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 -