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SAN JOSE STATE COLLEGE
San Jose, California
May 3, 1939

Dr, F sce. Allen

Director of Physical Education
University of Kansas

Lawrence, Kansas

Dear Dre Allen:
Your letter of April 27 has been read with considerable interest. I

am very happy to lmow that you are seriously considering my younger brother,
Burt, for the vacancy which you have at the University of Kansase

In a recent chat with John Bum, I learned something of the details “a...

the position, and, although I may exemplify too much brotherly love, I eam in-
@lined to believe that Burt aula fill the vacancy most satisfactorily. He is
really an awfully fine kid. Perhaps his greatest fault is over-conscientious-

” - ness, if there can be such a things He has a very lovely wife, and I am sure

they would make a welcome addition to your department.

I have just dispatched a letter to Burt, encouraging him to give © |
serious consideration to your vacancye From a financial standpoint, it would
mean the sacrifice of approximately a thousand dollars annually, in the
aggregate. In exchange, I feel that the opportumity of working wmder your
fine leadership, in the outstanding program which you have developed, would be
well worth this temporary setback. In the long rug, it appears to me, that he
would probably be well compensated for the temporary loss.

In view of the fact that it is rather a slow and difficult process for
you to discuss the matter with him, I trust that you will see fit to use me
freely as an intermediary, I will be only too glad to handle the expense in-
volved in contacting Burt by wire, in the event you are anxious to make an
early decisions

Following my short acquaintance with you in San Franciwoo, may I say,
in all sincerity, that this would appear to me to be an unusually fine oppor-
tunity for the kid brother, and I sincerely hope that you decide to offer hin.
the position and that, in turn, he decides to accepte

With kindest, personal wishes, I am

Cordially yours,
(Signed) DUDLEY S. DeGROOT

DSD/ald Director of Physical Education