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sports ecitor of the Kansas City Star, and Tom married Mary Mil, C. E.'s eldest
and aly daughter.}j Good luck, Tom, old fellow.

Lt. Lewrence R. Johnston (baseball '41,'42), writes from the Contral Pacific,
"Regardless of where you go you ses Kansas men. iI met one, Roy Jindra, a marine
corporal, aboard chip. Capt. Charlies Groff, Topeka, is intelligence officer at
garrison heodquarters and is on this island. My roormate knew Gordon Gray at
Herlingen, Texas, hign school. He fee said he knows a oanc. Weinecke from K.U.
on another island in this atoll, Could that be Emil Weineeke?"

S/Sgt. Ralph "Rea" Dugan, pitcher on ovr baseball teams of 1933, ‘39 and '40,
is.av the Las Vagas eir base in Jlevada, ana in addivion to, giving the officers at
the base their physical conditioning exercises, he is coach of the baseball tean
there.

‘Pfe;, Miller Cameron is in the A.S.T. U. at Lovisiana State University, Baton
Rouge, and writes as follows: “Should like to be remembered to Kaute Krssie,
Bob_Jchnson, IT. Pe ibmter, Chain Heaay: Don Poitom, as woil as Jock Floyd, Lerry
Hersley, Jack Sands, Brusc Reid, Max Replogle, David Shirk, Richard Amerine, Ed
Hall, and. others»: e«.o; « Am in Term V-A.5S.T. feohanad Engineering here at L.S. U6"

Miller, Bob is in. the Army Medical Corps end in his lest third of his senior
semester at the Universit; of Pennsylvania, Es will, graduate in early September
and will intern for nine months at Rel! Wemorial Hospital in Kansas City, On
Aprii 25th hs rarried Jean McParland, daughter of Jim McFarland of the McFarland
Drug Company in Topekn.. He had a five-day loave and just barely had tine to get
from Fhijiadelphia to Topexs. and veturn on his sojourn, . They have an apartment, and
are very happy in their temporary quarters. ; ea

Cpl. Hoyt Baker wrote from Fort Bliss, Texas, on Ay ori 25+ +h, and said, "I re=
ceived a letter from Rocrs enc he is now in Ireland, Paul, cr., my yourgest brother
who is-a senior in high school goes to the Navel Air Corps July ist.. TI sure hope -
he gets to take his coliege training there at K.U. 411 four of we brothers are in
service now."

Hoyt, - delivered the commencement addross at Peabody on May 25th, and had
dinner at Dr, Jessents house. ‘Your mother and dad were there, and I saw your
grendfather, Your brother was in the graduating class and also at the dinner,
We nad a ost enjoyable tine visiting with tne Jessens and the Bakers,

Lt. Denzel Gibbens, c/o P.M. San Francisco, wrote in April as follows: “I
received your Feb. 1& Rebounds yesterday and was really pleased to get ite Thanks
a lot. I've already written to Kresig hoping that we may t4 able to'get together.
I'm in the Jolly Ropers outfit and ualike Knute-we are doing the dropping instecd
of being bombed. So far our crew hasn't been able to shoct any of the little
-yeliow men dorm. Only one has come close and our gunners turned him at a safe dis-
tence. One of our P48's was on his tail and so the Japs have one less airpiene and
pilot. I'm in New Guinea ond so far I have run on to no one from K,J. I wish I
could as I would really like to sing the alma m.ter. We did have a boy from K-
Stave. I taught the rest of the fellews 'My eves heve seen. tho milking of the
Kansas Aggie cow' song. At first he wanted to know where they got it. Then he
realized I was from K.U. We have some good natured jokinge".