Ray's haircut

When I was in college and World War II was on, we had lots of service men on the campus. Our football team was made up of service men and was not very good. Ray was editor of the school paper, "The Washburn Review." Because the team was not great, he wrote an editorial about enjoying homecoming anyway. After one of the football team's practice sessions, the team met Ray and shaved off his hair. They also shaved the President of the Student Council and had two more on their list. Ray was able to warn the other two and they hid. He would not tell the authorities who they were. His picture was on the front page of the local paper. He told me I did not have to go to the homecoming dance with him but I ignored that. He wrote a column for the college paper, "Haircuts are Free at Washburn." Ray was called up for service a short time later and the army shaved what had grown in again only did a better job. Many years later some of those involved apologized to him but I think he enjoyed the event.