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Dr. Forrest C. Allen Page. Se May 3, 1937

Schreiber is a Cleveland German boy, who came up through the West-side Turnverein,
went to the Purnverein’ school at Indianapolis, the A.G.U.; worked for us on the
playgrounds in the meantime, then went to the University of Michigan where I
secured him part-time employment for Mitchell in the Intramural Department, and
where he got his Bachelorts and Master's degree in Physical Education, He then
returned to us and taught four years at John Marshall High School and now is back
at the University, working on his Doctor's degree, teaching in the meantime, He.
is married and has one child, I believe. I think you could attract him for the
salary you mention, and Schreiber has lots of real ability. He can do any number
of things; knows about intramurals; he can teach your formal work, and you will
want some taught in your regular course. He has an inquisitive turn of mind,

is interested in research, and I think has a good personality. He is a good,
steady, hard-working German, with a fine type of mind. You could have the Dean
of your School of Education contact the University of Michigan's School of
Education, and ask them what they think of Schreiber. Their opinion should be
worth considerably more than mine, because I have never seen Schreiber excepting a
as & playground worker and a teacher in high school. I have never had him as a
student, and you sometimes get different opinions of people when looking at them |
from the different points of view.

 

There is a third thing I wovld suggest you interest yourself in doing, for
purely personal reasons. Kansas does not have a State Director of Physical Udu-
cation (or at least it didn't the last time I knew). You, with your highly
developed political sense, should be able to get the legislature to create such a
position. Naturally, you are going to have to sell the State Director of Edu-
cation first, and then after that get the thing through the legislature and get |
the right person appointed. Being instrumental in doing a thing of this sort

would put you in the forefront as far as the placement of your teachers is con-
cerned. After all, the thing that makes a school successful is the ability to
place its teachers, upon graduation. It isn't necessary for me to 0 into this
at any length, to explain what an advantage this would be to you and to the
University of Kansas. You could head up in-the University mech of the activity
of the state, I believe,

You shonld have no difficulty in getting yourself into the councils of the State
Athletic Association as well, and here again, close personal contact and friend-
ship means much more in placement. I think you have a man by the name of
Thomas in Topeka, who is the Executive Secretary of the organization, or he was
the last tim I was in contact with the situation. You probably know more about
this than I do.

I should like to sit down and talk with you at considerable length about this

whole thing because I have some rather positive ideas about it. You may be sure
that I will be glad to give you the benefit of such advice as I can from time

to time, but I would caution you to give the acid test to any suggestions I make,
vecause, as I have indicated above, I have some very positive ideas - which

doesn't prove at all that they are the absolutely correct ones. My notions can

be just as wrong as anybody else's, but having had a variety of all types of
experience - teacher training, state director and director of a large city system =
I do feel that I know something about what ought to go in to make a good teacher

of physical education,

 

 

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