SECTION I
Perrin Field
Sherman, Texas

October 6, 1944

Dear Dr. Allen,

Your letter was most appreciated and was one that
helped me.

_ Henry Shenk also wrote an understanding letter, and
I will see him to tell him so at Tulsa tomorrow night.

Your "Jayhawk Rebounds" is for a fact half an hour's
enjoyable reading. I will visit Capt. Harold E. Hohnson
next time I am in Dallas, and when transferred to San
Antonio I will visit Dr. Elbell at Randolph Field. Bob
Blbell is a fraternity brother.

Well, I read in the Kansan you have begun summer
basketball practice. I hope you will be able to use
one of my high school teammates, Edwin Pyle, now of
Beloit, who was No#. 1 intramural cager with the Phi
Psi's last winter. "Curly," as we called him, is
a "ggod boy."

My Mother is teaching the Srd and 4th grades at
Belpreys Kansas, six miles from my home~town, Macksville.
She enjoys her work and, likewise, is enjoyed by her
27 little pupils who think she is just tops. ther
taught school some thirty years ago, so it was not al-
together new to her, but new teaching methods and new
elementary programs have kept her busy these first
few weeks "getting in the groove." She reports that
not all innovations in teaching the grades have been
particularly beneficial.

Mother and my 13-year old sister, Grayce, attended
KSTC Emporia this summer and both did work of which I
can we@l be proud. Mother made, surely, with all A's
and B's as high ## grades as any, and Grayce, taking
8th grade math and English, as well as piano and fiute
lessons, should find herself in good stead with her
classmates this current school year.

After mailing my second letter to Henry Shenk#,
I rather begretted that paragraph where I "cried on
his shoulder." But after receiving the two fine letters
from you men, maybe it was worthwhile.

al.