a agen zo : itt Isr | iti a Citas : HE GRMN pana ag ape Be gle ee fh & ai sf i Mig wee y ii eh i i: i, [is Peal Maia ae “353 pl byt fe (i itnaphy! & ej ms oe rte ile Hi Huh ayiaiad 25% a é gehis srtsa8 ad a ii} -- ip i ipees sig?3 peat ee aul i $ re 7 A ideal t aT. its be He i Pa d : Add p £8 . air HH i eat bliitta ie 2. wi ,338 el uli HH agi “hd gis! set tga fh it Hite “ak aPanh say We fide ae gig Aigedssdil ay HH agus By} a8 : ghee oj rota Eos V ee a Hea i if gia fi fiero: git j } ap ag® Ul aE Ang iia Here's wishing you all of the good luck in the world, George. Carry on until we see you in Lawrence With all good wishes, I am Sincerely yours, Director of arsity Basketball Coach. ¥ FOA:AH i. Irving Hill, Lawrenee Paper Company, Lawrence, Kansas. Dear Mr, Wills I thought I was a good alibi boy, but you just holp me out at every turn. I really didn't knowhow to alibi for the rotten basketball team that I had until you wrote the letter to Bill Winey. Now I can just say that I hed too many extracubticular duties! Thanks for giving me an idea. i hope that I cen get uy work straightened up so that we can Lave that games of golf. I am just itching for an opportunity te get out on the course. But the Red Cross and some of these other jobs are still holding me pretty close. However, things are lightening up and when the sun shines with its inviting rays you are apt to get a call. a Director of Physical Rducation, POA:AT Varsity Basletball Coach, Mereh 9, 194), ee Le Winey, Jt. « ist Bn., 7th Morines ® Fleet Post Offices My Dear Winey s No golf for weeks, even months. Paper business «= bond drive, poor weather end growing old end not having 01d Doc, who is omg off this winter, haskept me dndeors. — Meny boxes are needed now, and it takes more push to get men, material and machinery for every 1000 boxes than it used to. the big waste paper campaign is bringing in more but will need to be kept up as long ae war lasts, Douglas County went over OKs on the temas as om oll] other drives. Red Cross drive is eon now, Phog Allen is Chairman, His basketball team finished third this year. Partly because he hes done so much bond, Red Gross, soldier and sailor treining work. ‘That kept him "Looking up" on his ball team, Third this yeer instead of his usual first will not dim his record as the world's greatest basket ball eoach. If you get to the top in whatever you do, it takes all the braine end energy you have and a lot of fight. I om ou sure you are doing a good war job, and we old fellows at home take our hats a’ to the fighting forces, and we are trying e do the home ates ee With kindest regards, Irving #411 THra eccosP. C. Allen fot doutsiana Lawrence, ke Sa S- G.S.G, A é SOYA AAD a a es, ee, ee FRIDAY, JANUARY 21, 1944 Victor Hurt Returning to Manage Philbrook Victor C: Hurt, former head coach at University of Tulsa, be- came business manager for Philbrook Art Center’s financial in- terests with his election as president of the Southwestern Art association at a board of trustees meeting late Wednesday. Hurt succeeds Norman M. Hulings, who has held the position since it was created two years ago, and who returned to the First Na- tional Bank and Trust Co. as trust officer January 1. Fred T. Haddock was elected chairman of the board of trustees; Dr. C. I. Pontius, vice chairman; R Otis McClintock and Mrs. Allmand M. Blow, vice presidents; Mrs. War- ren D. Abbott secretary, and B. B.. Weather- by, treasurer: This is an = addition of two new officers by a by-law amendment vice’ chairman and the separa- tion of the of- = fice of secretary 5 and treasurer, © formerly held Haddock by one person, This creates an executive committee of seven in- stead of five, Rush Greenslade, re- tiring chairman, pointed out, since the officers act as the executive committee of the board, New trustees elected at the an- nual) membership meeting which ‘ preceded the trustees meeting were VICTOR C. HURT A. I, Levorsen and Sidney H. Davis.« Re-elected weré Mrs. A. L. Farmer, P. C: Lauinger, R. Otis McClintock, Dr. C. I, Pontius and Mrs. John 8. Zink. A new by-law amendment which goes into effect with this election prohibits trustees from serving more than two terms in suc- cession. Another new by-law pro- vides that money remaining in the acquisitions fund at the’end of, a year may stay there instead of be- ing transferred to the endowment). fund. “This will give opportunity to| _ accumulate larger amounts and buy). paintings and works of art of real] permanent interest,’ Greenslade commented, Hurt, who has had a wide and varied business experience in addi- tion to his athletic abilities, has been manager of the Lawrence, Kan, division office of the Virgil E. Hurt Co., investments, real es- tate and securities brokers, since February, 1942, when he left the University of Kansas coaching staff. The company, headed by his brother, headquarters in Emporia, Kan., and operates in eight mid- western states, The new Philbrook president has been on the board of. directors of the company since its organi- zation 12 years ago and has worked actively with them during part of: that period. eS eek ae oes His duties in connection with his work there included property | assets of building and loan, insur-| ance and mortgage companies. _ He was an organizer and first president of the Morris Plan bank in Shawnee, during the time he was coach at Oklahoma Baptist university. nS His experience with colleges, and particularly the University of Kansas, has included handling pub- lic relations and the business of his" department. He went to K. U. from the University of Tulsa in 1939, after three years here as head coach, and there was assistant to Gwinn Henry, head of the athletic department and his former coach at the College of Emporia. “Mrs. Hurt joins me in being very happy at the thought’ of re- turning to Tulsa,” he ‘said this morning,’ “The position of the southwestern Aart association .is al- ready known and_ appreciated throughout ‘this section of the southwest. I am pazticularly im- pressed with the vision and foresight of those responsible for the develop- men of Philbrook Art Center. It is with a lot of enthusiasm that I look forward to playing whatever part it is possible for me to play in its future.’ Hurt spent today getting - ac- quainted with the outline of his Sobel duties: which include--management of the Beacon building, donated to| the art association two years ago by| Waite Phillips. He will then return to Lawrence to wind up his affairs there and will _ return here the jatter part of next week. When he will bring his family to} Tulsa is problematical since it de- pends on the housing situation. Mr. and Mrs. Hurt have five children, Vera Margaret, a sophomore at K. U.; Victor, jr. a senior in high school and: already enlisted in the army air corps but deferred until he completes his school year; Mary Elizabeth, in junior high; Martha Ann, age 4, and Jane Eleanor, age) two. i Sh ee re ET coe - direet to you be you are ieveventes in Vic's couttenat success and I want you to k + iat the Officers and Trustees of Southwestern Art ssociation oash teat we have made no mistake by selecting Vic as Manager « Art Center and Beacon Life Building. ; mado a trip to Tulse a week ago last Sunday, sew Philbrook Art Center in operation. Each Sunday ay Manghy wentvele at paughe sae ® “Phog" Allen, Clyde Webride of the Kansas City Star, John Stewart of Wellington, Kansas, and others spoke very favorably of Vie Hurt in the same way that you did, and your recommendations helped Vie's cause | - mo small degree. Please tell "Pho Phog" Allen that I appreciated his fine tele- king you for your interest and cooperation, and hoping you ) to make one ee Fred ‘sity of Kensas » Kensas . MoBride 3200, “g “— itor : ll o City Star ot * (400, 080 > City, Mo. IN REPLY REBER TOn 2s. Address: Commanding Officer Naval Air Station JNITED/STATES NAVAL AIR STATION RICHMOND, FLORIDA December 24, 1943 Dear Yoe: Just a few lines to let you know that I had not completely forgotten you. For the last several weeks they have had me on several jobs and they all require a lot of extra work, The athletic officer is on leave and since I am the leading chief all his work has fallen on my shoulders along with the news- paper editorship and coaching the basketball team. This later job is the one that I want to write to you about, I have several good boys on the team but find it very difficult to get them all out at the same time due to their having to perform their military duties first and then play {= secondary. , Cy oe One man in particular is sure to be of interest to you Writ in a long way around. He is Charles Welchel who was one of Melvin Griffin's pupils while out in Long Beach Jr. College. A pery You will remember that Griff was Mittsamixmtm coach gs well as several of the old Lawrence High boys. What got me was the way he handled himself. Every fundamental exercise that I gave he would say that he had done the same thing while in school so I finally asked him where he went to school. 4fter he told me I knew that Griff had been giving the old KU system in coach- ing his teams, , We are building a portable basketball floor in one of the hangars and we shovld be able to boast that we have the largest basketball areana in the world. I will let you know what we do in the way of victories when we get started. I expect to be playing right after the first of the year. © Will close for now and enclose a copy of the Richmond News for your approval. Be sure and read the sport page about the basketball team. The'sports editor really fixed me up. tape ore ye ie rite < Pe ee ee SUES Eee Sen EK a J Phare ae okt rae btirinn omy : Sits bare ¥ tucee Pir letras aa Lona. : 7 Got tn. @9eoe5eteee . e . U. S. NAVAL TRAINING STATION GREAT LAKES, ILLINOIS Jane 8,1944 Dear Doctor: eee Thanks for sending the Rebound. We enjoyed them very much and have often wondered about so many of the Jayhawkers. The Rebound settles lots of questions.| However, we haven't seen the one that tells of T. P. Hunter's goa ROT PAYEE LEONA whereabouts. The last we heard was his missing in action. Evidentally he has been found according to the last issue. We have subscrébed to the Lawrence Fae from which we get most of the newse I noticed you have predicted Iowa State to win the Conference Champ-— jonship. But we will be pretty close, won't we? I would bet ona tie, at leagt. Your team seems to be doing alright. What will they be doing by the end of the season!! OT I get a big kick out of pointing out to several of the chiefs that we have beaten their Alma Mater. This year I have had more opportunities than usual. The football victory over Missouri provided several opportinities to rub it in. The basketball schedule doesn't show a game up tnis way so I probably won't get to see any. Great lakes has a good team and will play some good teams Before the season is over. Western Michigan is here tonight with a good team.. Phillips '66' is coming here in March. I saw several good football games this Eall. I saw the Chicago Bears play twice and,of course, the Great Lakes -Notre Dame upset. | You and Mrs. Allen will probably be glad to have Bob stationed so close. When he is married your children will all be married, won't they. We read U. S. NAVAL TRAINING STATION GREAT LAKES, ILLINOIS about Eleanor's wedding. It must have been a very nice one. Yes, Eltrude is the girl that used to make me toe the mark. Bétween you and her, I was forced to walk a pretty straight line and haven't deviated from it yet. We are enjoying life very much here. There is always plenty to do. Sometimes it gets too cold to do much. Right now it is snowing plenty. , I must close. Give my regards to Mrs Allen and all the rest. Respectfully yours, Le fee Merch 1, 1944. Mr. Thomas C. . Director of Physical Edusation and Athletics, MoPherson College, McPherson, Zansase Dear Mr. Hayden: I find thet I made an error when I said Hutohingon Naval Air Base. It was the Herington Army Air Base. We played at Herington and while we were-out there Lieut. Feller gave me the information that I wrote you, although I used the wrong base in describing the location of Lieut. Feller. I do appreciate your frankness, but I em wondering if anyone from your staff met Lieut. Feller, or did you? Sincerely yours, Director of Physical Education, FCA:AH Varsity Basketball Coach. McPherson College Ww. W. PETERS, PRES. McPherson, Kansas February 25, 1944 DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION AND ATHLETICS THOMAS C. HAYDEN, DIRECTOR MISS JEAN STAEHLING Dr. Forrest Allen Director of Physical Education Kansas University Lawrence, Kansas Dear Coach Allen; I received your letter of the 23rd this morning and I appreciate very much your coming to me directly with this matter. I hope we may be able to spike any such rumors as you mentioned in your letter, because it is absolutely unfounded. I have never met Lt. Feller of the Hutchinson Naval Air Base; neither have I ever been on the base. Bill Hennigh called me sometime ago asking us to fill in on his schedule on a vacant date and after some discussion we decided not to schedule a game. This is absolutely the only connection or conversation of any kind I have had with any one connected with the Hutchinson Naval Base. I have had a nice college basketball team but had all the games I cared to play and have not been turned down by any one or refused any one a game. Some of our local Kansas University alumni have asked me to try and schedule a game with you but I have always told them I though I knew where I belonged and did not care to play any more games. MWe played Kansas State two games and our relations were excellent. I am very sorry this rumon is out and I hope it may be spiked at once because I do not care to be a party of such publicity. Thanking you for writing me directly, I remain Very truly yours, Oe ce é Keg dees Thomas C. Hayden tch/dvd February 23, 1944. i am wondering if that gould have been e mistake and that ' you tried to get a game with Kansas State. Certainly we never reosived a letter from you or your school, or we would have answered the same. I am just shecking up because so often we hear it said that smaller achools desired a gane with the University but the University would not play then. That has never been our policy, as generally each year we ee ee eee ee they have desired it. ie enh, dae aebobula Sa ser nin, Wek Xceed pes & ee eee that might arise. Very sincerely yours, - Directer of Physical Bducation, PCA :AH Varsity Basketball Coach. February 18, 1944. Mir. James Erwin Hemera, 903 South Delaware Street, Independence, No. Dear Jim: I am very glad to write a recommendation for you, and trust that you will receive your commission of lieutenant : ee grade. With all good wishes, and hoping for a smashing vietory over the slit-eyes and squareheads, I am Sinserely yours, Director of Physical Education, FCA :AH Varsity Basketball Coach. Enc. : Pobruary 18, 1944. was prompt, efficient and intelligently agrressive. I came in clese contact with him many times and found hin at all tines to be a most earnest and serious student. In my opinion he deserves your very careful consideration. Very sincerely yar's, “Direstor of Physies] Rducation, FOA:AR | Varsity Basketball Cand. 1942 THURSDAY NOVEMBER SM T W T Fs L232. 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