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Pvt. Joe A. Dunmire-17137367 |
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Keesler Field, Mississippi

Dear Joes \
. Your dad came over last night | to see the basketball

game and asked me to send you a Jayhawk Rebound, The last one that

I wrote was on August 31 and I have not written one since. However,

I am contemplating writing one in the very near /future and I will send

you the new one when I write it. N

I believe you might be interested in this old one

/ Because it carries a lot of news about the boys and it will make some
interesting reading about Jayhawkers past and present. It has a fobte

ball yarn in it regarding our 1920 seasons Lots of good: luck to you, Joe, |
and remember I am putting you on the mailing list for the next Ja) hawk
Rebounds |

_ We were fortunate to whip the Missouri Tigers in a
rather listless and loosely played game last night. We will have to
do better if we get very far in the conference races i

With every good wish, I am

Fraternally yours,

Director of Physical Education, |
FCA:MF . Varsity Basketball Coache

-Enee

 
Dear Jayhawkers: Ad
The following article is a copy from the sport page of the
Kansas. City Star. This idea came from a close follower of KU
athletics (W. W. Fuller, Board of Trade Bldg., Kansas City,
Missouri). I think it is a grand idea and am happy to enclose
it with the next issue of the "Reboundse" = =) /°' .
Although I do not keep:in touch with many of you, I learn of
your whereabouts’ through the "Rebounds." My thoughts are o
you many times and I wish you all. the best Lpcke

P.S. As thorough and exact as Mr. McBride is, he overlooked
one of Dr. Allen's important duties. He is a member of the:
Selective Service board and spends many hours each week help-—
ing select the manpower for our Armed Forces. Ogden Jones, a
member of the KU faculty, is chairman of the Douglas county
board. | ,

   
   

  

FROM THR MARCH 7 ISSUE OF ‘THE KANSAS CITY STAR:

 

Maybe you've been wondering how long Phog Allen will continue
to coach basketball. Youtve been reading about Phog, very’
much about him and considerable by him, for lo, these many,
many years. Is he going on forever winning basketball cham=
pionships or running ‘them up? |

Being curious and unafraid you asked him. And you learned
that Phog will be coaching five or six years mores And then
no mores wo

"When am I going to retire?" Phog repeats the question as
though the idea is something altogether out of the unexpected
and unthought about, but you soon know better than thate nt
can tell you now when that's going to be," he quickly adds.
"When I reach tho age of 65. Department heads retire at 65."
(Phog is the head of the department of physical education.)
"Other faculty mombors may continue until they are 67, but I'm
not hankering for those two years. I do not wish to coach —
after I am 65. I have no ambitions to break the records of
Alonzo Stagg or Connie Macks" — | | | :
"But what will you be doing, Phog? You can't keep all that
restless energy close by while you roll ina parlor chair."

OUTLINES HIS PROGRAM - ity .

"Don't let that worry you,” says Phoge "I'll use all the
enorgy I can muster. I'm going to play golf and I'm going to.
write. And say the things I want to say." es
Tut! Tut! ©Phog, as though you haven't beon saying the things
youl ve wanted to say, all along. | sory
'T guess I'11 have to admit that I haven't been.a shrinking
violet in that regard," says Phogs "That's right, and I'm
going to continue to_ do the things Itve actually wanted to do$
play golf and write." Ph SK ) ; fd
Tho KeUe basketball coach already is’ the author of three bookses
Perhaps it would be more accurate to ~ he is the author of
two books and’a coeauthor-of a third. His "My Basketball
Bible" and "Better Basketball" have had a wide sale, In cole
laboration with other educational authorities Phog wrote
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"Ttm going bavk’ toother Low=brow

FROM THE MARCH 7 ISSUE OF THE KANSAS CITY STAR (continued)t), 1. . ..a0

 

 

"Tho Administration and Organization.of.Physical. Education, and.
Athicticas". “President Raymondo&s Kent ofthe University of |.
Louisvillé was “the editor of that books -which.had chapters .on.
law by°Roscoo)Poundsof Harvardy modioine ‘by-Dre Cutter of
Northwestern, liberal arts by*DrecGharters of Ohio State, stu=.
dent healsh by Dr. ,Jonn Sundwai.kisof Michigan, formerly .doan of.
the schoulL°Gf mécieine of the: University of Kansase + nq gacac
What will wour next .book touch-on,/ Phog?, « ei . deeen
BACK TO THE LOW:BROW™.?) \\ “MO

fispuffa:' Phog. smiless,,.<'Itm . ,
going tovwrite acbook on the treatment of athletic: injuricseee
some time! eérérov Wamitatired vasm ehoece baa braod en! ie eas Sd,
That réminde yous That in the closing-wecks ofthe Big Six.
pasxetball season Allen took over; the training. of his squad. of’
basket shocter3. Foreed to pass up an opportunity to join the,
army athictic specialists’ junket, Phog quickly consented when >

his trainer, Dean Nesmith, was asked to become a member of oe

junkete Phog knows the business of training athletes; and:

mending their sprains and bruisés~and his book~on that-subjeet ~~

shovid bo. the ultimate! words l oc

Ag for dothg tho things ho:wants, todo after he reaches tho, age’. .
of 65, Phos hardly will -be able: to; carry on as heavy 2 program

as lio ts iw those approaching yoars,.to 65-e5cand suroly he isn't —
doing anything now that he doesn't wish ,to, do. . At. the .same, -
time hets Going far mere than theordinary man and you, wonder
hev he Gmnoges to, keep -the space. «ast month he gave his. fifth. |.

blood Gonetion and when you know that he is fast stepping to- ”

wars 60 youtll give him eredit-for dceperooted sentiment tos.

ward uy soldiers! Youlve seen that demonstrated clsewnere,. _
too. Fér examples in the Jayhawkern, Rebounds he writes every...
month or two, has typed andnailsto-all-his eld.baskotball ..° ..

boys and other K.Ue athletes onthe world's fighting fronts.
WHEE DOMScHETRINDeTHEATIME tins ome idwoo vam avodmok vrifuee% tor.
As head of “the depayvtmoent of physiealedueation at .KeUe;he has ©
a full-time joos As coach of basketball you, know he ‘devotes
many long hours and the onorgy of a steampnengihe.,s He isa .....
Rotarian“and acLivelyJ6nss vHe. isopresident.of.the.cCiyie Action.
committeevof Lawrence, -aycommittee, with a twofold.‘purpose == ..to
provide a construction and a city: faceelifting plan“by .way of.
encouraging vetcrans to return to Lawrence dnd ton provide. many

of them with édrlyeempléymontaddd evyss. "wor vs a det tot $4ac
Recentiy“Phog was elected: president.oftho:Lawrenée,Country .. ee
club, and you’ can safoly" bet» tnatshe:will notibe idle. on this.
job. Saini fact? gouyoannobaps (uve Fheg. Meine ay GM. i dv '

Now Phog is running for a seat in the, city counc#l (he. was.

clected: yésterday).#eand. so.you get the idea that.by.the, time.“
he is $5 hé will, boefaivly well’ whittied.down and’ quite.ready ...
for ]eL sureby: gonrr dnd writings gonids - % F @b a dle r bai a ial eae

PeSy me Ohy yess you want to know when. Phog wili»be,-65%.... His.
next Kirthday will vexNovemberel8yiHolhlabe- 606 (coy oui oy.

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No. 14

March 14, 1945

Final Big Six Conference Standings in Basketball

: WoL Pts OP Pet
Towa State.

: Sede 6 24% OF 2800
Kansase eeesnecersenest & OS SEF 760
Oklahoma, «2«+«2es2ee2285 § 420 412 .500
Missouri. *eoenpeeeeste 5 §& S77 468 2000
Kansas States «2. -2«ees-et% S&S 445 448 400
Nebraskas, «eee eececeel 9 447 509 100

Dear Fellow Jayhawkers:

My, how time flies§ That was impressed upon me years ago when I was a teen-
age youngster as I walked in Heinie Kaboobler's liot Air Cafe, and staring me in
the face was a big clock, the second and minute hands stepped up twenty times,
electrically. As those hands went whigg$ng around the clock, the caption below
was, "My, how time flies."

That seems to me literally true now because as the years roll by the second

hand and the hour hand seem to accelerate themselves, and now I find that my last

Jayhawk Rebounds was written on January 19. And I had promised in my own mind and
heart that you fellow Jayhawkers on the seven seas and the many fighting fronts
would have a letter fromm each month. To err and to procrastinate is human. I
guess I am one of those guilty fellows.

  
 

The day before we started for Iowa State at Ames on March 1, I was sure that
the Rebounds would have been dictated and I would reserve a flash for the result --
we were hopeful then} But with the myriad of duties I have deferred until today to
write this letter. But this morning - the day when we go to Dean Corder's domicile
at Welda, Kansas, where his father, Lee R. Corder, is superintendent of schools,
for the purpose of a basketball banquet, = I am going to write this, come hell or
high water. You remember the old grandpappy down in Arkansas, When the floods
came the neighbors had all gathered on a high hill, and as the river rushed down
the narrow valley they noticed a straw hat moving to and fro across the water, The
neighbors marveled, and said, “Look at that straw hat moving back and forth, and
not downstream’ What a peculiar phenomenon!” (although the Arkansawyers used a
different word.) One young hillbilly said, "Why, don*t you remember, Grandpappy
said he was going to mow that lawn, come hell or high water." .. . That is a
rotten joke, but I had to make my point. ;

Now, into the story of the Big Six Conference race. In my January Rebounds I
gave you the set-up of the race and the personnél of the team. You will see from
the final Big Six Conference standings that Iowa State had what it took. They de-
feated Oklahoma at Oklehoma City, and Kansas State at Manhattan, on Saturday and
Monday night prior to meeting us at Ames and defeating us on the following Friday.
They defeated Nebraska earlier in the season at Lincoln, That was the difference.
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‘We lest to Nebraska at Lincoln in one of the hottest games that I have ever seen the
Cornhuskers playe Iowa State got a further break in the fact that Kansas played
Oklahoma at Horman, and Iowa State played them at Oklahoma City preparatory to the
‘Sooners going to New York, Oklahoma Aggies and Texas Christian played the other

end of a double-header in Oklahoma City, and Iowa State won by 2 points, If it is
true that the home court is worth from 2 to 6 points, we could say that Iowa State
got a slight break in the schedule, But no one is belittling the efforts of that
fine Iowa State team. They had the stuff and showed their merit all the way through,
so we. take off our hats to Louie Mense and the boys in Iowa, They are the real

champions.

The three games we lest were to Lowa State, ‘tities Conn point in an overtime)
and to Nebraska, In recalling the hot teams of years back, I remember Bruce Drake,
Tom Churchill and Vic Holtz, and the fine 1929 team at Norman, We had a pretty
good team and they ran over us roughshod something like 47 to 29, I thought that
was the hottest team I had seen until 1939 when we met the Missouri Tigers at Col-
umbia, We had a good team and thought that we were in the championship hunt, which
proved later we were to tie and then win the playeoff, but Missouri poured it on us
from every angle, and every shot they took seemed to whiz through the netting in
this game at Columbia. Then in 1940 we met Indiana for the NCAA finals in Kansas
City and held them to 4 points in the first 8 minutes of play, and then they started
shooting. And what a barrage{ They couldn't miss from any angle. They hit impos-
sible shots, one after the other, And yet we scored 42 points against them, but it
wasn't nearly enough. | uo :

Nebraska scored 59 points on us while we got 45, and Iowa State scored 61
while we got 39, Those two games compared with Oklahoma, Missouri, and Indiana,
and these are the games from 1929 to 1945, so you can see running into two outfits
in the same year was just too much for a very willing, aggressive and hard fighting
Kensas team. With every kind word to a dogged and determined Kansas team, we did
not have the material that some of our opponents possessed this year. But we gave
them everything we had, and I am mighty proud of these boys to be able to take
- second place, with none of baa other four lower teams near the Kansas 7 won and 3
lost margin.

Early in the season I or Iowa State first, Oklahoma second, Missouri,
Kansas and Kansas State fighting it out for ties, and I thought Nebraska would fin-
ish last. The only game that Nebraska won was that 59 to45 shellacking they gave
us, so I rather look at their effort in that game as something out of this world.
That is the first time that a Nebraska team, coached by "Lew" Lewandowski has de-
feated a Kansas team, but there must always be a first time for everything, and it
happened. It has been six years since Kansas dipped her colors to the Cornhuskers
in basketball, But you will remember in the last Rebounds I said, “We are looking
for trouble e we go to Lincoln on February 10."

Now for a ene resume of Kansas efforts a the ‘Big Sixe We lost a heart-
breaker at Oklahoma in an overtime game. Kansas had the game sewed up three differ-
ent times, but our lack of experience caused the boys to shoot long shots when they
should have nursed the ball, In the Iowa State game at.Lawrence on January 27, we
defeated Louie Menze's team 50 to 35, although Firebock, one of their stars, was on
the sideline. Then the Kansas-Kansas State game at Lawrence was a typical Kansas-
Kansas State game, on January 30, It was a thriller, and it looked as if Kansas
was doomed to defeat, but Kansas won one of the wildest and most exciting games
that a packed Hoch Auditorium has seen in years, The massacre at Lincoln on February
10th has been recounted. On February 13 Oklahoma came to Lawrence and Kansas
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stepped out in Seen and maintained a lead, and Locked like near-champions. Kansas
played a marvelous - ae the Sooners.

Maybe the press dispatches of February 16 gave you an inkling of the Kansas-
Kansas State game at Manhattan, Kansas State was very much in the running for the.
championship, Since they had beaten the Sooners and had run up 70 points on
Nebraska, and had defeated Missouri, they were in a championship moods They had
not lost a game on the home court and this was the game that Kansas was to get her
licking. Not since 1937 had the Aggies won a game from K,U, Everything was in the
cards for Kansas State to break this jinx. And what a ball game it was! The teams
were splendid on both sides regarding their sportsmanship and fine attitude, But
the crowd had come for blood and they wented some of the Jayhawker meat. To make

a long story short, Kansas won in one of the most heetic games, Atkins, the Kansas
State boy, double dribbled in coming down the court and passed to an Aggie boy who
shot a goal which would have put the Aggies one point ahead, The crowd was so wild
they failed to hear the whistle or to see the double-dribble, and they thought the
referees had taken the ball and the game away from Kansas State.

After the game, John Lance and Eddie Hogue, ‘the officials, wnlxet over to the
scorers bench to verify the score, which Kansas had won by two points, and in the .
interval between the time John Lance left the scorer's table he was divested of
most of his raiment. A part of that said raiment hangs on the bulletin board here
in my office. It is a piece of cloth 3$ inches long and 23 inches wide, It has
black and white stripes, and at one time was a part of his refereeing shirt. This
is once where a referee lost his shirt and almost everything else if he had stayed
on the job long, but Coach Fritg Knorr of the Aggies grabbed Lance by the arm and
what clothing was still on him and hustled him down the side entrance to the base-
ment, There were only a few troubleemakers. The majority of the crowd were fine,
and all the coaches and athletic officers at Kansas State were wonderful. It was
just one of those mob scenes that happens when some chump starts to take matters
in his own hands. President Milton Eisenhower, Mike Ahearn, Coach Fritz Knorr, and Frank
Myers, the financial secretary, were all wonderful in seeing that we all got
courteous treatment. But for a while things were exciting. True, some nit wit
shadow boxer let all the air out of my tires by taking the valve cores out, but
this was done by some distorted brain who thought he was doing something to aid
the war effort. os

| Everything is sine and I am going down there on March 25 to epesk at a
basketball banquet at the Manhattan High School. Of course, we will do everything
we can to spread the gospel of good will and friendliness between the two Kansas
cousins - Kansas and Kansas State. The student body of Kansas State were fine. I
think it is a wonderful commentary to make when we think of Kansas and Kansas State,
two bitter rivals, playing all these years without any more trouble than has _
occurred. It speaks well for the leadership in athletics on both sides, = and may
it ever thus remain.

We had the surprise of our lives at Lincoln on February 10, when we had a fine
visit with Ray Evans. Our Kansas Jayhawkers got a big wallop out of talking with
him. Big, fine looking and. poised, aggressive, this All-American in two sports was
as modest as a college freshman. Ray stgyed with us in our defeat and until late
at night when we pulled out of Lincoln. He was consoling the boys after the red
hot Nebraskans had poured it on them. He met a buck private with whom he had played
baseball and he was just as swell to this G, I, Joe as if this private had been a
general. That is the thing that makes Ray Evans greats that, and a lot of other
things. Ray was on his way to his assignment with the Gypsy Task Force, and after
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arriving at his destination he wrote as follows: "This place is an ideal spot for
our combat crew training. And before long you will be hearing quite a bit about a
couple of our outfits." Ray's address is Lt. Ray Re nas Hdgrs. Gypsy Task
Force, APO 632, c/o PeMe, Miami, Fla.

From Lt. Dean K, Brooks, M.C. (APA 46, San Francisco): “Yesterday I went
ashore and visited the spot where T. P, Hunter was killed. I talked to several of
the men who served under him. They certainly praised him to the skies. They told
me of some of his heroic acts on other fields of battle, John Krum and I are going
up and visit his grave in the next few days» « « « Had dinner with Art Nichols
(K.U. *43) the other night and while there met another K.U. man, Dean Kipp, M *°43,
from Junction City. As usual the conversation drifted around to Phog's basketball
team, We all figure that if we take 0.U. at Lawrence we'll win the championship.
How about it? I'll bet those boys would certainly be surprised if they knew how
much guys out here are pulling for them, I wonder if they think about the guys
out here as much as these fellows do about them,"

And.a letter from Cpl, Charles Loar, with the Marine Corps in the Pacific,
assures us that he is coming to visit us when he returns to the States to tell us
more about T. Pe We have never gotten anything only the most tender expressions
from all of T. Pe's buddies, He was a man beloved of all men.

Lt. Dave Shirk wrote from Benning Park, Columbus, Ga., late in January to say
that he expected to report to advance officer's school some time in February, and
when he finished there he would doubtless get an overseas assignment, You really.
have what it takes, Dave, and we are very proud of you. Yes, indeed, I remember
Bill Sapp very wells and also Larry Kennedy. I appreciate all the fine things you
are doing for these boys, and we hope they will choose K.U,

I received from Rev. Robert A, Hunt, of Salina, a copy of a long letter he had
had from Ens. Robert E, Hunt, which concluded with the following paragraph: "There
are many things I will explain after the war that I cannot tell now. Even in these
back areas, I have had my thrills. It is not all dull, I have flown 7,000 miles
over the Pacific Oceans sometimes in very severe storms, Our trips on these LCT's
take 12 to 14 hours and sometimes the seas are rough, so much so that we have to
take réfuge within the coral reefs." Best of luck to you, Bob.

From Ens. Re Fe “Dick” Miller, VS=52, San Francisco: “an now in the Hawaiian
area, but not for longe Expect to leave in the next few days. I haven't run into
very many Jayhawkers, but when I do we always have a big time. « . « Flease say
hello to all who are still there, and to those who read your Rebounds, The news-
letter is great. Keep them coming."

Judging from the Camp Butner News (North Carolina), the post special service
chief, Major Frank J. Anneberg is keeping busy providing opportunities for recreation
for patients of the U. Se_Army. General and Convalescent Hospital and returnees of
the AG and SF Redistribution Station.

Glad to hear from Re We "Dick" Farris, Phil 3/c, APA 197, San Francisco, formerly
of Garnett, Kansas. Dick, we are putting Capt. Forrest M, Chapman on our mailing
list.

I received a highly interesting letter from Lt. C. We "Chuck" Elliott, APO 321,
San Francisco, and am really sorry that space forbids me elaborating more fully on
his letter. Chuck was in the Philippines at that time, and had 50 combat hours to
his credit. But that was over a month ago. Lots of luck, Chuck.
Lt. (jg) Frank M. Bukaty is with the Armed Guard. He played on our football
teams of 1938 and 1939, and baseball in 1939, "Buck" writes: “Since coming
aboard this vessel a lot of water has gone under my feet, Have visited many for-
eign ports which was an experience to see but have seen entirely too much water,
which I wouldn't say is enjoyable. Not being able to mention the port, I can tell
you that I have been to India. It is beyond comparison the worst country I have
ever visited. When the good Lord laid. it out He surely must have had an off day.
Some of the sights you see are hardly believeable unless one witnessed it himself,
People by the millions, diseased, undernourished and exploited, mill around the
country everywhere. Much has beenwitten about their customs, mores, and reli-
gious beliefs, by more qualified mes than myself, so I'll not venture into detail
in this regard. I am only thankful that we departed from the country before con-
tracting some form of deadly tropical disease, Before returning to the States we
will have circled the world covering more than 25,000 miles." Buck, I too am
sorry that I didn't get a chance to visit with you when you were home on a short
leaves |

Lt. Curvin H. Greene sends a change of address to Naval Air Station, Pensacola,
Florida. He's the guy who told me they weren't going to shoot the Japs <- ~~
were going to threw rocks at them$

Sgt. Armand Le Dixon, APO 247, San Francisco, says: "Things have quieted down
considerably from what they were a few months ago. The Jap planes have kept pretty
clear of these islands, so I don't expect that we will be hampered by air raids.
There are still a few snipers on the island, but they are being taken care of very
nicely by patrols, Before long they may be cleaned out completely." Armand,
thanks for your good wishes regarding the Big Six. We fell just one game short
and that was one game too much. Remember, Armand, we are counting on you coming
back, along with Schnelly, big Jack Ballard, Ray Evans, Charlie Black, Hoyt Baker,
and a flock of fledgling Jayhawkers that are going to be tougher than a boot when
this fuss is over.

From good ole “Pappy” Nesmith = "Somewhere in Italy. It is cloudy today but
I guess it is the first in a month, The things you see here really open your eyes.
People begging for whatever you will give them. They are driven to it by hunger. .
Women working in the fields and oxen pulling plows and carts, Dirty, ragged, hungry
little children playing in the streets and begging for scraps to eat. The Red
C is doing a fine job. My hat is off to them. Basketbaii and baseball are
the main sports. Chance of men being hurt in football too great, They want them
to work and fight. « « »” Dean's address is AFHQ, APO 512, New York.

: Dean, I don't know whether you are going to make it: back in three months or
note From the time it took you to get over, I'm wondering if you have been mud-
eee in that ocean! How is deep-sea nee?

ie We often think of our three Navy "musketeers" - Lt. Ernie Vanek, Lt. Murray
Brown, and Lt. Gerald Barker. Ernie is still at Norman, Oklahoma, and is doing

a swell job at the Navay Air Technical Training Center. “Bark" is out in the
Pacific with an LST, “Bark", your letter was very interesting. Thanks a million.
You are a regular guye I wish I might have opportunity to answer in detail every
one of the letters of all you boys. But gosh, I would be working day and night,
and you would get tired of reading them, So this ee Rebounds will take the
place of personal letters until this fuss is over.
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To Major Re E,. Weinzettel, APO 153, New York, my good friend from Medart's in
Ste Louis, Mo. Congratulations, Roy, on your majority. I knew you had the stuff,
I appreciate your sending me the Stars and Stripes, as have many of my other
friends, They are always interesting, these overseas letters of yours. —

‘fo Capt. S, M. Chambers, APO 339, New York = Stew, I enjoyedyour swell letter
immensely, The last report we had Capt, Paul Harrington was with the 77th Evace
Hospital. Hope you can locate this swell guy who played on three Missouri Valley
championship teams. oi

_ Stew, I will always remember with delight our associations when you were on
our varsity, and later when you were off. Mrs, Allen is fine, Jane is married and
has a baby girl, Jill, Her husband is Lt, Elwood Mons = we call him “Hoot”, and
he is a Navy flier, Mit is married, of course, and has a redehead six years of
age = Judy, Isabelle is going to be a widow now because Mit is a Lieutenant (jg)
in the Navy, and reports at Boston, Mass., on March 23, Bob is interning at Bell
Memorial Hospital and will be in the Army Medical Corps July ist with the rank of
first lieutenant, Eleanor will be home from Philadelphia April 9, and Mary with
her brood is out at Palo Alto, California,

This past week they nominated me for councilman in the first ward. Besides
being in Red Cross work, Selective Service, and a lot of other things, I am keep-
ing fairly busy, but I always like to hear from my boys who through the years
have been a great joy to me, I am unopposed in the April 3rd general election,
so I think I may win this one3

Good luck to you, Stew, and tromp the dickens out of the krauts.

Capt. Kenneth C. Johnson, APO 557, New York, writes: "Have been receiving
your Jayhawk Rebounds and I enjoy it very much, There has been a little delay in
its receipt due to the incorrect addresse I have been at the above address for a
year now and my job is sub-depot engineering officer at a B-17 base."

From Lt. Comdr. We He "Bill" Shannon, Navy Supply Corps School, Soldiers Field,
Boston, Masse: “I am glad to see your expanded interest in community affairse .
Lots of luck. . . Things are per usual with me. I am still at the Supply Corps
School = am tied up with the Contract Termination and Surplus Disposal program of
training officers, Sea duty or foreign duty look dim, but I still hope to share
the hardships with my friends and past students. I have tried so hard, but one
must take orders. « «" Bill enclosed a clipping from the New York Times, and
_ offered commiserations on our failure to win the Big Six title, but he assuaged our
feelings with many soothing words. | | |

From Lt. Ke We "Kenny" Keene, APO 2355, San Francisco: “I received the last Re-
bounds a few days ago and noticed Lt. Evelyn Herriman was with the 44th Gen, Hosp.
We have a lot of our boys up there. . . « We camc in the assault waves in the first
landings in the Philippines. A week or so before landing I ran into Lt. (jg) Dean
Brooks, a Lawrence boy. We had a fine chat and he told me that Johnny Krum was
nearby so the next day I took a L.C.V.P. over to Johnny's ship. We had a swell
time recalling all of K.U.'s ball players and were they are located. . . . I've
watched K.U. ball games since I was 12 years old and ushered for Sgt. Kollender.
Shivers run up and down my spine whén I think of that moment of silence before
every games « « e There are a number of anti-aircraft outfits here in the Pacific
area. We are in third place for total number of Jap planes knocked down and we
are only six planes behind the leaders, The boys and myself get a real kick out
of seeing a Jap plane burst into flames and fall to the ground. « « «"
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From Lt. Me Fe "Mike" Andrews, Physical Training Director at the Aviation Cadet
Detachment, Merced, Calif. Mike played football at K.U. in 1938. Mike writes,
"Last January I was attending a two-week Physical Fitness course at San Antonio,
Texas, and ran across Captain Gordon Gray. He is Physical Training Officer at
Waco, Texas. Seems as the many Jayhawkers are doing a good job in physical train-
“inge « « « dust received a letter of commendation from the colonel for our work
in physical training. . . . Before I close I want to say after reading the Novem-
ber Rebounds that I am proud to be able to say that I knew T. P, Hunter,"

Mike, you bet we are tickled to death to put you on the mailing list. It is
not necessary that a fellow play basketball, football or anything else, to get
on our mailing list, You fellows are playing the biggest game right now that you
have ever played, and any boy in this fuss is more than welcome to one of these
_ Rebounds if he will just let us know his desires, and his address, I started

writing these letters, Mike, to just a few of the boys, not necessarily basketeers,

but we used the Rebounds name, of course, from the fact that we rebound from the
backboard, The biggest hope that I have is that all of these boys rebound from
the Japanagis.e We will keep them rolling to you, Mike.

I am aluays gled to hear from my golfing friend, W. L. “Bill” Winey, Yerd Dis-
pensary, Mare Island, Calif. Bill, we —— delighted that you were able to take
in the Oklahoma game and see us beat the Sooners in Hoch Auditorium, A lot of the
boys would have given anything to nat ehbed in the auditorium that night and with
the lights out to have sung the Star Spangled Banner, and then witnessed a pretty
good Kansas basketball team that night humble the Sooners.

Ens. We. A. "Bill" Forsyth, c/o Fleet Post Office, San Francisco, who played on a
fine University of Pennsylvania team a year ago, writes: “Have been out here in |
the Pacific for a few months now and will be here too many more months. However,
we have the Japs on the run, but they are still plenty powerful and can give us
much damage. Some of their battle tactics make you wonder why you should take
prisoners or why you should give them medical assistance, But then you remember
you are not a Jap but an American and you take care of the little devils."

That is a swell attitude, Bill, but I think you are more Christian than some
of us could be. Bill, you are one of the boys that we are waiting on to return
to have a powerful Kansas basketball team.

A change of address comes from T/4 Lewis G. Musick to APO 228, New York. Lew
played football in '42, and was Armand Dixon's buddy from Redondo Beach, (Czlit.,
the most outlying state in the Unione Some fellow from Florida said those
Californians could out-lie any wate. in the United States, But Armand and Lewis |
are a pair of good guys.

From Sgt. Re Se “Bob” Charlton, APO 374, New York, son of Glenn Charlton, a
Lawrence insurance impressario, comes the following: "You've done another swell
job on Jayhawk Rebounds. Except for the news of T.P., the edition was swell
reading. He was a.man's man in every respect. Visited this city (Dijon) and
found it most interesting. And by gosh, if they don't have a pretty fair gym
with basketball being the favorite sport. We don't have much time for it, however."

We'll be looking for you back to help your dad in the near future, Bobs ~

From that fighting Texan, Lt. John A. Pfitsch, (from Pfleugerville), APO 439,
New York, one of "Blood and Guts" Patton's bests: “We haven't been loafingse « « «
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I have been in all the countries bordering Germany lately and now am in ‘der
Fuehrer's backyard’, Before too many moons have passed I hope we are in the
front yard with the Russians, and then we can all concentrate on the Japse « « «
Have been following with great interest the gambling incident of Brooklyn College.
You really hit the nail on the head several months ago, Doc, I figuredyou knew ~
whet you were talking about. . . »« We are still in aeey driving, Doc, so keep
open a place for use We won't be gone too much longer, :

You bet, Johnny, we have already reserved a big wide open space for you here
on Mt. Oread. As far as I am concerned, you can build your house right on this
rocke

From Mid'n, He De “Sparky” MeSpaddeif, USS Prairie State, New York, N.Y.: “I
guess first of all you and the tear are due a great deal of congrats on those
victories against Iowa State and Kansas State. Deano and I were out together
Sats night and were thinking of you all at game time, I think Dean said that
game against 0.U, was the first he had missed in 8 years, We had a great time
visiting, and how queer it was that we should be ‘bulling' here in NeYe - this
war has caused many a funny meeting, I guess."

‘And from 7/5 Virgil Wise, 123 Gen. Hosp., APO 121 B, New Yorks “I thought I
had better drop you a line to let you know that I am still knocking around this
torn up old world. I received your ever faithful and appreciated Jayhawk Rebounds
about a week ago and will say that I was very deeply touched about T. Pe's mishap.
If you remember, I was one of those small fry, so to speak, that T. P. always
patted on the back when things got roughe « « « There has been a slight change in
my intentions for my postewar education, Due to the experience gained, and the ~
interest which has been built up in me, in surgery, I am planning on transferring
from the School of Education to the School of Medicine _” |

Congratulations, Virge We will be tickled to death to see you an outstanding ~
medicose You have the ability, and it will be good to call you Docter Wise, Your
neme should give you prestige} |

From Lt. Horace Me Mason, Transport Division 54, Staff, Fleet Post Office, San
Francisco: “Have just been reading over my file of Jayhawk Rebounds and certainly
get a bang out of them. It's been a full year now since I ran into a former K.U.
athlete and being able to read about all the buys I used to kick around with fills
a big gape last Jayhawk athlete I saw was Norman Sanneman, your wild man of a
couple years back. He's a Civil Engineering officer, and was ebout to shcve off
with a Seabees outfite . . . We're in port for a couple of days right now and are
taking it easy. The heat is terrific on this side of the equator, but the nights
are wonderfule The tropics have their points, although I haven't heard of any of
the guys coming up with the idea that they'd like to stay in these parts after the
war. Hope your bali club is knocking them dead this season, as they have done &0
often in the past. I haven't seen any basketbeli since March of ‘45 when I was
still at Great Lakes. Am attached to the staff of a flag officer and our mailing
address is the division designation, rather than the name of the attack transport
we are aboard." es

“Me Je "Milt" Sullivant sends his change of address to the Athletic Dept., NATTC,
Chicago 17, Ill, Milt, if you will send Ed Westerhaus’s address we will put him
on the mailing list for the Rebounds. .
Ens. Michael Gubar, APA 163, Fleet Post Office, San Francisco. Mike, your letter
was a masterpiece and gosh, how I wish that we could print the whole thing. It is
anepistle that the apostles of journalism should read. I am sure that I read your
letter with more interest than you read the Rebounds, When you come back to the .
States I think you will capitalize on your experience as a reporter for the Kansas
City Star, You write a chatty and a dran interesting communication.

To Jim Williams, a sterling athlete at Haskell Institute, who on January 2 was
taking his boot training at Parris Island, S,. C., and who is a Junior Rotarian, at
the Lawrence Rotary Club, = we send greetings. Jim, you asked how Haskell is doing
in basketball. When Marvin Vandaveer went in the service Milton "Mit" Allen took
them over and he did a swell job, Haskell really made a fine showing thig yéar.

As you know by this letter, Mit is now in the Navy. I am glad that you will be
back in Lawrence in April and I want you to know that if you are here on any Mone
day we want you to come to Rotary because you are still a Junior Rotarian, So we
will be looking for you. Good luck, Jin.

Ens. Re Le "Bob" Turner, Commander Service Foree, Fleet Post Office, San Francis-
co, was back a couple of weeks ago and he looked like a million dollars. He really
is an imposing officer, Wish Bob could come back to the University after this
. fuss is over, He was one of our very dependable guards two years agoe Let us

hear from you often, Bob.

To Warren R. Anderson, APO 447, New York « thanks for the clipping, Deacon.
That spot at 1100 Indiana Street is still 0.K. I know you would like to put your
feet under that table tonight, wouldn't you?

And to Jewell M, Campbell, ABCD, Navy 129, Fleet Post Office, San Francisco,
many thanks for the program of the Poi Bowl Classic, Pacific Ocean Area Football
Championship. This was immensely interesting.

We are indebted to Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Nees, of Bresi, Indiana, for a picture
of the mountain where Lt. Wayne Nees was fighting when he was killed, This peak
is the Gilbert Range on Attu in the Aleutians and has been officially named
"Nees Peak", The widow of Wayne's captain sent the negative from which the picture
was made, Captain Murphy spent several months up there after the battle, and took
the picture. He lost his life in the Battle of the Marshall Islends, This photo-
graph of the mountain is being framed, along with Wayne's picture, Fred Ellsworth,
the alumni secretary, has borrowed our picture of Wayne to have one made for his
gallery of World War II heroese

Lt. Lester iii ttine who made letters in varsity basketball and varsity base-—
ball in '37, '38, and °39, returned to the campus for a short but very pleasant
staye Lester was wounded in the Vosges Mountains. A machine gun bullet severed.
the nerves and broke both the radius and ulmar in his forearm. He is looking fine
and is fully confident that expert surgery, which he will undoubtedly get, will
restore the arm to practically full use in time after the re=-suturing of the nerves.

‘Lt. Col. Mark Alexander, a ieee: they who made a great record with the para=
troopers in both Italy and France, was here for some of our basketball games.
Mark graduated from the School of Fine Arts. He has a war record second to none
and we were honored to have him as our guest.

Lt. (is) ny Sit jre, and Lt. Marion Haynes were on leaves and accepted our
invitation to see the Oklahoma game here in Lawrencée -
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We are visualizing the time when you will all be coming back, and wiat a sight

“Gt will be for sore eyes$ Today is a real spring day on Mt, Oread. The temperature |

is between 60 and 65, A torrential downpour two days ago has greened things until

the buds are bursting, we feel, prematurely. The coeeds are realizing that spring

has sprung and they have that wistful look in their eyes. Kansas girls are as

pretty as ever. For the men on the campus, about all we see are Wavy uniforms, with —
only a few 4«Fters, many of whom are halt or lame, The faculty has been boiled down

to the bare bone, And occasionally now and then you can see one of the men who has

made a romance of study weaving his way across the campus, but they are in the. minoritys

Outdoor track is in full ovines The indoor track team was not as successful
as last year due to the fact that Coach Ray Kanehl did not have the material this
year that he possessed last season, Henry Shenk and Elmer Schaake start spring
football practice Monday, ‘They are not at all sure as to the available material
that may report, but they are going to find out. |

In a letter this morning from Chancellor Deane W, Malott)to heads of departments
concerning the budget, the Chancellor says, "The University faces another year of une
certainty, Enrollment will depend somewhat on the progress of the war, We have no
assurance of any military program after this semester, and it seems inevitable under
present Selective Service policies that civilian student population will continue to
decline, These facts should guide you in formulating the rayeeese for your —
ment for the year 1945=46,"

So you see we are in a dilemma, In another two weeks we may know what dis-
position will be made of the Navy Vel2 program and whether we have an opportunity
to obtain a Naval R.O.TeC,. for the University.

Athleties are as uncertain as all other activities on Mt, Oread, but we will
carry on and will keep things going a you get back. And when you get back
things will boil

Harold As Burt, formerly of Bureka, and captain of the varsity football team
back in 1924, writes from Shreveport, La,, that his son, Duke, is planning to come
to KeU, next fall. Duke is a fine football player and an excellent student. He
has played football at Sewanee for the past two years. Harold and Mrs. Burt and
their family were on the campus a year ago, and what'a delight it was.to see him
with two fine sons and a lovely wife, So the old Jayhawhers are sending their
fledglings back to the campus. Harold has ambitions for Duke to get an Engineer-
ing education, but of course he wants him to play football as a part of a welle
rounded lifes

Kanens. apparently will have no baseball team this year because the boys are
getting mighty scarce. Norman "Whitey" Carlson, a dandy baseball prospect, who was
a member of the varsity basketball team, went over to Leavenworth two weeks ago,
and he is an A No. 1 soldier now, He was in 4=F due to a bad shoulder, but the Army
doetors put their hands on him and he was warm, and they said, Brother, you are in,.
so he is on his way back home to New Jersey. He will be called from there,

Our 41st Annual Interscholastic Meet will be held in-Stadium Field on April 21.
Henry Shenk, Ray Kanehl, Elmer Schaake and the rest of the coaches are planning on a
little smoker and bublfest the night before the Meet in Robinsoa Gymnasium. Boxing,
cider and doughnuts, chocolate freezes on a stick, and so forth, will be served to
the coaches and their friends. Just amother effort to have the visitors know that
we appreciate their coming.
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Well do you remember the dete of July 21, 1944, when Marine Lieutenant T, P.
Hunter died on Guam, the first day of its invasion. Another invasion - Iwo Jima -
cost the life of Warine Captaim Fred Eberhardt, another University of Kansas im-
mortal, Fred lettered in track in '40 and '41, I ¢ould not depict the unquenche
‘able valor of the man as well as did the Kansas City Star of March 16, so Iam
quoting this to you in full, M

"Out on lonely, blood-stained Iwo Jima, Capt. Fred Eberhardt, one of Kansas
University's greatest students lies among the yet uncounted dead, and his year
younger brother, who trained and fought beside him for nearly four years, has

buried his kin and then from a hospital wrote the parents here (Salina) to break the

"YAs a man speaking to a man I must tell you pleinly and directly--Fred is dead,*
Lieut. Charles Eberhardt, 22, wrote his father, Frank Le Eberhardt, iI write you bee
cause I cannot bear to tell mother what she must know. I cannot tell you the date
and place of his death, but I can tell you that I was there and that he was killed
in action leading his men in the way which has made him a near=legend in our regiment,
He died instantly, from en artillery shell fragment. « « . As you read this and
feel its hurt, think of the ache I felt there on the field of battle, Only my res-
ponsibility to keep going in order to lead my men kept me from breaking under a
strain which even before Fred's death had seemed almost beyond human capacity to
withstend, To me, Fred wes more than a brother, he was the best man I ever knew,

"“'¥red knew well that he might die and he was not afraid. Fred could have had
a job with much less personal risk, After his conduct on Saipan and subsequent
. decoration he could have had nearly any job he desired, He was even given a chance
to return to the States, but he could not accept it because of his deep and sincere
conviction that he must do all he could out here,

“Allvof his actions were judged by their relationship to his ow conscience,
and that conscience was no vague light, no impetuous intuition, It was the rational
judgment of one of the most sincere, imaginative and intelligent men who ever lived,
He fought in the front lines of the marine corps because he knew that someone had to
do it and that he could do it. Therefore, he would do it, He had only loathing for
_ the rear echelon people who devoted their minds and abilitiec to saving their own

skins and to personal gain, :

"“*Above all, he was concerned with all mankind's suffering, and ignorance and
greed and malice, and he hoped some day to be a part of the educational or adminis-
trative system which would work toward eliminating those ills. Meanwhile, he was
doing the most any man can do in order to preserve the possibility of working for a
better world. ,

 “'In the past months we spent many long nights talking, and found that after
years of identical environment and then educations in quite diverse colleges we held
almost exactly the same viewpoints. Fred's greatness so far was shown only on battle-
fields, and the loss of that greatness is a loss which extends far beyond our family,
Knowing him as no one else knew him, I ask you to be brave as he was brave and face
the world for which he fought with the same hope, the same visions and the same dee
votion,' at

"As an afterthought and in a postscript, Lt, Everhardt told his father he had
been wounded in action, was in the Mariana islands, and was recovering, The Ebere
hardts have a third son, Ensign Chris Eberhardt, 24, now back in the States after
assignments in the South Pacific,"

| Marine Captain Fred Eberhardt's legion of friends can reeali with pride the
words of one who said, “Only those are good to live who are not afraid to die."
Certainly he knew this was his lot, his responsibility, and his choice.
alZe

Word just arrived yesterday that Lt, John J. “Jack” Griffin, a former student
at the University of Kansas, and an athlete of much promise during his school days,
was killed on Iwo Jima. Jack was a fine friend of Mit Allen, Fred Pralle, and the
gang, and this comes as a shock to his many friends, Jack had a wonderful personal |

ity. |

A short Vemail letter from Cpl, Jack "Jocko" Ballard, APO 263, New York, in
which he says that he is one of the soecalled “Blue Star Commandos" or combat rear
area plough jockeys, He is in France, "We have enough work to keep us busy, but
when we are off we really play." Jack says he is proud of the showing made by the
Kansas basketeers, ‘Thanks, Jocko, He also says, "Maybe next year some of the old
gang will be back in there racking up the buckets, I certainly look forward to the
_ @ay when I ean come back," — , a ae

!

Forrest Randall came in the office a couple of weeks ago while on leave, sing-
ing the praises of Lt. Comdr, Roland "Kiekapoo" Logan, who is doing a great job at
the San Diego hospital in the rehabilitation office, :

A Vemail from Delmar Le Curry, $ 1/c, Navy 3205, Fleet Post Office, San Francisco,
has just been received. Delmar was formerly executive secretary to E, A, Thomas of
the Kansas State High School Activities Associations He is now in the Admiralty Ise
lands, and says that he keeps up with basketball progress by reading the New York
Times overseas edition, He was pleased that Kansas was coming along well in baskete-
ball, Delmar said he nad a letter from Mike Oberhelman, Big Six official and
banker from Randolph, Kansas, who gave him the dope on the Big Six indoor sporte
"Out here we have returned to our rainy season, In between our daily two or three
downpours we are winding up our basketball competition with playoffs schedule for
April. I've been assigned to the Welfare and Recreation Department and am enjoying
my. work a lot. My wife wrote she thought Bob was now in Kansas City. I hope so, for
that would be almost like having him at home." Yes, Delmar, Bob will be an intern
at Bell Memorial Hospital until July 1, when he goes in as a first lieutenant
in the Army medical corps, He is anxious to get into the real thing, he says. And
I guess the medicos have a reputation for doing that, ee

From Maje Fe Ge Stith, APO 1650, New York - "Just received clippings from lirs.
Stith about the basketball scandale » « »« Barbershop, drugstore and fireplug cowboys
have had their day and still are, put not on the scale as brought to light by you.
Varmints can't operate in the sunshine «+ the rats$ More power to youe Such as —
this really causes one to forget the war." Major Stith was one of my coaching
school students years ago, and we are waiting for him to get back to have another
one of those bullfestse Good luck to you, Major Forrest.

. To Cole De Se "Dick" Adams, APO 394, New York + Thank you, Dick, for sending
along the Stars and Stripes concerning the article, "A Phog Allen Rooter Reports".
It is very interesting, the angles that some of these fellows takee Hope it won't

be long now, fellow, until you are back with us. , ed

And from Capt. Harry Gordon Gray, AsC., Physical Training Director at the Waco,
Texas, Army Air field, + "Saw Bd Blbel in San Antonio a while back, He looked good
and is doing a good job with the School of Aviation Medicine at Randolpf Fielde « »
My brother Max is still instructing at Advanced School in Stockton, Calif. lly
brother Bob has been in the Navy over 5 years and has seen a lot of the action in
the Pacific and around Italy and Franee, and has just been returned to the States."
Yes, Gordie, I remember Rowsey, one of Hank Iba's boys. He was a great players
Good luck to you, Gordie. , | fur ,

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From lst Lt. Fred N. Bosilevac, Medical Corps, Millers Field, Staten Island,
Ne Y. = Fred says, "My official capacity is train commander for hospital trains
serving the N. Y. port of embarkation for wounded soldiers, I have been prace
tically all over the country riding and delivering these wounded fellows to
general hospitals in their respective states." Fellows like Fred Bosilevac de-
serve a great deal of credit for struggling for a fine education, Here's hats
off to him and men like him, : . me iy |

, Marvin Vandaveer, athletic director and former coach of all sports at Haskell
Indian Institute, writes from Fort Lewis, Washington, that he is in the medical
corps taking his basic training, The first and anatomy and physiology are

just a review, but the drugs and medicines are tough, he says, He also says he
oan easily see why the mortality rates have been held at such a low level, “It
was estimated that ten minutes after a man was wounded in the European Invasion
he was receiving medical attention," Vandy will finish his basic training and
then will go to school and come out a reconditioning instructor, He will be
placed in a hospital or convalescing camp to give the sick, wounded and crippled
corrective and reconditioning exercises and endeavor to restore them to physical
health, Vandy says for me to pass his congratulations on to Mit Allen who. did
what Vandy thought was a wonderful job with the Haskell boys, Good luck, Vandy,
and here's hoping we will see you back at Haskell before too many months roll by.

Es Ce "Ernie “ Quigley is doing a swell job on securing bonds and donations
for the liquidation of the stadium debt, which is $108,000, Ernie already has
over $25,000 and he says by June first he expects to retire a third of the stadium
debt. If anybody can get the job done, Ernie will do it. He is busy day and —
night, making contacts over the state and getting the plaster off the concrete
horseshoe which enclosed Memorial Stadium Field, |

The Red Cross drive in Devglas County went over with a smashing bans, having
gone over the top of its quota of $35,000 in four days, I heve charge of the Red
Cross drive here on the hill and the students, faculty and employees are responde
ing nobly, It is young people who are fighting this war, It is their brothers and
friends and sweethearts, and the students here are keeping the faith. In the
organization houses the girls spoke to the boys fraternities and clubs, and the
men spoke to the sororities and girls* organizations, The Jay Janes, under the
direstion of Mary Olive Marshall, made the collections, The slogan is a minimum
of a dollar from every student. The Jay Janes are a tried and true organization
and they always deliver the goods.

With the turn of every new day we are hoping and praying that that will be the
last for the outlaws of Germany. And after they are finished off, the little
brown men out west will be on the hot seat, Keep ‘em frying, boys, keep ‘em

frying}
Very sincerely yours,
(Signed) Forrest C,. Allen
"Doe"

: 7 Director of Physical Education,
FCA:AH | | Varsity Basketball Coach,
JAYHAWK REBOUNDS
Noe 11
September 12, 1944
Dear Fellow Jayhawkers:

Somehow this ig the most difficult letter that I have ever attempted to
write, Over a dozen times I have begun it and each time I have walked away from
my desk because words fail meg I feel such a void, Something has gone from me.
Your friend and mine © good, old honest “Teep", T. P. Hunter (1st Lt. 9th Marines)
was killed on Guam, July 21, 1944, And yet this morning he feels closer to me
than at any moment that I have known him, Across the miles that span Lawrence,
Kansas, and Guem, it seems so trivial. This thing we call death has brought him
closer to me at this very moment than he has been for years. The glories of his
life seem magnified a hundredfold. ?

A Chinese philosopher once said, "Life seems so unreal at times that I do
not know whether I am living dreams or dreaming life." The life here and the
life hereafter seem so much a part of all of us that T. Pe's presence is manifest.
He will live forever in our hearts, What more love can a man have that he lay
down his life for his friend? But T. Pe, being the man that he was, would em
brace for his friends the thought of Lord Tennyson's "Crossing the Bar":

-- Sunset and evening star,

And one clear call for me!

And may there be no meaning of the bar,
When I put out to sea,

Charles Frohman, the great playwright, facing death while standing on the
deck of the ginking Lusitania and watching women and children tding his place
in the lifeboats, said, "Death is life's greatest adventure."

On August 17, Te Pets sister-in-law called Mrs. Allen from Tulsa conveying .
to us the sad news. I was in Boone, Iowa, conducting a coaching school for the
Iowa State High School Athletic Association, and did not learn of T. P.‘s death
until Sunday, August 20—¢ Somehow I could not believe it, because I felt that
after T. P. had been in Guadalemal, Bougainville - in fact, all of the tough
Marine engagements, that he would make it.

In T. Pots letter to me on January 1, 1944, you Rebounders will recall that
he stated, "Thought you might like to know a little about our game with the Japs
on Bougainville, Well, everything was going fine until they got me and my boys
in a hot boxe I thought for a while they were going to call in the outfielders
to get us oute Fortunately for us, RAPHE we got out before they had times"

Te Pe was our outstanding pitcher in his senior year and his baseball dicaiic
inology fit most aptly into this very difficult situation, T. Pe continued, in
his January lst letter, by saying, "I have called it a game, Doc, and to me that
is just about how it seemed. The same is true for most of the boys that return.
The bad part of the whole wer is these boys who have to give their lives to wine
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"I had some of those and for them it must have been more than a games" .. oe

These lines have often run through my mind, and they still do: “Only those
are fit to live who are not afraid to die." This modest, clean, genteel, and
resourceful boy, beloved by every teammate and athletic adversary with whom he
came in contact, was held in the highest esteem by all, He was buoyant, dominant,
yet. modest and self-effacing. How many times have I heard some of the boys after
a hot game regale some official for either fei lure to call a foul or by calling a
foul that certain players did not think just. In the piteh of the excitement a
forceful, kind voice would speak up and say, "I didn’t think he was so bad", and
immediately the tempest of words ceased, Quiet reigned because there was great
respect for the opinion of this quiet man who spoke. It was "f=Hambone” Hunter,
as the boys affectionately called him. On trips it was Teep who always took the
lone wolf for a roommate, Boys paired off - friendship and affection for each
other dominating the seleetions Any one of the men would have picked T. P. as
a roommate, but T. P. always took the least admirable of the gang as his room
mate.

One hard=headed, two-fisted recalcitrant member of the team on a trip
seemed to be having difficulty. The boys liked him but little. In fact, they
shunned him because this said consistent objector was always putting "his feet
in his mouth", He was always doing the wrong thing at the right time. He would
complain of the food. He was quarrelsome with opponents, and even derided some
of his so-called good friends. This hurly-burly buckaroo believed that the fist
was mightier than the intellect. By choice he had been able to fight his way
through many battles until this rough and tumble chap believed that he had solved
life's problems by resorting to fisticuffs rather than friendships made in the
higher way of life. : |

I recall so well the conversation I had with T. P. regarding this chap. He
_ said, "Doe, this fellow isn’t such a bad fellow. You know, I wouldn't want any=
thing said about it beeause he wouldn't like it, but I had him reading the Bible
(Gideon Bible in hotels) each night on trips." And 7. Pe continued, "Of course
he read the most exciting parts, but that wouldn't hurt him any." |

T. Pe Hunter was a great influence for good, whether on or off the athletic
field, He was always living vicariously and constructively, Wilton "Mit" Allen
and I were speaking regarding the wmtimely loss of T. Pe Mit, always a realist,
said spontaneously, "T. P. was too God-like to live long in this world.” And
then he recounted an interesting episode that made a deep impression upon him.

Mit seid, “When Kansas played Great Lakes in '41 in the Municipal Auditorium
in Kansas City, our team of Evans, Black, Miller and so forth was not going any
too well, Creighton had defeated Great Lakes by an overwhelming score at Omaha
and we got them on the rebound. They were teking us in stride, and, Dad, you
substituted T. P. for one of your Kansas regulars, No sooner had T. Pe reported
than he drove in under the basket with his long, gargantuan stride with the ball
in his possession. Andreas, the great Indiana U. star a few years back, and who
also played baseball in the American Association before he entered Great Lakes,
drove in under T. P. and to all the observers it looked like a pretty vicious
foul. T. P. got one of the mastiest spills that I have seen any player get. He
got up, shook hands with his adversary, and with a smile patted him on the back.
But T. P. scored the bucket and went on to get three or four after that, to be
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the —— Kansas man that evening,"

Then Mit added, "It matters not how he got it, I*ll bet he took it with-
out a whimper, as he took everything that came to him."

Mrs, Allen wrote T.P,'s mother, Mrs. Mary Hunter at Margaret, Texas, ex-
pre one our sympathies to her, T.P.'s sister, Mrs. Jimmie Hembree, wrote as
follows: :

"Dear Mrs, Allen:

My mother received your very kind letter a few days ago.
We wish to thank you for this sincere expression of your sympathy. We shall always
treasure your letter for its encouragement now and for the future, oe

_ Qur entire community mourns for T.P. Many have come or
written to us to express their sorrow, Among them are the parents of three other
boys who have lost their lives = one in a plane crash, one in a Jap prison camp,
and one in company with T,P,. in the South Pacific.

My mother is trying to be brave as T.P. had told her to be
if anything ever happened to him, He was her baby and pride of her life, Though
the youngest of us, I sometimes think he was the wisest and kindest of us all,

Yes, TP. was ready to meet his God. T.P., on receipt of
a Christmas card from the Methodist church here, wrote a letter of appreciation to
the church not only for the card but for all that it meant to him, The minister
read it aloud to the people and said that he would always keep the letter as it was
B sormen within itself,

We were so glad that T.P. attended the University and
made such friends as you and Dr. Allen, We were glad that he had opportunities to
improve his mind and body amid such pleasant friends and surroundings. We wishto
thank you for making his college life so pleasant and profitable.

Let us hope that the death of T.P., and others like him
will not be in vain but that war will be banished from the face of the earth.

We have not received a letter of details yet, but a letter
from Marine Headquarters said that he was killed July 21, on Guan,

I am T.P.'s oldest sister.

Yours sincerely,

Margaret, Texas (Mrse) Jimmy Hembree
August 25, 1944,

In this morning's mail I received a letter from T.P.‘s buddy, Cpl. Charles
P. Loar, USMC. It was written from the Navel Hospital at San Francisco, Calif.
Cpl. Loar says:

"Dear Mre Allen:

First of all oo Iam. I was one of
Te Pe Hunter's best friends, We were in the same outfit, and I was with Tepe when
he was killed. I guess that story will be one of the unwritten tales of this war,
but Tepe was a hero, and a great guye I could write a whole book on his adventures
and I think it would be a best-seller. I was also with him on his patrol on Bougain- —
ville.

He used to let me read the paper you sent every month, bee .
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cause I kmew lots of the guys from K.U. I expect to be home before Sent and I
will make a point of looking you up, and telling you all about a swell guy. I
 @an't tell you how much I miss Tepe, + I guess a Marine isn't supposed to have much
feeling, I just wanted you to know that I have heard all about you, and I mow |
you are anxhous to hear about S Rate I live & Ke Coy so when I come home I'll be.
by to gee you," | ae |

We are looking forward to Corporal Lear's coming to learn the story of the
last great heroic struggle,

This brings to two thé number of degen Rebounders who have given their
lives for you and for me = Wayne Nees and T. P,. Hunter, Wayne lost his life at
Kiska on May 18, 1943, He was the son of Mrs and Mrse A, By Nees of Brazil, Indiana,
You will remember that he was a star in basketball and track, He also played foot-
ball but his time allowance for work and study would not permit his football competi-
tion, Capt, Jack Andrews said of Wayne ="Mrs. Nees showed me the letters from Wayne's
company and regimental commanders, a captain and colonel respectively, They priased
Wayne as an office and for his gallantry in action. Beside the Purple Heart medal
he was awarded the Silver Star," |

In my private office will be a place for these immortal heroes, Of course,
I would like to have a photograph of every Jayhawk Rebounder that is fighting the
atrocious Japanagis, but every one of you are in my mind, I assure yous

As an attestation to T. P. Hunter's wonderful popularity and the deep
affection that his friends had for him, I am quoting from some of his buddies'
letters asking about T. P.'s exploits and expressing good wishes for his welfare.

Lt. Clint Kanaga, USMCR (c/o Pleét Postof fice, San Francisco) wrote me on
September 1, as follows: :

“Dear Does

Dad has probably informed you of our great less in a very dear
mutual friend in T. P, I just got ithe sad news today from Norma Falconer and its
hard to find words to express my grief, You see, Teep and I spent many nights in
May, June, and July «= just chewing the fat and rehashing good old K.U. days. There
wasn't anyone he thought any more of than yéu, Doc = and having similar feelings
myself, we played out a, lot of basketball games, Remember the night Teep got 5
goals to help nail a Creighton team that had beaten Great Lakes by 15 points, and
the night Teep beat the great frosh team of Evans, Black, et al 38637 in an over-
time with a long shot? Eleanor and I were there. We went over those and many more.
games, We both felt that K.U, had the finest _—— in the U, Se, and as Teep said
Ne me, "Ree alone is worth fighting for.!

Teep was a great Marine and a real leader = his men were crazy
about him. He had shown them leadership and bravery on Bougainville. The last
night I was with him = a short time before he was killed « he said to me, ‘Well,
Clint, its liable to be tough but I have a swell gang of men and we'll give them
hell.' He added, 'I*1]1 be OK. If something happens, its part of this game.'

Teep paid the supreme sacrifice « and I believe he would have
wanted it that way, inasmuch as it's happened - fighting for the country, and the
ones he loveds for the things he valued in life which the aggressor nation of Japan
has tried to change and master. There never was a finer man or sweller guy than
Teepe He was tops. « « «
On duly 27th, Ens. Delbert Campbell (Fleet P.0., San Francisco) wrote
about his visit with T, P, Hunter:

| “Again your Rebounds made life pleasanter out here for some more Jayhawkers.
About a month ago, just before we started on the job we just finished, I noticed —
from one of your very welcome letters that ol' T. P. Hunter was in the 9th Marines.
Since we had part of that group aboard I investigated and found he was on a ship
anchored less than 1,000 yards away, As you can imagine, I got the signalmen hot
on the blinker and sure enough, he was over there, so I grabbed a beat and found
him lagily stretched out on a bench gound asleep. We really hashed over old times
and spent all evening firing questions and answers back and forth, He's well and
happy as can be out here and is doing a good job. He told me about his experiences
on Bougainville = must have been quite a sensation, but as before he's just the man
0 get tough jobs done, The next day he came over for lunch and we started afresh
on where and what everyone was doing. To top it all off, we discovered Clint Kanaga
was on a ship about 1,000 yards the other way, so we barged over to have dinner and
spend the evening with him, . . » I haven't been able to find out how T. Pe came
out but do know he arrived safely on Guam and is doing a big job. We all feel
proud that we at last have pried loose the Japs from a former U. S. possessions
And, Doctor, you don't realize what a big help your Rebounds ares If it hadn't
been for yaa we would never have been able to have our little reunion, About two
months ago while we were in Guadaleanal I had the luck of running into ‘Rope’
Engleman, He's doing fine and likes the duty on his D.E."

Thank you, Ensign Delbert = we think you are fighting a splendid war,

And@ from Rope - Lt. (jg) Howard G. Engleman (Fleet P. 0., San Francisco),

comes this word, written on July 29th: "Received your #9 Rebounds of June 12th

® « « « 80 I feel very well informed of Kansas events, I have never enjoyed a
Rebounds more and Iswell with pride when I see the names of the boys. You sure
keep track of them. As I told you before, I have run into Knute Kresie and the
young Haines boy out heres It still looks like a long one from where we are even
though the European war seems to be progressing nicely. « . « The second genera~
tion, from all reports, is coming along fine now and should be ready for college
some time in '62, Hope you're still there, Docs Tell Bob to get busy or we'll
lost that championship in 1964. . . ”

Howard, we will appoint you the director ofvital statistics to see that
Bob and the rest of that gang do their share toward rehabilitating Kansas basketball.

Maje Fen A. Durand (Fleet P, 0., San Francisco) writes on July 31, as
_ follows: “Upon leaving Hawaii in May our division landed on Saipan on 15 June. I
have been here ever since trying to eke out an existence. As you know, the island
was finally secured on 9 duly, but since that date there have been several thousand
more Japs killed. They seem to sneak down out of the hills at night to do what
demage they can in our ammo and fuel dumps. I've seen both Bill McKinley and Fred
Eberhart on the island and they are both feeling fine, There mst be at least
ten others from K.U. here and all of us plan to get together soon."

Major Fen, I ean tell you honestly you have been the talk. of the campus
and the town, with Henry Shenk, Dean Nesmith, Corlett Cotton, Dolph Simons, Mit
Allen, Mike Getto, Prof, Guy Smith, and a host of others repeatedly marveling
at your miraculous escape on the beach-head at Tarawa, Hope you still hang on

Lt, (5g) Roy Edwards (¢/o Fleet P, 0s, San Francisco) writes us as follows:
“I have received a few added responsibilities since I took over command July 1,
It is a very interesting job and we spend very little time in one place, The
best part is the different people we work with and with whom we associate, For
the past three months I hate tried to catch up with Clint Keanaga dnd it seems as
though he is leaving a port as we enter, We have planned a K.U,. reunion for
some time,"

Thanks, Roy, for placing our Jayhawk Rebounds along the highly efficient
and much circulated Kansas City Star in the importance of your mail.

We were gladdened to learn that Pfc. Walter "Buddy" Herriman, who was
reported missing in action in France, is now reported as being taken prisoner,
He was with General Patton's infantry division, We trust such good fortune will
come to Lt. (jg) Howard Burnett, Navy Air Corps, formerly of Coldwater, Kansas,
who played end and d@ on the K,U. football team in 1936; and Lt. Lawrence
"Larry" Johnston, Mari > Air Corps, who lettered in baseball at K.U. in '41 and
"42, Both of these boys have been reported missing in action over the Pacific.

From acréss the Atlantic we hear of our boys in France and Eng lands

7 Lite John A, Pfitsch (APO 403, c/o P.M., New York) sends a Vemail from |
France and says; “The towns and villages that we roll through are certainly dif-
ferent than those earlier in the campaign. The people throng the streets and
shower the convoys with flowers and fruit. If you stop you are immediately swarmed
by people who I believe are sincerely joyous to see us. By the way, Doc, France
has many beautiful girls to its credit, and their greeting system isn't just a
rumors « « « The picture is changing fast and we are well on our way home,”

Johnny Pfitsch from Pfleugerville, Texas, and a Kansas postegrad © you ©
are a first class fighting man. And are we proud of you)

; In an earlier letter Johnny said, "The men of the infantry are the boys,
Doc. Boy, they have it rough and how they go§ You would be er of them if
youcould see the teamwork,”

Chick Pontius is one of our boys in the iiniaihies over there in France,
and we are proud of the things he is doing, Chick was awarded the Purple Heart on
July 13. He writes, "I am well now and am back with the company. They released
me from the hospital on July 29. I received a promotion to sergeant August 14,

I have a great deal more to think about now than I had before.” Chick is Sgt.
Vaughn W. B. Pontius. APO 4, New York. :

Chick, all of the boys at the Country Club will be proud of your achieve-
ments over there. Congrats on your promotion, Mit and Bob Allen are both being
told that you are too tough for Frits. Their nicks are not as bad as their blasts.
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Maje Lawrence E, Filkin (APO 90, c/o PeMe, New York), who is with the
naliheas corps in France, writes, "I saw Paul Harrington about a month or six
weeks ago, He was hale and hearty and glad to see a different face from home,

He's still in the same outfit and doing well, Along with Paul were a number of
my old classmates from Medical School, and some old internes and profs, It was
Like old home week, We've been moving along so fast lately that I doubt if
Paul's outfit will be able to stay very close to us, In our mad rush I've been
several outdoor basketball courts in this section of France, Don't know how
much they play, hawwver, because when we pass inasala is more important business
at hand at the moment,"

Lawrence, the next time you see Paul Randall Harrington tell him that I
told that Harrington-Quigley episode of the basketball court at the Quigley dinner,
Quig, you will wae ealled several fouls on Paule Qmig interrogated Paul,

"Do you unders "No," Paul said, “but I am getting used to you,"

We were delighted to hear from another "medic" = Maje George Mandeville
(APO 2, c/o PeMs, New York), who wrote from France in July, saying, "I have
heard about your paper or something called The Rebound, and I wondered if you
might send me a copy before the war is over, Most of the betting is that now
that we have the first team in it won't be long. This is the roughest contest
I have. ever had the privilege of being in, and strange as it seems a. lot. of
guys have got hurt. These de#-« Nagis are a fanatical bunch, They have a lot
of determination but no common sense, and about the only thing they can under-
stand or I should say the best persuader I have seen is the bayonet, Of course
when they get in front of our artillery they get pretty well gound up, A lot
of them hang on when they surely know they are going to be exterminated,”

Mandy, I see often your brother of the 1920 Nebraska-Kensas football |
"fame" game, score 20#20 = the game that built the stadium, Frank P, Mande-
ville says that he doesn't have to sell sporting goods, The boys just sited them.
Luck to! you, George.

Lt. Harold E, Wright (APO 140, c/o P.Ms, New York) writes: "I'm now in
England and am right in the midst of this war. I'm stationed with a medium
bombardment group flying Be26 Marauders; I like the plane fine and now have
several missions to my credit. Our quarters are fine and the food wonderful.
When I stop to think of the boys in the front lines, I rea how lucky some
of us are to be in the Air Corpss - + » I'm looking forward to the next copy
of Jayhawk Rebounds, I have met some fellow Jayhawkers who enjoy them also."

Harold, if you will give me some of the fellows’ names we will be glad to
mail them to the boys» This is our desire = to do something for the boys who
are doing a lot bigger job than we are here in Lawrenee, although we try.

_ GCapt.e Harley M. Anderson (APO 557, c/o PsMe, New York) writes that he
has been, in England over fourteen months, He says further, "Really was swell to
get the June issue of Jayhawk Rebounds. That's the first one I have received
and hope I'll continue to get them as they roll off the press. Found it very
interesting to read about where some of the fellows are and what they are doing.
I had a good laugh on that paragraph telling of the notorious phone call Engle-
man made from Dr. Peete'’s home in KeC. Don't think I'll dver forget it. I
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suppose Howard is busy these days teaching little Howard how to throw a ball up
(and make it balance on a door ledges If youwrite him please give Kim my regards.

Harley, Dre Peete and his fami: stopped by the h Sunday
noon, His dnaeh ter, Virginia Jane, Le the oF tater ees Setar Dre Poote

often speaks of you boys and the fine time he had when he entertained Engleman,

Bob Alien and the rest of the notorious pranksters. Dr». Peete attended the Rosedale
banquet last spring when your dad was toastmaster and I spokes oe —,*
wild reed your greeting, and he will get a laugh. |

Ens. J. Fs “Freddie” Harris (Armed Guard, c/o Fleet P.Oe, New nam
Las) says, "I'm one of Uncle Sam's ‘salts* for sure now, Have my ship and gun
erew and have been on the sea for several weeks, e » » That's one advantage you
have in traveling on a merchant ship = you see and cover lots of territory and
yet you get back to the States occasionally."

: Freddie, th els good to have you and Mrs, Freddie vn by the office for
a little chat, It was also ipleasing to get a report on Michael Frederick, the
young hopeful for the Jayhawker football and: basketball teams of 1964, -

Ens. Jp Pe Turner (c/o Fleet P. O«, New York) © “Just a few lines to let
you know I" still kicking. I received the last issue of the Rebounds, and I
mean it was really fine to know how all the fellows are making out. They are a
great bunch, those Jayhawkers are, Knute told me in his last letter about
running into Rope, Hub and expecting to see Swede Linguist soon, It must be a
wonderful feeling to run into some of the old gang. I'm always leoking for some
fellow Jayhawkers but haven't been very lucky so fars . . Tell everybody back
that way hello for me, I sure think a lot of the old times. I've had on Mount
Oread and am anxious to get back with all the gang,"

Jesse Paul, you are one of the best correspondents we have, and we are
always glad to hear from you. Tell the gang to fight ‘em for me, will you?

Lte (jg) Ae M. “Murray” Brown writes us from the Naval Air Station at
Grosse Ile, Mich, He says, "Keep those Rebounds bounding this way as I really
enjoy them, I have met up with several other Kansas friends here and they enjoy
them, to» » « « Three of the officers and myself journeyed to the All-Star foote
ball game last week, The Missouri Valley section was well represented in Glenn
Dobbs of Tulsa who played an outstanding game, I'm only sorry Ray Evang couldn't
have been present because I think he is every bit as good as Dobbs, Both throw
hard and very accurate, You catch it or it knocks you down, I saw George Dick
in uniform but I don't think he played, I tried to see him but the crowd was
too big to get thru, © also it rained very hard, I did see Frank Cramer, Reaves
Peters, C. EH, McBride, Mike Getto, Gene Johnson and several others. It was just
like old home week," !

Murray, I am passing on to our mutual good friend, E. C. Quigley your
remark as follows: “Just tell him its the Rockhurst Brown, That will clarify
the Browns to him. He should know my number as many fouls as he has called on
me, Not dirty, Doc, just rough and clumsy." He will get a kick out of it, but
you will remember he always told you, “You ean't do that §"
From the U,. S. Naval Air Station at Memphis = Down in Dixie - comes a
note from A/C Frank Stuckey, who says, “A few weeks ago while I was on leave I
had an oecasion to read a copy of the Rebounder, I met Virginia Ford Sollenberger
on the train between Denver and Hutchinson and she had Marvin's copys I was de-
lighted to hear of the whereabouts of so many of my K.U. friends and happier still
to find that I could be put on the mailing list by writing to you, The Rebounder
really gives you the 'word',"

Thanks for your compliment, Frank, in giving the Rebounds the eredit for
being "the word"s

: Just after the seaniniiaidiavia of our last ‘havneaie Rebounds we were pleased to
réceive the announcement of the birth of a baby boy to Ens, and Mrs. Robert BE, Hunt,
on July 21, at Independence, Kansas, I promised Bob that I would mention it in the
next issueg Hearty congratulations to Bob and Mrs. Hunt! We hope the youngster is
now hale and hearty, and that his mother is feeling fine, I don't have to inquire
about the father.

Cple Hoyt Baker, at Camp Gruber, Oklahoma, wrote on August 21: "It won't
be long now before Hemry Shenk will be starting football practice there on the Hill.
Gosh, what I wouldn't give to be back. Sports are one thing I really miss in the
army, Its been so leng since I've played any game I've pr-vably forgotten howe » «
We will be leaving the States very soome Our outfit has been together now almost
a year, so I guess it is about time we are seeing the other sides"

And gosh, Hoyt, what we wouldn't give to have you backe You would perhaps
be the very tabasco that any football or basketball team needs, ‘The old spizserinktm,
the pepper and ginegar « that's what you always had. We will take a rain check and
count on you for September, '45 © ch, Hoyt? This goes for both ™ ae spheroid
and the *round ball".

Lt. Chester Gibbens is with the Army Air Farces Techs Training Command at
Orlando, Fla., and says he hopes to be able to get home for a football game or two
this fallg His leave is 3 mos, overdue, so he hopes to get home iate in Septe or
early Oct, . Chet continues, "Denny might get home around that time, He mentioned
something about coming back to the States to school, I imagine it would be for
Be29 training, but nothing definite has been said by hime « « « I guess I've been
fighting the battle on the home front and have released a WAC for combat duty."

Gibby, we are sending the football schedules to you pronto, If you will
look at the last Rebounds you will have the complete schedule. This is the way
we have of giving all the boys in the service + in the States and overseas - the
latest dope on the schedule, and also some feature on the personnel of the team.

It certainly will be good to have Dengil and you back. We hope that both of you
can arrive at the same time.

8/Sgte Waldo A. Miller is doing physical ¢raining work at the Army Air Base,
Seattle, Washington, and says he still likes it very much, He asks that we send him
Major Ee Re Elbel's address, and we are glad to give it here for the benefit of all
his friends = School of Aviation Medicine, Randolph Field, Texase
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ah Re Le “Bob” Bock is now at Perrin Field, Sherman, Texas. He says,
"Two events that have occurred at K.U. while I have been gone have pleased me
very much, The Wm. Allen White Foundation and fun should make for K.U.'s attaining
a high role as a school of journalism, and since journalism is my interest, good
news it certainly was, Then Ernie Quigley's appointment as athletic director
should be a boost to the school, I read the Topeka Capital article reporting his
appointment, and I feel quite sure that Mr. Quigley means what he says and will
give his all to boost K.U. athletics."

It is always good to hear from you, Sports Colmnist Bob Book. Keep firing
your entertaining letters in our direction. Ee C. Quigley will be glad to know
that you feel as you do,

Chief Specialist Eddie Hall, USNTC, Great Lakes, Ill., says, "Bob Hope
said that the boys overseas write their girl friends that a letter from home is
like a five-minute furlough, Your Rebounds are thirtyeminute furloughs, I+ is
good to sit down and read about the big things some of the boys are doing. Some
are doing real well for themselves, I wonder if T, P,. Hunter has gotten back into
the serimmage yet. He is probably try herd if he is physically able, And
Knute Kresie is on top as he was on the diamonds » » » Doe, I'm still
here at Great Lakes trafning recruits, I had a short cruise on the A, lantie
last winter, Other than that, I've been here all the time, » « » I am coaching
the Regimental Boat Racing Crew. What I know about it you could put in a smali
book but we are in second place out of twelve regiments, It is a lot of fun’ but
takes up all my extra time."

I am glad, Bddie, that you think the Rebounds is a good thirty-minute
furlough. You can always bet that Knute Kresie will be om the old mound firing at
the brothers in the batter's box, He always looked good to me when he faced
the opposing batsmen.

Chief Specialist Theno FP, Graves writes, "I'm stationed at the University
of Southern California as an instructor in physical education, V-l2 program.
I have teen here since March 20, Prior to that time I was at the naval training
station, San Diego. .« » « One of your players of last season is here «
Homer Sherwood, He is doing well but will have to hurry to make the squad here
this year. Have some good men on hand at the’ present time."

Theno, the next time you see Homer Sherwood, tell him I am betting on
him to make the squad. He was slow in starting here at the University, but he got
goinge Just give him a good chance and he “i prove his worth,

— 3/sgt. Ae George Hulteen (APO 495, fe P.M.,)New York) passes his Rebounds
around to four or five Jayhawkers somewhere in India. George, I want to say that
if you will send me the addresses of these other boys we will be glad to mail
each one of them a Rebounds. I imagine, George, the main topic of conversation
enong your buddies is « when do we get out of this hot spot and get a chance to
be shipped back to God's country, Am I guessing correctly?

Capt. John T. Andrews, Adj, Gen. School, Ft, Washington, Mde, writes:
"Was in Washington a few weeks ago to see the Quartermaster for some items, While
leaning over the counter looking for items I glanced up and there stood Lester
Kappelman looking like a million dollars, We went into a huddle that was all
too short. Great to see him." |