ERNEST M. BEST, PRESIDENT WILLIAM M. KINGSLEY, TREASURER BENJAMIN A. FRANKLIN
HERBERT L. PRATT, VICE-PRESIDENT WALLACE V. CAMP, ASSISTANT TREASURER CHAIRMAN EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

SPRINGFIELD COLLEGE

CORPORATE NAME
INTERNATIONAL YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION COLLEGE JOHN D. BROCK, M. P. E., M. ED.
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So SPRINGFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS SECRETARY
G. B. AFFLECK, A. M., M. P. E.

DIRECTOR

ELMER BERRY, B.S., M. P. E., ED. D.
CHAIRMAN GRADUATE COUNCIL

May 28, 1937

Dr Forrest C Allen
Physical Director
University of Kansas
Lawrence, Kansas

Dear Dr Allen:

Yours of a short time ago to Dr. Berry, together with his
reply, have come to me as I am charged among other duties with
the placements for men in the Natural Science Division.

I certainly congratulate you and the university on the new
areas opening up for you and the greatly extended field of use-
fulness into which you are now entering. It gives you a splen-
did opportunity and I know you and the authorities will wish to
do your very best towards the realization of its finest possi-
bilities. I do not know of any one who can compare at all with
De. Berry as a candidate for the position which is developing
in connection with this new work. You know him personally and
have had contact with him in the summer session, so I do not need
to say much concerning those phases which one would necessarily
touch upon were he talking with a stranger.

The heaps of facts descriptive of Dr. Berry's experience
will speak for themselves. JI would like to say something here
on the more personal side.

I have been associated with Dr. Berry ever since 1908,with
the exception of the years when he was in Hurope assigned there
as administrator of the school which Springfield tied on in
Geneva, Switzerland. He has been uniformly cooperative and ef-
ficient throughout all these years and has of course added to
his efficiency as a result of a really very widely varied field
of experience. The reason why I believe he would be particularly
interested in the proposition at Kansas is really two-fold; first,
that is the area of the country from which he came. He under-
stands those people; they are quite different from Easterners or
Europeans, and I am sure he would feel at home among them and
would fit in much better than one who has had purely an eastern
United States experience. Then, he is situated, so far as this
institution is concerned, as follows: He has reached the age of
fifty-seven at which time, according to our bonus and retirement
plan, he may withdraw and receive an annual stipend during life.
If then, he can secure another appointment he may do so at a
salary of approximately $3,600 and, supplanting this by his re-
tirement, be assured of a satisfactory income. I consider that