FRED MEDART MANUFACTURING Co.

POTOMAC AND DE KALB STREETS

SAINT Louris, Mo.

E. J. MEDART
PRESIDENT

July 31, 1940

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

Lawrence, Kansas

Dear Dr. Allens

I want to let you know how much I appreciated your willingness to
come to Chicago for our conference on a physical fitness program.
I was requested to also state the appreciation of the other men in
our industry. :

We have come to the conclusion that our most practical procedure,
at the moment, is to interest ourselves in promoting the Senate
bill for the establishment of a national physical fitness insti-
tute, Naturally, our industry would like to see the bill, as
finally enacted, in form which would encourage systematized mass
physical training, We are also interested in the type of direc-
tor that may be selected to head up this institute.

In view of your strong recommendation of Dr. Stafford, Mr. Wm, S.
Miller of the J. E. Porter Corporation has been delegated to in-
terview him at Champaign.

Roy has spoken to me about the conditions under which you might be
willing to take this position, I think the industry might be able
to influence the appointment of a director and, naturally, we would
like to know that any man we might concentrate on would be willing
to accept the appointment; and we would, of course, like to know
that this man's ideas would, more or less, coincide with ours in
the matter of a program of physical training.

We are going to keep in close touch with this situation and I will
be glad to keep you informed of developments. In the meantime,
you might be making some investigation as to what the new program
will be and who might volunteer advice to the Senate Committee.
Undoubtedly, the men selected for this work will be members of the
Physical Education Association of which, I believe, Dean Rogers is
President this term.

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