December 20, 1940

Commandant
Ninth Naval District
Great Lakes, Illinois

Dear Sirs

The writer hag been asked by Mre William Hartley Shannon,
Associate Professor of Economics in the School of Business at the |
University of Kensas, to write you concerning his fitness to be cone
Sidered for a commission of Lieutenant in the Supply Corpse

I am very happy to recommend without reservation or evasion
Professor Shannone In addition to his academic degrees of AaBe and MeBebe
earned at the University of Michigan, his LieBe earned at the Miversity
of Kansas, he also holds the title of CePele fram the State of Kansase

I personally have known Mre Shannon in his eleven years of teaching
effort here at the Mniversity of Kansas, and I desire to say that he not
only is a capable and an outstanding teacher, but he ranks very high in the
community in which he livese ; . ae

_ Tast year he coached the Varsity Golf Team and he brought a very
mediocre group of beys within fighting rahge of the championships ‘The boys ~
on the teem liked him for his understanding sympathy and thoroughness, yet
he had the ability to get the most out of the boys under his commands He
is clean, capable, virile and aggressive. ot

‘I have just had occasion to speak with one of our outstanding
seniors in the School of Businesses This senior is on my Varsity Basketball
Teame I asked him his estimate of Professor Shannon's teaching efficiencye
This is what he said, “He is a great teachers He is very thorovgh in his
methods and he drilis, drills, drills the fimdamentals into you. He is a
hard worker and a great organizers In my opinion he is a great drilimaster
and he stays on the job, hammering it into you mtil you get ite”

Sincerely yours,

Director of Physical Education and Recreation
Varsity Basketball Coach
FCAslg

ce: Wme Shannon