Address Reply to:
The Office of Naval Officer Procure-
ment, Second Floor, Finance Building,

1009 Baltimore Ave., KansasCity 6,Mis- BUREAU OF NAVAL PERSONNEL

souri, and not to the signer of this letter.
NAVY DEPARTMENT

OFFICE OF NAVAL OFFICER PROCUREMENT
KANSAS CITY 6, MISSOURI

REFER TO NO.

 

 

 

Dr. F. C, Allen,
University of Kansas,
Lawrence, Kas,

Dear Doc: ,
Checking up on the case of Mr. Ball I find that his application

will probably be forwarded to Washington for final action within the next day or

SOe One more letter of reference,which is believed to be on the way,is all

that is holding it up. While it is,of course, impossible to state with any

certainty what action will be taken in Washington our previous experience
has shown that well over 50 per cent of the applications submitted by us
are favorably acted upon, Mr. Ball will probably receive an official notification
from this office within a few days informing him that his application has
been forwarded, but I would appreciate it if you would pass the above information
on to him personally, since he did ask you to communicate with me,

Thank you very much for your kind words on the telephone about
the handball and also for the thoughtful letter you wrote after I had won the
Missouri Valley. I have derived immeasureable satisfaction, pleasure,
exercise and a certain amount of self-discipline out of the game, and I never
forget that it was you who got me started playing ite At the tournament in
Chicago I was pleased to have several people tell me that they thought I was
the most ‘ dieteven player there.If that was the case, a great deal of it can
be attributed to what you taught me on the basketball court.
Bee ore M, O'Leary
Lieut. USNR.

Sincerely,