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KANSAS CITY, MO.
F ebe 25
1948

Personal and Confidential

 

Dr. Forrest ©. Allen
Athletic Department
University of Kansas
Lawrence, Kansas

Dear Dr. Allen:

Acknowledging yours of the 25rd, which I just re-
ceived, I wanted to thank you for the time you spent with
us and the very good information you gave us last Thursday.
I fully intended writing you immediately upon my return to
Kansas City, but got in such a whirl trying to make a living
I neglected to do so.

After leaving you the other evening we had a meet-
ing with the boys at the house, and I was impressed with the
sincerity of our boys and also by the fact that there did not
seem to be a malicious person among theme They freely ad-
mitted Don had not done any one individual thing which would
come close to merit having his pin lifted, that he was ab-
sOlutely honest and probably his intentions were goode It
seems as if he just simply didn't have the ability to make the
boys understand him, and, as a result, due to the fact that
they are young and had no older person to advise them at the
time, they took a step which the alumni think was too drastic.

The charge was conduct unbecoming to an AeTeQ. and
detrimental to the fraternity. Of course, you can see this
is very vague and general. Boiling it down, they said he was
too conspicuous, had a tendency to fight at the drop of a hat,
was inconsistent in his attitude toward the freshmen, treated
some of the sophomores as if they were freshmen and on date
nights refused to put on a coat, white shirt and all that sort
of silliness.

When you look at this on a piece of paper it looks
very trivial and foolish. It seems as if it is more a
repetition of little things than anything else. They finally
just got exasperated, and, unfortunately, I do not think we
have a man in the chapter who is old enough, steady enough
and with a strong enough personality to get the picture over