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ARIZONA STATE
LACHERS ——.

 

 

November
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Dr. F. ¢, Allen
Dir. of Phy. Education
Univ. of Kansas
Lawrence, Kansas

Dear 'Phog':

Thenks very much for your splendid letter of sympathy. Only a
man who has experienced the loss of his brother can know that loss.

When one realized that Robert kmew five years ago that his con-
dition was fatal; and when you consider that his mental att-
itude was never shaken in all that time, I believe you will
agree with me when I say, he was ‘tone in a million', Robert

- never gave up to the end. Last year in Phoenix he told me he
could and would fight to the end, that he would live until
every tissue had replaced itself,

He never talked about himself, so I'm sure that none of you
were ever wise to his true condition. You could only note a
wearyness or sluggishness which seemed to keep him from being
quite at the top. “One time good, one time bad" he would
write me. He never excused himself, For the reason that

none of you men ever asked questions, he valued your friendship
highest. His letters told me that over and over,

My hope is that I may live with the same desire to live, and
be able to maintain as much self control and personal discipline is

as my ‘kid brother' displayed.

Most sincergly Ca
shld Lu,

ldon A. Ardrey,
Head, Department of Music.