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Dr. Forrest C. Allen | Page 2. May 3, 1937

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The second thing I think of off-hand that you should give your attention to is to
the matter of training people for the field of recreation. The two things,
recreation and physical education, are not the same thing. Some of the treining
of each will carry over into the other field, but by and large, there are =
differences. I am going to take the liberty of writing to a personal friend of hdc y zx a
minc, James Baward Rogers, whom you mention as knowing, I am going to tip him aef~
off that the first time he is in your locality, he ovght to see you.ek Jimny Rogers ey oe
is, I think, es well posted a man as there is in the United States, This is hur
particularly true in the field of recreation, and I would give him 4 good vacuum a
cleaning when he comes along, particularly on that side of the thing. My guess |
is that there is going to be more of a demand for people who can administer

both physical education and recreation in the next twenty-five years than there

is for straight teachers of physical education,

In my opinion you should join the National Recreation Association, which costs 3
you $5.00 a year and for which you get their magazine end bulletin twice a month.
Send your money to Howard Braucher, 315 Fourth Ave., New York City.

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If at all possible and your work permits at this time of the year (and you can
ask the University for expense money) I would attend the Recreation oe at
Atlantic = May 17 to 22.

At the last National Recreation Congress, held in Chicago, there were representa-

tives from eight different universities taking copious notes and plugging away at

getting pointers for a course for the training of recreation leaders, However,

they all had in mind just ea course or two that they could add to the regular

physical education course. My guess is that this is not proper procedure, I

have a feeling that you with your experience in coaching competitive athletics

will also have a different viewpoint of the situation, once you look around and

go into this matter of recreation leadership. The average physical education

course trains people to handle grovps of children or adults, es the case may be,

but usually on schedule and under some sort of disciplinary control, Recreation
is different. You have to get your people in recreation through interest appeal
and, therefore, it seems to me that the difference in training is essential,

at the figure you mention, but if you aren't in too big a hurry, it might save
you some embarrassment if I made inouiries and got lines on half a dozen people
for you, and sort of weeded out the candidates. What I am trying to say is this;
if you announce that you are looking for a fellow, you will literally be swamped
with applicants. Every one, good, bad and indifferent, will have dozens of
friends who will write you how good they are. That is one thing advanced edu-
cation seems to have done, On the other hand, I can write to a half dozen friends
of mine who know of some really good prospects, and I can tip you off. You could
then go about looking them up in your own way, without being flooded with a lot
of correspondence and the pressure that goes along with it. Do you have to have
@ man with a Ph.D., or can you take a man with his Master's degree who is working
toward his PheD.? If you are looking for the latter sort of fellow, it would pay
you to look into Nicholar Schreiber who is now connected with Ann Arbor High
School and is taking work towerd his Ph.D. degree at the University of Michigan.

Regarding the matter of some one with a Ph.D., wish to say that you can get one Fake
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