August 29, 1941.

Mr. Gerald Hesse,
Lawrence Paper Nill,
Lawrence, Kansas.

Deay Gerald:

T heve talked to Dean Alien Reese,
School, night before last and tried to sell him a Country .
Club gevibership. He tells mo that he hes played golf
end likes it, and I believe somebody close to him could hin
@ membership. He is now staying at the Bldridge Hotel - he has a
suite of rooms there.

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Toubtless you as chairmen of the membership committee
of the Country Club can inguire as to his close associates and
write a prescription to suit hime :

I also talked to Henry Shenk, a new mam in our
Physical Education Tepertment. 1 am going to play golf with him
this afternoons. He has the courtesy membership card issued him

and proposed by Will Moore, the in men « Prudential, I think.
Moore is a meuber, of cours¢e Shenk been at Junction City as
coach and athletic director for the past eight or ten years. He
made a great record there and doubtless you remember him catching
that long forward pass in 1927 and pedaling 40 yards northward to
the goel line for one of the touchdowns thet beat Missouri 14 to 7.
Gwinn Henry was coeching that year and he had a great team, and we
were supposed to take about a 20 or 30 to nothing licking. Barrett
Hamilton made the other touchdown, and Flemak made the one for
Wissouri in the first few minutes of plays

Shenk is in my department now taking the place of
Burt DeGroot. He told me that he might join if he could get his
work arranged satisfactorily. I told him that since.
I would guarantee that. So there will be some salesmanship
in his case, but I believe that he will make a valuable member. Pere
haps we would have to scrape up a membership for him.

: Now for another prospect - Dean George 3B. Smith, of the
School of Bduention. I do not kmow whether he plays golf or not but
1 got a letter from Pred Luchring, assistant dean of physical eduo-
ation at the University of Pemsylvania. Luchring was athletic dir
ector at Nebraska while I was at Kensas, and he later went to Minne~-
sota as athletic director there. Luehring wrote when Dean Smith
was appointed here, praising Jean Smith very highly as a man inter=
ested in activities of all kinds. You kmow that he has been proposed
and, I believe, elected to Rotary, so somebody might get him on the

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