Jd. F. WELLEMEYER

WYANDOTTE HIGH SCHOOL
25TH AND MINNESOTA AVENUE

KANSAS CITY 2, KANSAS

Jd. CLYDE HUME

PRINCIPAL VICE-PRINCIPAL

April 12, 1944

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

Dear Dr. Allen:

I am more than glad to have the opportunity to furnish you additional
information concerning Owen Peck, as you requested in your letter of April
8th, :

Qwen lives at 941 Sandusky, and his phone number is Dr. 5906. Owen was
ninteen last month. He is 5'9", weighs 160 lbs. He will have thirty hours
credit at the end of this term at the Kansas City, Kansas Junior College.
His first semester grades were: 7 hrs. A, 6 hrs. Be, 3 hrs. B. When the
draft took the coach at North West Junior High School last fall, Owen was
sent out to teach classes in Mechanical Drawing and coach their basketball
team. His team won the league championship. He is now working with the
track team.

Owen has a brother that is a freshman here at Wyandotte. He has two
brothers in the service. One brother graduated from Junior College with
practically all A's. He was drafted into the army. Then selected to be
trained to become a meteorologist. He completed that training and is now
a Lieutenant.

Qwen had a sister graduate from Wyandotte with high scholastic honors,
She attended Baker University on a scholarship, later received a scholarship
to Washington University, St. Louis. She now has an exceptionally fine job
with Braniff Air Lines. Owen's father attended Kansas University about 1910
I believe.

I had the pleasure of working with Owen his three years here at Wyandotte.
He did not play much basketball in Junior High School. He was a reserve on
the "B" team his sophomore year. He was a regular forward on the "B" squad
his junior year. He lead our team in scoring his senior year. He hit 34%
of his shots for the season, which consisted of twenty five games. He was
very conservative with his shooting. He is exceptionally fast and clever,
a fine ball handler, a good team man, and outstanding defensively. He never
missed a practice his senior year. At the close of the season Owen was
elected honorary captain for the year by the boys. When it comes to ease in
handling, I would place, Owen Peck, at the top of the list of boys that I
have had the opportunity to work with in the past fourteen years. In our
three years together I cannot think of one thing, no matter how small, concern-
ing Owen's conduct to which I had the slightest objection. No coach ever
worked with a boy that had a better attitude. He was perfect.