HEADQUARTERS FOURTH AIR FORCE
Office of the Physical Training Officer
180 New Montgomery Street
San Franciseo 6, California

12 September 1944.

Dr. F. C. Allen
University of Kansas
Lawiene, Kansas

Dear Doc:
This letter is months over-due, and I am thoroughly ashamed
that I haven't written sooner. The work on this job seems to increase pro-

_ gressively each month, however, and I have very little time for personal
_ affairs and correspondence.

Thanks very much for keeping me on the mailing list for

‘| "Rebounds". You really out-did yourself in the last few issues. You have

@ wonderful idea in this letter, and I am sure that the men overseas
appreciate it greatly. It has been very interesting to me to follow all
these boys through their military careers since leaving the University.

\ whe "Rebounds", too, is the only contact I now have with the University.

Very few KU men seem to find their way into this Air Force.
You may be interested in two former physical ed majors that we obtained
for this Air Force, however, both of whom have performed very well. Bill
Arnold was a sergeant in physical training at one of our bases near Fresno.
He did such an outstanding job that we sent him to OCS and he is now a
second lieutenant somewhere in the Middle West. lst Lt. George Stapleton
we obtained by requesting his transfer from Florida. He is now base
physical training officer at Walla Walla Army Air Wield, in the state of
Washington. He is doing a swell job up there keeping our bomber personnel
in shape to bomb Tokyo and Berlin.

It was a great surprise and pleasure to see Chancellor Mallot
a couple of weeks ago in the Officers’ Mess at this headquarters. I didn't
know that he was connected with the air force in any way and he had forgot-
ten that it was the Fourth Air Force in which I served. We discussed KU
and Lawrence, of course, at some length.

: I was able to get down to Los Angeles a couple of weeks ago
and saw Dud make his debut into pro-football coaching when he played our
Fourth Air Force football team in Los Angeles. We should have beaten him
decisively but he capitalized on the breaks. I was happy for Dud to see
him win his initial game, and it has been good to follow his success in
all his succeeding wins. I certainly hope he can win the National Champi-
onship in his first year. Many educators, of course, have raised their
eyebrows at a Phi Beta Kappa and an outstanding physical educator going
into the tainted ranks of professional athletics! The National Pro

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