May 10, 1985. Dear Jane and Hoot: The Mother's Day remexbrance was lovely. You two are always thinking of the right thing at the right time. . = eam sending you this basketball notation be- eause the Elwood Mons are mentioned therein. And too, there are a lot of the boys that you people will know. Om love to you both — Affectionately, pireator of Physical Edueation, arsity Basketball Coach. Ru irs. Elwood Mons, 954 Rolling Pass, Glenview, Illinois. August 14, 1945. Dear Wibble-Nobble: Your lovely letter came to Ifimi this morning and I ‘enjoyed hearimg from you so much. You are truly a fine . little girl. And they toll me that you made the finest grade of all the girls in the camp. I knew that you would do it. I tave always bet on my Wibbleobble. | I will write you a longer letter some time, but my secretary is working past hours now, but I did want to send this today so you would get it the first of the week. Dad Give Joan and Mother and leve. We will see Sonny soon and we will repeat to what a fine girl you are. But he already knows it, I : ee Lovinglys Director of Physical Education, PCA:AH Varsity Basketball Coach. Miss Elizabeth Hamilton, 860 Center Street, Palo Alto, California. August 14, 1945. a aay, 7 Hie : aii: ie i i ibiat | Fa aD : hi f i i ld " ji ahs i rit Hyfta;s | i iil ¢ é H ma a3 an tl Gin: i | os we call then The reason that we education through won in game that you mst play by end the the gemes won "on noootnt of free ton Ta ee OS « college is to teach letica in nigh eaoo} and pleye " Thave aro rules of reggae g Neg Mage aaa a and in fd aiid If a fellow makes many orrors re ape Whdialis at tun pes Garin eameiion oo cern, joy; couse fear, con call morale, our way thet exhilaration of spirit which we which we oall blues and so forth, inhi if oertain privileges times. i tl i ‘i ia gated oped Gets ai Hn ae gAggfe Adak oe vil HULU Wai, ley giyis aft He 1 i Hie ius fu: ised tan ai Tie lien ik ie tells 5 - nf et iit ut aa " U i bags! ii a3 sf i: ity i fan igisiht 4 i ta ly an uf 3a 33 53 22a8 : a U Hh f a me! Ki i is i fine | itt Bil : angele sist if i teat nat Direotor of Physical Miuontion, Sincerely, Your Uncle, November 17, 1942. Mr. and Mrs., Elwood Mons, — Box 254, ‘Pensacola, Florida. Dear Jane and Hoot: I read both your letters, Jane and Hoot, and of course 1 was immensely pleased to hear from you. I will tell you frankly I have fully intended each day for a month to get a letter off to you hard- working youngsters, but it has been a near impossibility. secs tae Wieries Weds eae Wes Yk Peete cnt tae. 4. W, ik to- gether with their son, Lane, out to dinner. Lane has his wings, but I think he is in ground work. Professor Davis gave me the names of Mr. and Mra. Malcolm Yonge, business man, and Mr. J. EB. Vavis Yonge, attorney. They are uncles or cousins, and I believe cousins, of Professor Davis. Professor Davis asked that we write you and tell you to look them up in Pensacola and say helle to the Yonges for the Davises. Now you will understand that if it is not convenient for you, I do not expect you to do it, but Professor Davis says these are very promin- ent people in Pensacole and they will be delighted to see you. I be- lieve Mother asked you to look up Miss Hogan's brother or someone down there, but if you do not do this mission with the Yonzes I assure you that I can easily forget it. I thought it might provide you two with some contact other than the routine of officer's associations which are always pleasant, but even at that a couple sometimes enjoys sitting in a civilian's home with its attendant conversation, which is different somewhat from the military. I am indeed pleased that you are joining the card club, Jane, be- cause I think one afternoon a week is a good thing for young married people. When you have so much time on your hands a scheduled meeting of this kind is refreshing. You will form friendships that will last throughout your lifetime and I am sure that you have the ability to pick Saws friendships from among your adacciates and in the service. Mother and I were especially proud of Hoot in his vhetunes. He looks like a real officer and I am sure that he will bear out every inch of it. When will you people be coming back? Certainly Hoot will have a furlough when his training period is over. o2e Mother is worried about the war and other things, and I think this has more to do-with her indigestion than anything else. The depression of her mind over Clint Kanaga and other boys, like Bobby Haynes, in the Pacific, has just about wrecked her. The doctor diagnosed it a slight shadow of an uncer in the duodenum, but frankly I do not think it is nearly as bad as she sometimes thinks it might be. We had a fine turkey dimer at the Union Building last night when the Rotarians entertained the Rotary Anns. She did full justice to a ‘very fine meal. Then they had speaking and I had to slip over and coach aT ae ne ee ee ee ee until 11 o'clock. Mother had a sprained knee and was hardly able to walk from the car into the Union Building, but after that music started she shook her Methodist foot so fast that you would have thought she was @ young girl. So what I think she needs is more Methodist music and ‘more Methodist foot swinging. She said she never had such a good time in all her life and she was as buoyant as a sixteen-year-old girl. _ Every morning when she gets up she is terribly depressed. When the good news comes in about sinking the Jap ships she will say, Yes, but look how many we lost. I ask her if she ever figured it in the reverse ratio. Suppose we had lost what the Japs lost, then that would be some- thing else agai Her war psychology is negative. Of course she thinks of Hoot and Sobby and Mit, and perhaps Pete, and so many of her friends who have children in the service that it about gets her down. If it would do any good I might worry, but I never have and I am not going to start at my age. If anything has happened it has happened, and I an not going to worry about it until it does, and when it does then it is too late to worry. One person said, "I am too selfish to get angry or to worry because it harms me. It interferes with my peace of mind and my digestion, and I cannot be as efficient as I should be." Well, that is about my philosophy, ‘that it doesn't do any good, and wtil I find out that worry is helpful, then I em not going to start. We have had a very tough year. I do not believe that we could have had more aiftioulties. confront us. ie have had 1800 men in our physical conditioning courses that were forced to take compulsory physical education on account of the war situation. We have never serviced over 450 before, and we are doing it with no added faculty personnel. In fact, we are one short, so we have ape to take 18 underclassmen, athletes, football and basketball players, and physical education majors, and develop them into - @ leaders’ corps. I will not go into detail, only just to say that the congestion in the gymmasium takes on the appearance of a can of mustard sardines. \ als My basketball practice will come at night. In fact, it is going on NOW x get ts te Wie WAG Ok Salleh a nines ub 0290 Seely te, es any: theaughaws She fey tik Shen Gene back at ¥ and sas busy Un¥il about 10 coaching basketball. This is rather a strenuous program, when I com- bine it with two or three academic classes and the administrative load which during war times is especially heavy. But why elaborate on that? That is just what everybody has to do during the war - more work, and we are tickled to death to do it because if we can lend any effort in any way toward whipping those squareheads, those spaghetti benders and those slit-eyes, then 7 want to do ali that I can to get the job over with &S soon as possible. 5 haven fusulty mneting 0% 4180 Sn the College of ldleval deta, so I am trying to write a letter to you and Hoot, one to Bobby, one to _ Bleanor, and one to Mary. I haven't written any of them before, so you see I am treating all you children alike. I wouldn't write one wmtil I could write all of you. Do not have a stroke of apoplexy or cardiac ee ee en eee @ letter from me. I read each one ee eee a am very proud of both of you. I like the fight that yo en ee ee attitude Hoot will fee very proud of you. Mother and I are very proud - at Wk san tad Mack nak know that when you are called on for service you will as you have before respond one hundred per cent. You did a swell job as Nurses Aide and in your other work in Chicago, and Hoot did the fine thing of going to Pensacola rather than to serve in less active lines. With love to you both, I am Affectionately, PCA:AH 4 P.S. Congratulations to you on your birthday tomorrow. It is mine, also, so we will both celebrate and be happy in oe ce a en Shak oe many blessings to be thankful for. Would it be proper to suggest that you kiss Stormy once for me? - August 15, 1943. Dear Jane and Hoot: I read your letter, Jame, last evening, and noted that Hoot's strap watch was broken. You mail it to mo here at the Univer~ sity and as soon as I receive it I will immediately take it dow to Julius Marks end I am sure that he will replace it. I am so ‘that this happened because Julius sells first class stuff end I can not understand why it would not hold up. ‘Also, write me the history of how it happened so that if Julius sends it back to the jobbers for replacement I : to go along with the return. yey anne vr I'am sorry thet Foot is still in the hos vindictive you people feel. But that is all | | on It seems that life never lets us ease up on SOOre. I imagine you think Eleanor hasn't any worries now, end can just sit and dream. Well, she is mortally afraid of infantile ise We had one woman here in Lawrence die of infantile paralysis of the bulbar type. It affected the medula oblongata which caused a cessation of the respiratory apparatus. ‘She had been ill] but one day. She was 27 years of age. Eleanor just misses her two years. You can't get Tuck to a show ~ she stays in the house away from flies, and she is miserable. I kid her a lot end omrry on, but it doesn't help her a bit. Just think of a young bride with infantile paralysis: 5 gE ! ‘ i was sure the surgeon's scalpel would be working on her equatorial Don't let on that I have told you a about this bécause she about it that she is out of ciroulation when it com qomne to getting aut- sumer. They really pal around and it is fine for her and fine for We are delighted that you are coming to the wedding, Jane, and wo wish that Hoot might come but we understand where duty lies. eo ee ae cee Of course, it is a long, tough road to blast e Heinies out of their “Fortressed Europe", but they are going to get it. When the German mind cracks their morale goes flooie, and I am expecting them to break before December, 1943. They Se ee stand if they can keep it up. X tek 6 latte foes Bite Gitwalioaban, om wt oe went aE ting for him. There ere seven fields similar to this one end one of those are graduating 500 boys every month. That makes 3500 fliers going out in new ships every month." That is not just a kee —— and spaghetti-benders to death. : “We have quite a group of amuy end Navy boys here and the ; I have a class every morning at 7:30 and that moans after 6 o'clock, but I don't mind it in the least beouuse all of us should do everything we can. I know that you | thing that you can. Keep your chin up and remember that a good fighter ae ae er. Be eet Se ee) : ' Hith love, I an Affeotionately, Director of Physical Education, PCA: AI Varsity Basketball Coach. Mrs. Blvood Mons, 934 Rolling Pass, — pacman Novenber 17, 1942. Miss Rlesnor Allen, Sergeant Hall, _ University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa. I read with mush interest your letters, which contain much information. I see a continual growth in you and I am very sure that you are happy in ~.. Ihave had a very busy fall which has been fraught with many hyper- tensions, but I em moving along in about the usual fashions Ask Bob to _ det you-see.the letter I have written him.oand it will tell you about the physical conditioning course that we are ummdertaking here at the Univer- sity with a very small personnel. The Kansas City Star rotogravure section of last Sunday had a picture of some of our: toughening courses. I believe Mother said she was sending it to Bob, so ask Bob to let you see it. It has attracted quite a bit of attention which is attested by the Ster's running it. ei ey . om Our basketball team will soon be in competition. We play Missouri on Thanksgiving Day in football, and right after that, on December 1, we play the fresimen in basketball and then on the 5th we play Jack Gardner's Pre-Flight “Clippers”. I am sending you a schedule for the season. I am counting on having tickets for the Williams family in New York and am sorry if Mother does not want to go. She could, of course, if she wanted to, but she feels the financial pinch that is, always present in her rigid economy. Of course she wants to come : é : But unless your graduation is. stepped up a lot I will also be back there, if things go as expected. I am vice president of Rotary, and if the elect the vice she was ; night. We had a fine turkey dimer at the Union Building when the Rotarians entert we. 1a Liat BOARD OF OSTEOPATHIC EXAMINATION AND REGISTRATION } SECRETARY 34 Masonic Burial Association sie > of Datrence, Kansas Received of ee er FEU re DOLLARSand oe for Assessment No. 135.-/ 26 -—/ 37 etary S. A. WOOD 900 MASS. ST. LAWRENCE, KANSAS July t,19435 Dear Phog,- _ Here receipt Bhowing that yu are all paid up in the MBA. That was a good story about you and yur sore toe and lame knee, and how you did go in your golf gam, I can't understand it. Best woshes. S.A.W. June 14, 1943. Dean Carl 6. Miller, . College for Women, University of Pemsylvenia, 34th and Walnut Streets, Philadelphia, Pa. Dear Dean Miller: ise Allen end I were indeed pleased to receive her A. be degree from the tmiversity of Peunsylvania. Our son, Robert, is now in his third year of medicine at. that institution, for which we are thankful. We have received Eleanor’s diploma and find that there Was ®n error in tuat the diplow was made out to Bleancr Ross Allen. It should have been Eleanor Rose Allen. All of the e E TREE © Lie H E é Bae (i ti RE Trusting to hear from you at an early dete, I an Very cordially yours,” Director of Physical en FCA:AH * Varsity Basketball Coaches June 4, 1943. Dr. Robert A. Steen, De Oc, 307 Citizens National Bank Bldg., Emporia, Kansas. Dear Dr. Steen: Please find enclosed check for $5.00 for renewal of my certificate. I was out of town in April and could not attend the clinic meeting in Kansas City. I am not practicing, and under this condition end war times, I trust that you will excuse the absence. I attended last year and the year before. 3 Very sincerely yours, Direotor of Physical Education, POAsAH Varsity Basketball Coach. Enc. : STATE OF KANSAS BOARD OF OSTEOPATHIC EXAMINATION AND REGISTRATION OFFICE OF SECRETARY ROBERT A. STEEN, D. O. 307 CITIZENS NATL. BK. BLDG. EMPORIA, KANSAS dune i, 1943. TO ALL OSTEOPATHIC PHYSICIANS HOLDING A CERTIFICATE TO PRACTICE IN KANSAS: Dear Doctor; The Annual Registration Law, passed by the 1937 session of the Kansas Legislature, provides that each osteopathic physician legaily licensed to practice in the state of Kansas shall, on or before the FIRST DAY OF JULY of each year, pay to the Secretary of the Kansas State Board of Osteopathic Examination and Registration, a fee of five dollars ($5.00) for the renewal of his license; and furnish satisfactory evidence of having completed the post-graduate requirements, as provided in the act. Please use the enclosed yellow card in making your remittance. Make all checks payable to: THE KANSAS STATE BOARD OF OSTEO- PATHIC EXAMINATION AND REGISTRATION, Robert A. Steen, D.O., secretary. Fraternally your Q, ‘S®. Robert A. Steen, D.0O., Secretary (THIS SIDE roe ee emeceeey Dene ho Glo BME, Masonic Burial Association Lawrence, Kansas J. H. Robinson, Dice President F. C. Whipple, Treasurer June 12, 1943 e You are hereby notified that assessment No. 134, $1.10 is due and ecu AT ONCE to the Secretary, on account of . Brother: Death No. 176—Brother H. G. Van Neste, peace 43, ef 2 By order of the Vice-President rer 2 AO J P ay § 1 s ] () to Secretary; S. at Office of O. J. Lane, 9004 May 10, 195. Dear Mary, Pete, Sonny, Joan and Wibbo: IT am sending you this basketball notation be~- cause the Lee P. Hamilton's are mentioned therein. Andi too, there are a lot of the boys that you people will know. ‘We were delighted with Sony's ploture. We all think it 4s lovely. Our love to all of you. Affectioneately, 7 Director of Physical Education, PCA:AH -Yareity Basketball Coach. April 23, 1943. Miss Eleanor Allen, Sergeant Hall, University of Pennsylvania, Phijadelphia, Pa. Dear Eleanor: ‘ Of sourse I always enjoy reading your letters, although I do not write you as often as I would like. Mother has insisted that I go - ‘Bast for your graduation and nothing would please me more, but frankly, Eleanor, I am in rather a tough spot here due to the re- quired physical education work. And having few of our permanent staff on the job means that I have got to do a lot of this work myself and at this time my presence is | required here. You will know that I am very proud of your accomplish- ments and nothing would delight me more than being present and seeing you walk down to get your sheepskin in your cap and gown. But somebody ob and rake in the shekele. IT am that guy and I am going to keep on doing the best I can for everybody in this tough _ financial world. ¢ You can tell the Williams - Gil, Maw and Paw and Sis, that I wuld like to be there with them, but we will be seeing them early this fall, and be seeing you a lot sooner, I hope. ‘le will have a good sumer together, I know, and I am counting the time anxiously until ' you can be with us. You will please pardon me in not writing you in longhand, as I would like to do, but I never get around to it and I oan dictate a letter and get it off. I:know that you will realize that I am not - abusing you. With lots of love and expectation of seeing you soon after graduation, I am Affectionately, Your Dad, Direstor of ! ical Bducation, FCA:AH 5 . Varsity Basketball Coach. April 23, 1943. 3904 Spruce Ave., Philadelphia, Pa. DearBobby: I have subscribed to The Sporting News for you. I know how you like baseball, and since The Sporting News has gone for basketball in rather a big way this year I am asking Mr. Hugo G. Autz to send you the copies on the All-American selection, which has Charlie Black in it, and a story written after wo played St. Louis Univer- sity in St. Louis, showing Ray Evans and Sclmellbacher's fast combination, with. rather an interesting write up. I believe you will enjoy the paper as I know what an avid reader you are of that sheet when you have an opportunity to get hold of ite. | po Mother has been wanting me to come Bast to Eleanor’s graduation, but it is nigh impossible for me as we are right in the throes of changing over in the physical conditioning set-up that will find us robbed of all our leaders corps students who have helped us, on : account of their craduation and going in the Army or going into some other type of service that will take them away from the cempus. Therefore, I am sure that I will have to stay on the job and be here when that transition takes place. I have got to run over for an sppointment now, but wanted to drop you a short note about The Sporting News. I hope you will enjoy it. Affectionately, Your Dad, - Direotor of Physical Education, FCAAH Varsity Basketball Coach. April 26, 1943. Circulation Department, Topeka State Journal, Topeka, Kansas. Dear Sirs: Will you kindly send me eight (8) copies of the Topeka State Journal which carried the announce- ment of my daughter*s engagement? This was either Saturday or Sunday, I am not sure whieh. I shall be happy to remit the cost upon receipt of your statement. Thanking you, I am Sincerely yours, . Bireotor of Physical Education, PCA:AH Varsity Basketball Coach. April 26, 1943. Girqulation Departnent, The Keneas City Kansan, Kensas City, Kansas. Dear Sire: W231 you kindly send me eight (8) copies of the Sunday issue of The Kansas City Kansan, carrying the announcement of my daughter's engagement? I will remit the cost upon receipt of your statement. Thanking you, I am Sincerely yours, Director of Physical Education, PCA:AH : Varsity Basketball Coach.