Commencement exercises this year will be held on June 29. Dr. Chauncey
S. Boucher of the University of Nebraska will speak at the Commencement
ceremony, and Dr. Nelson P. Horn of Baker University will deliver the
baccalaureate address Sunday afternoon, June 25. The June exercises will
be the third graduation ceremony to be held at the University this year.

A campaign has been launched by students and faculty of the Medical
School at Kansas City to build a Student Union. Your good friend and mine,
Dr. Don Carlos Peete, is serving as chairman of the Dr. C. B. Francisco
Memorial Fund. Dr. Francisco passed away of february 23. This was soon
after he made it a point to be present at the graduation exercises of his son,
David, who received his M.D. degree from Dr. Francisco's hands. The State
of Kansas and the University suffered an irreparable loss when Dr. Fran
passed away. He was a great lover of athletics and youth. In fact, on
every hand we hear that he befriended thousands of unfortunate people that
no one else ever heard about. When he was present at the commencement a
person told me that for years he had paid the grocery bill for a family of
unfortunate people that no one ever dreamed they were being helped by Dr.
Fran. Hach month he kept this family in food without anyone knowing about it.

Dr. Francisco was a great humanitarian in every sense of the word. It
is planned that in the student union at the medical center at the University
of Kansas at Rosedale will be a memorial for Dr. Francisco who for thirty
years gave his services unselfishly to crippled children. He was a respected
and deeply beloved teacher at the University of Kansas School of Medicine.
Dr. Peete stated to me that checks payable to the Trancisco Memorial und
should be mailed to the University of Kansas School of Medicine, Kansas City,
Kansas. And it just occurred to me that I have not made my subscription,
so this very day I am mailing a check to Dr. Peete so that I can subscribe
to my great admiration and friendship for Dr. francisco. I remember so
often when he would call for tickets, and even though the basketball games
would many times be sold out, Dr. Fran would sav, “Phog, I have just got to
have a ticket," and upon one or two occasions we made room for him by push-
ing the substitutes off to the side of the bench and allowed Dr. Fran to be
our honored guest.

Several years ago I took a group of our varsity basketball team to
Dodge City, Kansas, to aid in a demonstration clinic for an assemblage of
ten visiting high school squads at the beautiful new Dodge City gymasiun.
We put on the formations and plays that Kansas used in their practice and
game drills, in both afternoon and evening sessions, and played a short
scrimmage demonstration game for the benefit of the public. Much to our
‘Surprise and pleasure we found Dr. Francisco in attendance at both sessions
avidly "eating up"our demonstration games. He, of course, was out in that
section on professional work, but in his busy life of struggle he seemed
to derive much benefit from the struggle of young men.

The Office of Censorship, Washington, has called to our attention the
Code of Wartime Practices, so if we don't give full addresses for some of
the boys you will know it is because of the admonition of this office.

I get a great kick out of receiving letters such as I received from
Lacy Haynes, Sr. He is always thinking of the boys! interest overseas.
He says: "I am sending you Tom Yan Cleave's address. I presume you have
him on the mailing list for the Jayhawk Rebounds, but I thought maybe you
would be interested." Of course we did have Tom's address, but this only

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