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Sy the summer of 1943 ten thousand man-hours of physical education
per week was the assignment for the staff of the Department of Physical
Education = and the task was accomplished by a staff of nine men = an
average of eleven hundred man hours per week for each instructor.

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 from Junction City, Kansas, where he was coach and
director of physical education for the Junction City schools. Shenk's —
chief banal: load is in the Navy V-12 program, but he has also taken
over the duties of varsity football coach which he has done with signal
Success, Reginald Strait, in charge iets V5 Savel Aviation Cadets
physical training program, was director of physical education for the
Chanute, Kansas, city schools when we secured his services after Dr. Es Rs
Elbel left the department for military service,

Ray Kenehl, another Kansas graduate, who was head of the department
of physical education at Wichita Fast High School, came to us in July,
with an outstanding record as administrator, teacher and coach, In
addition to his teaching duties in the V-12 ence: he is coordinator
and schedule-maker of the service groups, and also varsity track coaches

Dean Honnite, a former Kansas football star, and trainer of athletic
teams at the University, is our other civilian instructor in the V-12 programs

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 ae 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