River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1919-06-12
Wilbur Ensign
Writes from Rings
dorf, Germany
Ringsdorf, Germany,

May 4, 1919.
My dearest Mother: At last | am
again in the school game after nv
long period of waiting. | came
down to Ringsdorf last Monday
morning and reported my presence
TO the proper authorities. The rest
OF that day and Tuesday and We'd
nesday were spent in organization
work, preparing schedules, making
out programs, etc. Then on Thurs
day and Friday the students who are
prlvates in the army, were reporting
IN SO that we were kept busy in the
clerical work of getting them prop
erly registered and classified. Yes
terday morning a short program
was carried out to see how the sched-
ule would work, but the real school
begins tomorrow morning. Nv
work will consist of one class in
economics, one in European history
and two in civics. That will he
sufficiently heavy program to keep
me entertained and out of mischief
but the subjects are those in which
| am especially interested, so | will
not mind, even if it is hard work.
The students vary greatly as to
previous schooling, some being col
lege graduates while others have
had only common school educa-
ton. Such condition may make it
somewhat difficult to give a course
that will fit the needs of the whole
class, but think we will have a sue
cessful term in spite of that handi-
cap. There are about 425 fellows
here to take advantage of this post
school. The courses in agriculture
and business drew the larger num-
Der as might be expected, yet a good
many are taking the academic course
that includes English, mathematics.
history, science, etc. School begins
ats a. m. and runs until 1880, mill
tary drill from IL to Has after
which there is the noon intermission.
until 1:15. There are two periods in
the afternoon, the second one clos
ing at 3:05. Rooms in various parts
OF town have had to be pressed into
service as class rooms, so our cam
pus' is quite extensive.
The instructors are mostly enlist
cd men from the Ince Div. This
town is very attractive as compared
with many of the German places. 1t
was formerly summer resort and
the view across the Rhine is very
beautiful. Our living conditions
are far ahead of anything we have
had before. am billeted in one of
the numerous hotels. Have a room
with a real bed, real springs and a
real mattress, also electric lights
and running water. Some luxury
for veteran Marine!
One of the men in charge of this
work is Prof. Wilbur from MichiA
gan. He knows Mr.. Crabtree, Miss
Sanford and Mr.. Stratton, 50 this
little old world isn't so big after all.
One of the fellows in my history
class comes from Stockholm, Wis,
and knows quite bunch of the
Normal young people, as he has
been up there several times. He
knew Wilmar Phillips when the
latter taught at Stockholm. His
name is r. w. Anderson.
The westward movement of the
A. e. F. is quite encouraging nova
days. This weeks "Stars and
Stripes" reported that over 100000
men sailed in one week recently.
Maybe at that rate this division will
sometime have a chance to plant it's
well-word hob nails on the deck of a
westward bound boat. Here's hop
ing, now and always, until that day
comes true. We have had touch
OF spring today and | hope the touch
develops into steady pl essure fer
we have had lots of cold, disagree
able weather. We had4uite snow
storm on May LIST.
Yours,