Columbia, Mo.
July 24,1945

Dr. Forrest C. Allen
University of Kansas
Lawrence, Kansas

Dear Dr. Allen:

I have been intending to write to you
for some time to tell you the outcome on the business
at Maryville. Dr. Diemer and I finally got to gether
for a short ( and I thought very unsatisfactory )
interview in Jefferson City the last of June.
"tInsatisfactory" because he was in a terrific hurry
and afte he found that I did not have an M.A. degree,
he felt that he was wasting his time , I fear.

However, dont think for a minute that I
do not appreciate your efforts in the matter , I
think you were ever so kind to sugge# me in the firs
place. I guess that I felt slightly piqued ,inasmuch
as the Dean of the Graduate School here at the Univ.
- Dr. Curtis, had told me that in no way could he see any
necessity for a dean of women to have a graduate degree
especially one with the scope of other experience that
I had..( I do have a B.S.in Ed. , you know , and one
of the few Eife Certificates to Teach in the State of
Mo. issued by the University.)

I have certainly enjoyed your News
Letter . It is thoughtful of you to include me.
Nice to henge about your boys in the last one.

Bob is still in Germany and expects.
to be there for some time . He has travelled all
over it - one of his recent trips took him to
Bergensgerten (?) , Hitler's retreat which he seid
was Situated in some of the most picturesque and
beautiful scenery possible to imagine. He got the Paris
Stadium organized for the Allies and now is at Mannheim
where he is working on a similar project I understand. —

As you see we have moved and are at
this address only temporarily since we could not get
into our new place until Sept. Houses here are as
scarce as the proverbial hen's molars- every one
wants to sell at about three times what the property is
worth, so they wont rent until they have to. The place
where we were living was sold out from under us s0
when our contract was up we were oute