FOUNDED IN 1890

A. S. SCHULMAN ELECTRIC COMPANY
ELECTRICAL CONTRACTORS

Box 218
PROVO, UTAH

HOME OFFICE: Contract Plancor 301

537 S. Dearborn Street ; Geneva Stee! Works
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS ; ‘

November 19, 1943

Dr. Forrest. C, Allen
Department of Physical Education
University of Kansas

Lawrence, Kansas

Dear Dr. Allen,

With the coming of the basketball season, I find myself
wishing I were back in school--just waiting for the opening
game. But I guess that upon graduation from college, one
has to forget about life on the old campus.

On June l4 I started working for the Salt Lake Telegram in
Salt Lake City and three weeks later was transferred to Provo
as the Telegram representative. Provo is a city of 23,000
nestling up against the Wasatch mountain range. 1 worked for
the Telegram until Octoher 16 when I quit after failing to
get any answer regarding a raise in salary. I felt that $25.00
a week wasn't enough--considering that Provo is a boom town
where room rent is a dollar a day and meals were up the dame
degree. This "boom" is the result of the construction of
the Geneva Steel Plant which will be the largest plant of its
type in the world upon its completion, I'm doing warehouse
office work for Schulman's at more than twice my salary with
the Telegram--just what I needed to pay off some old college
bills, When Schulman's electrical constmction work is through
sometime next year, I'm heading back to the central part of
the U.S. where newspapers pay better wages, but for the present
I'm doing my part in the war effort,

One of Schulman's employees whom I see nearly every day
is Floyd Millet, Brigham Young University basketball coach,
who is planning to take his team back to Madison Square Garden
in December, Floyd has been trying to get a game lined up
with some college in the middle west, but is having a hard time
finding a college with an all-civilian team. His team is
composed of two squadsmen from last year's team and a bunch
of freshmen. If you're fielding an all-civilian team, maybe
you could line up a game with BYU. His team is leaving Provo
on December 7 and will make the swing through the east with
Oklahoma A,&M.--same team they traveled with last year--and
will be back in Provo a couple days before Christmas,

Knowing the Kansas set-up, I'll bet you're fielding a
team this winter despite hell and highwater. I'm al|/for
keeping collegiate competitive sports going--if not just to
give the boys in the camps something to talk about. For