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C.A.BEEMS, PRESIDENT
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February 19, 1944

Dr. Forrest ©. Allen

Director of Physical Education
University of Kansas

Lawrence, Kansas

Dear Dr. Allen:

I wish to.acknowledge your letter of the llth, and am happy
to learn that April 6th will be satisfactory with you. We had
a meeting of our committee yesterday and they are very pleased
that you can be present on April 6th and I am sure we will have
an attendance of from three to three hundred fifty on this occa-
sion.

The fact that you were speaking in Hutchinson, Kansas on
April llth would make it very difficult for you to reach here by
the 13th with travel conditions as they are. The 6th is entirely
satisfactory to us, and we will consider this a definite date with
you.

Regarding train connections, there are three different routes
you could take up here. The first one, and the one I recommend,
would be to leave Kansas City about 11:30 P.M. on the Chicago Rock
Island & Pacific, arriving in Des Moines about 6:45 A.M., taking
the Rock Island Rocket out of Des Moines about 7:15 A.M. to Iowa
City, arriving there about 9:00 A.M. and taking the Interurban to
Cedar Rapids from there. The interurban runs each hour all day
long. If you make connections all the way along the line, you
would arrive in here at approximately 10:10 the morning of the 6th.

The only trouble with this schedule is that your connection at
Des Moines is rather close, but you could always do this. If you
should come that way and your train should be late into Des Moines
so that you missed that connection, you could go up to Ames ona
bus and catch the same train to Cedar Rapids arriving at 2:35 in the
afternoon that you would have arrived on had you taken the Chicago
Great Western out of Kansas City, as your Mr. Cote suggested.