Meese, Wyoming

WILSON,

Feb. 7, 1941

 

Dre Allen

Dept. of Athletics
University of Kansas
Lawrence, Kansas

Dear Dr. Allen:

Mr. Harry Downs has mentioned a time or
two that he had talked with you about a possible interest
in my program for boys out here in Jackson Hole. Each
time he has mentioned it I have had a strong impulse to
write directly to you, for I believe we understand the
same language.

I remember hearing an address of yours
at a Kiwanis Club luncheon in Lawrence. . It clicked so
with my own philosophy of building men out of boys that
I wrote you a note of appreciation.

There are two supreme places where a boy
can come up against a superb self he never kmew existed
---- and perhaps make it a part of his normal self ---;
one is the athletic field and the other is with nature
in the raw. You have built your life into boys thru
one medium and I thru the other.

Perhaps we could combine forces to the
advantage of all concerned, including the boys.

Sincerely yours

CSH/e. ()