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Lyle Armel is a top favorite with us «ll. He has done a sterling job and
is still doing it. ‘ie did a creat hitch in the first World War and it appears to
us that he has. earned his carly return here to Lawrence, to the University, and to
the State of hansas.

I have just todey received a V-mail letter from Commander Lyle Armel, APA
210, San Francisco, in which he says: "We sort of loso track of time out on the
water and it hardly seems possible I was home about a year ago enroute to get ny
new ship with a new gang. In athletic parlance, they have whipped into shape and
have teen giving a good account cf themselves. Those boys, most of them youngsters,
are playing a man's game and wiming. I often think that by the time these ‘boys
are grandpappies, the experiences thru which they have gone will make swell 'listen-
ing to' around the old family fireplace when the passing of years will have enhanced

their hindsight."

About two months ago I received a very interesting letter from Dr. Earle G.
Brown, who made a great record as director of the Department of Health for the
State of Kansas, before being lured away to more lucrative fields in the east.
He is now the Commissioner of Health of Nassau County at Minuola, New York. Dr.
Brown writes of his two children, Richard ond Josephine: "Josephine finished her
course at lresbyterian Hospital School of Nursing on December 20, wrote har State
Board examinations the last week in January and returned to Presbyterian on the
enc of February, where she is on duty in Sloane liaternity Hospital. The day she
finished she made application for the urmy Nurse Corps aml expects to be called to
cuty about Kay first. Richard received his second wound on the 17th of Decembor,
this one a sholl wound on the left forearm... . Apparently he received this
wound in fighting in or near Sarreguenines. A telegram from the Adjutant General
said that the wound was received in action in Germany... :

Dr. Brown's many friends will be -happy to read through the Rebounds of his
interest in Kansas athletics. Dr. Earle, we have covered our failure to win the
basketball championship in another section of this letter, but we want you to know
how very proud we are of you and of your childrens' accomplishments. I am sending
you the last Rebounds which tells about Ifilton's Naval affiliations. And Bob is
going into active duty in the Army medical corps July 1. He is finishing his in-
ternship at Bell Memcrial Hospital.

I should have mentioned carlier in my letter that the K Club put on a big
dance in the ballroom of the Union Building to entertain the visiting high school
athletes who were here for the Interscholastic leet om April 21. Les Brown and
his well-lmown band thrilled the swirlinrs, Terpischoreans who swayed rhythmically
to the beautiful music. Gordon Reynolds and Dan Clacse were the Kk men who carried
the load of responsibility, and Governor Schoeppel crovmedc the queon, Folly Rae
Staples, from Ft. Medison, Iowa. and it fitted per-fectly into the scheme of things
because rolly is Gordon's girl. Gordon is a licn writh the ladies, voted by them
the best-looking man on the campus. The & men vickved the queen. —

: Bob Malott came up from Stillwater, OGklahomm, where he is stationed at

4 & M. College in radar. He hed to havo a persona. explanation from me as to
why Iowa State licked us in the final game, He saidi he would have bet a month's
Navy pay on our taking Iowa State. I still haven't recovered from the hot streak
of Iva State to full: explain it to Bob's satisfactsion.

. We were delighted to have a communication on april 2nd from Jemes Alan
Coogan, Diroctor in Brazil of tho United Fress Assoc:iation. He says, "If Jayhewk
Rebounds already has beon folded up for the season, could you have sont to me the
numbers from No, 13 onward through the last number for the 1944-45 scason? And