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Rexford Consolidated Schools

JOINT DISTRICT NO. 88
SHELDON WINGERD, SUPERINTENDENT

Rexford, Ransas

duly 19,38.

Dr. Forrest 0. - Allen,
University of Kansas,
Lawrence, Kansas.

Dear Sir:

I am writing to you to advance the cause of Cleon R. Childs
of Rexford, who has an ambition to go to K.U. He needs 4
job to make the break. In some cases, you may be able to
push something in the way of a good boy who is willing to
work and make sacrifices in order to get an education.

Cleon is a slightly abovive average student, and clean in
morals. He comes from a good family who are not in the
best of financial condition and consequently cannot send
Cleon on thru school. They are not a family to believe
much in education, and if he goes he must go under his own
power. He is 18, six feet in heighth, and weighs about
160 lbs. He played center and forward on our basketball
team the past year, and scored better than 500 points in
regular scheduled games, which I believe is fairly good for
a boy from a small school, especially when we had some
rather tovgh competition. If you followed the smaller
schools any, you will recall that our team went thru the
League, and thru the Colby Regional in Class B, and to the
Class B State Tournament at Salina.

Cleon has made an excellent track man in addition, and took
lower than first in the hurdles but once this spring. He
has played a little football, and should make an end.

Several of the other boys on the squad are going to Washburn
but that is out of the question for Cleon as the tuition is
too high. He has expressed a preference for K.U. over any
other school and probably will not get too interested in

any openeings that might turn up down here at Topeka.

He needs a job for room and board. I think about the limit
of his money from home will be books, clothes and tuition.

Do you think you can do anything for him?

 
 

Sheldon Wingerd,
1352 Tyler,
Topeka, Kansas.