the roade We won all games on this trip and it is due to the splendid
olaying of Black, Buescher, Dixon and Schnellbacher.e The boys gave
everything they had and fought like our American soldiers, sailors,and
marines are doing today back at Guadalcanal, Wake Island, North Africa,
and other fighting fronts. The boys had a wonderful spirit and I know
they are going to carry it on throughout the season."
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How prophetic were Ray's words written at that time because the boys
never lost a conference game. If you ask me for one of the potent reasons
of the Jayhawker basketball team's success it was the every-ready cooper-
ation and good will, unflinching courage and almost indescribable furious
fighting quality that Ray Evans injected into all the games.

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Christmas greetings cmtinue to come from all parts of the country.
Lieut. John A. Pfitsch, from "Pflugerville", Texas, one of our own boys
here at Kansas, was a real Santa Claus when he shipped to us at 801
Louisiana Street a full bushel basket of those choicest Texas grapefruit,
oranges and nectarinese Bobby Allen is home from the University of Penn-
sylvania on a Christmas leave, and Milton Allen and his family all came
over to help Mrs. Allen and the rest of us. thoroughly enjoy this wnderful
Texas nectare Thanks a millim, Johnny, and we are still confident that
you will do as fine a job at the front as you have done here at the
Universitye |

Pyte Mano W. Stukey, Coe A, 87th Inf. Trnge Bn. 3rd Platoon, Camp
Roberts, California, writes; "I have been placed in the Intelligence
branche e« » Most of the men in this branch of the service are really
swell fellows. Lots of them are coaches = Stair from Joplin, Moe H.S.,
another coach in from Seattle, one from Minneapolis. Aside from them
we have a few lawyers, teachers and other with leadership abilitye « « e
We are all hoping:this thing won't last too long and that we will all be
back home again=to carry on where we left off." Good luck to you, Mano.

We are delighted to hear from Lt. and Mrs. Maurice Cannady, USIR,
205rd AAFTTD, Middle River, Baltimore, Md.; from Ensign Eddie Re Linquist,
M.T.B.e Rone 30,iNew Orleans, Laes. from Ave Cadet R. Fe. (Dick) Miller,

Class llA, Ave Cadet Regte, USNATC, Corpus Christi, Texas; from A/c Harold
Ee. Wright, Class 44E, Flt. 8, 3rd AAFFTD, King City, Califes Ce Spe Wilfred
"Frenchie" Belgard, of Charlestown, Mde; Lt. (jg) Jim A. Bausch, USNRB,
Shoemaker, Calife; and Lane Davis, 7th C.T.D., Reading, Pa.

Mrse Allen and I have received greetings from Mr. and Mrs. Eddie Hall,
Ce Spe, 12 Rege, 13 Batt., USNTS, Great lakes, I1l1,; Ensign and Mrs,
Murray Brown, USNPF School, Del Monte, Calife; Lieut. and Mrs. Jom Cress,
71st AAFFTD, Camden, Arke; Lte (jg) We Ae "Tony" Coffin, USS Trinity,
c/o Fleet Postoffice, San Francisco, Calif. - Tony was a Phys. Ede major
and former coach at Haskell; Otto and Mrse Rost, 6200 Oleatha, St. Louis 9,
Moe = Otto was captain of our fine football team back in 1931, Ensi gn
and Mrse Howard Engleman, USS England, c/o Fleet Postoffice, San Francisco,
Calif. - Howard, we still think of that goal you and your four teammates
sank Southern California in Municipal Auditorium in 1940. We are counting
on you to sink some of Tojo's aspirationse

To Lte Commander George "Potsy" Clark, USNR, Athletic Officer, Naval
Air Station, Pensacola, Florida - we acknowledge with pleasure a very clever
caricature of our former coache The cartoon has Janet with Potsy one down
and Jane and Mary seem to be enjoyingithe precedure. Stay in there and
fight tem, Potsye
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