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.

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