very uweful many times. . . We are located at a very nick little spot
out here - womewhere in the ocean. We are doing quite a great deal of
flying; but not too much. Its pretty hard to get in too much flying,
especially when a person likes to fly. The recreational facilities are
very good. Temis, boxing, softball and plenty of really swell beaches."

Johnny, we’ didn't play baseball this year. . The season was so short and
school examinations began on May 8 and ran to the 13th. We will have
football this fall and Henry Shenk will coach the football team. He also
coached the track team last spring and did mighty well. We are expecting
to play basketball, although the Big Six basketball schedule has not been
made oute But the talk is that we are taking a shot at it. We are

going to have a big intramural program and I am going to have charge

not only of the intramural program for the students but for all the boys
in the service, V-12 and Naval Cadets. We are expecting to have a swell
intramural program and it will be an extensive one.

This June 30th day simulate an early fall day. We have had wonderful
weatherrall spring and summer. Grass and shrubs are as green as on any
early May morning. The anatomy building burned and they have removed all

of the drbris and sowed grass there, and for the life of you as you stand

in Robinson Gym and look east across this beautiful quadrangle it is
difficult to imagine that a building ever stood there. During Chancellor
Lindley's regime it was built for a cafeteria. Then when the Union Building
was built the cafeteria was moved over there, and the medics took over

this building for cutting up htman stiffs with scalpels.

The Mineral Resources Building, or Lindley Hall, will house from 800 to
1000 Army engineers when and if they move in within the next month or so.
The V-12 boys will take over the houses of Kappa Sigma, Delta U., Phi
Delt, Phi Gam, Beta, Sigma Nu, and Phi Psi. They will also take over
Templin Hall. The Naval Machinists Mates are quartered in Frank Strong
Hall. ‘The officers' quarters and orrices are on the first floor at the
west end and the dormitories are on the second and third floors of the
west end. There gre about 800 to 1000 men.

I believe I should tell you that we had a flood in Lawrence this spring.
The Kaw River rose to a height higher than it had been in 35 years, and
the military authorities called out the medical reserves, the Machinists
Mates, and the Naval fliers for sand-bag duty on the Kaw. The University
officials excused all the male students from classes in thei emergency

so they could fill sand bags to keep the dike from breaking. They worked
all day and all night, and about 20'clock in the morning a portion of the
dike broke and about 12 or 15 Naval Machinists Mates with sand bags —

in their arms made a flying wedge after the old football formation, and
held the river against that break until immediate assistance could come.
Some described it and said there were a thousand sand bags in motion

as soon as the dike broke.

The Machinists Mates are being immortalized in Lawrence, and K.W. Davidson,
our publicity man, is trying to get some publicity in LIFE or T/ME én this
heroic action. The business men, firms and others raised over $4,000

to buy all these boys who reuined their clothing and shoes replacement
material. The town put on a big feed for these boys and four thousand
bottles of coke and pop were drunk by these boys, and they ate about

eight hundred pounds of ham and cheese. It was a real celebration end
everybody seemed to recognize the heroism of these chaps. Henry had
charge of the entertainment of sports and games. Lawrence has been
undefgoing quite a bit of excitement.

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