Che Dickinson County Community High School

O. O. SMITH, PRINCIPAL
WALTER F. KUIKEN, ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL

CHAPMAN, KANSAS
February 4, 1940

Dr. F. C. Allen
Robinson Gymnasium
University of Kansas
Lawrence, Kansas

Dear Dr. Allen:

Congratuletions on the fine work the basketball team has been
doing. I have been anxious to see K U play at least once this year
but it doesn't seem likely that I'll be able to make it. Here's
Good Luck to you and I know that you will ent up with a very
successful season.

Any news about K U, and especially about the P. EB. Department
has been very interesting to me. Each time I receive a copy of the
Sasnak News, I have to sit right down and read it from cover to
cover. All of which makes me want to catch the first train back
to Lewrence, to see everyone and everything that is going on. Am
very much afraid that my next trip back will not be until Pley
Day and the Kansas Relays.

Now that second semester has arrived, I am really enjoying
life. Still working hard but have learned a lot and am more.
familiar with the work then last semester. My Penmanship and Spel-
ling classes have changed into Junior Business Training and I have
& new group of students in Commercial Arithmetic. The two physical
education classes are as large as ever, but for next year I have
been promised at least three Freshman classes with a classroom for
use in teaching health. It makes me feel as if perhaps I had made
a step forward in thet direction.

I am enjoying this year's work more that I ever imagined that
I could--have a grand group of teachers to work with, twenty-one
others; the most wonderful gymnasium in this part part of the
State in any high school; and am free to teaching anything I want
to in my classes except, of course, dancing--in any form. Other
than that, though I have no restrictions from the administrators.
According to them, "Dancing is a problem, and one which we don't
want in Chapman. One type of dancing brings on the other kinds,
so, we won't have eny dancing, therefor will not be bothered by
the dancing problem." And I might add, dancing is the one thing in
which the boys and girls of the school are interested.

Since this school year is going so quickly it brings m to
thinking about the coming summer. I am thinking of attending the
Camp Session of New York University at Lake Sebago, beginning July 1.