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Show - < £ - plane had landed at Tulsa. Tney suggested that I charter a special plane from Oklahoma City Air ort to Stillwater; but, apart from the cost (which would have been pronibitive) and the time involved, it was impossible to fly from Qkl/ahoma City Airport owing to the sa&e weather conditions which had caused the cancellation of the scheduled flight in the first instance. Vhen there w s no way of getting to Stillwater (particularly since the Club President and hie f; ten's were not prepared to drive to Oklahoma CityAirport again to pick me up), I waited for hours at the Oklahoma City Airport until the first plane w s allowed to t**ke ofi later in the night, and returned. • I had thus spent over 40 hours of continuous wakefulness and travel and waiting, to say nothing 01 the strain and anxiety of the experience, and I had spent my own money for taxicabls to and from airports and for long-distance telephone calls, and the Organization had 3pent over two hundred dollars in plane-fare, to no avail - all because the students concerned did not have the common sense, let alone the courtesy towards their guest-speaker, to wait at the airport for his delayed plane and bua to arrive. Trie costs of the trip we e for round-trip plane ticket (I am not charging all the other expenses which the trip entailed), $ 203.60. (Of this a&o nt will be deducted, in due course, the fare from Tulsa to Oklahoma City, as a result of the flight-cancellation. The Airlines gave us forma to fill out for reimbursement for the unuaed portion oi the trip, and aaked for our ticket^ stub for that purpose.) Will you kindly issue me, at your earliest convenience, the check for $203.60; and, when I receive the reimbursement check (about S10) I shall endorse it and send it to the Organisation. Sincerely yours, Fayez A. Saye^Jb |
