SOUTHWEST MISSOURI
STATE TEACHERS COELEGE
SPRINGFIELD

ROY ELLIS, PRESIDENT

April 26, 1945

Dr. Forest C. Allen

Director of Physical Education
University of Kansas

Lawrence, Kansas
Dear Doc;

I was quite pleased to get the note from your desk and the alumni
letter concerning the stadium bondse You folks certainly worked up your
letter in nice shape, and I trust you had a very good response. I am
frank to say to you personally, I think you did a marvelous job from the
beginning of your stadium drive through all the years which you had all that

responsibility. In fact I don't know of a one man achievement plus the
help you mey have had that is more outstanding, and again f Say. that was
really something in those years that you battled for it. midi,

I have certainly missed not having teams the last two years, but feel
that I have been in what is a real war effort working first with the Air Corps
and now with the Reconditioning Battalion at our college in connection with
O'Reilly General Hospital. If ever a group needed any help that one can give
them, these wounded soldiers doe It is wonderful the results that are gotten
in some of these cases. As you can readily understand with the surgical cases
now in particular each becomes an individual case to handle.

I had hoped I might get to see your team play last year or drop through
Lawrence, but I haven't had a day off since last July.

While completing my work lest spring at Louisiana State for my Masters
Degree, I ran on to an ASTP sergeant who used to be at Lawrence, and he
showed me a copy of the Jayhawk Rebounds which I was very much interested in
seeing. You certainly are doing splendid contact work there which is very
much appreciated, I know. I happened to see a number put out last spring.

I guess I will forgive you for unintentionally omitting my name in your 1923
team. It's probably easy for you to understand how I might notice it, but I
assure you that I meant unintentional as stated above.

I wish I had a good copy of my thesis to send you, but all I have are
fourth and fifth typed copies. The copies that were bound are available
through the library service at Louisiana State. I think that you would be
pleased to know that the jury of forty-four coaches who responded gave you
full credit for what you have done, and I personally did my best to bring
out what I thought was your most pertinent contribution to different playing
techniques of the game from your letter and from your two books on basketball.

Well, Doc, time slips by faster than we want it to, and I did want you

to know I really appreciated your thinking of me and sending that letter and
particularly your personal note. With best regards to yourself and family.

Sincerely, Oe

Andy M me.

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