August 12, 1941.

Mrs. Josephine L. Sams,
Chapman, Kansase

Dear Mrs. Sams:

¥ Thank you for your very good letter of the 10th instant.
I ‘am glad that you enjoyed your work and Iam happy to say that you
_did excellent work for us here at the University of Kansas Summer
Session. I would offer no criticism other than I believe you worked
too hard at your job. No one could say that you thought of slight-
ing it, but I sometimes believe that you carry your burdens away
from your classrooms

: You were perfectly welcome to any information or help
that you might have received from the course in Theory and Practice
of Athletic Training. It is always a pleasure to me to be able to
impart any information that can be transferred to other fields.
Personally, I feel that you will be able to do much good, especially
in the absence of a school nurse or a physician at your institution.

Personally, I wuld not advise you to count very much on

a position here for next sumer. Rather, if I were you, I would
plan on a vacation for next summer and see what the following summer
holds forth here at the University. I believe I explained to you
rather briefly that while Dean Schwegler had made the recommendation
for this position, he had not discussed finances with the budget
committee, and it appeared as a very embarrassing financial problem
to them. I do not believe that I am refealing any secrets when I
- tell you that if our correspondence had not gone forward from this

office promising you the position the budget committee would have
rescinded all action if it were possible to have left you in no
embarrassing position. I pressed your case because I knew the
background and it was through no fault of yours whatsoever that
there was an administrative slip-up. They took half of the salary,
as I explained to you, from our budget, and half from the University
- budget, and they had not counted on this, So there is rather a dark
brown administrative taste in the budget committee's mouth. lrer- —
sonally, as an administrator, I desire not to present the same
situation next year with the same budget committee. ‘Therefore, I
think we had better forego the proposition. In fact, on very good
authority I learn there is a strong possibility we may not even
heve a Summer Session next year. We will miss you because you were
so loyal in every department. Your swimming was up to the usual
high standard of teaching, and I heard nothing but the very best