March 20, 1941

Mire Alston MeCarthy
780 York Street

Dear Alston:

_I lmow that you have plenty to do without being asked an
additional chorée However, I am saying something to you that I want

. _ you to keep in strict confidences

I am desirous of helping a very worthy person and her family and
af ean help or can get some of your good friends in Denver te help,
T will, deeply appreciate ite Ernst “Dutch” thrlaub, one of the Vhrlaub
ns who pleyed basketball here and wis my captain in 1921, and who
iso played a fine game of Varsity Baseball as well as being an expert
in golf, has been divorced by his wife, Vernadine Uhrlaub, There are
two children in the fenily and Dutoh mas not seen fit to support them,
although there is a court order to that effect.

i

Mey I give you @ little background of Dutch's marital dislocations
Duteh taught at Salina, Kensas after having made e fine success in
Arkansas Citye lie was fine with the boys and a good coach, He mrried
hig wife, who was one of the students in the Selina High School, after her
graduatione She previously had been in his classese They had two lovely
Children end apparently everybody was hapoy, but the same old triangle
worked to the detriment of the familys

She was @ school teacher in the Salina School System, that -

Dateh became enamored with, and thet broke up the homes Of cowse, he |
iost his job as did the other teachers I did not mow all the |
at the time, but I imew that he had lost the job and I heard pretty
| Gefinitely that it was his faulte Wot being able to procure a job,
I suggested to Dutch that he come to the University and work out his
Master's Degree, which he dide My only motive was in helping him and the
. familye

My notion was that if he should get a Master's Degree it would
again make him more valuable and perhaps get him a job at a better salary,
and in thet wy a part of his salary would go toward the support of the
childrens So he came to the University a year ago and I engaged him as
my Fresimmn Basketball Coach and my Assistant Varsity Coach, Imowing that.
he imew basketball and feeling we might lift him up and put him in a better
enviroment, both mentally and physically, than he had been exposed to the
last yoar so previously to thige