November 12, 1940

ur, Dale Deweese, President
Chamber of Commerce
Wellington, Kansas —

Dear Dales

I have been thinking very seriously since you called asking that
i deliver the address at the Wellington Football Banquet in honor of your
exceptional and victorious high school football teame

ces I agsure you that I consider this an honor but I am torn between
two decisions. A desire to have a good baskethall team, especially since our |
foetball team has not been going very welle We are playing the University
of Texas on Decenber 9 and 10 here in Lawrence and we have not had opportunity
_ to practice as much as we should.e It will be necessary for me to miss baskete
ball practice on the afternoon of Tecember S~. In addition to that I have two
classes that meet in the mornings which takee me up to noon and that would

7 State does not provide any traveling expenses for such occasions
since I drive a Buick Roadmaster, it would take at least 5¢

nNOONs
as this, ce I
per mile each my to pay my expenses. If you are willing to do this I will |
mike speeial arrangements so that my basketball team can practice under super=
vision and I will forego the practice that day for thé pleasure and honor of
being with you and your boys in their championship selebratione :

| Congratulations to you and the boys over their splendid victory
over Wichita. I looked up the score and found that all Wellington had reason
to rejoice over their fine victory. Will you extend congratulations to the
boys for me? : 7 oe ee 7 : 3

_ Will you please tell me what time the banquet is to start and what
time you plan to have it terminate. I can get started back from Wellington that
night and drive part of the way, and will plan to get off early the next morning
so that I can get back to my classes; the first one of which meets at 93306.

I have vory many pleasant recollections of Wellingtons I remember —
poke at the dedication seremonies of your new memorial hall right after
World Wars Mre Ede Hackney asked me dow for that meetings I renember.
then that Claude Scott was your secretary and I happened to be vice-president

of the Lawrence Chamber of Commerces Whon the Lawrence directors were looking

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for a secretary I told them about a young man who led the singing, sold all
the tickets, and took the cooks home after the meeting. Scott was elected
up here and did a fine job for a number of years,