April 80, 1945.

Dr. Re I. Ganuteson,
Direetor, Student Health Service,
University of Kansas.

Dear Dr. Canutesox:

i am answering your letter of Maroh 28, a copy of which
you sent to Chancellor Malott and Dean Lawson. At our budget neoting
&@ couple of weeks ago this question was brought up indireotly. Dean
Lawson said that the Chancellor was already excusing all the Cinobarged
soldiers from taking physical edusation.

I said, “Well, they are = 4-F now anyhow, or they
would not be discharged.”

: Then he said he wag sure ‘that they would not have com-
pulsory physical education after the war. I said to him, “Well, I am

sure that that is the educators’ viewpoint now besause the deans be-

fore the war were go tee compulsory physical education even with

the wer orisis on, And it would be an unusual reaction for them, as

I view their thinking, to swing over for on physical education

during peace time."

But I am convinced when the legions of American boys get
back that the American Legion may foree this dow the educators' throats.
They are the boys that have been in it and have know their lack of
physical condition when they got into the service and their fitness now.

Henry Shenk and the other man on the staff have a plen
for @ course in restricted physical conditioning whereby no student
would be exempt for physical reasons. Iam going to make a date with
you some time, and Henry and I will sit down and shew the fat. At
that time we oan take up this question for discussion ag to a definite
interpretation as to which one of the groups you desoribe should be
excused from physical conditioning.

Very sincerely yours,

| ale Director of Physical Hdiucation,
* POA:AH | Varsity Basketball Coach.