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Our good friend and former coach of the Jayhawk golf team several years
ago, Lt. Comdr. \me Il. Shannon, Soldiers Fictd Station. Boston, writes -- “Your
recent Jayhawk newsletter arrived just as I was leaving for New York - a short
trip on business. Heny thanks for it; I enjoyed reading it so much. Peculiar
thing happened. ~ T read in i+ about Larry Nensloy and within 25 minutes he was at
my door ringiac the beil. Larry left my class in December 1941 with Germain
Morgan as enjirc2d wen in tho Navy. Today he is a Lt. (jg) in the Navy Air Corps;
he has’ scen plenty of northern duty and now he is bound (fast) for the southern and
eastern Gut, Ho looked so good to me after almost three years, IJ derive so much
persoua. s.tisfaztion and pride in meeting thcse few boys. I can imagines your
-pridy of such a hest of boys out in all parts of the world. Ben Bartecides, Luisé
Chapin, and Bill Seitz are in our presont class. I turned over ny couplete file
of Rebounds to Lorry for reading; I am keeping a close watch on then for future
safe-keeping. Teachin; brings mony real friends.

Things are about the sam at Harvard. I was promoted to Lt. Comdr.
on 15 April, I may be transferred now.e I have hopes of sea or forcign duty, but
the cards appear to be against me as they need specially trained men in the

Statese ;
“ow is vour 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." | :

Ens. 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 sce a fow Yankee ball games. We have o good physical program, too, and
believe I'm in good enough shape to play a few fast minutes of basketball, just
like the good old cays at K.U. Haven't seen a familiar face since I've been here,
guess most of the '38 and '39 gong are in combat areas or training elsewheree « « e
Please send future Jayhawk Rebounds to me at 2119 Gace Blvd., Topeka, Kansas, as
my address will bo 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 Wi1L
Rogers Field, Oklahoma, as base physical training officer, and says, "My twin
daughters are gctting along fine. They look so much alike I can hardly tell them
apart nowe Heard from 3ill Bunsen (football '38, '39) a couple of weeks ago. He
just completed his fourth year in the Navy and is now stationed somownere with
the Pacific fleet. ie has a wife and baby that he certainly would like to seee"

From Lt. John Glenn, USS Corregidor, Fleet Postoffice, San Francisco,
my assistant coach and the inspiration to the boys om the bench in the University
of Southern California - Kansas samo, which Kansas won for the Westorn N.C.Ade
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 noon, ond no
beer at the Ship's Service Fountain is just ‘soo much for thom to understands
Strange as it may scem sho long days appear to be hard on thom while we have always
‘ .been under the impression that their training was a tough gring@e Despite the above
romarks they ore extromely willing and eager to learn which reminds me of how green
and dumb Iwas fourtcen montis ago when going, over the brow for the first timCereee
Am enclosing a clipping regarding the 'Iiighty C', as we call her, The term ‘baby
flat top’ or ‘guven of the baby flat tops! scems to be the identif#cation for the