May 10, 1943.

Capt. He Le Kirkpatrick, Me Cay :
Station Hospital, :
MoChord Pield, Wash.

Dear Doctor Kirkpatrick:

in the first part of your letter you say "Por some weeks I have
had some good intentions". Well, I will have to extend that and say for
some months I have had some good intentions, and one of those intentions
was to answer your letter promptly. But I have failed to do the very
thing I expected to do because we have had such en upset.
the University that the new regime has taken over most of our time. But
certainly we should not do any kicking when the boys in the service are
the ones who are carrying the load.

: Zt an sending you a mimeographed letter that we have written to
the “K" boys now in the services for whom we have addresses. We will put
you on our mailing list and count you as one of our very best "K" men be-
cause you have certainly rendered a lot of first aid to our athletics and
our "K" men. :

Charlie Black played a great ball game while he was in, but in
the early part of January he was taken #11 with pneumonia, the very next
day after the Great Lakes game. Iwas especially happy thet we were able
to beat both Oklahoma schools at Norman and Stillwater, and also at Lawr-
ence. When it is sonsidered that Black played but three of the ten Big
Six games it must have been a pretty cood ball club to have gone ahead
without some of the stars and still have not lost any games. This mimeo-
graphed letter will give you all the dope on the basketball season.

i am sorry that we didn’t get to play that gome of golf, but I
imagine that it wouldn't have been so hot anyhow but we would have had a
lot of fun. ; |

: Bob is still doing well at Pem. He is now embarked on his
Junior year and seems to be doing o.k. I believe he has a pretty good
chance to go until he finishes. He has a little better than a year of it
with en intensified course. However, they may not let him finish his in-
ternship. He may have to come back after the fuss is over to get that.

Henry Shenk is up at Lincoln, Nebraska, for the Big Six meet,
but. he only took four boys along with him, due to examinations. The
Chancellor is expecting to have football next fall, more from the income
that is obtained from the aotivity ticket than anything else. This will
‘pay interest on the stadium bonds, and I guess that is more important than