Box 869,
Eugene, Oregon,
January 7, 1945.

Dr. Forrest ©. Allen,

Director of Physical Education,
University of. Kansas,

Lawrence, Kansas.

Dear Dr. Allen:
- : Thank you for your letter of
December 27. It was forwarded to me at Eugene, where
I am employed in the University of Oregone I am
rather sorry to report that at the present time I

-am teaching only freshman compositione My letter

of December 16 was, incidentally, written after I

had arrived in Los Angeles for a visit during the
holidays.

Very naturally I am glad that you could
tell me that you knew nothing of the unfortunate
matter of which I wrote. In spite of my statement
that I did not imply that the rumor - if one can
call it so much as that - came from your Department,
perhaps my deliberate vagueness in one respect may
have left you in doubt. It may be best for me to

‘tell you that the woman who made so much of the matter =. |

at the place I mentioned gave a former member of

the coaching staff of the University of Kansas aS
authority for the statements regarding my “career"
in-Lawrentee Incidentally, again, I am afraid that:
I cannot take up this matter directly with any of
peopleimost diréatly concerned with it at that place
until this elderly woman has been retired from the
executive position that she now holds - barring, of
course, a real emergency. Fears have been expressed,
as to retaliation she might make. This cannot fail |
to give you some notion as to her temperament.

I have myself the feeling that this pars ~=
ticular matter may have been brought up by her to