THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1942
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
PAGE FIVE
"It's Dull On Campus" Youth Leaves The War For Life As K.U. Student
After shooting down German planes, experiencing air raids in London, and being bombed in mid-ocean, Lieut. Phil Dynan of the Ferry Command., is settling down to college life on the K.U. campus and finding it dull. Not that everyone isn't nice to him, from the Chancellor on down, but "the calmness and quiet of this place is driving $ ^{\textcircled{1}} $ me crazy." Phil admitted.
A brown-haired, brown-eyed 20-year-old with an engaging grin, Dynan seems typical of the young men in our planes, calm, nerveless, and joking. The gunner above him was shot down, and his own life endangered, but Phil can't wait till summer to get back to ferrying planes. Went to Montreal
A Kansas City, Mo., boy who didn't enough hours for piloting, Dyanan went to Montreal in May and applied for tail gunner training. After an 11-week course he was graduated and given the gunner's wings which he sports on his officer uniform.
Late last month Dynan made four trips to England. The flight takes 15 hours, leaving Montreal, stopping at Newfoundland, and on to England. On the first trip several German Messerschmidt's were encountered but nothing happened. The second and third times the ocean was crossed quite peacefully, but on the fourth trip over, the ferry planes were attacked by six German planes. The top turret gunner and radio operator were machine-gunned by one of the Germans before Dynan and another gunner shot down the plane. Two of the planes were downed in about four minutes and the air battle was over.
Shoot or Else
Said Phil: "Since I've been here, the two questions students always ask me are 'Was I scared?' (The answer is definitely 'yes'), and 'What is it like to shoot a man?' My answer is that it is not a nice feeling. But at that moment the only thought that comes to you is that if you didn't kill him, he'd kill you. You suddenly want to live so badly, and the only way you can do that is to shoot.
"The British say that if a man no longer wants to live he is dangerous to have around. In the air force everything depends on team-work."
Phil's own job of tail gumer consisted of laying on his stomach for the 15-hour trip and watch the blue ocean underneath. Food on these crossings consist of small chocolate bars, and hot black coffee. Ice water is taken in the planes to throw in their faces at intervals to counteract the heat.
On his third trip over Dynan went into London and became acquainted with the British people, whom he admires intensely. "They are calm, quiet-loving people who have developed a sense of humor during
the war. The men never talk about the great deeds they've done. They won't talk about the men they've shot down, and feel sorry that it's necessary to kill them. Contrary to popular belief, the English are not sissyfied, but very hard underneath. Air raids are not even a topic of conversation anymore in England. The people go calmly to shelters, read or listen to the radio, and leave just as calmly when it is over." Drons Nute in Germany
Dynan said he talked with a German boy in one of the prisoner camps who had had the R.A.F. bombers drop a note to his girl friend in Germany. "He was a nice boy," Dynan admitted, "but when I started telling him about the freedom we enjoy in America, he wouldn't believe it. 'The Fuehrer never said that' he would insist. The privation in Germany must be terrible. When I showed him several ounces of sugar I had with me, he thought I had the supply for 50 men."
Dynan intends to enter journalism on the Hill. His brother, Tokyo correspondent, is just home from a Japanese prison camp where he spent six months eating raw fish and rice, and losing most of his upper teeth for not signing statements about his good treatment. Phil is in the Army Air Corps reserve and will probably be at the University for two years. He is living at the new men's co-op, 1011 Indiana.
Glee Clubs Prepare For Radio Programs
Having completed the selection of their membership, both the Men's and Women's Glee Clubs held their first practice of current season, today. The Women's Glee Club has 39 members this year while the Men's Glee Club has 41.
The Women's Glee Club will give their first broadcast of the season over station KFKU, Oct. 20. The men will give their first radio program Oct. 28.
First soprans: Norma Antone, Mar
Christianson, Viola Clendenen,
Virginia Gell, Eugenia Hepworth, Betty
Leerer, Jane Wofford Malin, Ruth
Schaeffer, Mary Elizabeth Shultz
Marjorie Thies, and Marion Thompson.
Members of the Women's Glee Club are:
Second sopranos: Katherine Bone- wits, Joy Cochren, Hope Crittenden, Esher DeBorde, Margaret Hall, Bernice Kizler, Marjorie May, Maxine
Phil Dynan
McGrannahan, D. J. Nichols, Mary Frances Sullivan, and Janice Worders.
From Ferry Command to Campus
First altos: Alice Brown, Marilyn Duncan, Eleanor Fry, Betty Gsell, Donna Claire Jackson, Jane Lorimer, Norma Jean Luzi, Viola Richardson, and Doris Love Wagy.
Second altos: Helen Barlow, Margaret Butler, Midge Dickey, Mary Ann Grey, Fern Ruegsgeger, Katherine Sehake, Everta Smith, and Ruth Wright.
Officers of the Woman's Glee Club for the year are: president, Marjorie Thies, fine arts senior; secretary, Mary Frances Sullivan, fine arts senior; social chairman, Margaret Butler, college junior; and librarian, Jamie Lorimer, college junior.
New members of the Men's Glee Club are: Nathan Ericson, Glen Alan Lessender, Richard Gelvin, Charles Plumb, Haworth White, Jack Singleton, Paul Plummer, Bob Goodell, Jack Han, Jack Wills, Loren Wettner, James Ferguson, Sack Sifer, Bob Stewart, John Sigler, Gerald Dick, Donald Powell, T. E. Stugard, Jack Hines, and Wallace Grimes.
WITH UNIVERSITY STUDENTS IT'S ALWAYS--section. Friday evening she will preside at a general session.
Students Needed To Fill Vacancies
The office of National Youth Administration announced today that, owing to the increase in the number of jobs, more University men and women are needed to fill these places. The office also said that more men are needed by the men's employment bureau to fill vacancies from that department.
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Saturday morning Miss Ellsworth will present a talk "Native Materials Which May Be Used in Art Classes" to a combined and elementary art
About one hundred students are already working on NYA jobs and others who have made application will soon be working. These two organizations have helped many students through college. The students now have the opportunity to repay this service by helping the organizations.
Maude Ellsworth, instructor of art in the School of Education, left to attend the sixth annual Winfield clinic of education which will be held tomorrow and Saturday.
While Miss Ellsworth is absent, Bob Cook, new assistant instructor in the department, who formerly taught art in the Hays city schools and the Fort Hays State Teacher's college, will have charge of her classes.
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