U.S.8. AMc71

c/o Fleet Post Office
New York, N. Ye

May 12, 1944

Dear Doctor Allen,

It has been a long time, and I suppose it seems longer than

it has really been, since I've heard from Lawrence or even been
there. Don tells me I wouldn't know the place now, and that

is bad news. :

He's working for North American in Kansas City as a perspective
engineer. He draws plans for B'25s, and likes it very muche
Because of his osteomylitis he is a long time 4-F. In fact, I
doubt it they will ever take him.

I just got thru Midshipman's School at Abbott Hall in Chicago
in March, and have pretty soft duty right now. However I don't
believe this will last over another month or so--it's really
more of a training period than anything else. Before that

I got into a couple of invasions in the Mediterranean on a PC
as an enlisted man.

My sister, Jean, has been out of school over a year now, and

has been working in Kansas City and Topeka. She was grinding
radio crystals in Kansas City for a year--and was averaging about
12 hours a day 7 days a week until we finally talked her out of
it because of what it was doing to her eyes and nerves. She

is working on the Topeka Capital right now.

She has to go to school this coming year or I'm afraid she'll
never make it, and Don and I can both help her get by. We both

had a lot of help ourselves when we were going to school, but

she wouldn't consider it unless she was working part of her

way right now anyway. She is a good typist, and a very conscients
fous worker, and I thought that maybe you could tell me someone
she might see or send an application to.

Just on the outside chance that you might know of something, and
she should apply immediatély her address is 517 West 13th, Topeka,
Kansas. I would certainly appreciate any tips or advice, She
has been considering Washburn, but neither Don or I can see that,
and I know she wuld much rather go to K. W. if it were possible,

The other junior officer on the ship is Bob Hayes, who played
for Iowa State until a bum knee put him out his last year.

I told him he should have had you work on it. I remember

you had quite a number of Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma athletes
taped and glued together while I was in school.