June 30, 1945.

Mr. C. G. Bayles, Supt.,
Buildings and Grounds,
University of Kansas. —

Dear Mr. Bayless

I em confirming my phone conversation regarding the leaks in my office,
which is in the southwest corner of Robinson Gyrmasium. The water fairly
pours dow from the conjoined margin of the deiling dnd the west wall. I
immediately supposed there was a window open in the Naval officers quarters
directly above my office. I called Chief Gathings and he hurried over, but
the room above was as dry as a bone. |

Then I called you and you asked me to get the janitor. I got Ry Jackson |
and me made a thorough inspection of the K Room windows, and that room is
utterly dry. Then we inspected the outside. ‘The only way it appears to me
that it would come in is through the ledge above the windows in the officers
quarters at the soutiwest corner of the tuilding. Rain is admitted from
above, not the eaves, but the ledge above the windows. I would say, conser~ —
vatively, two gallons of water came in my office. I have ten towels and
they are sepping wet. <5 ee

The water strikes the baseboard as it drips from the molding on the wall
which is set in one foot from the window. It also splashes against the
radiator which is a 6~inch inset from the window ledge, and then it splashes
ever on my desk and spoils a let of correspondence and books on my desk, which
is two feet from the radiator.

The south windows of my reom leak enough to admit water, but the glass air
ventilatoxs in a way protect it from coming in on the sill. But an equally
bad situation is on the south windows in the long room just to my left.
These two south windows lead water from the top, which convinces me that the
seme situation exists in those south windows that exists in the windows above
the officers quarters. The used towels which the men in physical education
and officers use are piled high on a locker, We use those te sop up the
water during and after a rain. .

Also, the windows on the west side in ow front office, where Henry Shenk,
Reg Strait and Ray Kanehl are, leak from the bottem enough so that it is
necessary to put three or four towels on the ledges or else the water will
stand there in pools. Even though the windows are closed tight and locked,

. the water still runs in, in great quantities. — si