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By the summer of 1943 ten thousand manehours of physical education —
per week was the assigrmment for the staff of the Departuent _ Physical
Education = and the task was iene linhed by a staff of oe men = an
“average of eleven hundred man how's per week for each pubes

Fortunately, we had in our employ two outstanding teachers - Henry
Shenk and Reginald Strait. Henry Shenk, a graduate of the University of
Kansas, came to us orem Junetion City, Kansas, where he was coach and
director of physical education for the Junetion City schools. Shenk's
chief enbhidote load is in the Navy V-l12 program, but he has also taken
over the duties of varsity football coach which he has done with signal
SUCCESS « Reginald Strait, in charge of the Ve5 Naval aviation Cadets
physical training progran, as director of physical éducation for the
Chanute, Kansas, eity schools when we secured his services after Dre Ee Re
Blbel left the department for military service.

Ray Kanehl, another Kansas graduate, who was head of the department
of physical education at Wichita Rast High School, came to us in July,
with an outstanding record as administrator, teacher and coache In
. addition to his @eaching duties in the V-12 ‘renee he is coordinator
and scheduleemaker of the siren groups, and also varsity track coach.

Dean Nesmith, a former Kansas football star, and trainor of athletic

teams at the University, is our other civilian instructor in the V#l2 program.

Now for the physical instructors handling the ASTP physical. trainings
Howard Porter, a graduate of Kansas City University and the University of
| Missouri, and former physical education teacher at Argentine High School in
- Kansas City, joined our staff in August, and was placed in charge of the
physical conditioning for this groupe Vernon Hayes, a Washburn University
graduate, was teaching at Waterville, Kansas, when he was asked to join our
staff, Elmer Schaake, one of Kansas’ immortals in football, former coach