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TOPEKA HIGH SCHOOL
Department of Physical Education
2 TOPEKA, KANSAS
H. Bruce Smith E. B. Weaver, Football
Ernest J. Vanek Ernest J. Vanek, Basketball
Chas. Mills D. L. Erwin, Track
Esther E. Hobson W. J. Barnett, Tennis
. Veloria Eckert H. D. Shotwell, Golf

Helen Krieckhaus Claude A. Hays, Baseball

January 5, 1942

Dr. F.C Alien

Directer of Physical Education
Kansas University

Lawrence, Kansas

Dear Dr. Allen:

I received your letter concerning courses to be
offered by the Department of Physical Education, for
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the summer of 1942.

My plans for next summer are not entirely
definite as yet, but if at ell possibile, I hope to
attend summer school at the University. Mr. Vanek
and I have talked over the possibilities and advantages
of driving back and forth to school together. :

In case I get to attend summer school at K. U.-
I would prefer your course #200,"Advanced Basketball"
over #201, "Theory and Practiee of Athletic Training”;
end Dr. Elbel's courses, #202, "Administration of
Physical Education” and #194, "Content and Method of
Physical Education" over #501, "Seminar." .

Would you mind sending me some additional material
concerning the cost of tuition, matriculation, and etc.
for summer school session? Thanks a lot.

Respectfully yours,

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Br. Forrest ¢. Allen
Physical Education Dept
University of Kansas
Lawrence, Kansas
, Dee 13, 1941
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Yours truly,

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THE WORLD’S LARGEST FLEET OF STREAMLINED TRAINS

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Harold Reade, Shawnee-llission HN 2
Art Lawrence, Rosedale. <=
Ramie Beims, Ellis, “4
Je We "Bill" Greene, Smith Center
Dave Shirk, Augusta i s,
John Lonborg, Argentine MS: ~@4~
Gerald Barker, Great Bend
Lee Casida, Jr. Hi, ElDorado
Ed Dissinger, Oberlin

Liebrock, Boys Industrial School, Topeka
Waldo Miller, Sabetha
Ed Ash, Argentine k'S. MOK

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UNIVERSITY GF KANSAS
Lawrence

Department of Physical Education December 12, 1941.

Dear Coach:

In determining the offerings of the Department of
Physical Education for the summer of 1942 we are desirous
of listing courses that will be of the most benefit to
those who have already started their graduate work in this
department at the University of Kansas, or who have defin-
ite intentions of coming this summers

We are definitely planning to offer #4100. Community
Recreation, 3 hours, and #800. Special Problems in Physical
Education, 2-4 hours. ,

I will also offer either #200. Advanced Basketball,
5 hours, or #201, Theory and Practice of Athletic Training,
3 hourse “Dre Elbel will offer two of the following courses:
#2026 Adm: ion of Physical Education, 3 hours; #301,

  
 
 

 

Will you kindly send us your preference of the above
alternatives? Of course, you understand that we cannot offer
(all of these courses, but we do want to offer those for which
there is the greatest demande

Your cooperation will be greatly appreciated.

Very sincerely yours,

 

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Lawrence

Department of Physical Education December 12, 1941.

Dear Coach:

In determining the offerings of the Department of
Physical Education for the summer of 1942 we are desirous
of listing courses that will be of the most benefit to
those who have already started their graduate work in this
department at the University of Kansas, or who have defin-
ite intentions of coming this Summer »

We are definitely planning to offer #100, Comunity
Recreation, 3 hours, and #300. Special Problems in Physical
Education, 2=4 hours.

I will also offer either #200. Advanced Basketball,
5 hours, or #201. Theory and Practice of Athletic Training,
3 hours, Dr, Elbel will offer two of the following courses:
#202. Administration of Physical Education, 3 hours; #501.
Seminar, 3 hours; #194, Content and Method of Physical
Education, 3 hourse

Will you kindly send us your preference of the above
alternatives? Of course, you understand that we cannot offer
all of these courses, but we do want to offer those for which
there is the greatest demand,

Your cooperation will be greatly appreciated.

Very sincerely yours,

 

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Monday, Jume 22:
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Cyclones vs. Tigers
Jayhawkers vs. Cornhuskers

| Wednesday, June 243
Sooners vs, Tigers
Wildeats vs, Cornhuskers

Cyelones vs. Jayhawkers

Monday, June 29: |
Sooners vs. Cornhuskers.
Tigers vs. Jayhawkers
Wildeats vs. Cyclones

Wednesday, July 1:

. Sooners vs. Jayhawkers
Cornhuskers vs. Cyclones
Tigers vs. Wildcats

Monday, July 6:
Sooners vs. Cyclones —
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Lawrence, June —While Forrest C. "Phog" Allen's chief claim to fame,
is the producing of basketball champions—and in the quarter of a century he has
been at the University of Kansas his teams have won or tied for nineteen champion—
ships—~one of his greatest contributions to American education has been the develop—
ment of a recreational program for summer schools that has elicited the commendation
of educators from coast to coast.

And the summer program on lit. Oread has become so well developed and so:
famous that hundreds of students—~a lot of them graduates with families—have en-
rolled at Kansas in order that their youngsters may have the advantage of the fine
facilities that have been provided for the whole family's enjoyment.

Summer school is different this year, There are fewer graduates, and
fewer fine arts students—although the annual summer band camp has the largest
enrollment in its history—and the summer students are younger. lost of them
are of college age, and a great many have just enrolled from this spring's high
school classes eager to complete the University's full curriculum for a degree in
three years, Many of the regular winter collegians are doing the same thing—
gaining a year by the provisions the University has made for speeding up its
curriculum as a war measure,

The classes in mathematics, physics, navigation, meterology, chemistry,
and other courses which train for war production, are crowded, The enrollment this
summer is the largest in ten years on Mt. Oread, And there are still hundreds of
youngsters crowding the playing areas on the summit of the hill. The recreational
program has taken on a new note of seriousness this summer—recreation for physical
fitness to meet the nation's great crisis,

The idea for "Phog's" program was based on the idea of profiding enjoy—
ment and exercise for the whole fealty unit—-and from that idea has been developed
and expanded the fine recreational facilities that have made a vacation ground of

Mt. Oread for hundreds of summer school attendants and their families,
 

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The famous coach's inception of the program came while he was doing ©
graduate work at Columbia University. So six years ago, he set about to develop
it. The big handicap was, of course, that there were no funds available, Not to be
daunted, Allen proceeded upon the idea first to provide a place for mothers to bring
their children for cool and comfort. There were plenty of fine shade trees on lit.
Oread, so "Phog" made a deal with the athletic association to use their benches which
placed beneath the shade trees, and formed the nucleus of the whole scheme, There
mothers could bring their youngsters for play while the husbands and fathers occupied
their time in the Library.

The basic instincts of the human being's natural development—running,
jumping, leaping, vaulting, and climbing——formed the skeleton upon which the schedule
grew. Sandpiles, swings, and teeter-totters soon joined the benches—all with little
or no expense. Then provision had oe made for the climbing instinct—and at the
Monkey Maze in Philadelphia, the Kansas cage mentor got the idea for taking care of
that. The University had a lot of unused pipe, and with the aid of the University
machine shops, monkey maizes, more utilitarian than any on the market—and many
times less expensive—made their appearance among the playground equipment.

Prominent in the new program was instruction in community recreation and
classes in this subject were used to help construct the equipment for the playground.
Tt was fun for the students besides being just what they required educationally.

Early, Dr. Allen saw that outdoor drinking fountains were needed and
these were wangled out of budget committess. They were equipped with raised plat-—
forms so youngsters could help themselves without the assistance of their parents.

After the program had been in operation a year or two, summer school
authorities began to receive favorable comments from away from the campus and grew

enthusiastic about the whole program. Limited funds were made available and the ex-

pansion became rapidly visible, Shuffleboard courts were painted all over the side~

walks—cues were made from mop handles and pucks were turned in the University's

carpentering shop. They had to be painted and waxed to be of service, and here the

classes in community recreation again came to the rescue.

 
 

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Soon a new ES which was a form of Dr, Allen's favorite sport,
basketball—was invented by the director of the program, Outdoor volley ball was
started and badminton added, . Standards for these sports, and for goal—hi, were
made from pipes, with bases of old automobile wheels and ancient tires filled with
concrete, With the rubber coverings, the standards are quite useful in the gym-
nasiums with protections for the finished floors, The old casings, which years ago
were covered with aluminum paint to produce equipment pleasing to the eye, were worn
out long before the rubber shortage became a bugaboo of the American public, But
they still fulfill a fine recreational mission as well as protection for the polished
floors on which athletes cavort during the winter months,

The program after the second year was rapidly growing in copienter
People began coming to the summer sessions in order to provide a vacation playground
for their families in the cool evenings when the breeze from the Kaw and Wakarusa
valleys swept over Mt, Oread creating a cool, pleasant setting, The townspeople
began driving up in the evening to rest, and to watch the youngsters at play. It
was a great factor in further reducing any barrier that existed between town and
gown——-between the University and the city of Lawrence,

Then came the need for lights, They were installed and from then on,

Dr. Allen says "the project was made". In the six years of operating the recrea-
tional program, there has never been a case of discipline, Informality, points out
Dr. Allen, is the beauty of the deal,

Social programs were not neglected, Street dances were provided with
bands, and attendances of 500 were not unusual, Softball leagues were established—
and each one the teams are named after the big six conference members—-the Jayhawkers,
Cornhuskers, Wildcats, Tigers, Sooners, and Cyclones, Archery, Golf, tennis, swim-
ming, and all—school picnics all have a place on the program now,

The latest addition to Dr. Allen's already famed program, is lawn borling,

Although added only this year, it is already one of the most popular sports in the |

whole gamut of entertainment provided for the summer school students,

 
 

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‘Three years ago one-act plays were added to the community recreational
program, The dramatics department at once offered enthusiastic and wholehearted
cooperation for this phase of the program.

What with the famed recreational program now in full swing, the summer
band camp with its frequent concerts, a full program of outdoor lectures, community
sings, and concerts, free movies, and a varied concert course by the fine arts de~—
partment, summer school isn't what it used to be.

And all because Dr. "Phog" Allen had a vision of what could be accomplished

in a recreational way. "It pays to play", he announced, "but here you play without

pay" ‘