March 26, 1943.

ur. Gili Burdick,
Kansas City, Moe

Dear Gili:

Dr. Lawrence Weodruff, our Registrar, referred your letter to the
Athletic Office, and Mr. Falkenstion, the financial secretary,
referred the letter to mo. We are happy indeed to know that you are
_ interested in matrioulating at the University of Kansas.

The fact that you are desirous of taking a course in Aeronautical
Engineering convinces me that you are coming to engage in a very int-
eresting and a very difficult course. {I am sure that you are proficient
in mathematios, else you would net choose the engineering profession.

I note further that you are interested in working your way through
school. We have a high peroentage of boys whe do this, but there are
very few of them who een work their way through school, compete in
athletics, and make a high grade in Aeronautical ihgineering.

Athletios will be at a very low ebb during the war. There will be
very few football games scheduled, and those that ere scheduled will
be with nearby opponents. However, I am sure the University of
Kenses will have a football team if the other Big Six schools compete.
With the Army end the Navy selecting the University as training ground
for officer material, I am sure that we will have a v .
ic program. A great deal of it will be intramurals, but we plan to
develop our intramural competition to make up for what we lack in
intercollegiate competition. ie have'a five-day physical conditioning
progran for 011 men who are subject to Selective Service or are in the
Army and Navy reserves.

We are playing baseball this spring and we will endeavor to carry
out to the best of our ability an athletic programe

Won't you write me and toll me in what work you are proficient so
that we might aid you in obtaining a job? ‘Trusting that you will be
able to mtriculate at the University of Kensas, I am 7

Sincerely yours,

Director of Physicel Education,
Varsity Basketball Coach. ;