Please Write by J. Wynn Rousuck

Author:J. Wynn Rousuck
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Bancroft Press

dEar Grandma Vivienne,

Zippy started aGility class.

Zippy loves tunneL!!!

Went in tgunnel.

Ran in circles in tunnEl.

Stayed in tunnel.

Tunnel is fun!

Teacher CrawLed in Tunnel

Dragged ZIppy out.

Zippy rAn back In.

Ran iN more circLes.

Won’T come Out.

Fun in Tunnel!!!

TEAcher crawlled back IN.

Took Zippy out.

ZIPPy ran in Again.

Fun fuN Fun game!!!

Teacher Back in tunnel.

Zippy no longer in Agility class.

lovE,

Zippy

Cleveland Heights, Ohio

Friday, September 27, 1991

My dear Zippy,

I don’t think I have mentioned this lately, but your writing skills are coming along nicely. I know much of this is due to Winslow’s guidance, particularly in terms of spelling. He has always been an excellent speller. So please share my praise with him.

Speaking of writing, I regret that I have to cut back on the number of letters I send to you in Baltimore. Pamela’s mother has begun volunteering at the elementary school Pamela attended, and I have been helping her. She and I remained involved with Clarendon Elementary even after Pamela went to junior high, high school, and then college and grad school. (I know you found two stints at Puppy Kindergarten a bit excessive, not to mention your recent experience with agility training. But people go to school much, much longer. Pamela didn’t seem to know when to stop.)

The schools in Cleveland have started cutting back on arts classes. This is a terrible thing. Pamela’s mother fell in love with painting in elementary school, and Pamela fell in love with theater then, too. That led to Pamela’s father and mother taking her to lots of plays and eventually to her becoming a theater critic and getting hired by the newspaper in Baltimore, where she met the cutest pup in Baltimore — you! That’s how important arts education is.

The art teacher at Clarendon retired at the end of the school year. She had been Pamela’s art teacher, and she and Pamela’s mother kept in touch. Just before school started again, the art teacher learned that the school board was eliminating all art classes. Pamela’s mother asked her if there was anything she could do.

Now, three or four afternoons a week, we go to the school, where I am proud to be Clarendon’s unofficial, assistant after-school art teacher volunteer.

I hope you understand if you don’t hear from me quite so often. Please know that I am thinking of you, but the students at Clarendon are my new project, just the way you are Pamela and Frank’s project. Both projects are very, very important.

Love,

Grandma Vivienne

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