November 21, 1941.

Mr. John Glenn,
Beardstowmm, IZliinois.

pear John:

We are playing DePaul on January 31 at Chicago, and
I asked for Clarno, Enright or Craig, and not one of the three.
are available, so Wendt, the basketball coach, says.

I am wondering if there is any way that you could
find out from these fellows if they have been approached by
Wendt. I will greatly appreciate it if you could. In his
letter to me Coach Wendt asks that I please reconsider Sam
Pecararo, Tom Smith and Frank McElligott. I told him that i
aid not care to use them, and I am telling him again the sane

thing.

| Don Elser, the old Notre Dame boy who is coaching
at Gary, Indiana, has asked to work, and

So we want one other official, and we want a
If these fellows can't work tell me whom, in
be best. Give me al - 2 - 3 choice.

John Buescher is coming along in his psychology
pretty well, but Mrs. Allen is tutoring him and the poor kid
is just above his ears in this stuff. Ne should never have en-
deavored to take it by correspondence, but since he did we are
trying to salvage a grade. But before that it is necessary
that he get the basic fundamentals and that is tough for John
‘beeause this sort of stuff must have background and John hasn't
had it in psychology. That has put him behind in all his school
work, and although he is not flunking anything, he is making a
"7" in 13 hours. ‘This, of course, will keep him out of the
Varsity-Freshman game which is being played tonight prior to
‘Homecoming. I believe that we will have 2,000 people at the
geme. ‘There is a lot of interest, but I am not letting any of
the fellows play unless they have a "C" averages

John is a greatly improved boy from every angle, and
I want to thank you again for the part that you have played in.
developing him. If we can ever get him to studying and absorb-
ing the stuff that he studies he will make a dandy. I told Mrs
Allen that in my opinion John Buescher has developed more than
any boy on the squad. Of course, John had a long way to go and
that is why I am so happy about his development.