President OSCAR S. STAUFFER, fs‘/12 Arkansas City Directors MYRA LITTLE REITZ, ‘32 Oakwood N. Kansas City, Mo. _ WALTER G. THIELE, 1/10 Supreme Court Topeka BRUCE HURD, 1/14 Santa Fe Offices Topeka JOHN E. BOYER, ‘28, I’30 WKH Building Wichita FRANK L. CARSON, ‘13 First National Bank Wichita General Secretary and Editor Graduate Magazine FRED ELLSWORTH, ‘22 Lawrence The University of Kansas Alumni Association HEADQUARTERS - ROOM 2 - FRANK STRONG HALL Lawrence - Kansas October 22, 1940 Vice-President HARLAND B. HUTCHINGS, I’16 1207 Grand Avenue Kansas City, Mo. Directors DOLPH SIMONS, ‘25 Lawrence JOANNA GLEED WAGSTAFF, fa‘21 Lawrence CLARENCE L. BURT, e’09 Hutchinson BALFOUR S. JEFFREY, ‘28 Nat’l Bank of Topeka Bldg. Topeka W. T. GRANT, fs’05 Business Men‘s Assurance Co. Kansas City, Mo. Dr. Forrest Ce. Allen 103 Robinson Campus Dear Dre Allen: Thanks for your letter of October 18 with carbons of cor- respondence with G. Fe Alcott. In my opinion it would take some clever publicity and pro- motion to get other colleges to send a share of their receipts on special basketball games to the University of Kansas to build a field house for its own use. Has such a thing ever been done before? We have to offer, of course, the sig@’ of Dr. Naismith's life, a long continuing tradition of strong basketball so that the chances would look good for always having a worthy representative of the game here, and, of course, your own personality as one prom~ inent in the field of basketball coaching, administration, promotion, and rule-making. : Such a campaign would have to be sponsored by some other. group than the University of Kansas, but we would have to furnish the powder. The fact that it would be another round similar to the one we had in '36 wouldn't help the thing any, and the returns from that affair would indicate that something vastly better organized and bigger would have to be done to get $300,000: or $400,000. I would say that if any appreciable number of leading figures in the basketball coaching profession are really interested in this, it can be done. If they can not be made interested, it can't bee I am firmly convinced that it would be a lot easier if we could get the money from one person under present chaotic condi- tionse : Cordially yours, FE /nmw fle: 75th Anniversary, June 5-9, 1941 Active Membership, with Graduate Magazine Subscription, $3 Annually. Life Membership, $60 Single Payment or 10 Installments of $7.50.