Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
April I6th. 1944

Dr. Forrest C Allen
Kansas University
Lawrence Kansas.

Dear Phog;=- I am enclosing a clipping from the "Cedar Rapids
Gazette".This article appeared on Friday april I4th. I suppose coppies
have already been sent you but some times,each thinking the other will
send it,they are omitted. I hope you like it.

I think I did not tell you of Dorothy and Reg as to their educatiag

We moved to Lawrence for the purpose of education for them but things
were not right there so we sent them east. Dorothy graduated from
Vassar then taught a year in a finishing school for girls near liiddle-
burg Virginia. There she met Rogers Fred and was married later on.

Fox hunting is the big sport there and she took it up in all ite
phases. She was thrown from her horse while hunting.

Reg graduated from #ashington- Lee(Engineering school)University.

This school is at Lexington Va. He did excellent work there and made
quite a name for himself. Our company put him to work at once and he
has been with them ever since. He spent eight years in Colombia handlig
foreign property for our company and was within ten days of being
advanced to Gen Mgr. for the whole country when he was taken sick and
he was brought back at once to the U.S. where he spent some time in

the hospital and outside under the doctors care. He was at Miami Beach
while recovering and was then transferred to Durham, N.C. I spent four
years there having charge of all property on the northern coast ame
for two years and two years as Gen Mgr.for the whole country. The compap
had at that time about eleven million dollars invested and it required
@ lot of looking after. [J came home and thought I was a total wreck but
soon recovered after reaching the states.

I will never forget the look on the face of that Colombian boy when
I showed him that copy of "My Basket-ball Bible. * He realed off a lot
Spanish and when he had finished I asked my Stenog. what he had said.
"Wants to know if he can borrow it*® was her translation."Tell him it
is his" I said. That called for a great oration. They certainly ddd
make good use of it.You autographed it before sending it out and they
knew your name and decided that you were the greatest man in the U.S.
About every two weeks some one of them came in to thank us again for
for the book.

L am certainly glad I got to talk with you. It brought back old
times. To this day Lawrence seems more like home to me than any other
place I have ever been.

We send our best regards to both Mrs allen and yourself. Wishing for
you continued -success in your chosen field I amm

Yours Sincefely ~

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2588 Blake Blvd
Cedar Rapids, lowa.