-community to make known Phe fact that there were plenty of rooms available at a
reasonable cost, that the University will cortinue to operate and tocoffer as 4

great a variety of wartime training as any educational institution in the Midweste
The effective working of such an ar rendeneit 5 has done its part in giving the Unive
ersity a record of keeping the enrollment up fer better than other similar education=

al institutions.

The work of the alumni in helping explain the University program to the legis=
lature was more importan’ this year than usuel because of the need for explaining
misunderstandings of corditions and f-rture cevelopments to the legislators. On the
whole , the 1943 legislature? was morb fair and gencrous to the University. It whould
be sided that the legislators’ confidence in the integrity of the University's
Chancellor in this time of confusion was & strong factor in the support given not
only to the University but other state schools as well. Aiso the clear vision and
enthusiastic devotion of Senator Robert Co. Runkin, former student '87, of Douglas
County, had a splendid effect.

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CHEERING THOSE IN SERVICE

During the past year and so long «es the war continues, the tremendous job of
keeping in touch with K.U. men and women in the armed services has been and will
be & major project of the Alumi Association. Letters of greetings go individually
to Jayhawkers in every nook and corner of the worlde The Graduate Magazine is
being sent to every boy, who asks for it, whether he is a subscriber or not if it
can be gotten to him. Clippings from it go far and widee A great special file of
service records of alumni is being collected, Some 2400 names arc now on the file
but_it is estimeted that more than 5,090. persons are in the services The job of

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getting a record of all these remains with us.

Thus the work cf the Alumni Association continues on through the darkness
of the ware It is apparent that the organization is as greatly needed nowto
radiate the opportunity. of the University through service and organization acti-
vities as ever befores

Fred Ellsworth
Becretary