July 25th, 1941

Mr. Don Ettinger
507 West Kansas
Independence, Missouri

Dear Don:

I would call you the big “Red Mastiff" but when I
address a letter to you I think of what your mother would have me call
you and I know it wouldn't please her to have me undignify that name she

gave you so I'm being very formal in my epistle this morning.

I’m happy to learn that you were initiated last spring
and I'm glad that you made out with a B average. Just remember, Don, that
I'm very much interested in you and I will be disappointed if you fall short
of the mark that I have set up for you. Sure, I want to see you make good
in athletics and I want you to be an outstanding athlete, but fifteen years
from now I want to see you come back on the campus at Mr. Oread and be one of
the Bib Boys in the realm of business and a life of success.

I'm pleased beyond measure that you have assured me about
your training. Don, they can't stpp you in either sport or in your académic life
if you do not put impediments in your way. Remember what I told you what Malde
Royden, the great woman Sociologist of England said, "You can not break nature's
law but you can break yourself against nature's law", So, after all, they can't
stop you eee you permit them to do so.

- Mitt and Bobbie play golf almost ee White Mitt pursues
his law course, bobbie loafs after seven straight summers of University applica-
tion of study. Eleanor is also taking a History course during the summer
term preparing herself to enter the ete of Pennsylvania this fall along
with Bob. She wants, to get away from home, I guess, and it might be a fine
thing in her educational adjustment. ‘She has made a B average and I think that
is pretty good for a girl who has no ambition to specialize like Bob in medicine
and Mitt as in law. My daughter, Jane, who is an artist in Chicago, will be
married the sixth of September here at Lawrerice. She is marrying a Princeton
man named Mon. He was the stroke on the Fennsylveania crew. He's a big fellow
about 6'3"--about your size, Don.

We'll be looking forward to your coming back in September.
_ Flease give my kindest regards to your family and your brother. I had always
wished that he had played on a Jawhawk team. He was a great competitior.

It must be in the blood, Don.

Sincerely,

Director of Physical Education and
Recreation-Varsity Basketball and _
FCA: re Baseball Coach.