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"Onc tremondous roar shakes the sea for miles around. We blink
Snd stcady oursclvcs:--that must be the Glasgow and tho Toxas, It ise Now

Gunnery Officer Jisa Arnoidc. in his firo-control tower atop the fly-
ing bridge, gets the werd he's been ‘waiting to heare Our 5einch guns speak as
one, and to us they sound Jcuder and trevor taon any we've evor hearde

“Our viestcaniva as Jewtta suo fires designated tercst, Arnold
quickly wor'ss vut the prcoiea anew, The suns ure ourrected and eur third
salvo senés a pillbox snscading “mvs the air in fragmcntse » e » «+ ee

"Within a fow saers mlmyees, on automatic Lire, we get aur second
target and atterrt*cur thisd: This uns is a hattory ounaingly concealed be=

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hind a stene ‘vail duwn a sedivpa surtag away from tne saae A SOQLlVO WOLuW,. &
“salvo above, u §

ivy te tba loftetnis fellow is roully stubsern. Jim Arnold's
lean, sensitive face new is wrested anhe sumething uppreaching a suorie His
long fingers adjust his instruments:.~for this moment “he scholar has become a
killer. os ; ’

“.° he next salvo smashes the gun and sunds it down tho gulch, start-
ing a’ minor avalancho, By €:15;° all cur assigned targets that we can reach
have been Imocked cut or previcusly demolisned b¥ air bombing. We have fired
250 rounds in twenty®five minutes ef automutic faring. © a

‘Sir, suggost wo shift to targets of eppertwiity', Arnold phones
the bridge. 'Targots of opportunity’ aro those enemy surpriscs that bob up,
those strong points wo don t lmow about in advance. There will be plenty of
them. ‘Permission granted.?" whe:

‘And so Jim Arnold, a quiet country boy who enrolled.at Kansas in
1937 from Dowms, Kansas, who during the time this article was written wos.
lieutonant (jg) - we hope he is an admiral by now! - makes the big top with
our*world's hcroose Congratuiations, Jim! ‘Jo are sending you a copy . of... our
Rebounds with our decp admiration and our heartiest. congratulations. We.are
also sonding & copy to your parents. We are nighty proud of you and all tho
rest of ow bors. :

Your good friend and mine, Sgt. Bill Kollender, who has served
the University onthusinstically and most faithfully since Octobor, 1928, has
retired to enter private lifu. very one of you wilj. remombor the efficient
sergeant wio was aiways on top of things at all the athletic scntests, cspece

dally tho fcotbail and baskctbal? ushering and scatinge | He was c..past master

in mocting friends, ih taking sare uf tha salulrities and *he celebrities who

visited tho University: Tio was Gol. Xarl Baldwin's righit hand mam - in fact,
all of the commandants of tho 2.0.7.C. + ia Nendving the affairs of thet do=
partment. He served four years in tho -Phiiippines und was’ et Corregidor and
other Army bases cron tho cowitry, Perhaps ne iien with an ArTy ecnnvstion
has mace so many friecnusy contacts with Cnhivorsity students,e faculty and
alumni os has Sgt. KeWtader.. Wo wilh miss nim great, and -UT best wishes
will go with him in. his noxt ficid.<f endocvors,> fecay,at ary rh.t he retires
on a heaithy stirenc as compensation for his many leyai ana pa.ithfal years
given tc incle Scm. is address in Lawrenco is 202 test 15th ePtreste |