CuLVER MILITARY ACADEMY
THE CULVER EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION

CULVER, INDIANA

April 7, 1943.

Dr. Forest ¢C. Alien,
801 Louisiana Avenue,
Lawrence, Kansas.

Dear Phot:

Apparently I only write you letters when I want
your help in some matter. The help that I am asking for
this year is idential to that of last year, when you did
such a fine job for us in finding the young Indian that
we had with us in the Woodcraft Camp last summer. The
young man was highly satisfactory, but he is not available
to us this year because, as I understand it, he has entered
one of the services.

Last year I wrote the Superintendent of Haskell
Institute and, after a long wait, he recommended two young
Indians that you looked over. I am wondering, this year,
whether the approach on the subject would not be best
coming from you.. How about it? . We want another Indian -
young or old, who would fit into the picture here, and you
know about the qualifications that we are looking for. Could
you call up, by phone, and determine whether or not there is
any of this type available? We certainly will appreciate
it if you wiitl do go.

We will pay the young man $250.00 cash, plus his
room and board, for the session of eight weeks. The camp
opens on June 30th and closes on August 24th this year.
However, it will be necessary for all instructors to report
at camp about five days before the opening for a week of
preliminary instruction,

We lost about two-thirds of our entire Woodcraft
Camp staff to one or the other of-the services. Out of
forty-five officers that’ we had last year 1 am finding it
necessary to replace about thirty. I’ am having pretty good
success ‘in- it, however, and things are beginning to look
brighter every day.

I suppose that your family is considerably scattered,
due to the war. When you write me let me know where they are,
for Mrs. Rossow and I are genuinely interested to keep in
touch with the children of our friends. My young son is in