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THE GREAT BEND JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL
RALPH W. HOGAN, PRINCIPAL
GREAT BEND, KANSAS

O. E. MCFERREN, VICE-PRINCIPAL

one hundred and eighty pairs of feet per day for.a solid week, and
even yet we are painting them once a week. I have the boys broken
in now and they are doing their own paint jobs, I think we have
the situation pretty well in hand now and 1 hope we can keep it so.

The administration was quite willing to buy whatever we wanted
and we are trying to give a well balanced program including all
types of leadup games to basketball, badminton, volleyball, touch
football, horseshoes, shuffleboard, deck tennis, tumbling, and
plenty of calisthenics, I think I told you when I was in your
office a short tine ago that we were considering the purchase
or some "Goal-Hi" and we now have five of them in use; one at each
grade school and one at each the junior and senior highs, The
kids really do like’ them and of course you know that I think
they are the perfect setup for learning basket shooting, lie are
also installing the new type of basketball backboard both for
practice and game use, ‘ie play our games in the new city audit-
orium and our first squad also worksout there. The reserves work
in the high school gym as does the junior high outfit. I have
already erected four new goals in the high school gym and that
makes eight shooting goals for practice. I also bought a dogen
new balls which gives us ample opportunity for shooting practice,
Now my only headache is finding the needed time,

The boys in my junior high physical ed classes are really
pretty bad, "Doc", as far as basketball is concerned. Many of
them have never senn a game and none of them have ever played in
a game because the provisions have never been made for any kind
of a grade school or junior high scedule. In other words, it
will be a matter of building from the ground up. Maybe it will
be something like a "five year plan",

I wish the best of luck to you and your boys this coming
season and I would really appreciate you keeping your fingers
crossed for me, Of course, I refer to your "Better Basketball"
continually and it really does give a lot of help that I really
didn't know I had at hand, If you think of anything that I could
do which might help the situation here in a hurry, I sure would
like to hear from you.

Thanking you for all past favors, I remain,

ours very truly,

K Lei,

Gerald K, Barker

Basketball Voach
“reat Bend Senior High Schl
Great Bend, Kansas.

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