STANFORD UNIVERSITY

SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND PHYSICAL EDUCATION

Divisions of:

Physical Education Activities (Including Athletics) Division of Informational Hygiene
Professional Education in Hygiene and Physical Education Men Students’ Health Service
University Health Service

STANFORD UNIVERSITY, CALIFORNIA

Director Forest C. Allen
Division of Physical Education
University of Kansas

Lawrence, Kansas

My dear Doctor Allen:

Your very interesting note of May 18th has given me reason
for a good deal of thought. I hope that my resulting suggestions may
be of use to you in the new and promising relationship that you de-
scribe as having been set up for you at the University of Kansas.

The national organizations in which I would suggest your
membership are: -- The American Physical Education Association, Mr.
Elmer D. Mitchell, Secretary, 311 Maynard Street, Ann Arbor, Michigan;
the College Physical Education Association, Harry. A. Scott, Secretary, |
The Rice Institute, Houston, Texas; the American Student Health Asso-
ciation, Secretary Dr. Ruth Boynton, University of Minnesota, Minnea-
polis, Minnesota. If you will permit me to do so, I will communicate
with the secretaries of these three organizations and ask them to write
you directly inviting you to take membership.

The University of Kansas is a member institution of the
American Student Health Association and Dr. Ralph I. Canuteson is on
the Council of that Association. It would be well for you to check
in with that organization as a representative of the University of
Kansas.

Your search for a young man with a Ph.D. degree who can teach
physical education subjects giving the proper background is based on
avery proper standard, but I think you will have difficulty finding
a@ young man with a worthwhile Ph.D. degree in that field who would be
available for $2800. I do not know of any such young man who is fur-
ther on his way toward a degree of Doctor of Medicine. The combination
is an ideal one, but it is no longer a practical one. By the time one
has spent the investment necessary for the degree of Doctor of Philos-
ophy in this field and then the amount necessary for the degree of Doc-—
tor of Medicine, he is not at all content with the salaries that are
available after such a fine preparation. I could recommend some very
competent young men who have finished their degrees of Master of Arts