EXECUTIVE COMMITTEEMEN

 

W. G. SILER, Morristown High, Morristown CLAUDE NORRIS, Alpine High, Alpine JOHN T. MUSE, Jackson High, Jackson
SAM W. JONES, Knox High, Knoxville JOSH HUGHES, 3515 Gillespie Ave., Nashville EARNEST DUMAS, B. H. S., Brownsville
W. P. BALES, Central High, Chattanooga RUSSELL SLOAN, Columbia CHARLIE JAMERSON, Tech High, Memphis

 

 

 

 

‘TENNESSEE APPROVED OFFICIALS CONFERENCE
TENNESSEE SECONDARY SCHOOL ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION

(Affiliated with National Association of Basketball Officials)

S. D. JACKSON, Sec.-Treas.
511 Hamilton Bank Building
Johnson City, Tennessee

   

Columbia, Tenne,
June 1, 1940

Mr. Forrest C. Allen,
Lawrence, Kansas

Dear Brother Allen:

During the past ten years Phi Kappa Psi has
served me in many ways, but, frankly, this is the first time
that the brotherhood has been the means of gaining an introduction.
However, I feel that you will be interested in what I have to say
a it deals with a young man who hopes to enter college
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His name, Porter Wiley, a transplanted
Kentuckian, who has been a resident of my home town for the .
past five or six years. He is a good basketball man from a
mechanical angle, but it is his ambition to coach the game
and he is, therefore, hopeful that he may attend some
university where he may learn as well as play basketball.
Kansas is his first choice.

He was graduated from Columbia High in 1937,
but due to financial matters has been unable to enter college
as yet. I feel certain that he will need a part time job or
scholarship, or both, to put him through any university.

Porter was switched from one position to
another as a junior in school, but as a guard in his senior
year the captained the team that lost only in the finals of
the State tourney. He is well proportioned and is around
6 foot 3 inches tall, throws lefthanded, age 19e

. I know thet the Big Six plays very fast
basketball and I am not sure that Porter could even meke your
third or fourth team. This I do know, that no boy will be more
sincere in his efforts to learn and make use of his opportunities.

I would suggest that the University send
Porter a catalogue with an explanation as to what scholarhsips,
if any, may be open to freshmeng also, what part time jobs
might be availablee This will give him an idea as to what

he will have to spend should he be able to attend Kansas and
will give him a full summer to make his decisione