PHONE 428

Drucs MILLER DRUG CO. SUNDRIES

RUBBER Goops B. W. MILLER, PROPRIETOR KODAKS

HOSPITAL SUPPLIES STATIONERY

723 STORY STREET

Sept. 3, 1944 Boone, lowa

Dr.Forrest C. Allen, Director
Physical Education Department
University of Kansas
Lawrence, Kansas

Dear Dr. Allens:

Thank you for your friendly letter; I must apologize for taking your
time this way but there are still some things I would like to know about

the possibilities of my becoming a trainer.

I am at present in business with my father and as I said have a fairly
good outlook. However, I have been dissatisfied for some time and would
like to get into this other type of work if I could be assured of making
a living. Don’t misunderstand me, I am willing and convinced that a man
must work to~support a family but I am in a rut and want a chance to get
a little fresh air and excercise and try to make ends meet too, I think
it can be dome. This attitude has not been a result of wartime help short-
ages and difficulties in the drug store. :

My experience in athletics has been mostly as a spectator. I won three
major-letters in golf at the University of Iowa and played a little basket-
ball in high school, otherwise I don’t qualify as a trainer according to
your philosophy except that I am fond of athletics and physical fitness.

T hope this gives you abetter idea of myself and that you can give me
a more definite answer as to how I should proceed. Perhaps you would
advise me to wait until after the war or try to get into this line in case
T enter the service. I have done a great deal of thinking about it and am
in no particular hurry, just impatient to get started if you think I can
make a go of it. I would want an idea of how long it would take to learn,