January 22, 1946

Mrse Carey Rice
4960 Blue Ridge Boulevard
Kansas City 3, Missouri

Dear Mrs. Rice:

I have just ealled Dr. Woodruff's office and he
found that Bob did not withdraw from his classes. He just left.
Perhaps he never thought of doing the thing he should have done;
however, >} did that for him, thinking when I called Dr. Woodruff
that oem else vate be taken care of.

the rule of the university is thet unless the

: individual withdraws voluntarily, they have no way of knowing and,
of course, they are not responsible for refunds, I believe you see

the logie of this with so many thousands of students here. However,
Dre Woodruff's secretary called the School of Education to notify them
that he had entered the service. The university, of course, must verify
all these things, but they did not know what draft board to contact to
get this verification. In my conversation this morning I told them it
was the Lawrence, Kansas, Draft Board and they are now checking with
them to verify this so that they may ete a refund as of December 15,
1945. - |

We is gone to ao end of trouble totry to locate
Bob*s books. You will agree with me that this was Bob's entire respon-
sibility and not ours, but we are still trying to locate them through
the lady who says she is doing all she can to try to find them, I
would see Bob over at the Union Building playing ping pong and it is
just as likely as not that he misplaced them or lost theme The lady
custodian over there says that when they have books that are left for
any length of time they revert to the lost and found books group, and
unless Bob had his name in them, there would be no way of identifying
them, If you had ' ‘any way of knowing what books he had, it would be
easier, I+ might be a good idea for you towrite him and have him write
me, giving me a list and a description of the books and letting him tell
me where he left them. Also, I would want to know if he had his name in

them and how it was signed. All these things are important in endeavoring
to help him recover something that he should have taken care of himself.

I suppose boys will grow up sometime, but I am sure you will agree at is
a slow process.

As soon as I bear from Bob, I will institute further
service for the books, .

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