Jean had a culture filled trip to New York City with a West Virginia University group of students in May 1942. Jean would have been 19-years-old. Miss Isabel Hayes, group leader, is identified in the West Virginia University Yearbook as being a member of the Class of 1933, and thus would have been about 31-years-old. Total cost of trip including $20 in spending money was $101.85. According to
Measuring Worth using a Purchasing Power Calculator that would equal about $1360 cost in 2010. No indication of how many girls were on this tour. Transcription follows.
Monday May 18th
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Train ticket from Grafton to N.Y.
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$17.43
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Taxi from Morgantown to Grafton (37 miles)
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$1.00
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Directors fee
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$10.00
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Fees for trips and tax on meals, porters, maid, luggage,
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bus, taxi, subway, fruit drinks, travellers [sic] checks, 50¢ on $100
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$5.00
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Dinner on train
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$0.85
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Pillow
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$0.15
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1st Day Total
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$34.93
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Tuesday May 19th
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Breakfast
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$0.35
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Sightseeing trip $1.50 (special price)
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$1.00
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Lunch
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$0.30
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Radio City Music Hall
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$0.66
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Dinner on train
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$0.85
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Play “Arsenic and Old Lace”
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$1.10
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2nd Day Total
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$4.26
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Wednesday May 20th
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Breakfast
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$0.50
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Tour over Rockefeller Center $1
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$0.55
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Lunch Lower lever English restaurant
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$1.05
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Matinee “Lady in the Dark” 2.20 + tax 10¢
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$2.30
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Dinner “Stockholm”
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$1.90
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Play “The Moon is Down”
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$1.65
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Astor House Roof Garden
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$1.50
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Pd. room rent for 6 nights at $1.75 per night
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$10.50
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3rd Day Total
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$19.95
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Thursday May 21st
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Breakfast
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$0.10
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Lunch
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$0.55
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Radio City Music Hall
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$0.66
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Dinner
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$0.85
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Play “Life with Father”
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$1.10
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4th Day Total
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$3.26
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Friday May 22nd
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Breakfast & Lunch
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$0.90
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Staue [sic] of Liberty & Elevator
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$0.50
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Dinner “Old Barn in Greenwich Village”
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$1.35
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Play “Yesterdays Magic”
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$1.65
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5th Day Total
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$4.40
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Saturday May 23rd
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Breakfast
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$0.20
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West Point bus, 1.75 & 10cts tax
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$1.85
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Lunch at Thayer Hotel
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$0.85
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Sandwiches and milk hotel and room service
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$0.50
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Diamond Horse Shoe “Night Club”
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$2.15
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6th day Total
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$5.55
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Sunday May 24th
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Breakfast
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$0.20
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Tea at Waldorf -Astoria
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$1.15
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Dinner “Maison Louis”
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$1.10
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7th Day Total
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$4.10
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Monday May 25th
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Breakfast
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$0.30
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Lunch “Laguardia Field”
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$0.60
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Dinner
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$0.50
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Play “Spring Again”
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$1.10
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8th Day Total
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$2.50
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Tuesday May 26th
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Room for extra night at rate of 1.75 per night
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$1.75
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Cash
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$1.25
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9th Day Total
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$3.00
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$81.95 [Total expense]
80.00 pd for trip
1.95 due Miss Hayes
$100 pd $20 returned for person use.
Jean, I may have made a mistake in the cost of your breakfast on Sunday morning, if so deduct .05 cts. as your breakfast may have been the one 15ct. meal. With the opening of summer school and all that means, today is the very first opportunity to work on the above,
Isabel Hayes
[handwritten note at bottom] I have just written to Maj and Mrs. Atkinson to thank them for their courtesy to us.
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