Aviation Cadet 1px Replogle
Building 658 hos a :
Room 1806 a.
Naval Air Station
Pensacola, Florida

Dear Max: :
It was good to have your letter as of February 24. I should have

“answered sooner but you know how busy I pretend to bee They keep me moving
hither and yone

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I am baseball coach but Jay Pluv rained us out the last two dayse
Tomorrow I leave for Medicine Lodge to speak at their Athletic Banquet. Then
I drive back part of the way that night and speak at the banquet sponsored
by the Kiwanis Club in honor of the Vyandotte High School Championship Basket= |
ball. Team, in Kansas City, Kansas at noone After that I return to Lawrence
in time for baseball practice and in the evening I go to Springhill for another
Athletic Benquet, and so it goese :

: I have either a baseball game, an atiletic banquet or a lettuce
leaf and grapefruit gettogether scheduled for nearly every day for the rest
of the yeare I have four or five coumencenent addresses and I also speak
+ to the alumni at Wichita and at Tulsa, Oklahomte So you can see I am filled
up pretty well-until finel exems, o :

Thanks for your good luck regarding ow basketball jouste We were
lucky enough to get a tie out of it and frankly I would have sold out for second
or third place anytime, certainly second places We had the smallest and gamest
- team I believe that I ever coached. Howard Engleman, Bobby Allen and TePs
Hunter each weighed but 157 pounds, and John Kline was the bigfest man we hed
on the teams T clah Wien ee ee Seat nome Tint Bob bas nade
Phi Beta Kappa whieh bleases the Allen family very muche I am very fond of
athletics, but when e youngs ter of mine can make Phi Beta Kappa, then I am
doubly pleased with his athletic abilityse :

Now, Max, regarding your writings I think you have done a grand job
so far as improvement in your hand is concerned. I can remember those quizzes
and I want to tell you that they not oly gave me an eyefull but a headache

I tried to decipher your hieroglyphics, but gee, this letter is easy to

 

Thanks also for mentioning my Goaleli, which you saw at Montgomery,