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Dr. Francisco passed away on February 23. This was soon after he made it a point
to be present at the graduation exercises of his son, David, who received his M.D.
degree from Dr. Francisco's hands. The State of Kansas and the University suffer-
ed an irreparable loss when Dr. Fran passed away. He was a great lover of ath-
letics and youth. In fact, on every hand we hear that he befriended thousands of
unfortunate people that no one else ever hoard about. When he was present at the
commencenent a person told me that for years he had paid the grocery bill for a
family of unfortunate people that no one ever dreamed they were being helped by
Dr. Fran. Each month he kept this fanily in food without anyone knowing about it.

Dr. Francisco was a great humanitarian in every sense of the word. It is
planned that in the student union at tho medical center at the University of
Kansas at Rosedale will be a menorial for Dr. Francisco who for thirty years gave
his services unselfishly to crippled children. He was a respected and deeply be-
loved teacher at the University of Kansas School of Medicine. Dr. Peete stated
to me that checks payable to the Francisco Memorial Fund should be mailed to the
University of Kansas School of Medicine, Kansas City, Kansas. And it just occurred
to me that I have not made my subscription, so this very day I am mailing a check
to Dr. Peete so that I can subscribe to my great admiration and friendship for Dr.
Francisco. I remember so often when he would call for tickets, and even though
the basketball games would many times be sold out, Dr. Fran would say, "“Phog, I
have just got to have a ticket," and upon one or two occasions we made room for
him by pushing the substitutes off to the side of the bench and allowed Dr. Fran
to be our honored guest, |

Several years ago I took a group of our varsity basketball téam to Dodge City,
Kansas, to aid in a demonstration clinic for an assemblage of ten visiting high
school squads at the beautiful new Dodge City fymasium. ‘We put on the formations
and plays that Kansas used ‘in their practice and game drills, in both afternoon
and evening sessions, and played a short scrimmage demonstration game for the
benefit of the public. Much to our surprise and pleasure we found Dr. Francisco
in attendance at both sessions avidly “eating up" our deriozstration games. He,
of course, was out.in that section on professional work, but in his busy life of
struggle he seemed to derive much benefit from the struggle of young mene

The Office of Censorship, Washington, has called to our attention the Code of
Wartime Practices, so if we don't give full addresses for some of the boys you
- will know it is because of the admonition.of this office.

I get.a great kick out of receiving letters such as I received from Lacy
Haynes, Sr. He is always thinking of the boys' interest overseas. He says: "I
am sending you Tom Van Cleave's address. I presune you have hin on the mailing
list for the Jayhawk Rebounds, but I thought mybe you would be interested." Of
course we did have Tom's address, but this only testifies that Lacy is constantly
on the job, endeavoring to make Jayhawkers more happy and confortable, if at all
possible. Lacy during peace times never missed a football or basketball gane.

In fact, I believe that he has only seen the Jayhowker basketball tean lose one
game in all the time he has been coming. He is our good luck charme

Ens. Don P. Ebling, at 339 Virginia St., Hollywood Beach, Florida, wrote me on
May 29th. He says, "They are still preparing me as an officer..... I haven't seen
many fellows from school except John Kline. He is scheduled to become a gunnery
officer on a DE, but his school will last for about four more months."

"Ens. Jesse Paul Turner, c/o Fleet P. 0., New York, dropped in the office in
May on a very short visit. On June 1, he writes, "When I returned to the ship we.
had a new captain and two other men had been transferred, so we have a smaller