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Clyde Coulson stopped by on Aug, 28, 1945. He came to see his family in
Wichita and was on His way ae | to his base in Batavia, N. Y. He is hoping for his
: discharge eee A

On August 24, 1945, I received a letter from an old Kansas loyal alumnus,
A. N. Murphey, Assistant Trust Ufficer of the First National Bank and Trust Co., in
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. "Murph's" ‘son is Lt. 4. N. Murphy and was on the mailing —
list and it had been returned. So, wo had to write to his papa to get the correct
address. We‘sent Lt. Murphy's Rebound to his father and in acknowledging it he

-» said, Ny: thank you for your letter of August 22nd and the copies of Rebounds which Y

have-read, enjoyed and forwarded to my son. You will be interested to know that Cob.
Burnside returned home this week and that he is oy of the Navy."

Welcome home “Cob", things will seem natural now again when we take our
Jayhawks to pley, the Oklahoma Sooners, and we see vrour fomiliar and amiable coun-=
.tenance at the hotel and also on tho sidelines of the Sooner-Jayhawk game. Things
heave not been the same without you "Cob, x and too, I ner poe family will enjoy the
retin ‘to their faniliar haunts. - “fe

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In our Jayhawk Sevumnd “07, sigehante July 25, 1945, we related that hn "Mimi *
Nettels was one of the 334 Kansas.seniors who marched down Mt. Oread for her commen-
cement exercises, Just a week after graduation, "Mimi" was stricken with Anterior
Poliomyelitis (Infantile Paralysis). She has been at the Bell Memorial Hospital
since that time. I received a’ letter fron George Nettels, her father, former cap-
tain of the 1920 Karigns Football .Téan. He stated that "Mimi" was getting along as
well as could be expected and that she would’ be happy to see any of her friends,
either in the morning or the afternoon, as her type of illness would not call for
restriction of visitors, "Mimi" I have been’ expecting to drop by and see you but
haven't been out of Lawrence since your temporary illness, I am coming up to see
you real soon, I assure you: that. weare pulling for your. ‘speedy recovery. With
the characteristic Nettels' engin, T. am sure that you will definitely mak ¢ the
grade. 4%

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We received a letter written on Sept. 6, by Capt. Forrest M. Chapman,
©-1297497, ReOeT.C.e, High School, Leavenworth, Kansas. He writes, "I was sent here
to Leavenworth High School as PMS & T, “Boing so close to home and K.U, is almost
too good to believe. You can bet I'll be present #cr, those basketball games. Also
Coach Shenk will get another spectator. T haven't seon a football game for four

yearse, I haven't seen a Shenk, Coached toam since I played for — as a freshman at
Paola Bae ! “¢

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"Have nee letters fron Harold vested from Manilla and Dick Harris from the
U.S.S, Lubbock, recently. Hope they can join me- in spectating soon.

"Alice and I just moved in to.a beautiful little House. We must be living
right to have such luck. If you are in Leavenworth look us, up at 411 Elm."
| "ttm hoping some of the eet wilhd:»ondd: tne and drop in when whew are sep
arated here.” With best wishes for a championship club." '

cia! We are delighted, Capt. Forrest, that you got a ‘break in , obtaining that
beautiful little home. I assure you that you have got some breaks somine eo rae
We hope teh: will be symptomatic of many more to gome,

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