Midne Monte Je Merkel, V-7, USNR, Coe 9, Section 36, Notre Dame University,
South Bend, Indiana; Major Frank J. Anneberg, S.S.0., A.A.A.T.C., Camp
Davis, N.C.,3 Av/C Charles W. Elliott, 837th N.T.S., 44-1-3, AAFNS - HAAF,
Hondo, Texase If Chuck had been able to get the traveling diaries of the
1943 Kansas basketball team what a swell thing it would have been to send
to the mothers of all these boys at Christmas time. Later in this letter
we will give you excerpts from the diaries of those boys who did turn them
in to the office.

te Christmas greetings come also from Bance Hall, at Gary Field, Blythe,
California; from F. Marshall Hulett, Jre, USNR Midshipmen's School, Room
1006 fbbott Hall, 430 E. Huron St., Chicago, Ill; from Lt. and MrseWe Ge
Wade, Hotel Mayfair, Sioux City, Iowa - I certainly want to meet the
Mrse, Bill, when you return; from Pvt. Ray Harris, 770 T.S.S., Berracks
F=525, Sece 3, Buckley Field, Colo.

An announcement of the mrriage of Don He Pierce to Miss Vivian
Landrum at the First Christian Chureh in Topeka, Kansas, on December 22nd,
has been receivede Our heartiest congratulations, DonJ

Pyte Nelson H. Sullivan, Coe H, 12 QM Tne. Regte T-346, Camp Lee,
Vae, writes that he is now a proud father. Sally Ann Sullivan was born
November 36

Lt.W. He Shamon, SC, USNR, "Bill" Shannon writes: "Sam Sifers has
Navy Supply Corps School, just reported for duty and I have prom-
Soldiers Field Station, ised to turn over my series of Jayhawk
Boston, Masse Rebounds for his readings Two other

K.U. boys reported in yesterday -= Dave
Fisher from Topeka and Thomas Higgins from Kansas City."

Lte Curvin H. Greene, "Even though Rebounds shared top honors
Naval Air Station, with the Thanksgiving Day bird, it was
Banana River, Fla. nonetheless appreciated. For the last

three years the feast day hasn't been
quite the same - one was at sea, another in Alaska and the past one here
in Florida."

Richard W. Farris, PheM.3/o Dick is from Ottawa, Kansas, ami says,
U. S. Naval Hospital Staff, "I haven't been able to keep very good
Farragut, Idaho. track df K.U. football this year but I

see we beat M.U. the other day and I am
very happy because there are a lot of M.U. men here and we do a let of chin-
ninge i

Je Fred Harris, of the U. S. Naval Air Station at Richmond, Florida, continues
to publish a very clever news sheet, as well as coach the station basketball
teame

Jim Reed, S.S.0., Jim sends us the "Clipper", the official
Homestead Army Air Field, publication of the Homestead Army Air Field,
Homestead, Florida. which carries the picture of a bathing

beauty dressed in leopard spots. First
thing we looked at were her eyese The caption beneath the picture says, "How
would you like to wake up Christmas morning and find her in your stocking?
The curvaceous beauty in the bathing suit (or had you noticed the suit?) is
Miss Vivian Austin of Universal pictures. Miss Austin is the possessor of 18

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