THE FIRST METHODIST CHURCH

SALINA, KANSAS
MISS ELOUISE STEWART . MISS MADALEINE KLE
LEPPER
SECRETARY 4 ROBERT A. HUNT, MINISTER PASTOR'S ASSISTANT

July 31, 1942

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Dear Dr. Allen:-

May I have a confidential chat with you on matters
that must not go beyond this correspondence. You have always
been a wise counselor and I respect your opinion.

Of course you know the anxiety of a father's heart for

his son's welfare. I have but the one boy,= and of course I am
intensely interested in his future.

Robert will finish the Physical Instructors Course
about SeRtember 15th. Then will come the question of assignment.
I notice that Paul Christman has been assigned to work at Columbia
Missouri for this fall. Also that one of the coaches from Manhattan
had been assigned to the YVardner project. Canady was sent back to
Kansas and there are other such cases. I am wondering if that
just happened or if there was some influence that aided in placing
them 8G: aiucH-> to their liking. Have you any influence that
could be used in bringing Robert to some training base near home?
I understand that they have a number of Navy men in training at
K.U. and will have more this fall. It would be so fine if Robert
could come back here for his work, Can you see any chance to

help him at all?

Of course we have another worry and that is that it
seems that they are not giving all the boys Physical Instructor
Assignments but placing them in others branches of the service.
Robert will do his best any place he, adsigned but he will be very
much dissapointed if he is not allowed to do the thing for which
he enlisted-and that is Training work.

I do not want a word said to any one that I have written
to you- I merely want your judgment in the matter. Robert does
not know that I have written thus- he woubd not want me to even
raise the question. But you have boys and I know your fatherly
interest in your own and also in other boys who have been close to
you. I want your opinion on the whole matter. I shall hold
strictly confidential all you say.

I am going to Lebo- Kansas for a few weeks and you
may address me there in care of C. C. Cummins.

With best wishes, I remain ,
Most cord

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