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"T trust that the National Basketball
Committee will continue to merit and to
receive your cooperation and valued aid in
promoting the welfare of basketball.

"With kindest regards to you and to my
many other friends in the Coaches Associa-
DORs 1 ant

Very sincerely yours,
(Signed) Oswald Tower"
In honoring Oswald we certainly honored ourselves.

The committee from the Coaches Association that names the
recipient for 1945 will soon be sending in their votes. rr -you
have suggestions you wish to. send in, add them to the reply sheet
vou find attached,

Our membership shows somewhat over 200 coaches at the same
position as for the.last several years-~160 other coaches either
in service or in changed position and another group of coaches
we've lost track of. These 450 coaches are those who have been
members some time since 1940.

Your Secretury-Treasurer, Howard Hobson, is at present
serving the government. .

This letter and questionnaire are being sent to 206 coaches
who sre now coaching in the same positions as for the last few
years and who have been members for some time. A few are at present
in arrears on membership dues.

Cordially yours,

EJH/nd EDWARD J. HICKOX