vicinity of Kansas City, Moe I am using my imagination now because when we
played basketball, Kansas City was a hallewed spot fer Sparky. I den't imow
abeut his lady friend, but from the gleam in his eye I think he is still in
levee Sparky said he just couldn't get used to New York City - it was tee big
for hime Sparky is new at the Hotel Everglades, Miami, Flerida. |

Captain Dean Martin, whe played a bang-up center field for eur varsity
baseball team a few years age, drepped in the office to say helle.e While
on the hill he alse stepped at the Endowment Office te leave a check for
$20.00 fer the living memorial fund honoring T. P. Hunter. T. P. played first
base and pitched on the same varsity that Dean played on. You could always
count on Captain Martin fer a timely single or deuble if there was a man on
base. His batting average is still high with us in any league.

Right after basketball season we started on the “grapefruit and lettuce
leaf" tour - basketball banquets te you. The Co-op Club of Lawrence, Kensas,
gave the besketball team their usual highly entertaining basketball banquet.

This was held at the Colonial Tea Reom on March 8. Co-captains were elected for
the year - Gordon Reynolds of Tacoma, Washington, and Kirk Scott ef Newton,
Kansase The follewers considered the recerd ef the season very geod, con-
- sidering the inauspicious start that Kansas madee Then on March 14th I journeyed
to Welda, Kansas, for the first of my basketball banquets. On March 18 I was

in Denver fer the AAU games, then to Emporia, to Manhattan, and on to Kansas
City.fer the N.C.A.A. finals on Saturday night, the 24th. Then follewed ban-
quets at Effingham, Shawnee-Mission, Parkville, Me., Pawnee Reck, Wyandotte High -
in Kansas City, Kansas, Burlington, Stockten, Grinnell, Salina.

The only date we missed, through fleed and high water, was the one at
Galesburg, Ill. The Santa Fe was washed out below Topeka but the Santa Fe
authorities said there would be a train made up in Kansas City se that I
might arrive at my destination. The planes were all grounded and the Santa
Fe could net assemble the train, so we had te call that date eff the morning ef
the tripe We made a trip to Anthony, Kansas, the next day, and then on to
Bedford, Iowa, follewing the Galesburg cancellation.

It was a highly interesting and very strenuous undertaking, but we lived
through ite Salina wen the Class AA championship and Anthony won the Class A.
Halstead repeated with the Class B championship, and Ernie Quigley spoke out
theree So we covered all the Kansas champienship basketball tournaments in
goed shape.

On April 21 the Athletic Association entertained the 4lst annual Inter-
scholastic Track Meet. Abeut 800 Kansas boys. participated in a splendid
meet under perfect weather conditiense Few records were broken, but it was
& great turn out.

New my commencement dates are starting, and on May 9th I ge te Circleville,
Kansas; en the 15th, Reading, Kansas; on the 16th, Lane, Kansas; en the i7th,
Beattie, Kansas; en the 18th, Summerfield, Kansas; and on May 22nd I speak at
the Russell, Kansas, Rotary Club who are entertaining forty senier boys there
who have been Junior Rotarians during the year.

Circleville, Kansas, is S/Sgt. Ralph N. "Red" Dugan's old home town.
Red, I will tell the citizens of Circleville regarding your fine record that
you made here atthe University and ef the record that you are now making
with Uncle Sam at Las Vegas, Nevada.

Last Monday night I attended my first City Council meeting and was immed-
iately initiated into some exciting episedes. Mayor Russell appointed me,

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