who is in our mind the quiet, undemonstrative type, but who showed by his
enlistment in the Marines that he knew the full meaning of the word loyalty.
Mrse Allen and I spend many hours talking about,you, Clint, as we do about
all of our boys, and when your picture appeared in the Kansas City Star
bearing the Jap flag we could only in a small measure understand what you
and the other boys are going through for use In that hell-hole of. Japanazis
may we wish for you and all of our boys that “the four winds of heaven may
ever upon you gently blow."

Donald P. Ebling, Ce Spe, USNR
U.S.N. Radio and Sound Labe,
San Diego, California.

 

I want to tell you how very much I appreciated your fine letter. I
knew that you would rejoice when you read of the double victories over
Ae & Me at Stillwater, and Oklahoma at Norman.

Please remember me to Te Conley, Hank Luisetti, and the other round-
ball boys that you run across in your forays for Uncle Same

Sgte Richard 'Dick' Harp, Hqe & Hqe Tre, CRIC,
Ft. Riley, Kansase

 

Thanks for your Christmas greeting, mailed from Junction Citye I
saw your aunt at Emporia, Kansas, this past week when I spoke at the 30th
Annual Parent-Teachers Association there at their state meeting. In our
conversation we thrilled upon the occasion when you outsmarted the All-
American Vaughn in the Kansas-Southern California series, when you became
immortal in Kansas basketball.

Bill Ramey, Protection, Kensas (mail will be forwarded by hisfamily)

Thanks for your Yuletide greeting from England. Dre Ede Elbd left
the department a year ago for a Captain's commission and is now located at
Headquarters, Second District, Army Air Forces Technical Training Command,
Ste Louis, Missourie

Bert DeGroot, now a captain in the Army Air Forces, was in our depart=
ment for two yearse He is a graduate of Stanford University, and made a
name for himself there as a pole vaulter. He was recommended to us by
Dean John Bunn, and Bunn certainly made a ten-strike for Kansas when he
recommended Bert DeGroot who did a great job of teaching heree

Henry Shenk, formerly of Junction City High, an old footballer’ who
beat Gwinn Henry's Missouri team in 1927 after receiving a pass and running
40 yards for a touchdown, is one of our Rocks of Gibraltar in the Physical
Education Department. Reginald Strait, an old Ottawa U. Athlete, who was
director of physical education of the Chanute Public Schools, is our other

first aid in this department. And with old man Allen, that is all there is

left of use We are giving physical conditioning drills to a fast diminishing
group which sterted with 1800 men this fall, and is now down to 1100 or less.

We have also been giving physical conditioning to a class of Marine
fliers, and now coming in we have a contingent of Naval Aviation Cadets to
whom we are giving physical conditioning drills.

Henry Shenk has been named track coach and football coach to replace
Gwinn Henry, who has resigned. Gwinn will be here until the end of the school

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