"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

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