MICHIGAN STATE COLLEGE
of Agriculture and Applied Science
East Lansing |

DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION FOR MEN
Jenison Gymnasium & Field House February 26, 1943

Mr. Don Isett
437 26th Street,S.E.
Cedar Rapids, Iowa

Dear Don:

I have your letter of February 14th and I have given it consider-
able thought. I realize that in your work you naturally would

very much like to be a wearer of the Kansas "KK", I should feel

no personal compunction about giving you a recommendation if I

were in any way connected with the University but as we both

know, I have been away from that institution for a great many .
years. I feel that for me to recommend you for a letter would be
presumption on my part and as much as I would like to help you out,
I do not see how there is any possibility of the first move coming
from me. If you should care to follow the thing up and arrange for
the president or presiding officer of the K.U. Athletic Board to
write me concerning your request, then I will be glad to do what

I can.

I do not, of course, remember the details of your case. I have had
a great many boys under me during the past 20 years and there are
undoubtedly a lot more who are border-line cases. I should say that
you would always do the University honor as a wearer of the varsity
letter but if I go out on a limb by recommending you, I might have
a lot more such requests.

I should not like to make a recommendation to Dr. Allen-not because
he and I are not still very good personal friends but because of the
muddled political situation at the University of Kansas. I am there-
fore passing the buck to you. I will repeat, if the chairman of the
board or the president of the institution desires to contact me in
your case, I will @o.everything I can. Wishing you the best of
everything, I-am, —

Very sincerely yours,

(sighed) Karl A. Schlademan
Head Track Coach