JONES & LAUGHLIN SUPPLY COMPANY

ENGINEERING AND CONSTRUCTION DIVISION
POST OFFICE DRAWER 1620

WICHITA FALLS, TEXAS
March 6, 1945

Dr. Forrest C. Allen,
Director of Athletics,
University of Kansas,
Lawrence, Kansas

Dear Coach,

Greetings and salutations from an old ball player of yours;
you may remember Sid Rice, freshman in '34, played forward with
Ray Noble, Rogers, Fred Pralle, and Al Wellhousen. Of course it
was eleven years ago but I've followed your great teams, mostly
in the newspapers, and as usual you are to be congratulated on
so many successful seasons.

Coach, I am very much interested in returning to school in
order to obtain an engineering degree, petroleum with possibly
some Aeronautical study. I have full credit for one year there
in preparation for a law course. The past three years I have been
working on the construction of 100 octane gasoline planta and I
like this field very much.

.. With the present speed-up of most college programs I thought
possibly I could obtain enough credits in two years, by. attending
summep classes to obtain a degree. If you would be kind enough
to hand this information to the head of the Engineering School
I should greatly appreciate it. Possibly he could look up my
record and make a proposed itenery that I couldfollow to accon-
plish this objective.

I am just 29 coach, maybe not too old to play a little ball
for you. Of course I am principally interested in the Degree.

Thanks very much for your efforts on my behalf and I hope to
hear from you in the near future,

Yours Very Sincerely,

 

Dra
Wichita Falls, Texas