GAVIN HADDEN
3 CIVIL ENGINEER

 

607 FIFTH AVE.,NEW YORK

August 1, 1938

‘Dr. Forrest C. Allen
Athletic Director
University of Kansas
Lawrence, Kansas

Dear Dr. Allens

Having heard of projects for the construction
of new facilities for recreation and athletics at the
University of Kansas, including I understand a new gymnasium
for women, and a new field house and additional practice
fields, ete. I am writing to remind you of the avail-
ability of my services to help you and the University
on this work. As you may remember from our correspondence
in the past, I have for some years been largely engaged
in the professional work of design and supervision of con-
struction of fields, courts, pools, gymnasia, fieldhouses,
ete., and have included among my clients a number of
leading universities in various parts of the country.

It may be that my services would be particularly
helpful to you in co-operation with your local architects
and engineers in a consulting capacity. I have so
served in numbers of other cases and in this way have
brought to my clients the benefit of the wide experience
of my office with the numerous ema technical problems
involved, and have helped them to secure more efficient
and economical results. Such consultation service is
usually arranged so that the greater part of it can be
rendered in my office by correspondence and the passing
back and forthew of sketches of unfinished drawings, etc.,
and in this way the cost of my service to my clients is
materially reduced.

I believe I sent you ae copy of a little booklet
I brought out last year illustrating the work of my office
during the period 1922-1937, but I am enclosing another
herewith in case it is no longer at hand.

If you should wish to know more about me, I
would urge you to write to any of the Institutions in-
cluded in the list of clients given in the booklet, as
I believe this is the best way of determining beforehand
the value of professional services. It is my hope that
these clients would tell you that they have found the
cost of my services more than repaid in increased effi-

ciency or economy, or both.