institute membership card was instrumental in his being selected to serve as part of the operating staff of Grande Albergo Alpino, an Italian hotel in Stresa, now being used as an Army's officers' rest camp. He writes:

2633 Service C. Hq., 5th Army

APO 464 c/o PM, New York City

June 23, 1945

Dear Sirs:

I was very pleased to receive your letter of May 28 regarding the Journal, etc.; and look forward to the time when I can get back into the swing of things at home.

Property management has been my second love, shall we say, for a good many years, and during my free time in the two years I've spent, thus far, in the Army, I've looked over every hotel I could find from Georgia, where I was trained, to the Alps here in Italy.

If for no other reason, my "browsing" around has been worth while as I met a friend of U.S. Ambassador Kirk while in Rome last January, and had luncheon with the Ambassador at the Barberini Palace.

At present I am, in a small way, part of the staff operating the Fifth Army's Senior Officers' Rest Hotel, located here in Stressa, Italy. It is the Alps overlooking the beautiful Lake Maggiore, and just an hour's ride from Switzerland. The important factor is that my ever-present Institute of Real Estate Management Membership Card was instrumental in my being one of the few, with experience, selected by the army to come here.

My wife, who is a very efficient and capable girl, has managed my property and small office force since I've been in the Army. Therefore, I'd appreciate your mailing the Journal to her as indicated on your enclosed form.

Sincerely yours,

Pfc. Frederick Wayland

From Tinian Island in the Marianas, CPM Arnold Goldsborough of Wilmington, Delaware, writes that he is operating a laundry:

Hq., Hq. Co. AGF, APO 247

c/o PM, San Francisco, Calif.

July 8, 1945

Dear Sirs:

I've received your letter about the Institute and the Journal. The Journal is being sent to me by my office, I believe. I am receiving it but do not remember the return address on the envelope.

I have been on this Island since October and am operating a laundry with native help. I have learned to speak a little Japanese and manage to get along with women nicely.

At first we just scrubbed the clothes flat top tables. Then I managed to get some washing machines and taught them how to use them. Their eyes popped when they saw the machines. Now we have irons and a regular laundry--even to the bluing!

Are there an CPMs on Tinian?

Here's hoping we all meet again soon.

Sincerely yours,

Cpl. Arnold Goldsborough

Wartime conditions in paper and printing have been responsible for the delay in the March and June issues of The Journal of Property Management. Whereas both of these factors are beyond the control of the Institute it is hoped that the situation will ease sufficiently to allow us to bring you the remaining two issues for 1945 before the end of the year. In any event, it is now clear that the delays will be minimized and that future publications will more closely approximate their due date.

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