Organized ” Club Number

_ September 15, 1915 mi 184
ROTARY CLUS OF PARSONS

PARSONS, KANSAS

February 4, 1941.

Dr. Forrest C. Alien
Lawrence, Kansas.

Dear Dr. Allen:

Your good letter pleased me very much and we are eagerly awaiting
the date of April 17th when you will be here.

Of course I should have mentioned to you that we would expect to
take care of your car expense in coming down here. You can surely
count on that. I will talk with you further about it when I see
you next month.

I noticed that Luster and Haskell are to guide the destinies of
Oklahoma University Athletics for next year. They are good boys.

I coached with Haskell at Oklahoma City, but I am afraid you can
certainly look for a rough and tumble football team because they
both work that way unless they have changed materially recently.
However, I know that the football team is not your particular
worry, and we will have to mention that it is plenty worry. I made
a bad mistake, I guess, recently when I met your football ceach

at Oswego, Kansas where he made a speech to the Highschool foot-
ball team before the Rotary assembly there, for I asked him how you
were and ardently requested that he give you my best regards. Well,
just between you and me, and being fair to all, I was told that

he didnt see you very often, in fact hadnt seen you for some time.

There was quite a discussion on the way home with the fellows I went
down there with, and I wasted no time in letting it be known that
the football results at K.U. for the past two years have been far
from satisfactory to me, and that the line-up doesnt look like

too much can be expected for next year. That may be a bit caustic
but nothing has done me quite so much good as to see your teams go
right on knocking them off year after year. However, the football
situation remains the same despite the change.

Will see you in March. Please give my regards to the family. se

Sincerely,