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teame _ Jack Austin is in our Physical Education department in charge of
ASTP physicel training, Jack graduated from Kansas State Teachers College
of Emporia in 1930 with a major in physical education and a minor in bio-
logical sciences. When engaged for the ASTP work Jack was working toward

a Ph.D. degree at the University of Kansas. He coached and taught physical
education six years before going into administrative work 4ustin playe
quarterback for Coach Fran Welch, and also played baseball. ;

_ "[The baseball schedule will of necessity be with service teams here
in school and nearby comps and stations. Very few of the colleges are in-
dulging in the natiznal pastime. - Gasoline.restrictions and the inability
of the baseball teams to draw on college diamonds will necessitate the
scheduling of games with service teams.. But the students wha are in. school
who have an aptitude for baseball will have an opportunity to-plry the game
of their choice and at the same time earn the right to try for a varsity
letter.

"Tennis will receive attention and should be one of the prominent
spring sports. There are several tennis players who are students in the.
Novy V-12 who have wen national recognition. Professor Dick Howie, of: the
School of Business, will’-conch the tennis racketeerse. © — - std

"The Kansas Relays are out for the duration. But on April 22nd
Kansas will stage her fortieth annual Kansas Interscholastic Méet on
Memorial Stadium Field, Ray Kanehl, the varsity track coach, will-be:in
cherge of the hundreds of high school boys who will.ccme in for this..amual
spring classice ae 5 hen RP i iol ivt voce
““*- "On March 17th sevéral Hundred ASTP boys were‘sent in:to active
training, They left the University for.southern.camps. We had. four.men
handling the ASTP physical education - Howard Portor, Elmer. Schaakey Vernon
Hayes and Jack austin, THis large reduction in the A°TP ranks will natur-
ally cause a thinning out’cf our instructgrs. The deferments of Elmer.
Schaake and Vernon Hayes will be up May first. Howard G. Porter, a Univ-
ersity of Missouri graduate, who came to us- last August: from the argentine
High School of Kansas City, Kansas, has pnesented his resignation effective
April 15th. Porter goes to the Flaneview-Becchwood Schoels, at the edge
of Wichita, as a teacher of the teachers in physical education and recreation.
Some would’ call it supervistr, but the superintendent doesn't like that
words. This district ig near the airport at Wichita, and has a population
cf 20,000 within a radius‘of one mile. It has the largest grade school in
the United States, as well as: large high school and junior high school, in
the set-ups, The Perters have been living at 2133 Vermont Street in their
home which they purchased: last summer. The housing conditions being what
they are in Lawrence have enabled the Porters to dispose of their. home
readi lye ;
"the Jayhawk Club of Greater Kansas City is calling all K.U. folks
to their big funfest and dinner, April 25, at the President Hotel. Charles
B, Shacffer, Kansas alumnus and Regional Director of the War Production
Board, as well as President of: the Jayhawk Club, says: Come ye - one and
all ~ husband, wife and family - to the big gathering of the.tribe - on
Tuesday evening, April 25, at the Hotel President roof ballroom = help us
raise the roof. Chancellor Deane Malott and Mrs, Malott are the honored
guests. K.U. professors and their wives will be theres. © -:—