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Returns as a major player in the English Department, in 1949. We used to host an Annual Meeting of the Kansas College Teachers of English (what a mouthful), records from 1935 corroborate this. Seems to have been a nice affair, with live music. Records indicating the start of the creative writing program around 1939.

Was a hard working professor of English, and published a book called Brazos. Seemed like a good sort. He was drafted in 1943, and hasn鈥檛 shown up in records since. I hope he didn鈥檛 die. It certainly seems like the English Department was in good graces with the Presidents during this time, so props to that.

Apparently did a great job working on English for aviation students in 1944. It certainly still seems topical considering the number of aerospace types we get on campus. Lots of war-time talk here. If I get drafted in this Ukrainian conflict, Dr. DeFrain, I鈥檇 appreciate at least one epistle you could throw in so some poor graduate student in the future can see my name in their Special Collections research (look at that, throwing in contemporary references for the poor researcher).

Seemed to be super tight, or that could鈥檝e just been the nature of colleague-type relations during the 1930-40s. Still, nice to see such pleasant interactions. Lots of personal correspondence about how things are going, as well as some vacation home-type talk.