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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,"

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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."