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_, Pvt. Jaco Sevors 7067812257, ed, et: 114th Bn,, 78th Regt. Carp Robinson,
Arkansas, writes, "I feol I-anca former’ Javhawker, which has always been my wish, °—
I want to attend K.U. when this is over. I wrote to Conch Witt Allen, He'll be
shipping out soon I guess," | —*

Pft, Severs played on Lt. i( jee) Tilton Allon's Haskoll baskotball tean
last winter after Kansas varsity "K" many: '40° and '41, Coach Marvin Vandaveer. entered "

the service, ‘Jim Williams was a star on both ‘the football and basketball, team but
enlisted in tho marines immediately after football season.

Delmar L. Curry, Y3c, NSD -- Navy 3205, FPO,\San Franciseo, California,
tennis great, sand "K" ‘nan, 134, :'35,..and 336, writes°on July 31, from.the Admiralty
Islands. “Arrival of your Rebounds certainly provides one of the mail highlights of.
the month. Seems grand to hear ubout all the fellows we haven't been ablo .to see in
yours:, Pi . l ot Aetenta a , :
| "Ourmain duty here at the Naval Supply Depot continues to be the same-- to
see that the Fleet sots the million and one things needed to keep the Fleet. trains
Operating. However, we havo just opened a new Recréation Center which is supposed-te
be the fahciest in the Southwest Pacifie. Wo have five quonsets riven over to a li-
brary, writing, reading and gane rooms with indirect lighting, stained built-ins and
other conforts of stateside duty. Our library has~a° nowspaper section that real ly
rivals, the one at the University except that we'ro about five weeks late in getting
them, We get.all.the leading »papers fron. throughout the country and we keep up pretty
woll ‘on the Kansas nows through the Kansas City Star and Topeka Daily Capital. I have’
eeneral supervision of the Welfare & Recreation profran and as you night guess I'n
enjoying “it thorourhly. We. bro. completing an elaborate athletic field with threo dia-
monds,, basketball ‘courts, handball, ote. Just had Johnnie Bradley added to our staff,
He's frdm San Franciseo. ant knows 9.lot.of.our buys-*Ebliric, ‘Prallé, Wells, eto. hav-
ing: pléyed’ a#ainst them in National AAU tournaments whon howas with the Olympic Club."

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eOTS RSCG Lioutenant ‘WW. ‘L. Hough, 0-551460, Co, Baits szoth Inf.’ Regt., APO 35,
c/o P.M. New York, N.Y. writes as.of July 29th, "Looks like wo'll be taking off .fory,
tho States pretty soon, It certainly Gives a persona (rand feelin to know he's
getting back to God's country. Because no matter how much of Europe I have seen,

there isn't ‘anything hero that can compare with the U.S.A."

Cpl, Janes R, Harris, 37722660, Hq. Co., 2 Bn., 343 Inf., APO 450, Camp —
Gruber, Oklahoma, *fanous milér and two miler, and."K".man in 139 and: 407 ‘says,°"T ”
havo seen a lot of Europe since my last letter to you. ‘It started in January when

I went overseas with the 86th Infantry Division, After six.weeks of training I was—

on my way with the Blackhawks.- I was not Giving Physical Training, but was plad to

be in condition from the work, It was quite a let down to’ go fron“the Air Corps to

the Infantry, Tho work in the E.T.Q. soon kept ne busy and I forgot my past’ exper-
iences Iwas placed in the Hq. Co. and the I & R.section,, The important duty - recone.
naissanee, which placed the section out on patrol, It was interesting and’ exciting — =
Sometimes. I was in lannhein, Gernany after peace came, and at that tine read about ~
Bill Hargiss and Dean. I was joing to attend the school, but we Shipped to France and
then back to the states," ; 4 ; va J du ld yveeror