March G1, 1944.

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Ire Vine Be: Mshdcrpon,
916 Walnut a
Kansas City 6, Mo.

Dear Mr. tenderson:

: Your very nice letter of March 27 has been received. I
em happy to know that you are interested in a young man obtaining
an education. I note further that you are a trustee of the Univ-
orsity of Kansas City, and that your basketball has not been featured
enough to make it attractive to him.

I am wondering if you would be kind enough to answer some
questions. Is the young man a 4FP student, or does he have an oppor-
tunity to get into the Navy V-12 wit? Of course, if he got into the
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an education.

I an sure that you can understend that it would not be possible
to guarantees any youmg man his way through the University on account of
his athletios. Mowever, we oan give him a job comnensurate with his
ability and his desire to work. There are joba going begging here now
for boys at the University. We sould use all the boys who. really want
to work, but most of them have more money from their parents or some
other sources, and they do not want to work at forty to fifty cents an
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You state that you are unfamiliar with the Ginter and
ethics of college and wmiversity basketball. There are coaches who
will promise a young man an easy job, but I have never done that -
telling the boys that life is not easy, that it is a real struggle,
end for one to be successful he must work hard and not expect easy
things in his early growth. It happens that I am one of six boys in
a femily. All of us had to work hard and no one gave us anything. ~
We have three boys and three girls in our own fomily and we have found
in paren. these children that life was quite a struggle, but a glorious
one. My youngest son is a senior in the medical school at the University |
of Pennsylvania. Of cow'se we are very proud of him, but he has never
had it enay. .

I only mention those things t> assure you that if the young
man would come under my care he would not be wet-nursed, yet I would
try to advise and guide him in the same mamer that I would one of my
own boys. I would tell him that athletics are not the most important