Jenuary 2, 1942. :

Mr. Howard Engleman,
1003 South 2nd St.,
Arkansas City, Kansas.

Deer Bemurds

It was @ pleasure to receive your letter of December 30.
Howard, I do want to buy you and Beth a gift, but if you are not
yet settled in your om home that offer stands until you are
more permanently lecated. I would not feel happy unless you told
me what you really needed. As I mentioned in my previous letter,
Ray Noble and some of the other boys have done that. Fred Pralle
wrote me some time after they were married, and we get them some-
thing for the house - a small piece of furniture, I believe. I
want to do it, Howerd, and I won't feel that I have done my share
until you let us know what you would like to have.

Referring now to your query about some phase of service in
the national emergency. ‘We had a meeting of the University Defer-
ment Comaittee last Monday, and on that day they had received a
circular from Washington saying that certain groups in the Business
School would be deferred and work in the line of OPM training. I
am sure if you would to Dean Steckton right away he will be able to
give you full information on that. Certainly OPM will need a lot
eof Business School graduates, and with your fine training and the
Last that you were president of the senior class, you should be
classed ag one of the eligibles.

Regarding physical training end basketball, they want physical
education majors for this work. I have recently received a letter
from Captain Milton H. Medenbach, Assistant Adjutant General of the
Air Corps Technical Training Command, at Tulsa, Oklahoma, in which
he says they need men for positions as Junior Directors of Physical
Training at $2000 a year under civil service appointment. He says:

"These men must have the following qualifications: Graduate
of an accredited college or university with a 3B. S. degree, or major
in physical education, or a graduate of an accredited college or
university with a miner in physical education, plus one year of |
graduate work in the field of physical education. In lieu ef gradu-
ate work two years full time paid experience in physical education —

will be required. Not over forty-five years of age."

So you can seo that they went physical education majors. Of
course, they might make an exception in gaur case, due to your out-
standing ability and use you as a civilian instructor. If you are
interested in this angle you might write to Captain Medenbach for