June llth, 1941

Mr. Will Feder
Sports Editor
Eldorado Times
Eldorado, Kansas

Dear Mr. Feder:

. IT thought you might be. interested in some
news regarding your Eldorado citizens, past and present.

Dave Shirk who was a star of yours as well
as our star football player here at the University of Kansas
and who is now Athletic Director of Augusta, Kansas, is here
this summer with us taking work in our School of Education. We
‘have appointed Dave Shirk Athletic Géneralissimo for the summer
session of the University of Kansas.

Dave will have charge of all of our tournaments
and we have many of them. We have a sixteen softball league, volley
ball, tennis, and swimming tournaments. We also have an innovation
that is striking a very happy response here for the summer session.
Our quadrangle is electric lighted. It is the coolest spot on Mt.
Oread because the Wakarusa Valley and the Kaw Valley send their
breezes that top this high hill. And, in the evening from 7:50 to
9:30 we light the quadrangle and our. students play shuffle board,
volley ball, badminton, tennis, and all of the games that the family
may indulge in.

We have sand piles, swings, teeter-totters, moneky
maze, jungle gym and everything for the little tots. We also have
folk dances and rythmic dancing for the youngsters and we have street
dances with corn meal. We also have picnics with feeds on the quad-
rahgle. It is a real out-door mixing celebration.

We would like to invite you up some evening to
enjoy the formalities of the occasion and see Dave in action.
If you ever come this way, the next eight weeks, we'd be happy
to have you.

Sincerely yours
Director of Physical Education and

Recreation-Varsity Basketball and
Baseball Yoach.

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