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Dr. Forrest C. Allen
Athletic Department

University of Kansas
Lawrence, Kansas

Dear Friend Phog,

I have written you about everything under the sun except

girls, and so to make sure the record is complete, that's

what I am doing now. Of course, you understand that I know
the man who runs a department in the University and coaches the
Varsity team has plenty of time to wet nurse all the freshmen
that might decide to go to the University of Kansas and under=
standing this full well, here is the story.

Mariam Calder, 1215 Oread Ave., has entered the University of

Kansas as a freshman. Not having a daughter and she being the
daughter of our best friends and knowing her even before she

arrived, we couldn't think more of her if she were our own

flesh and blood. Her father was a Crewman at Cornell, a frat-

ernity man, captain in the artillery in the last war, is now one

of the executives of the Mid-Continent Refinery. Her mother

was one of the outstanding students at Vassars She has family

back of her to who laid the chalk. She went to Holland Hall, a

girls school at Andover, Massachusetts. She is attractive, healthy,
red-headed and is everything that a girl shoudd be but she doesn't
have the right contacts to get a bid from one of the three sororities
that she thought were tops at K.U. She was invited by four, but they
did not appeal to her as much as the others and the child is very
much disappointed.

I think the real disappointment is that she never has been

situated where she could have boy friends and she has gotten the
impression that unless you belong to the right group at the
University, you haven't any chance at social life. She may or

may not be right. I am sort of old fashioned and feel that a lot

of barnacles have attached themselves to our so-called educational
system and that there are things in universities quite as big as the
social life, but my thinking doesn't help a girl entering the
University as a freshman, very much.

Now this is what I have in mind, Phog, you might happen to meet
this girl or you might be talking with some of your own fraternity
men and could tip off the freshmen where they could meet a classy
date with the kind of girl you would be proud to have as a daughter.
She isn't a necker, but she is a good sport and a thorobred. She
made an athletic letter at Abbotts and just a youngster thet
enybody can be proud of. Of course, you haven't time to put

yourself out any and you are not in a position to do it, but if by
accident your paths should cross, this is a good-sized read-heade