‘May 29, 1943.

Miss Joy Miller,
2i22 Arkansas Ste,
Wichita, Fansas.

Dear Miss Willer:

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they were goine to have competitive athletics for this year. They
have determined that they will have a football team if the ODT o.k.'s
it and I have pretty definite informtion that the ODT is insisting
that we continue our competitive athletios. They will not promise too
much transportation, ee ee thet the soldiers, sailors
end marines « the men in service, want it badly.

: “It is reported that the first inquiry thet comes
from these men in foreign countries is regarding the standing of their
achools in athletics. So as a morale builder they are asking the people
here to carry on, not so moh for the morale of the pedple on the home
i = eS ee

Personally, I believe this is true because I have
heard from many of the boys like Fen Durand in the Solomons, John Burge
who is a naval flier in the Pacific, Frank Harwi in Australia, who never
missed a basketball game, Bob Haggart who is shuttling back end forth
‘between the Pacific Coast and Hawaii, Clint Kanaga, a marine in the
Solomons, and a great group of other athletes who have written me wanting
to kmow how we came out in the basketball season. The reason, Miss Miller,
Tt am giving you this information is in the hope that you can write your
own story with this background of morale-building, so that our students
here can see that when they compete for their school here they are raising
the morale of the boys in foreign service. = Pee

be @ good angle to present?

| We. perhaps will have a basketball sehedule, but it
a a a ee ee

‘Our intramural program will go forward under this
iinet Unele Sam's crying need is to have more men physically fit :
who are vital for the Army and Navy. Thirty-three and one-third per cent
of our young men are being rejected on physical wifitness. There are two
things that we will strese in intramurals -~ aquatics and combatives.