May 9, 1941

The Kansas Committee for the promotion of the National Physical
Bill #107) met in the office of Miss Hoover at the University of Kan-~
sas on April 26,

The Committee felt that a glorious and final effort should be
put forth during the month of May in order that this bill be brought
out of the Committee on Education, where it now is, and voted on in
the House,

In order to do this in the short time left, it was decided that a
committee of leaders be named who would lend their time and effort in
seeing the job through,

The following names were suggested and will stand approved unless
individual objection is raised: Mr. Reginald Strait, Chanute; Mr.
Kenneth Brecheisen, Garden City; Mr. Merle Henre, Kansas City; Mr.

L. P. Dittemore, Topeka; Mr. R. H. McAlister, Wichita; Miss Edna
McCullough and Mr. V. C. TrusSler, Emporia; Miss Elizabeth Barbour and
Dr, Earl Morris, Hays; Miss Irma Gene Nevins and Dr, G. W. Weede, Pitts
burg; Miss Helen Saum and Mr. L. P. Washburn, Manhattan; Miss Ruth Hoo-
ver and Dr. F. C, Allen, Lawrence; and Miss Gladys Taggart and Dr,
Lawrence Rarick, Wichita,

The plan of action is that this committee contact their alumni
and friends in an appeal to get them to write letters to Congress in
behalf of the bill.

City directors should call staff meetings and make an appeal to
get letters to Congress.

The committee felt that if each one interested would write to
each Kansas Congressman in the House and also to several of the Come
mittee on Education and have their friends and relatives do likewise
that some action would be taken on the bill,

Reports coming from the recently adjourned National Convention
is that all states are going to make a concerted effort to get action

on the bill before the 77th Congress adjourns in June,

If you have any suggestions as to a better approach or solution
to the problem at hand, the committce would welcome such suggestions.
Write your suggestions to Merle Henre, c/o Public Schools, Kansas City,
Kansas,