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.