To the rest of you boys who want those Christmas travel brochures prepared
for your mothers next Christmas, it would be well if you get your im-
pressions of the trip written and send them to me right away.

Candidate Warren D. Hodges, Warren wrote from Ft. Leavenworth,
Battery 2, lst Platoon, enroute to Camp Davis, "Well, the big
A.A.A. School, show is about to start. Will be very
Camp Davis, N. C. tough for 17 weeks." On the other side

of the postcard he has the nicest look-
ing little black animal with two. white stripes on it. It says below the
picture - Left our last SCENT here! Have you heard what the two girls in
Portland, Oregon, said when they saw a little amimal like this one Monday
morning after they had been out with the two soldiers the night before?
One said, "What is that little animal down the road with two white stripes
on it?" The other girl said, "I don't know. I think it is either a
skunk or a sergeant." Writing from Camp Davis, Warren says, “You have
never seen mosquitoes like they have here. They pull the sheet back and
look at your dog tag to see if you are the right type of blood before _
they go to work."

Pfe. Otto O. Schnellbacher, Otto writes and asks, “How is the six
590th T.S.S. Flight C, o'clock rooster club coming along?"

Barracks 12-17-1, He refers to my 7:30 and 8:30 classes
Gulfport Field, Miss. that I have each morning. You have to

fight that alarm clock pretty early
to roll out of bed, but we are managing to do it.

Reg Strait, one of our new men in physical conditioning classes, who came
up from Chanute, Kansas, where he was director of physical education, has
a seven o'clock class of Naval Aviation Cadets. Henry Shenk has the Naval
Aviators from 5 to 6:30 p.m. Of course we have other classes through the
day, but you can see the range of class schedules, from 7 a.m. until

6:30 pem.

Ray Kanehl, an old Kansas graduate, who was head of the physical education
department at Wichita East High School, starts with us on July 1. Dean
Nesmith, who has been civilian physiotherapist at the Olathe Naval Air

Base, has now returned and will be with us July leasnone of our teachers

of physical conditioning and trainer of all athletic teams. We are certainly
glad to have Dean back with us.

On July 1 over 500 V-12 boys will come in Naval engineering. We will have
charge of their physical training, so it will be up to Henry, Reg, Ray,

Dean and me to put these boys in the best fighting shape possible. On July5
and 6 the College will enroll 17-year-olds. I émagine wé will have a

couple hundred of those. We have our work cut out for us.

Willard J. Winey, Jr., Phm. 3/c Bill Winey, who was a freshman and
lst Bn. 7th Marines H.Q., who had charge of our golf course two
c/o Fleet Postoffice, years ago, writes from the South

San Francisco, California. Pacific that he received much benefit

from his one year on the Hill and he
is expecting to return and finish his studies. Good luck, Bill. We will
be looking forward to seeing you back, and we will be counting on a game
of golf with you at the Lawrence Country Club. Bill stayed at the home
of Skip and Odd Williams when he was in school here. ?

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