and have read it from cever te cevere Enjeyed it very much in spite ef the fact that I knew only a few of these mentioned. I guess after leaving scheel some eleven te fourteen years ago, my gang of teammates have rather scattered te the four winds. . . . England is a very beautiful ceuntry and the peeple are very pleasant and hespitable. Basketball is not universally vlayed here as far as I can find out, but at least people knew what the game is. Bieyeling seems te be the national sport, aleng with cricket and rugby. Bieycles are everywhere ridden by all ages. Quite a sight!" Larry was on eur basketball team, and alse wen his K in baseball in '32. Pfe. W. E. "Bill" Bradford, c/o Postmaster, New York, alse writes from England. "I'm now stationed at a B-l7 field and se far have run into two K.U. graduates. One, Capt. Frederick Menn, is my cemmanding efficer. IT think he graduated in 1931. Before the war he was a lawyer with the Kansas Power and Light Cempany in Tepeka. He was bern and raised in Jefferson County, not far frem my home. The ether Kansan is Dick Webb. You'll prebably remember him - he belenged tc the A.T.O. fraternity and graduated in 1942. If I remember correctly he was in one ef your B.B. classes at the same time I was. Dick is a navigater on a "Fort" and I de plenty of sweating when he's en a missien." Yes, I remember the beys, Bill, and I wish yeu would pass on my greetings and best wishes to them. Yeu are all doing a grand jeb ever there. Pfc. W. R. "Bob" Fitzpatrick, c/o Postmaster, New York, a member of our 1943 basketball team, alse writes us frem England: "Your letters are still reach- ing me and they are swell. It is something that yeu get te leeking ferward fer. Every couple ef menths yeu get te thinking, it's ebeut time fer one of Dec's letters, and it usually isn't leng until the letter shews up. One of your letters was really a big help as Bill Brill cet my address from it. We hadn't heard frem ene another fer almost a year. Went inte a Phi Delt meeting in Lenden net long age and met a man who said te tell you helle. It was Majer Tebew from Kansas State." I'm glad te get the geed news about the treatments you've been receiving fer your eyes, Beb. That is really swell, and I hepe the infection has cleared up altegether. Lt. William "Bill" Belt, whe was eur fencing instructer in the Physical Education Department in 1941 and 1942, was on the U.S.S. Tuscaleesa which distinguished itself smashing shore batteries @uring the invasien. Bill is aircraft recognition efficer en the eruiser. As I mentioned earlier in this letter, there is a restrietien on publi- catien ef addresses in a newsletter such as this. The Office ef Censership advises us that the addresses permissible for publication are net sufficient fer delivery of mail, se if any ef yeu beys want a particular address I will be mere than glad te send it te you in a personal letter. We do net want in any way te give aid er comfort te the enemy. The Fifth War Lean is upen us. The epening Big Gun will be fired from the Haskell Stadium signaling the real start of the drive. Tuesday, June 20th, at 8 pm. is the D-Date and the H-Heur fer the mammoth bend sale and auction. Things difficult te get, such as Kleenex, nyler hose, a saddle, a new tire, 100 gallens of gasoline (the ration beard permitting), lawn mewer, garden hése, a yearling steer, - will be auetiened off with bond purchasese As chairman of the pregram and exhibit committee, we are working feverishly te get the jeb done in the mest efficient manner. The quota fer 94. Deuglas County is $2,213,400, the second largest in the state. Douglas County has never failed te ge over the tep in a bend drive, and I am sure that the Fifth War Lean drive will be ne exception. The citezens are responding in a tremendeus way. The past week we in the States have gene through an unusual experience. Never befere, perhaps, in the histery of America, has there been such a pre- feund emphasis upen prayer. The President ef the United States gave to the press, and later that evening over the radie, a prayer for the welfare ef yeu beys whe are undertaking a task that is fraught with dire censequences. Our peeple were transfermed inte anether werld. They knew what D-Day and H-Hour meant, and seme way acress the miles there was a linking of spirits and minds fer the safety ef eur beys. Every church and every shrine had it significance. It might net be that the peeple are any mere religieus, but it emphasized the great need fer seme higher pewer te lead eur beys threugh the helecaust. We knew that many of our Jayhawkers were in that invasion. But we have net fergetten the ether theatres in the slightest. This invasien ef Hitler's Eurepe seemed te center on all the deep emetiens of eur people. Certainly the ether theatres ef war and preparatien fer war have net been overleoked because we realize yeu beys in ether secters are deing your jeb in the same brave and fearless fashien, heping fer the day when yeu can return te the nermal life that yeu se much desire. And the way things are locking new, that day ef expectancy and realization is coming cleser. With every geed wish te each ene of you, I am Very sincerely yours, Director of Physical Education, FCA :AH Varsity Basketball Coach. P.S. Note to Pfe. Miller Cameren: In your greetings te the boys of the baseball team we failed te add Beb Allen's name along with the rest ef the gang. On page 7, par. 4, the reference is te Beb Allen being in the Army Medical Corps at the University of Pennsylvania. His address is 405 Se. 40th Ste, Apt. 306, Philadelphia 4, Pa. I thought we had better clear this up fer eur Jayhawk Rebounders, else they might think that it was Beb Johnson, whese address is VF 15, e/o Fleet Posteffice, New Yerk. As yet, Beb Jehnsen has net been coralled by the fair sex. Harold “Sparky” McSpadden, a star performer for the past twe years as a Jayhawk basketeer, says, "Dec, these women are geing te get us yet." I And tee, I owe an apelegy te the 1943 ever-victerious squad. On page 8 I list the five beys whe carried the brunt ef the battle in mest games, but I want now to mentien the rest ef the beys, seme of whom teek up the lead after Armand Dixen was called te the colers and Charlie Black was laid lew with pneu- monia.e. Certainly I weuld net leave the 1943 team out ef any all-star censid- eration in anybedy's league. The entire squad who received letters and experi- 9De —_— SESE SSS Ea aS ES BES ST FZ SSB PEST TS PLSD PT: enced a wonderful over-victerieus triumph were: Jehn Buescher (capt.), Ray Evans, Charlie Black, Otte Schnellbacher, Armand Dixen, Hareld MeSpadden, Jack Ballard, Paul Turner, Heyt Baker, Bill Brill, Max Kissell, Beb Fitzpatrick, Don Blair, George Dick, Bill Fersyth, and Jehn Shert. I just received an original master recerding from Chief Specialist Ernie Klann at 5738 Woodman Ave., Van Nuys, Calif. Ernie was one of our first Physical Educatien majers after the inauguration ef the four-year course in the Scheel of Education. Ernie tells me in his recerding that he ran inte C. Sp. Thene Graves in the shower room, not dreaming that a Jayhawker was se neare What a thrill Ernie get, he says, because Theno was captain of the track team ef whieh Ernie was a star miler and twe miler. Theno teld Ernie abeut the Rebounds, and Ernie in his recording says he wants ene pronte@e Well, Ernie, I have just finished the Rebeumds this merning and your appeal will receive immediate attention. Yeu premised te write me a letter, and we want to knew about your wife and family. : F.CeAe 966 a 7 AEA, JAYHAWK REBOUNDS Now 9 tl : June 12, 1944 Dear Fellow Jayhawkers: Lieut. and Mrs. Ole Nesmith just dropped in the office to say hello and good- by. Ole has been stationed in the South Pacific urea for fourteen months. He is on a 15 day furlough and is reporting to Liberator Training Unit, NAS, Hutchinson, Kansas, until further orders. Ole looks in first class fighting condition - down to his old football training days. It was good to see both Mrs. Nesmith and Ole. We rememborod meeting Mrs. Nesmith in Now York when our basketball team was play- ing in the Garden. Sle was formorly Miss Enily Lomb. Lieut. and Mrs. Charles Black also called on us a woek ago. We had a splendid visit and Charlie looks like a million, - finely conditioned and with an addition- al confidence that made him look like a tough combat adversary. Charlio was des- tined for tho Will Rogers Field at Oklahoma City. He left here last Monday, - arrived thore Thursday and took his tests. They did 50,000 feet in altitude, among other things, and before he lmew it ho was on his way to Coffeyville. He is to fly a P38 Photo Reconnaisance, and tho grapevile tells us that he is doggone disappointed because there isn't a gun on the ship and he wanted to do some shoot~ ing, but they do say. that his ship is the fastest thing out of this world. Charlio will be taking pictures and shooting a hen things toe machine gune, but I'll bet his performance is as good in the air aos it wis on the backboards and rebounds. (ood luék, Charlios | Another recent visitor at the office was Major E. R. "adi" Elbel, a member of our Physical Education staff who is now on leave for military service. Major Elbel has just completed 4 two months course in New York City at the Institute for Crippled and Disabled, and has written a manual on exercise for the use of men in the rohabilitation program. Major Elbel's new assignment is in research in the . school of aviation medicine at Randolph Fiold. Dr. Peter Xarpovitch, a former classmate of Major Elbel's at Springfield College, Mass., is also associatod with him in this imvortant rehabilitation work. | Already the fighting Jayhawker K men are doing something about the second generation of athletes at tha University of Kansas. Ensign and Mrs. J. Fred Harris report the birth of Michael Frederick, weight 8 lbs. 8 oz., on May 26, in Kansas City. Freddie was our star quartorback on the football team in 1933, '34 and '35, vying with Ad Lindsay as one of the most versatile spiral punters of a long line of Kansas gridiron kickers. Also, Ensign and Mrs. Howard Ingleman announce the birth of an 8 lb. 8 oz. son, Howard Dodge Englicman. Howard was on the varsity basketball toams of 1959, '40, and '41, and broke my scoring record of 27 points when he scored 29 points in a Big Six game. ; _ So Kansas will not need to worry about her oncoming future greats in an athletic way. Congratulations to both the Englemans and sad Harrises. Long may they aive and prosper$ 2 ® Tne baseball season closed Saturdey afternoon here en the varsity baseball field when the Cklahome Sooncrs defeated Kausas 11 to 2. Tom Saffell struck out 19 of the Sooners, but he issued 6 walks and had iittle if any support. The Jay~ hawkers made five costly errors behind his ritching. The first inning was the nemesis of the Jayhawkers as the sconers pushed across seven runs on five hits, three walks and three errérs. Bob Reese, cof the Sooners, pitched a one-hitter, in addition to hitting o home run and two singled for three runs to help win his own ball cane. o pote Baseball was not considered o championship sport by the Big Six this year as only Towa Stats, Kansas and Oklahoma played baseball and none of ther played four conference games. It was just an activity affair so far as the schools were con- cerned. Coach Elmer Schanke took over the coaching reins after Jack Austin re- signed fron the Physical Education Department. Every one of the varsity coaches ere employed in tho Department of Physical Education as their najor work, and are doing the varsity coaching as a side line. We cre just carrying on until this thing is over and then Kunsas will blossom out into a new athletic era - we hope. On the evening of June 2nd the K Club, the University lettermen's organization, gave a K Club dance in Hoch Auditorium. They went "big tine" and procured Jan Savitt's Top Hatters, one of the big time dance orchestras out of Now York. For a wer year the i Club has done exceptional things. George Dick, Gordon Stucker, Sparky McSpadden, Charles Moffatt and Bob Malott have been the inspirational leaders back of the renaissance of the K Club. Theso five boys sponsorod the football game at Haskell Stadciun between the varsity and the alumni with a view of raising enough money to subsidize this- dance. Over +50 couples attended this big party, and instead of losing money, the K Club made money. It was a beautiful affair, attended by Army and Navy officers, as well as the enlistod nen of all branches who are now in the University. Chancellor Deane W. Malott crowned the queen, Miss Shirley Otter, and presented bouquets to the queen's attendants, iiss Nerma Henry and lliss Margaret Gurley. The queen was prose ited a five-year pass to all athletic games by tho athletic Association, ‘The Chancellor, in his presenta- tion remarks, declared, "This is one thing that I lave ulwa:rs sworn I would never do - crown a qucen," But ne did it gracefully, although in placing the crown he failed to tilt it at a rakish angle which might have been more becoming to the queen. With the closing baseball game on June 10, the sport fans will now cast thoir cyes toward the gridiron:sport, It looks as if the cclleges are »lanning to carry on their regular calencer of sports next year. Kansas has already determined to go forward with football enc basketball, as well as her other najor sports. The football staff is complete at the University of Kansas with Henry Shenk as head coach, and Elmer Schanlze and Dean Neswith assistant coaches. An eight-gene sched= ule, with one or two open dates yet to be filled, has already been arranged by Jicting Athletic Director Karl Xlooz. The schedule is as follows: September 15 Open September 25 Texas Christian University at Kansas City Septenber 50 Denver Univorsity ut Denver October 7 Tulsa University at Tulsa’ Octobor 14 Iowa State College at snes October 21] University of Webraska at Lawronce October 28 and November 4 = Open Hovenber 11 - Kansas State College at Manhattan Koverber 18 - University of Oklahoma at Lewrence hovenbor 23 - University of Missouri at Kansas City Se Football hopes at K.U. took a jolt when Bob George, frosh triple-threat man, Joe Dickey, half-beck speedster, and Frank Gruden, oll-Big Six guard, were trans- ferred by the Navy at the end of the winter term along with several other out- | standing toys. Tho discontinuance of the V-5 progran this summer will also renove a potential source of manpower from the K.U. squad. Last year three V-5 boys won their letters at K.U. Too, the Navy has already announced that there will be a reduotion of personnel in the V-12 program November first. This means that an entirely different team from that beginning the season may play the November games. Naval transfers the first of July mike a guess as to K.U.'s football prospects for 1944 even more hazardous. Since freshmen are ineligible to participate until after one scenester, there is little likelihood of getting much help from that © source. Undoubtedly we will lose more than we will gain by the July transfers. On the brightor side of the ledger is the fact that fiftesn lettermen from last year are still in school at the present tine. ' Bf ewar Since Head Conch Henry Shenk has a pretty good knowledge of the competition in the Big Six Conference this coming season, I asked him what he thought of. Kansas' chances. I recall the days when Shenk played for Kansas, and particularly in. 1927 when he caught a pass from Art Lawrence (now coaching at Rosedale High School) and dashod 40 yards down the east side of the field for a touchdown that beat Missouri 14 to 7. Capt. Barrett Hamilton caught the pass from Art Lawrence that made the first Kansas touchdown, Kansas had experienced a rather mediocre season up until that time. Jfissouri was Big Six champion and had beaten Nebraska and. Northwestern, and were prohibitive favorites. So when I asked Honry Shenk about the prospects for this season he replied, "So far as the Big Six this year is concerned it looks as if Oklahoma will probab- ly be the team to beat for the championship. They have a large V-5 unit anda good many of their players back from last year, and thoy cn also be counted on to get some outstanding freshman talent. Iowa State should uso present a strong team since they not only have a large V-12 unit but also zl:y a group of naval trainees corresponding to our electricians’ mates. Oklahoria beat Kansas 26 to 15 last year in a thrilling gane at Norman, and Iowa State defeated Kansas at Lawrence in a rather drab game 13 to 6. ne . "Missouri and Nebraska ond ‘Kansas State have no naval trainees. However, this may be an advantage in Big Six competition next year. It is quite likely that the three schools that have naval trainees will suffer fron the cut of personnel announced for November first, and those schools playing civilians should at least be able to keep their squad intact from the boginning of the season until the end. The civilian teams are able to have longer practice sessions and nore tine for chalk-talks than the naval schools. The naval trainees maintain higher standards of scholarship with fowor practice hours than do the civilians. These factors to a certain extent counterbalance the lack of manpower in the ‘schools having civilians. Coach Shenk went on to say, “Probably Missouri should be the strongest of the three schools with all-civilien teams, They still have Delestatious, Collins and several other boys from thoir fine team last year who will have profited by a year's experience. Nebraska always has a good football team. Last year they had probably the poorest team they have ever had. Yet they were able to defeat Kansas by one point in a sea of rain and mud at Lincoln, perpetuating the 28-year old jinx. Coach Ward Haylott of Kansas State, whose team was in the cellar last season, re- cently announced that things wero looking up for football next year with the re- turn of 140 Army vetorinarians to civilion status, These together with a promising 4. array of last year's high school stars, should provide Kansas State with some mucheneeded manpower, "Whilo the picture mey chance alnost overnight, hingeing upon the progress of the war, various decisions of the Navy, and the genoral manpower situation, K.U. will have to battio hard to place in the upper bracket next fall, However, there is a fighting spirit evident onong the players who participated in the Jayhawker's victory over Missouri last foll which had not been evidont for several seasons and which may carry tho young Jayhawkors to greater heights in 1944, It should be an interesting season, and fans are assured of food football entertainment with the results in the laps of the gods and tho hands of the l7-year-olds, the 4F's and the Navy.” a The Big Six Outdoor Track championship of the conference was won by Iowa State College at Lincoln, Nebraska, on May 20. with 67 points. Kamsas showed surprising strength in taking second place with 664 points. Kansas won seven first places, and hac she possessed a larger squad, as cid Iovm Stato, undoubtedly Kansas ‘would have been the winnor. Other Big Six schools placed in the following order: © Oklahona, 345 points; IMissouri, 32% points; Nobraska, 242: points; and Kansas State, 9 points. Kansas has experienced a very successful indoor and outdoor track season under the splendid tutelage of Ray Kanehi, Kanehl graduated from the University. of. ~. Kansas in-1927, having won a gold track shoe on Coach Harry Huff's Missouri Valley Championship track team. Coach Kanehl is in his first year at the University of Kansas, having ccne to us from Wichita East Hich S8chool whore he was chairman of tho Physical Education Department. Kenehl won five track championships while at East. High. ee a : The experience of track. coaches throughout the nation this season has been one of changing personnel, Kansas has been no exceztion, Of 92 men who have report- ed for track during the season, only 38 remained to 2inisi. “ho season. ‘, number of those boys were Navy V-12 *roinees whe wore transferre: to other units. Several civilian boys were called into service by Uncle San. Last year Henry Shenk coached the Kansas track team to a third place in the Big Six. In looking over the records it a»ypears that Kanehl has mde the best record of any track coach at Kansas for the past sovon or eight years. The athlotic directors have set the cate of August 12th for the Big Six ° basketball coaches to meet at the Continental Hotel in Kansas City, Missouri, to discuss, a m if possible, draft a Big Six basketball schedule for next yoar. The teams have heretoforo played a double round robin tournanent, but with trons= portation. what it is, some adjustazent may be made in the schedule. Certainly . Kansas will not play the creat number of games in basket>all that sho did last year. Travol conditions were then severe, but they will te much worse this year. Cormencenent exercises this year will be held on June 29. Dr. Chauncey S. Boucher of the University of Nebraska will speak at the Commencement ceremony, and Dr. Nelson P. Horn of Baker University will delivor the baccalaureate address Sunday, afternoon, June 25. The June oxercises will be the third graduation ceremony to be held at the University this year. A carpaign has been launched by students and faculty of the Medical School at Kansas City to build a Student Union. Your food friend and mine, Dr. Don Carlos Peote, is serving as chairman of the Dr. C. B. Francisco Memorial Fund. Se Dr. Francisco passed away on February 23. This was soon after he made it a point to be prosent at the ¢raduation exercises of his son, Davic, who received his M.D. degree from Dr. Francisco's hands, The State cf Hansas anc tne University suffer- ed an irrepurable loss when Dr. Fran passed oway. He was a great lover of ath- letics and youth. In fact, on every hund we hear that he befriended thousands of unfortunate people that no one else ever heard about. When he was present at the cormencenent a person told me that for years he had paid the grocery bill for a family of unfortunate people that no one evor creaned they were heing helned by Dr. Fran. Each month he kept this for:ily in fuod without anyone knowing about it. Dr. Francisco was o great humanitarian in every sonse of the word. It is planned that in the student union at the medical centor at the University of Kansas at Rosedale will be o menorial for Dr. Francisco who for thirty years gave his services unselfishly to crippled children. Ho was a respected and deeply bee loved teacher at the University of Kansas School of Medicine. Dr. Peete stated to me that checks payable to the Francisco Hemorial Fund should be mailed to the University of Kensas School of Modicine, Kansas City, Kansas. And it just occurred to me that I have not made my subscription, so this very day I am mailing a check to Dr. Poete so thit I can subscribe to my great admiration anc friendship for Dr. Francisco. I remember so often whon he would call for tickets, and even though the basketball’ games would many times be sold out, Dr. Fran would say,-"Phog, I have just got to have a ticket," and upon one or two occasions we made.roon for him by pushing the substitutes off to the side of the bench ond ailowed Dr. Fran to be our honored guest. Several years ago I took a group cf our varsity basketball team to Dodge City, Kansas, to aid in a deronstration clinic for on assemblage of ten visiting high school squads at the beautiful new Dodge City cymasium. ‘io put on the formations and plays thet Kansas used in their practice and game drills, in both afternoon and evening sessions, ond played a short scrinme;o demonstration gane for the benefit of the public. luch to our surprise unc pleasure wo found Dr. Francisco in attendance at both séssions avidly “eating 1," cur douw.ctration gamos.e He, . of course, was out in that section on professional work, Lut in his busy life of struggle he seemed to Gerive much benofit from tho struggle of young mene The Office of Censorship, “Jashington, has called to our attention tho Code of Wartime Practices, so if we don't give full addresses for some of the boys you will know it is because of the admonition ‘of this office. I get.a freat kick out of receiving letters such as I received fren Lacy . Haynes, Sr. He is always thinkin? cf the boys' interest overseas. Hoe says: "I am sending you Tom Van Cleave's address. I presume you have him on the mailing list for the Jayhawk Rebounds, but I thought mybe you would be interested." Of course we did have Toma's address, but this only testifies that Lacy is cons tantly on the job, endeavoring to mike Jayhawkers more happy end comfortable, it at asl possible. Lacy curing peace tines never missed a footkall or basketball game. In fact, I believe thet he has cnly seen the Juvhawkor basketball tean lose one game.in oll the time he has been coming. Ue is our good luck cherne Ens.:Don P. Ebling, at 339 Virginia St., Hollywood Reach, Florida, wrote me on May 29th. ile says, "They aré still preparing me us on officer...e.. I haven't seen many rellcws from school except John Kline. He is scheduled to become a gunnery officer on & DE, but his school will last for about fcur more ronths." Ens. Jesse Fanl Turner, c/o Fleet P. 0.- New Yor’, dronped in the office in May on a very short visit. On June 1, he writcs, "Wien I returned to the ship we. had a new captuin and two other mon had been transferred, so we have a smallor ” 6. happy family. I have assumed the positions of ass't gunnery officor and the end division officer now, so I have some more duties that will make our future voyages more interesting." Lt. We Re "Dick" Channel, is at Comp Fannin, Texas, Hdg. 13th Rogt., and says, "T hava a platoon of men most of whom are 12 years older than i. They have a tough time: of it but they work hard as the dickens and really try. They remind me of a K.U. basketball. team that always works hard and puts overything it has into the geme." Dick asks us to add to our mailing list tho name of Pvt. a. i. Crowley, Fort Jackson, 5, C., which we are happy to doe Cpl. ea. Ballard is now with the 13th Armordd Division at Camp Bowie, Texas, and says, "Thoy couldn't heve picked a better place to send me. I am only 125 miles from Ft. Worth where I was rniscd...eee I saw Dick Harp before I left Ft. Riley. He was leaving for Adj. General's School in Washington on the 9th of May. We had a great time discussing somo of the old gang from the S.A.E,. house. Good old "Jocco" Ballard was the cause of our getting a good licking in abot ball at Fort Riley on February 7th. Jeck is a greatly improved basketba= 1 player and when Jack returns the basketball brothers had better raise that basket to a height beady oa than ten feete. You know the rest! Lt..C. We "Chuck" Elliott, is now at Greenville, So. Carolina, and asks that we mail a Rebounds to Jim Alley, of Augusta. He wrote Chuck from the Aleutians asking how he couid get it, and we are glad to put him on our mailing list. Wo started out to write to the boys who had played on our teams, but the mailing list has beon.enlarged so that it is for any Joyhawker or any friend of the Jayhawkers. Chuck says, "We picked our crew for our B-25 the first week so it may not be =e menent, but my co-pilot is a Battenfeld boy from Junetion City, Marvin Zoschke." Ens. Roy Edwards, c/o Fleet P.Oc, San Francisco, Calif., wrote on May 16; and says, in part, "We are working in the group of islands wiero Fen Durand made his last landing. The entire island is covered Wah eee? of the terrific battle which was fought." Mr. L. N» Anderson, traffic representative of the Missouri Pacific Lines in Kansas City, wrote me on Mey 11 and gave ‘me the address of Capt. Harley L. Ander= son, and asked that the Jayhawk Robounds be sent to Harley, a member of our — varsity basketball team in the balmy Howard Engleman days. Harley and Howard will both remember the wonderful telephone conversation they had when Howard, to= bether. with Bob Allen, .was visiting Dr. Peete in Kansas City, Engleman is now speaking over Dro Puoeto's telephone after calling Horley Anderson:" Hollo, Harley, this is Dr. Alien” spoaktne,** 7 wos 3ust wondering how you have enjoyed ae in the towel rcom in the gymnasium." Jrderson said, "Fine, thank you, Doctor. ' Engleman speaking: "Well, I am yery sorry to.tell you that we are going to have to dismiss you:for lack of. funds in tho dopartnent. You have ‘been a good man. but we can't:keep you any longer. Come in ry cffice when you got back. to “tho Univer- sity and I wild do the best I can for you," Later, Harley got even with Englo-. man by offering him gratuities that Englenan never received, but we will let . Howard: tell that. Theso ccolloge, days ure dizzy days; aren't — eer Lt. T. C. "Tom" Bishép, a star on the. three Nonsas varsity ina Sceletla ut toons of 1929, 1930 and 1931, writes. from a New York APO address, "What is the deal on the Rebounds? About two months ago I received a copy from C. Ee McBride and I - enjoyed the issuo very much. I was in Texas at the tine, but’ orders came for mo to move, and now I'm sitting in North Africa." Cc. 3, McBridie, you know, is Te Sports ecitor of the Kansas City Star, and. Tom married Mary Mil, C. E.'s eldest and aly daughter.) Good luck, Tom, old fellow. Lt. Lawrence R. Johnston (baseball '41,'42), writes from the Central Pacific, "Regardless of where you go you see Kansas men. I met one, Roy Jindra, a marine corporal, aboard ship. Capt. Chnries Groff, Topeka, is intelligence officer at garrison headquarters and is on this island. My roommate knew Gordon Gray at Harlingen, Texas, high school. He also said he lmows a Capt. Weinecke from K.U. on another island in this atoll. Could that be Emil Weinecke?" S/Set. Ralph. "Red" Dugan, pitcher on our baseball tcams of 1938, *39 and '40, is at the Las Vegas air base in Nevada, and in addition to giving tho cfficers at the base their physical conditioning exercisos, he is coach of the baseball tean there, ; ; Pfc. Miilor Cameron is in the A.S.T.U. at Louisiana State Univorsity, Baton Rouge, and writes as follows: "Should like to be remembered to Knute Krosio, Bob Johnson, T. Pe Hunter, Chain Healy, Don Pollom, as well as Jack Floyd, Lerry Hensley, Jack Sands, Bruce Reid, Max Replogle, David Shirk, Richard Anerine, Ed Hall, and others. .« . . Am in Term V-A,S.T. Mechanical Engineering here at L.S.U." Miller, Bob is in the Army Medical Corps and in His lest third of his sonior semester at the University of Pennsylvania. Re will graduate in early September and will intern’for nine months at Bedl- Memorial. Hospital in Kansas City. On- April ¢6th he married Joan McFariand, caughtor of Jim McFarland of the McFarland: Drug Company in Topeka, He had a five-day leave and just barely had time +o Geter . from Philadelphia to Topexa and return on his sojourn, They have an apartment and are very happy in their tomporery quarters. me mewt-beew atouct kad. |. Cpl. Hoyt Baker wrote from Fort Bliss,-Texas, on April 25th, and said, "I ree ™: ceived a letter from Ross end he is now in Irelenc, Poul, +r., Gy youngest brother who is a senior in high school goes to the. Neval Air Jorzs sly lst. I -sure hope he gets to take his’ college training there at K.U.-. £11: four of we. brothersare in service now," ie. Hoyt, I delivered the commencement address at Peabody on May 25th, and had. dinner at Dr, Jessen's house. Your mother and dad were there,. and-I saw your grandfather, Your-brother was:'in the graduating class and also at the dimer,’ We had a most enjoyable tine visiting with the Jossons and the Bakers. Lt. Denzel Gibbens, ¢/o.?.3!. San ¥rancisec, wrote in April as follows: "I received your Feb. 15 Rebounds yesterday and was really pleased to get ite Thanks a lote I've already written to ¥resie hoping that we may be able to get together, I'm in the Jolly Ropers outfat and unlike Knute we aro doing the dropping instead of being bombed. So far our crew hasnt been able to shoot any of the little yellow men dom, Only one has come close and our gunners twned him at a safe dise tence. One of our P38's was on his tail and so the Japs have one less airplane and pilot. I'm in New Guinea ond so far i have run on to no one from K.U. I wish I could as I would realiy like to Sing tho tlma mater. We cid have a boy from Ke State, I tought the rest of the fellows 'My eves nave seen. the milking of the Kensas Aggie cow' song. ft first he wantod to know where they got it. Then he realizec I was from K.U. Vie have some good natured joking." 8. Pvt. Floyd Svoboda, who was at Ft. Riley in April, says, "I want to thank you very mach for mailing the Jayhawk Rebounis to moe Its ret.liy great to de abls to read abcut the boys from K.U. The iast I saw of a large bunch wos last March, a year oro, when we were at the Loavenworth Reception Center, Sirece then even they have been widely scattercd. I had a lucky exporie cea while on wemeuvers in Tenn, in Marsh. I lost my brother's addsess, and e few days late: rocelved tho Jayvhuwk Rebounds with a letter ke had written and also his address. He (Lioya) as at present in 0.C.S, at Ft. Benning, Ga." Ralph Miller, in 0.C.S. at San Antonio, Texas, wrote on April 23 that he was trying to get his goid bars at San Antonio, and that Ray Evans was in 0.C.S. at Miami. We wish beth of theso boys the best luck-in the world. They were both physical instructors at Scott Field, Ill., for sevoral months before going to 0.0.S. Congratulations to Lit. Edward L. "Ed" Suagee, a member of the varsity football teams of 1939 and '4C, who received his wings at Lubbock Army Air Fieid on May.23. Lots of good luck, Ed! Cpl. Armand Dixon, c/o P.M., SanFrencisco, California, a member of the Evor- Victorious baskotball team of 1943 with Otto Schneilbecher, Ray Evans, John Buescher, and Charlie Black, writes us from the Torritory of Hawaii, "It sure is sweil to know whsre all of the fellows are and a littie of what they ore doing, and they are certainly al. dcing a great jodeesoe I believe that most of us = Otto, Ray- Cherlie, and all the cthers are just waiting for the day that we can return and play basxetball for K.U. again. I'm-suse that they all have had that thrtil that I get, just tefcre the stert of a game, warming up on the floor, end +nen’ the lights dim and a hush falls over all. The band plays The Star Spangled Kenner, and the flag goes up slowly. As we stand on the floor I don't think there is one of us that doesn't have a iump in his throat." And here's word from another member of that wonderful tesketball team = Otto Schnellhacher, who says, "I am now at Hondo, Texas, edvanecc. navigation schocl. If I make the grade here I will be on officer, owt the stucying is hard. If I had studied half as hard in college as I have hore I would have bven a strictly "A" ' student." We know you'll make it, Snelly, and wo are counting the days - not the years - until you will be back with Armand, Ray, Charlie - yos, and oid Grandpa Buescher if the Big Six wovld let him play another years Ensign Dick Miller, who has been at Cozpus Christi until just recently, como home on a leave, and dropped in to sce us tefcruo going on to San Diogoes Dick looks ‘swell, and wo wish him oll tne luck in the world. Lt. Larry Boaumont, c/o Fleet Postoffice, San Francisco, the Kansas Aggic basketball: juggernaut, came in the office a ccuple of weeks ago. He had a sprained sacro-iliac and could hardly navigate. We fixod him up befors he continued on his way to the west coast. Larry has becn in South Smerica, Africa, and was heading - for the Aleutians whon: he was called back end told to report to the west coast. Lt. Bruce H. Voran, c/o Postmaster, Now York, was a member of our 1939 and 1940 basketball teams, Bruce, I will never forget that night in the closing five sece onds of tho Kansas - Kansas Aggie game at Lawrence when Coach Jack Gardnor's boys foulod you with the score tied. You missed the first one, but, brother, you hit the second one and the ball gome was over. The’ /iggies had again lost by one point on the Jayhswker court. wo Se Just as we are writing this letter to you we aro happy to receive a note from Lec Huddleston from the Army air field at Liberal, Kepsas. Lee says, in part, "T was just transferred here from Texas to learn how to fly B-24s, and my first day on the field I ran into Ed Suagee, neither of us having seen the other since Ht. Oread days back in '41. Of course the conversation drifted - I mean ran headlong - to K.U., and he showed me a copy of your Rebounds which Bill Greene, who was a ground school instructor of Ed's in basic flight training, had given him. I found so many interesting items end familiar names that 1 wonder if I could be put on the mailing list." Yes, indced, Lee, we are mighty happy to put your name on the list. TI was delighted to receive a letter from lh. W. Goodwin, formerly a practicing attorney at Wellington, Kansas, and a great athletic fan, who is now an fmericen Red Cross Field Director somewhere in England. "Goody" writes as follows: "We have quite a number of Kansas men in our group. We desire to have at least. one ship carry the fighting Jayhawk. Can you and will you send three or four illus- trations of the fiercest, fightingest Jayhawks you can capture? Our Jayhawk will see ond do plenty." : We hope that the Jayhawks arrived, "Goody", in time to darry the fighting Jay= hawkers over on /jidolph's beak. Adolph is catching plenty of H = E - double Q}- s/Sgt. George Hulteen, c/o Postmaster, New York, has sent me from "somewhere in India" a beautiful brass calendar for my desk. It is a perpetual calendar for the vears' 1944 to 1971, and George says, "T sincerely hope that it has run a leng course of usefulness bofore you give up coaching. We who have benefited by your teachings look forward to the day when our youngsters can also: come under your wing.” This is a wonderful souvenir, Ceorge, and I am delighted to have it on my desk. Twenty-eight years is a long time, and if I stay here as long as same of you boys scem to think, I willbe way past the rotiroment age. Many people have asked us which basketball toam I cons..ter the best throughout the years. Well, when the war is over we will get you al “ogothor for a ve. conference and let you decide. These names of our evor-victorious teams of 1925 and 1936 pass in pageant review, and I’thcught you would be interested in running over the list with me. Our addresses are not complete for. all of them, but where it has been possible to obtain an address we are giving it. Members. of the 1923 cver-victorious team were: Tusten Ackerman, now in Evans- ton, Illinois; Charles Black (Nc. 1), with the Lizby-Owens Glass Company in Toledo, Ohio; Waldo Bowman, editor of tho Engineering News-Record, McGraw-Hill Company, NeY.3; Paul Endacott, first vico president of the Phillips Petroleum Co. Bartlesville, Okla.; Robert Moshy, of Birmingham, Miche; Adolph Rupp, basketball coach at the University of Kentucky, Lexington, Ky.; Verme Wilkin, Kansas City, Moe; Armin Woestemeyer, Lawrence; and John Wulf, Chicago, Illinois. Members, of the 1936 ever-victorious team were: Milton «allen, Lawrences; harvin Cox, Yates Center; Ray Ebling, Amarillo, Texas; Roy Holtiday, Kansas City; Lt. Bob Holmer, with tho South Pacific Floet; Francis Kappeltun, who has been ro- cruiting WiCs in Chicago; Ray Noble, Union Wire Rope Co., Now Orleans, Lae; Fred Pralle, Phillips Petroleum Company, Bartlesville, Okla-3 Paul Rogers, Lawrence; Sylvester Schmidt, Marysville, Kansas; and Wilmer Sharfer, Ft. Leonard Wood. 10. Lt: .dehn Privech, c/o Postmaster, New York, writes interestingly from England. In April, Johnny says, "I attended o short course in British games and sports at the U. of Birmingham. It gave me time to study the British school system and their psychology of games, which I find to bo totally different from ours. I had a swell time and learned how to play cricket, soccor, and rugby. The people I met from Canada, Australia, South Africa and America were a fine bunch and we had a swoll tine exchanging ideas. I taught a class of British boys basketball for en hour. I think that is the only gome they will ever take from us, but I imow they will adopt it. I think the game will have a great future in the British Isles. Of course we were supposed to be learning their games ond it ended. up by us teaching them ours, but I believe they enjoyed it and the association with such a fine bunch was well worth the time spont." i In May, in another letter, Johnny writes: "I ran into a Major Frank Ebling from a town in Missouri above Kansas City the cther day. He played for you in 125, I beliove. .At oy rate ho was a swell fellow and was very friendly. He had followed K.U. basketball all the way, through tho years, and of course knew the famous Eblings although not being related... .. I haven't been able to soe any of the other fellows over here, but expect to run into any of them my day." Lt. Wm. G. "Bill" Wade, c/o Postmaster, New York, wrote me shortly after the publication of the last Rebounds. It came too late to print in that issue, so I am quoting a part of his lettor here. Bill said, "T have led a squadron on a few of ‘the raids and I never fail to put a big K.U. in block letters on one of the bundles for Hitler and his gang. So you con rest assured K.U. is giving him a headache. . « « I heve quite a collegiate crow - myself from K.U., bombardice> - from Illinois U., navigator ‘from Brooklyn Colloge, co-pilot from Yolo, and waist gunner from Duke U. So we dedicate a bomb for cach alma mater. Can you jmasinue five. universities sailing down on Berlin?" We sre cortainly proud of you, Bill. Lawrence Filkin, a major in the medical corps, wrote on the Sth of May fron somewhore in Imgland, as follows; Just received a RNobounds vesterday and have read it from cover to cover. Enjoyed it vory much in spite of the fact that I know only a few of those mentioned. I guess after leaving school some eleven to fourteen years ogo, my gang of toomnates have rather scattered to the four winds. e « e - England is a very beautiful country and the people are very pleasant and hospitable. Basketball is not universally played here as far as I can find out, but at least people lmow what the game is. Bicycling seems to be the noaticnal sport, along with crickot and rugby. Bicycles are’ everywhere ridden by all ages. Quite a sight!" Larry was on our basketball team, end also won his K in base- ball in '32. Pfc. We E. "Bill" Bradford, c/o Postmaster, New York, also writes from England. "T'm now stationed at a B-17 field and so-far have ran into two K.U. graduates. One, Cept..Frederick Mann, is my commanding officer. I think he graduated in 1931. Before the war he was a lawyer with the Kansas Power and Light Company in Topeka. He was born and raised in Jefferson County, not far from my home. The other Kansan is Dick Webb. You'll probably remember him ~ he belonged to the A.T.0. fraternity and graduated in 1942. If I remember correctly he was in one of your B.B. classes at the sare tine I was. . Dick is a navigator on a "Fort" and I do plenty of sweating when: he's on a mission.” Yes, I remember the boys, Bill, and I wish you would pass on my greetings and best wishes to them. You are e211 doing a grand job over there. ll. PPro. We Re “Bob” Fitzpatrick, c/o Postmaster, New York, a member of our 1945 basketball team, alse writes us from England: "Your letters are still reaching me and they aro swell. It is something tuat you get to looking forward for. Every couple of months ycu get to thinking, it's about time for one of Doc's letters, and it usually isn't long until the letter shows up. One of your letters was really a big help as Bill Brill got my address fron it. Wwe hadn't heard fron one another for almost a year. Went into a Phi Delt meeting in London not long ago and met a man who said to tell you hello. It was Mejor Tobow from Kansas State. " I'm glad to get the good news about the troatments you've been receiving for your eyos, Bob. That is roully swell, and I hope tne infection has cleared up altogcethor. Lt. William "Bill" Belt, who was our fencing instructor in the Physical Ecuca- tion Department in 1941 and 1942, was on the U.S.Se Tuscaloosa which distinguished itself smashing shore batteries during the invasion. Bill is aircraft recogni- tion officer on the cruiser. As I nentioned earlier in this letter, there is a restriction on publication of adéresses in a newsJotter such as this. The office of Censorship advises us that the addresses permissible for publication are not sufficiont for delivery of mail, so if eny of you boys want a particular address I will be more than glad to sond it to you in a personal letter. We do not want in any way to give aid or comfort to the enerye The Fifth War Loan is upon us. The opening Big Gun will be fired from tae Haskell Stadium signaling the real start of the drive. Tuesday, dune 20th, at 8 pom. is the D-Date ond the H-Hour for the mammoth bond sale and auction. Things difficult to get, such as Klecnex, zzylon hose, & saddle, a new tire, 1C0 gallons of gasoline (the ration beard pernitting), lawn rower, garden hose, a yearling steer, - will be suctioned off with pend purele.ses. As chairnan of the program and exhibit committee, we are working feverishly tc get the job done in the most efficient manner. The quota for Dourlas County is $2,215,400, the second largest in the state. Douglas County has never failed to go over the top jn a bond drive, and I am sure that the Fifth War Loan drive will be no exception. The citizens are responding in a tremendous ways The past week we in the States have gone through en unusual experience. Never before, perhaps, in the history of uimerica, has there been such a profound en= phasis upon prayer. Tho President of the United States gave to the pross, and later that evoning over the radio, a prayer for the welfare of you boys who are undertaking a task that is fraught with dire consequencese Our people were transformed into another world, Thoy kmew what D-Day and H- Hour neant, and some way across the miles there was a linking of spirits and minds for the safety of our boys. Every church and every shrine had its significance. It might not be that the people are any more religious, but it emphasized the great need for s ome higher power to lead our boys through the holocaust. , We know that many of our Jayhswkers were in that invasion. But we have not forgotten the cther thoatres in the slightest. This invasion of Hitlor's ; Europe seemed to center on all the deep emotions of our people. Cerfainly the 12. other thoatres of war and preparation for war have not been overlooked because we realize you boys in other sectors are doing your job in the sume brave and fearless fashion, hoping for the day when vou can return to the normal life that you sce much cesire. and the way things are looking now, that day of expoctancy and realization is coming closer, With every good wish to each one of you, I am Very sincerely yours, fe be\ ‘\ \ { ; zi \ Ss c —— Sai de Fhysical Educgefion, FCA 3H Varsity Basletball Coach. . See tee eee eee P.S, Note to Pfc. Miller Cameron: In your greetings to the boys of the base- ball team we failed to add Bob Allen's name along with the rest of the gang. On page 7, par. 4, the reference is to Bob Allen being in the Army Medical Corps at the University of Pennsylvania. His a ddross is 405 So. 40th St., Apt. 506, Philadclpnia 4, Pa. I thought we had bettor clear this up for our Jaoyhewk Ro- bounders, else thoy sate hk think that it was bob vohnson, whose addross. is VF 15, c/o Fleet Postofficc, Now York. As yet, Bob Johnsen has not been coralled. by the foir sex. Harold "Sparky" McSpadden, a star performer fos the vast two years as a Jayhawk baskotecr, says, "Doc, these womon aro going to got us vot," And too, I owo an apology to the 1943 ever-victorious squad. On page 8 I list the five boys who carried the brunt of the battle in most games, put I want now to mention the rest of the boys, sume of .whom took up the load after Armand Dixon was called to the colors and Gharlic Black was laid low with pnoumonia, Certainly I would not leave the 1943 toam out of omy elli-star considcration in anybody's lcague The ontiro squad who roceived letters end experionced a wonderful over-victorious triumph wore: John Buoscher (capt. ), Ray Evans, Charlie Black, Otto Schnellbaches, Armand Dixon, Harold ifeSpadden, Jack Ballard, Paul Turner, Hoyt Baker, Bill Brili, Max Kissell, Bob Fitzpatrick, Don ?lair, Goorgo Dick, Bill Forsyth, ond John Short. I just roccived on original mastor rocording from Chief Specialist Ernie Klann at 5738 Woodman /ivo., Van Nuys, Calif. rnic was one of our first Fhysical Educ- ation majors aftor the inauguration of the four-year courso in the School of Education. Emie tells me in his recording that he ren into ©. Sp. Theno Graves in the shower room, not dreaming that a Jayhawker was so nour. What a thrill Ernie got, ho says, because Thono was captain of the track tcam of which Ernio was a star miler and two miler. Thcno told Ernie about the Rebounds, and Ernie in his recording says he wants one pronto, Woll, Ernie, I nave just finishod the Re- bounds this morning and your appeal will roccivo immodiate attention. You pro- mised to writo m a letter, and wo want to know about your wife and fomily. F.CoAe JAYHAWK REBOUNDS July 26, 1944 No. 10 : Dear Fellow Jayhawkers: Today's news tells us that Colenel Count ven Stauffenberg tossed a sizzling pineapple at Adelf while the paperhanger was cutting eut paper dells in his playhouse ef hell. New the squarehead is burned and bruised, with a prebable brain concussion, while five ef his generals and twe ef his admirals are injured. Seon after the explosion ef fireworks, which blew up the upper basement, he received one of his gangster chiefs in crime, Benite. How mueh like Al Capene is his handyman, Benite Musselini, in that they beth have the same constitutional disease and they will beth end up the same way. Beth have paresis ef the brain. And then an announcement by Tokyo states that General Hideki Teje has resigned as premier and with him his entire cabinet. Mere than any ether person, Tojo is responsible fer the Asiatic war. He nurtured it, planned it, fomented it, erganized it, and launched it. Teje sent his envoys, Kurusu and Nemura, to telk peace, while eut in the Pacific the Jap navy slipped up toward Pearl Harber. The morning of December 7, 1941, came the code message which said that Japanese aircraft carriers were at the previously agreed stations far eut in the ecean, ready te launch their terpedo vlanes and bembers at Pearl Harber. Toje gave the word. The war WaS Ne General Kunaiki Keise, fermer governor general ef Kerea, and Admiral Mitsumasa Yonai, whe wis premier in 1940, are the slit-eyed boys that are te rally the monkeys witheut tails te a new effert. Teday Teje is eating the bitter wormweed and gall which has crewned his nefarious effort. Yeu boys have threwn and are threwing the right medicine at the Italian jackal, mussy Mussolini, slimy Sehnickelgruber, teets Teje, and all the rest ef these evil devils whose war-mongering has brought them te their unhaopy ends. These candidates ef hell have pillaged, raped and murdered innecent heme and land ewners - whole countries whose only effense against these international gangsters was that they vessessed material pessessioens while gainfully empleyed in peaceful pursuits. You deubtless have heard that eld chestnut regarding Adolf and Geehring and Geebbels. The three mest lenesome devils in the werld were speeding dewn the feur-lane highway ef Berlin in their Dusenberg at 140 miles an heur, and in the suburbs they ran ever and killed a German pelice dog, the prize pessession of the peasant heme. Adelf cemmanded Hermann te throw that Dusy in reverse. “Ge back and make full restitutien te the peasant family fer the less of their prize deg." Hermann did as he was teld, while Adelf and Geebby remained in their bullet-preef armered car. Hermann was gone quite seme time. Much te the surprise and consternation ef Adolf eut came Hermann leaded with a large basket ef cheice edibles supported on his large equatorial diameter. Adelf jumped up frem his pretected lecatien and expesed his chest te the German public, shouting, "Vat de you mean by geing inte dat veer peasant heme 97 « CAYTHA WAR REBOUNDS July 26, 1944 No. 10 y Dear Fellow Jayhawkers: Today's news tells us that Colenel Count ven Stauffenberg tossed a sizzling pineapple at Adelf while the paperhanger was cutting out paper dells in his playhouse ef hell. Now the squarehead is burned and bruised, with a prebable brain cencussion, while five of his generals and twe ef his admirals are injured. Seon after the explesien ef firewerks, which blew up the upper basement, he received one of his gangster chiefs in crime, Benite. Hew much like Al Capene is his handyman, Benite Musselini, in that they beth have the same constitutional disease and they will beth end up the same way. Beth have paresis ef the brain. And then an announcement by Tokye states that General Hideki Teje has resigned as premier and with him his entire cabinet. Mere than any ether person, Tojo is resvonsible fer the Asiatic war. He nurtured it, planned it, femented it, erganized it, and launched it. Teje sent his envoys, Kurusu and Nemura, te talk peace, while out in the Pacific the Jap navy slipped up toward Pearl Harber. The morning of December 7, 1941, came the code message which said that Japanese aircraft carriers were at the previously agreed stations far eut in the ecean, ready to launch their torpedo planes and bembers at Pearl Harber. Toje gave the word. The war WAS Ne General Kunaiki Keise, fermer governor general ef Kerea, and Admiral Mitsumasa Yonai, who was premier in 1940, are the slit-eyed beys that are te rally the monkeys witheut tails te a new effert. Teday Teje is eating the bitter wermweed and gall which has crewned his nefarious effort. Yeu boys have threwn and are threwing the right medicine at the Italian jackal, mussy Musselini, slimy Sehnickelgruber, teets Teje, and all the rest ef these evil devils whose war-mongering has brought them te their unhaopy ends. These candidates ef hell have pillaged, raped and murdered innecent heme and land ewners - whole countries whese only effense against these international gangsters was that they vessessed material pessessiens while gainfully empleyed in peaceful pursuits. You doubtless have heard that eld chestnut regarding Adolf and Geehring and Geebbels. The three most lenesome devils in tHe werld were speeding dewn the feur-lane highway ef Berlin in their Dusenberg at 140 miles an heur, and in the suburbs they ran ever and killed a German pelice deg, the prize pessession of the peasant heme. Adelf commanded Hermann te throw that Dusy in reverse. “Ge back and make full restitutien te the peasant family fer the less of their prize deg." Hermann did as he was teld, while Adelf and Geebby remained in their bullet-preef armered car. Hermann wes gene quite seme time. Much te the surprise and consternation ef Adolf eut came Hermann leaded with a large basket ef cheice edibles supperted on his large equaterial diameter. Adelf jumped up frem his pretected lecatien and expesed his chest to the German public, shouting, "Vat de you mean by geing inte dat voor peasant home 97 “and taking der foed? I teld yeu to pay, not take!" With a worried leek on Hermann's face, he said, “Vell, chief, it bethered me teoe I went in dat peasant heme and dere were twenty peeple sitting a circular table, whispering and earnestly cenversinge I gave dem do Nazi salute and said Heil, Hitler! The deg is dead?! And leek vat day gave mei" Fer a moment let us centrast the German General bleed purge situation te eur heme frent. Jehn R. Bricker had ambitiens te run fer President. But when his celleagues theught Thomas E. Dewey was a strenger many he sub- mitted to their will and agreed te run fer vice president, much against his wishese On the Demecratic ticket, Harry Truman repeatedly said that he did net want to be a vice presidential candidate. But when his party felt that he would perhaps strengthen their ticket he agreed. Hew different eur American way ef life isi It is the team work that the beys learn that transfers into the political, industrial and business life ef America. Berten Braley ence wrete a peem that I very much like. I will quete the first stanza, and the last. Of eourse he is talking abeut the halfback, when he said - — “When the stands are blaek with people, and they yell, yell, yell! When the whistle shrills the signal fer the start, Then the spirit sert ef grips me in a petent svell And the bleed gees dancing swiftly threugh my heart! And the reeters are fergetten with their flags and all, And the joy ef battle pulses through my frame, And there's nething werth the having but that vigskin ball And there isn't any glery but the game. Is ‘ie anything that fills yeu with a zest more keen Than te spill the interference in a pile, Or te slam the runner earthward with a tackle clean, Or te gather in a punt in preper style? It's the game of Angle-Saxens, it's the hard eld stuff, It's the herrer of the timid and the tame, And it calls fer men ef daring and of fiber teugh Whe are werthy ef a chance te play the game. Razzle ‘em, dazzle tem, feel ‘em with a trick! Rumple ‘em, crumple ‘em, yet never twice the same. Keep yeur eyes upon the ball, - and PLAY. THE GAME!" You Yanks are en the ball and you are crumpling these Nazis and Japs in a most emphatic way. Yeu all have get yeur eyes upen the ball and yeu are certainly playing the game up toe the hilt. June 6, 1944, will always remain indelibly in eur memory because en that day many of eur Jayhawker beys, sureharged with deep emetiens, catapulted themselves on the big triumphal surge ef "Fertress Europe". Lt. Jehnny Pfitsch, ef Pflugerville, Texas, Ensign Ralph Sehaeke, ef Lawrence, Kansas, and Captain Bill Wade, of Western Kansas, - and we are sure there are many others,- have banged their way inte the paperhanger's ceuntry. And the best part ef it all is that they came eut alive. Doubtless there are many of our beys that will 986 met have had as goed success as these three beys - an anti-aircrafter, an amphibieus amphiater, and a ding-deng bember wing-leader. These three “oungadeers" came threugh with flying celers. Lt. John Pfitseh, APO 403, Ne Ye, says: "Just a nete te let you know ef my new lecation (France) and to tell you we are doing swell and are happy te be here putting an end to this mess. We are seeing lets ef things and getting quite an education. The going is plenty teugh but the American soldier has more than it takes te de the jeb. The beys in the infantry deserve everything they ean get and mere, and that gees fer the air cerps, and den't ferget the navy. Gee, they have been werking swell. I didn't even get seasick ceming ever, and that is semething fer me. I met a Lt. in the air corps the ether day whe is an eld K.U. mane His name was Ramey (Bill). I didn't knew him when I was theree He is flying a P47 areund new. I am writing this frem a well-dug-in pesitien se this may be a little messed up, but I hepe you get it eek. Haven't heard frem yeu fer quite a while, se expect something any day. Tell everyone Hewdy fer me." And that is Jehn Pfitsch's estimate of a great team - Army, Navy, Air Corps, and I know that he meant te put in the Marines, because he is a great team guye Ensign Ralph Schaake, Navy 3950, NeY., says, - “Tuesday in France, July 4, 1944. What a holiday! Peeple here den't care much fer fireworks. I knew why and I tee will be mere than glad te spend a seemingly dull evening back in Lawrence. It weuld be a treat to sit and let the quiet seak in. "I received the June 12 issue of Jayhawk Rebounds yesterday and have read it at least a couple of times. It was one of the mest welcome bits of news: I have seene . . « I was in the invasion and I am sure I don't want te be in another onee I met a Ceast Guard officer frem Warrensburg, Mo. His name was Howard. He was a great fellew. He played high scheoel ball with George Gelay. You perhaps knew eof him. Everywhere I ge I leok fer peeple from heme but haven't feund many naval officers that I kmew. I have met several men frem Kansas. They are all a great bunch. They knew hew te fight. "I connot get used te the climate er the length of the days. Half the night is gone and it is still light, mueh te eur advantage. "I sit and wonder, Dec, just what are these German kids geing te amount te ence things settle dewn. They have a very disterted outleek from my point ef view, but I might be wreng. Whe is te judge? They are grown inte it, se te speak. I have seen many priseners and I am frankly dumfounded trying te premote a fermula that could possibly square them up. "I am very thankful te be alive. Every ene of these men that died knew what te expect. They died valiantly. We hepe we can accomplish their goals. "I was very glad te hear abeut K.U. deing so well in track. I haven't been able te see any British or French sperts but have from time to time promoted athletic interests. They all like te play... My 15 kids that I had trained for small beats in the states were the teughest ef the let. They had te be and they all came through the thickest ef this invasien witheut a scratch. They have lived fer days on K rations. They can take it. In my crews, before they were taken from me May 17, I hadn't had a single offense against any one ef them that went into their recerds. I am preud ef that bit ef werk and they appreciated me, I think. We werk with beys in the amphibieus ferce, Dec, and ‘one ean really get things done. They have an enthusiam, a recklessness, a drive that few adults have. They wen't give up if they know yeu are watching. They have taught me a let of things. "Keep sending the Rebeunds, Doc. I really enjoy them. Publish my regards te all, please, Dec. Sincerely, Ralph E. Schaake." 996 That is a swell letter, Schaake. Sueh words as yeurs stand out in bas-relief and shew us what the streng yeung hearts of America are doing. Your letter is a challenge to us all. Geod luck, "Sheek". Capt. W. G. "Bill" Wake, APO 559, N. Ye, was @ freshman at the University, and en account ef illness in the family was net permitted te come back his sephemere year. But what a jeb this bey has donei Bill writes -- "A few changes have taken place since I last wrete to youe The big push fer ene thing. I was right in the middle of it. I guess we helped the beys eut seme. I have made my captaincy new and ama wing leader. I lead 2 wing eon "Dp" day alse. Have had quite a bit ef success since coming ever here. In my last raid, I lead the entire 8th Air Ferce and I guess I'm going te get the D.F.Cs . for ite Anyway, it was quite an hener and I was quite flattered when I was chosene "TI see the G. I. Bill ef Rights passed so maybe I will be a student at KU. again if I'm net tee old by the time the war is ever. I had my 24th birthday just last menth. ... . I hepe we get Hitler and his gang routed eut seon.” : Yeu bet, Bill, the G. I. Bill of Rights, which has been made a law, will enable eur Jayhawk Rebounders to rebound in a big way on Mt. Oread, and what a time we will have. Gesh, the bullfests that will take nlace in the wee small heurs ef the merning when the veterans of World War II will be talking tegether. It will be better than any beek that a fellew has ever read. And we are leoking forward te sitting in en a let ef these. What a thrill yeu fellews will give usé In Bill's letter of March 20th written on American Red Cress stationery, Bill said, "I never fail te put a big K.U. in bleck letters on one of the bundles fer Hitler and his gang." Se Bill is still threwing bundles at Adelf, and Adelf deesn't have te unwrap them. Keep tessing seme bundles at that blankety-blank, Bill. . It is wenderful te have wemen in the wari Gracie Allen is fighting a great war ever here, and she is a great strategist. At the big Fifth War Lean Bend drive in Kansas City, Gracie became a strategist. She asked all the heusewives te save seme extra grease. They have been doing that anyhow, but she wants them te save a little mere and she is sending seme aviaters ever Berlin, she said, and she is geing te have them drep that grease on the sidewalks of Berlin. She says there will be a let of sere Heinies ever there! Se if we had a few mere gals like Gracie the war weuld be ever seon. We weuld have them flat en their backs. And now for the big news. Ernest C. Quigley, a Kansas athletic great of 1900, a fermer ceach at St. Mary's Cellege and St. Leuis University, alse Natienal League umpire ef many, many years, and the outstanding national sperts efficial in the United States fer many years, has been elected Director of Athletics at the University eof Kansas. We all welcome Quig, mest whole-heartedly. He is courageous, energetic, dynamie and resourceful. One wag said that Quigley has been cennected with prefessional athletics se leng he should make a great suecess in college athleti«s. 100. And I know he will. Quig comes to the campus August first as the boss of all intercollegiate athletics. The friends of football, especially, know that he, being one of the great gridiron luminaries eat the University, this sport will receive his first and prompt attention. The fact that Quigley was a track man at the University insures the followers of track that Quig will revive the Kansas Relays and develop this very important cinder track sport. And the fact that Quig was a great baseball player and National League umpire and public relations representative of the National League, may mean that he will revive Kansas baseball prowess of former years. For many, many years Kansas was among the leaders in this diamond sport. So football, track and baseball will all receive a stimulus under this dynamic leader. The fact that Quigley officiated in practically all the major intercollegiate and independent basketball tournaments shows his leadership in this splendid game. In the late thirties Ernie Quigley toured Japan and officiated in basketball tournaments for the Japanese. He said that after starting the Japanese games in early evening and working until four o'clock in the morning, the only way he could finish the tournament at all was to disqualify an entire team the first time any player on a team made a personal foul. He observed that basketball interest in Japan was definitely more intense that in the United States and that crowds numbering ten thousand attended these great tournaments. He felt that Japan had gone basketball as well as baseball med, perhaps about the time they went war mad. We hope hereafter that no fumble-brain-pee-wee-nit-wit will say that anyone other than Mr. Quigley is running athletics at the University of Kansas. Summer football practice will begin on August 14th. Five weeks later, on September 15th, our first game of the season will be played here against Washburn University. There are still two open dates in the schedule but Head Coach Henry Shenk and Boss Quigley will soon errange some games to fill these dates. The football schedule at present is as follows: September 15 - Washburn at Lawrence September 235 - Texas Christian University at Kansas City September 50 - Denver University at Denver October 7 - Tulsa University at Tulsa October 14 - Iowa State College at Ames October 21 - Nebraska at Lawrence October 28 and November 4 - Open November 1] - Kansas State College at Manhattan November 18 - Oklahoma at Lawrence November 235 - Missouri at Kansas City Monday's mail brought me a letter from Pfc. Vaughn W. B. "Chick" Pontius, APO 4, New York, our former golf pro at the Lawrence Country Club. We are thrilled to know that Chick has proved to be one of America's first class fighting men. Wounded a couple of times, Chick relates his innermost thoughts as follows: "I thought I would drop you a line while I am in the hospital. I re- ceived two wounds while I was on the front line. They aren't very bad, tho, I got hit in the right leg and once in the right arm. I received the Purple Heart July 15. They tell me that I will be ready to go beck to the front in about another week. . .. I sure would Like to have a golf club in my hand instead of a gun." 101. We can appreciate what the boys over there - and over there - are doing for use Sure, every one of those boys would rather have a golf club in their hands, or some other fine recreational facility, than to be exchanging pot shots with the enemy who may have their number on one of those shells. Chick, we are proud of youe Our good friend and Marine, Bill Winey, has been spending a couple of weeks here in Lawrence, and playing golf with his many old friends at the Lawrence Country Club. Bill is the house guest of Mr. and lirs. Harry Green on the old California Road. To be specific, Harry Green lives in Major Art Anderson's former home, and before that it was Jim Barrows' domicile. Jim was one of the early Kansas Betas and an insurance man. ‘When I saw Bill last week he was having a flare-up of malaria, but he acknowledged it was his own fault because he could have controlled it had he taken his stipend of quinine. Bill is looking fine and has had a great experience with the Japs, a la Australia and New Guinea way. In our last letter we told you of the arrival of Lt. (jg) Howard Engleman's son. “Rope” expressed a splendid paternal and patriotic sentiment when he wrote regarding his young son -- "I didn't hear about it until about 20 days later, but anyway you have a young Jayhawk for your 1962 team. .. .« Hate to be so — away but if so ison will make a better world for him I won't complain." This week I received another letter from Howard, in which he says, "Since I last wrote I ran into Knute Kresie who is exec. on a PT boat. We had a long chat. Also saw a young Haines fellow who is Bob Haines younger brother who lives close to yous I didn't remember him but I knew Bob and we hashed over old Lawrence stories. It's sure fun to meet an old Jayhawker out here in the Pacifice What a time we'll have when we all get back, and it won't be to talk of landing at Tarawa or invading Normandy, but it will be that overtime game with A. & M. and the rally against K-State at Manhattan when we were 12 points behind and had 8 minures to go, and we licked them 4 points -- those events will haunt our memories. "Doc, I'm not in such good shape being on a small ship with little shore time available. It is very easy to overeat and under-exercise. However, I play ball whenever I can and I still have that old love of the game that time and wrinkles can't erase. It will be good to get back, so see if you all at home can't hurry the day. If you ever go through Salina look up my son and teach him to rebound while he's young. Howard Dodge Engleman will certainly have a soft touch and lay-up if he is like his daddy. Our good friend and former coach of the Jayhawk golf team several years ago, Lte Comdr. Wm. H. Shannon, Soldiers Field Station, Boston, writes -- "Your recent Jayhawk newsletter arrived just as I was leaving for New York - @ short trip on business. Many thanks for it; I enjoyed reading it so much. Peculiar thing happened - I read in it about Larry Hensley and within 25 minutes he was at my door ringing the bell. Larry left my class in December 1941 with Germain Morgan as enlisted men in the Navy. Today he is a Lt. (jg) in the Navy Air Corps; he has seen plenty of northern duty and now he is bound (fast) for the southern and eastern duty. He looked so good to me after almost three yearse I derive so much personal satisfaction and pride in meeting these few boyse I can imagine your pride of such a host of boys out in all parts of the world. Ben Barteldes, Luke Chapin, and Bill Seitz are in our present classe I turned over my complete file of Rebounds to Larry for reading; I am keeping a close watch on them for future safe-keeping. Teaching brings many real friends. 102. team as well as a lot of semi-pro boys that could give the big league boys a run for their money." We know from past experiences that Dave will do a swell job. Russell J. Chitwood, who was end on our varsity football teams in 1937, '38 and '39, and who has recently been with the Douglas Aircraft Coe in Tulsa, Oklahoma, received his commission as an ensign in the Navy in June, and is doubtless now at the Navy Air Base at Corpus Christi, Texas. He is assigned to the Navy Air Transport Command. Ense Robert E. Hunt, Area C-6, Camp Peary, Va., wrote us late in June saying that at that time he was bond officer for that area for the 5th War Loan. “This morning one man bought $25,000 in bonds from me, so we should make our quota easily," Bob says. Bob was a member of our varsity basketball team in 1938, and on the baseball team in '40. From the Pacific area comes word from Ens. Roy Edwards, USS SC-1054, Fleet Postoffice, San Francisco, who says, "I received quite a treat last week when I received a note that Clint Kanaga's ship was in the same harbor with ourse We received orders to get underway immediately so did not get to see him personally. However, I found his ship in the harbor and talked to him by the signal light. I am sure we will meet again soon." Otto Schnellbacher, at Hondo, Texas, says, "I got your last Rebound, No. 9, yesterday and was glad to receive it. After reading it over I find some of the boys aren't too far away. In fact, I have flown over or by some of the places the boys are stationed here in Texas. I have been over Ralph Miller's location several times, for we fly over San Antonio quite often. ay have to bail out some time and look him up. Well, maybe a train ride would take longer, but I prefer it to a parachute. . . . Still hoping I can return to school in September, '45, but it may be a little later." Pvt. Wm. W. "Bill" Brill is now at Robins Field, Ga., after having traveled over most of the country east of the Mississippi, as he says. He writes further - "I run around with two rebels here. One played football at North Carolina dnd the other at Kentucky. They are two swell lads, but keep me plenty busy working out with them in the gym. One nice feature about these two fellows is they don't carry a grudge against the Yanks. The Civil War arguments are all in fun, but are getting very tiresome, and yet some don't let up. "I added another name to my list of soldiers I have met from Kansas. This one belongs to the cadre here and lives in the same barracks as I. His home is a few miles west of Lawrence and he is a friend of Ralph Schaake and the Gibbens boys. He is a follower of Kansas U. sports and really enjoys reading your Kansas newspaper, the Jayhawk Rebounds. We share my copy each monthe, but since I am slated to leave here in the near future he would like to have his name added to your mailing list if at all plssible. He is Sgt. John E. Pierson, 4525 AAF Base Unit (Signal School) Robins Field, Georgia." You bet your life, Johnny Pierson, we delighted to have you as one of our Jayhawk Rebounders. : Bill, don't get discouraged about these rebels. A few years ago they didn't know that "Damyank" was two words. Now they do, so you see they are making progress, and Bill, they are swell fellows. Personally, I know of no more typically aggressive, competent and sometimes cocky boy than the boy from Texase He will fight you like the dickens, throwing everything he has got at you, but he keeps his smile, and that is true Americanism. 1046 "Things are about the same at Harvard. I was promoted to Lt. Comdr. on 15 April, I my be transferred nowe I have hopes of sea or foreign duty, but the cards appear to be against me as they need specially trained men in the States. "How is your golf game? I have not had a club in my hands this summer; I play softball a couple of times a week -- pretty rough on an old mane I'll be along for a round one of these days." Ense Loren T. Florell, a member of our varsity basketball team in 1938 and 1939, recently wrote from the Naval Training Station at Ft. Schuyler, New York, saying that he is now doing more studying than ever before in his life. "Have managed to break away to New York a few week ends to see the sights of the big city and see a few Yankee ball games. We have a good physical program, too, and believe 1'm in good enough shape to play a few fast minutes of basketball, just like the good old days at K.U. Haven't seena familiar face since I've been here, guess most of the '38 and '39 gang are in combat areas or training elsewhere. .« . « Please send future Jayhawk Rebounds to me at 2119 Gage Blvd., Topeka, Kansas, as my address will be too uncertain to send them direct to me, and I'll always have them forwarded from this address." Capt. Chester K. Friedland (Track '37, '38, '39) is still at Will Rogers Field, Oklahoma, as base physical training officer, and says, "My twin daughters are getting along fine. They look so much alike I can hardly tell them apart now. Heard from Bill Bunsen (football '38, '39) a couple of weeks agoe He just completed his fourth year in the Navy and is now stationed somewhere with the Pacific fleet. He has a wife and baby that he certainly would like to see." From Lt. John Glenn, USS Corregidor, Fleet Postoffice, San Francisco, my assistant coach and the inspiration to the boys on the bench in the University of Southern California - Kansas game, which Kansas won for the Western N.CeAA. basketball crown in 1940, comes the following cheerful note: "The first draft of college trained (V-12) officers are now reporting aboard various ships for duty. Naturally we have had a great deal of fun getting them ‘squared away'. To be without movies nightly, mail call at noor, and no beer at the Ship's Service Fountain is just too much for them to understand. | Strange as it may seem the long days appear to be hard on them while we have always been under the impression that their training was a tough.grinde Despite © the above remarks they are extremely willing and eager to learn which reminds me of how green and dumb I was fourteen months ago when going over the brow for the first time....... Am enclosing a clipping regarding the ‘Mighty C', as we call her. The term ‘baby flat top' or ‘queen of the baby flat tops' seems to be’ ' the identification for the Corregidor in news releasese Frankly, I am mighty lucky to be aboard such a fine ship, and we are all very proud of her." The clipping says, in part: “Lieut. John H. Glenn of Beardstown, Il1l., has the responsibility of shifting planes from the flight deck to hangar deck and vice versa. He formerly was president of the Illinois Ice Industries. When the ship was commissioned, only 13 of her officers had been to sea before and less then 20 per cent of the crew had been on anything larger than a lake. The carrier has traveled more than 71,000 miles since then, and has been almost constantly in enemy waters." Lte Dave Shirk writes from the Academic Regiment at Ft. Benning, Ga., - that he has about 3,000 men to maintain an athletic program for, and he is finding it a big job. He says, "My baseball team just won the Infantry School League by winning 16 of our 20 games. I have several big league players on the 103. our school of fine arts was afraid that she could not do justice on a mimeo- graph job so she passed it up, but I did send it on to Frad Ellsworth, our alumni secretary, and he is having an engraving of it that will appear in his Graduate Magazine. Thanks, "Goody", and good luck to Lt. Col. J. B. Smith of our Jayhawker state. Fred Ellsworth also called our attention to the July 8th issue of the Saturday Evening Post which carries an article, "The Longest Hour in History", written by Martin Sommers, describing among other things, Jim Arnold who was a letterman in basketball here in 1941 and also treasurer of his classe Frem a pugnacious destroyer's bridge, hard under the German shore batteries, a Post editor gives you a close-up of how one of the hottest beachheads was punched into Normandy. Jim wrote Fred Ellsworth and stated when the destroyer was criising around between the shores in the Solomon Islands they thought they were in some pretty rough spots, but, he stated, that was nothing as compared to what they got into on the USS McCook in this beachhead landing. Jim had a lot of things to say about coming back after the war, and they were much’ to the point. Between the lines we read a feeling of his, along with the rest of you, that you fellows want to be proud of the fellows back home for what they are doing to keep things going while you are away. I am reading in some of the letters the thought that after you have served ever there and when you come back you will have something to say about how this country is run. Jim graduated and will not come back to school, but will go into business but I'll bet he will toss in a few chips in straightening out some of the muddles that the country has gotten into while he has been away. However, Jim doesn't say that -- I am guessing on exactly how he is feeling. But I do want to quote from Martin Sommers' article: "One tremendous roar shakes the sea for miles around. We blink and steady ourselves--that must be the Glasgow and the Texas. It is. Now Gunnery Officer Jim Armold, in his fire-control tower atop the flying bridge, gets the word he's been waiting to hear. Our 5-ineh guns speak as one, and to us they sound louder and truer than any we've ever heard. “Our first salvo is: low on the first designated target, Arnold quickly works out the problem anew. The guns are corrected and our third salvo sends @ pillbox cascading into the air in fragmentse « « «© « ee ee ee ew wo oo "Within a few short minutes, on automatic fire, we get our secong target and attempt our third. This one is a battery cunningly concealed behind a stone wall down a gulch curving away from the seas A salvo below, a salvo above, a salvo to the left--this fellow is really stubborn. Jim Arnold's lean, sensitive face now is twisted into something approaching a snarl. His long fingers adjust his instruments--for this moment the. scholar has become a killer. "The next salvo smashes the gun and sends it down the gulch, starting a minor avalanche. By 6:15, all our assigned targets that we can reach have been knocked out or previously demolished by air bombing. We have fired 250 rounds in twenty-five minutes of automatic firing. "tSir, suggest we shift to targets of orrortunity'’, Arnold phones the bridge. ‘Targets of opportunity’ are those enemy surprises that bob up, those strong points we don't know about in advance. There will be plenty of them. "Permission granted.'" And so Jim Arnold, a quiet country boy who enrolled at Kansas in 1937 from Downs, Kansas, who during the time this article was written was a lieutenant (jg) - we hope he is an admiral by now! - makes the big top with LOG our world's heroes. Congratulations, Jimi We are sending you a copy of our Rebounds with our deep admiration and our heartiest congratulations. We are also sending a copy to your parents. We are mighty proud of you and all the rest of our boys. Your good friend and mine, Sgt. Bill Kollender, who has served the University enthusiastically and most faithfully since October, 1928, has retired to enter private life. Every one of you will remember the efficient sergeant who was always on top of things at all the athletic contests, espec- ially the football and basketball ushering and seating. He was a past master in meeting friends, in taking care of the salubrities and the celebrities who visited the University. He was Col. Karl Baldwin's right hand man - in fact, all of the commandants of the R.O.T.C. - in handling the affairs of that de- partment. He served four years in the Philippines and was at Corregidor and other | Army bases over the country. Perhaps no man with an Army connection has made so many friendly contacts with University students, faculty and alumni as has Sgte Kollender. We will miss him greatly, and our best wishes will go with him in his next field of endeavor. We might say that he retires on a healthy stipend as compensation for his many loyal and faithful years given to Uncle Same His address in Lawrence is 202 West 15th Street. A note to Clint Kanaga: Clint, I have not forgotten the matter of the gold basketball for T. P. Hunter. Immediately upon receipt of your letter i went to Julius Marks and told him to look up his past record and check to see if T. P.'s gold basketball wasn't mailed to his mother at Margaret, Texas, or to his sister in Tulsa, and Julius promised me that he would let me know. I am sure that it was ordered. When I started to dictate this letter to you I called Julius again and he is going over his books and checking the mailing because he has 4 record of every addresses You tell T. P. we are going to get that gold basketball for him and have it in his possession. He deserves a thousand of them, and we certainly aren't going to delay. I want to say here and now that had I dreamed that T. P. didn'’t-have his ball I would have activated myself no end. T. Pe is "No. 1" in my own mind, and, I might add, in everyone's. Mrse Allen and I had your brother, Bill, to dinner the other night. Bill is a great boy and we enjoyed him very much. Mrs. Allen loves to see boys eat, and I might state here and now that Bill didn't disappoint her He tore into those fried chickens like you boys have been tearing into the slit-eyes. He annihilated them. We want to tell you a few things about old Mount Oread. She was never more beautiful. This Jayhawk Rebounds is dated Wednesday, July 26, but it is now Friday afternoon at 3:17 and I am trying to close my letter. Sometimes we work on it for two weeks, piecemealing it here and there. The campus is as green as early spring. We have had some wonderfully cool weather in July, not a day going over 97 here in Lawrence, Kansas. The lawns are beautiful and the foliage is gorgeouse Ordinarily at this time of year the campus is brown, but it is as green as can be. The past week we have had rains and for the past two weeks we have had Colorado weather in the evenings with most of the people sleeping under blankets. 107. We are in full swing with our community recreation program for the faculty and friends of the University. On Wednesday night we had an open air street dance in front of the chemistry building, Bailey Hall. We blocked off the street at the intersection by the gymnasium and down to the corner at the east end of the chemistry building. We used 125 pounds of cornmeal and 100 pounds of soy bean meal. Early in the afternoon we flushed the street with a big hose, swept it, and in the evening we sprinkled our meal over the street. The evening was perfecte Oliver Hobbs, the director of the high school band, used a twenty- piece male high school orchestea that was a knock-out. Six hundred people came up on the campus and danced from 8:45 to 10 o'clock. Faculty members, towns- people and oldsters sat on the benches and chairs and watched the jitterbugs and some of the oldsters glide to the rhythmic tunes of Oliver's orchestra. He did a wonderful job. After it was over, eight of us used brooms and swept the cornmeal from the concrete arena to be saved for the next dance, two weeks from now. On next Wednesday we will have Miss Irene Moll, a K. U. graduate of 1938, who is a teacher in the Tulsa, Oklahoma, high school, call square dances. She is a past master at this art and we will have the hill-top packed with ye olde time recreation features of Civil War dayse We plan to have each night in the week an event nighte On Tuesday and Thursday evenings we have a "kiddie Kollege”. The youngsters of kindergarten age are brought up on the low platform and taught kindergarten songs and dances. That, of course, pleases the youngsters and the parents, and with the giant slide, the monkey mazes, the teeter-totters, the swings, the sand-pile, the ice-cooled drinking fountain, together with shuffleboard for the oldsters, archery, goal-hi, badminton, volley ball and croquet, it gives activity and re-creation for all ages. The quadrangle is beautiful with twelve large lights which scare the mosquitoes away, and with the basketball benches borrowed from the athletic association and the football benches borrowed from the stadium, the friends of the University have a splendid time commingling, playing and visiting on one of God's beauty spots. We are endeavoring in our recreation program to make itas pleasant as possible for many principals and superintends who come for their advanced degrees, with their families. Their little tots are not always accorded the best of facilities due to the overcrowded condition of Lawrence. She is packed to the guards with Sunflower Ordnance workers. There is not a vacant house to be had, and in some cases three families live in one house. You can appreciate the crowded conditions that these families of the teachers are subjected to. With a piano for the little tots in their nursery games, and with the swing band and the dance orchestra, these young mothers are provided an oppor- tunity to sit and cool off while the children enjoy themselves. Director Russell Wiley, with his University Band, plays two outdoor concerts during the summer. So with the other recreational activities in the Union Building under the direction of Dean Werner, the faculty and students are en- joying themselves immensely. We are getting this ready for you when you return so that things will not take on such a changed appearance, but we want you to visualize old Mount Oread welcoming you with a gracious smile. Sincerely yours, Director of Physical Education, FCA :AH Varsity Basketball Coach. 108. JA YiORAOCW KR REBOUNDS Hos. FO July 26, 1944 Dear Fellow Jayhawkers : Todev s news teils us that Colonel Count von Stauffenberg tossed a sizzling pinesppols at Adolf while the paperhanger was cutting out paper dolls in his playhcuse of hcil. Now the squarehcad is burned and bruised, with a probable brain concussion, while five of his generals and two of his admirals are injured. Socn after tho explosion of fireworks, which blew up the upper basement, ho received one of his gangster chiefs in crime, Benito. How much like Al Capone is his handyman, Bonito Mussolini, in that they both have tho samo constitutional disease and they will both end up in tho same way. Both have paresis of the brain. And then an announcement by Tokyo states that General Hideki Tojo has resigned as premior and with him his entire cabinet. More than ony other person, Tojo is responsiblo for the Asiatic war. He nurtured it, planned it, fomented it, organized it, and launched it, Tojo sent his envoys, Kurusu and Nomura, to talk peace, while out in the Pacific the Jap navy slipped up toward Fearl Harbor. Tho morning of December 7, 1941, came the code message which said that Japanese aircraft carriers wore at the. previously. agreed stations far out in the ocean, ready to launch their torpedo planes and bombers at Fearl Harbor. Tojo gave the word. The war was one General Kunuiki Koiso, former governor general of Korea, and Admiral Mitsumasa Yonai, who was premior in 1940, are the slit-eyed boys that are to rally the monkeys without tails to a new effort. Today Tojo is eating the bitter wormwood and gall which has crowned his nefarious effort. You boys have thrown and are throwing the right medicine at the Italian jackal, mussy Mussolini, slimy Schnickelgruber, toots Tojo, and all the rest of these cvil devils whose war-mongering has brought them to their unhappy ends. These candidatos of hell have pillaged, raped and murdered innocent home and land owners = whole countries whose only offonse against these internat ion- al gangsters was that they possessed material possessions while gainfully employ- ed in peaceful pursuits. You doubtless have heard that old chestnut regarding Adolf and Goehring and Goebbels. Tho three most lonesome devils in the world were speed- ing down the four-lane highway of Berlin in their Dusenberg at 140 miles an hour, and in the suburbs they ran over and killed a German police dog, tho prize possession of tho peasant home. Adolf commanded Hermann to throw that Dusy in reverse. "Go back and make full restitution to the peasant faonily for the loss of their prize dog." Hermann did as he was told, while Adolf and Goebby remained in their bullet-proff armored car. Hermann was gone. quite some time. uch to the surprise and consternation of Adolf out come Hermann loaded with a large basket of choice edibles sumnnastid em tes tere. id cen 26 diameter. Jidolf jumped up from his protected location and exposed his chest to the German public, shouting, "Vat do you mean by going into dat poor peasant home and taking der food? I told you to vay, not takei" With a worried look om dHernaran’s face, !.e saia, "Vell, chief, 1% bothered mo too, Z went in dat peascns home und deve were twensy people sitting . around a cirewlar table, wiispering ard eurrestiy torversing. 1 gave aga de Nazi salute and said Heil, Hitier! The dog is dead} and look rat cay gave mej" For a moment let us contrast the German General blood purge situa- tion to cur home front. Jchn Kk. Briclcr had ambitions to run for President. But when his colloszuss thought Thomas E. Dewey was a stronger men, he submitted Sty to their will and agreed to rum for vice president, much tgainss his wisnes. On the Democratic ticket, Harry Truman repeatedly said tint he did not want to be & ‘rice presidential candidate. But when his party felt that he would perhaps strengthen thei: tickew he agrsec. How differont our american way of life is! It is the team work that the boys ieain that transtors into the political, — and business life of amorica. Borton Braiey once wrote a poen that 1 very mich like. I will quote the first stanza and the last. Of course he is talking about the halfback, when ko said - "When tho stands are black with esate and they yell, yell, es When the whistle shriils ths signal for the start, Then the spirit sort of grips me in a potent spell And the blood goes dane ing ewiftly through my. heart! and the rooters are forgotton vito choir flays and all, And the joy ef sattle puli:es through ay row, imd there's nothing worth tho having but that pigskin ball And there isn't any glory but tho gams.: Is there anything that fills you wich a zest more keen Than to spill the interferense in a pilo, Or to slam the runner earthward with a tackle clean, Or to gather in a punt in proper styie? It's tho game of Anglosiaxons, it's tho hard old stuff, It's the horror of the timid and the tone, find it calls for mon of daring and of fiber tough Who are worthy of a chance to play the gane. Razzle 'em, dazzle 'em, fool ‘em with a trick! Rumple ‘em, crumple ‘em, yet never twice the same. Keep your eyes upon the ball, - and PLAY THE GAME!" . od You Yanks are on the ball and you are crumpling those Nazis and Japs in a most auphatic way, Yov all have got your eyes upon the ball and you are certainly playin; the game up to the hilt. June 6, 1944, will always remain indelibly in our memory because on thet day many of our Jayhawker boys , Sp heal he with deep CLOGLONSs, CATA pulted themselves on tho big triumphal surge cf “Fortress Turepe". Lt. Jenmy Pfitech, of Pflugerville, Texas, Ensign Xalph Sshaoke, of Larvienve. Kansne, urd Captain Pill Wade, of Western Kansas, - and we are suro thers are any others,- have ranged their way into the paperhanger's country, .nd the best part of it ail is tlu.t they camo out alive. Doubtiess there are many of our boys thet rill not heve had as good’suzcess as these three boys - an anti-airercfter, an ennai bias gar eter ; and a ding-dong bomber wing-loader. These three "gunga- deers" came thrcvgr with flying colors. Lt. John Pfitsch, APO 403, N, Y., says: "Just a note to let you know of my new iocation (France) and to tell you we are doing swell ond are happy to be here rutting an end to this mess. We are seeing lots of things and getting quite an education. The going is plenty tough but the jAmesicnn soldier has more thon it takes to do the gob. The boys in the infantry deserve everything they can get ond more, and that goes for the air corps, and con't forget the navy. Gee, they have been working swell. . I didnt oven get sea- sick coming over, ond that is something for me. I met a Lt. in the air corps the other day who is on old K,U. man. His namo was Ramoy (Bill). I didn't know him when I was there. He is flying a P47 around now. Ian writing this from a well-dug-in position so this may be a little messed up, but I hope you get it o.ke Haven't heard from Ky for quite a while, so expect something any day. Tell everyone Howdy for me." And that is John Pfitsch's estimato of a great team - Army, Navy, Air Corps, and I Imow that he meant to put in the Marines, because he is a great team guye Ensign Ralph Schanke; Novy $950; N. ¥., says, - "Tuesday in France, July 4, 1944. hata holiday bs People here don't care much for fireworks, I know why and I too will be mcre than glad te spend a seemingly dull evening back in Lawrence. It would be a treat to sit and let the quiet soak in. "I received the June 12 issue of Joyhawit Revounds yesterday ond have read it at least a couple of times. It was one cf the most welcome bits of nows I have seen. . . » I was in the invasion and I am sure I don't want to be in another one. I met a Coast Guard officer from Warrensourg, Mo. His name was Howard. He was a great fellow. He played high school bali with George Golay. You perhaps Imew cf hin. ,uverywhere I go I look for people from home but haven't found many naval officers that I mew. I have met several men fron Kansas, They are all a great bunch. They lmow how to fight. . "I cannot got used to the climate or the length of the days. Half the night is gone cnéd it is still light, much to our advantage. "I sit; and wonder, Doc, just what are these German kids going to amount to once things sottle down. They have a very distorted outlook fron ny point of view. but I might bo wrong. Who is to judge? Tlzey are grown into it, so to speak. I have seen meanv prisoners and I nia frankly @uarounded trying to promote a formula that could pessibly scusre thei pe "I am very thankful to be alive, Every one of these men that died knew what to expect. They died valiuntly. We hepe we can accomplish their goals. "I was very glad to hear about XU. Coinz so well in tracks I haven't been able to see any British or French sports suk have frem timo to time promoted athletic interests. They all like to play, My 15 kads that I 4. had trained for small boats in the states were the toughest of the lot, They had to be and they all came through the thickest of this invasion without a seratehe Thuy have lived for days on K rations. Thoy can take ite Iu my crews, berore they wore taken from mo May Ti, 1 macs & igh & single cfrense against any one of them that wont into ‘sheir recordse I am proud of tat } it of work and they apprecit.tec m2, i tiinke We work with toys in the amphibious force, Doc, ani one can reaily get taings done. They nave an enthusiasn, a recklessness, a drive that few adults haves They won't give up if they know you are watching, They have taught me a lot of things. "Keep sending the Rebounds, Doce I really enjoy thems Publish ny regards to all, please, Docs 3 _ Sincerely, | Ralph E, Schaakee™ That is a swell letter, Schanke. Suoh words as yours stand out in bas-relief and show us what the strong young hearts of America are doing. Your letter is a challenge to us alle Good luck, "Shock". Capt. We G. "Bill" Wade, APO 559, N. Yo, was & freshman at the University, and on account of illness in the family was not permitted to some back his sophomore yoar. But what a job this boy has done} Bill writes «= ", few changes have taken place since I last wrote to youe The big push for one thing. I was right in the middle of it. I guess we helped the boys out somes I have made my cuptaincy now and ama wing leader. I lead a wing on "D" day alsoe Have had quite a bit of success since coming over here. In my last raid, I lead the entire 8ch Air Force and I guess I'm going to get tho D.F.C. for ite anyway, it was quite an honor and I was quite flatterod when I was chosene : "T soe the G. Ie Bill of Rights passed so naybe I will be a student at K.Ue again if I'm not too old by the tint the war is over. I had my 24th birthday just last month. » « ~ » I hope we get Hitler and his gang routed out soone" You bet, Bill, the G, I, Bill of Rights. which has been made a law, will enable our Jayhawk Rebounders to rebound 2n & big way on Mt, Oread, and what a time we will nave. Gosh, the bulifests that wil take place in the weo small hours of the morning when the veterans ot iforld War II will be talking together. It will bs bottex than any book that a feliow has over read, Jind. ‘we are looking forward to sitting in on o tot of thotes Wat a thrill you fellows wili give vst ln Bill's Jetter of Marth 20th written on Amcrican Red Cross stat- jonery, Bill Said, "I never fail to put a big .U. in block letters on one of the bundles for HitJor wd his gange" So Bill is stiil throwing bundles at Adolf, and .ido.\f doesn’ hive to unwrap then. Keup tossing scme bundles at that blankety-plank, 5iil. It is wonderful to have women in the wer! Gracie Allon is fighting a great war ovor herc, and she is a great straterist. At the bis Fifth war Logen Bond grivo in Kansas Uitv, Gracie besmae t. sisrategist, She askeé a3.1 the housewiver tc save sue cxtra srease. They have been dving tant arghew, out she wants them 42 cavo a littl» more and sxe is cemclng some aviatcr? over Berlin, sho said, end she is going to have thun drop 4nat grease aid will net cow: back to schecl, bat wil. go into beriaess but fil Lut he wil wose in a feu canines in sornicheening out Some of th2 wad: Pe The comiey has wotven ince whiae he haz Deen array. However, Jim icesn*, say what m= I am pusssing on cuastly how he is fueling. ead & 8 [tu * bate But I do want to quote fisom Martin Scmmerg article: