Jd. F. WELLEMEYER

WYANDOTTE HIGH SCHOOL
25TH AND MINNESOTA AVENUE

KANSAS CITY 2, KANSAS

J. CLYDE HUME

PRINCIPAL VICE-PRINCIPAL

Dr. Forrest C. Allen--2

Owen, I believe, will continue to improve as a basketball player.
It was his senior year before he made the Varsity. He played his best
ball in the final two games of the state tournament at Salina. He
averaged twenty points a game this past season playing on the Junior
College team that played independent teams in this area. I would rate
him as one of the two best forwards to graduate from Wyandotte in the
past ten years.

Owen never went out for football. He did go out for track his
senior year and was the best dash man on the squad. His first love is
basketball.

Owen enlisted in the Marines in August but was turned down on account
of an ear infection contracted during the summer. He had worked as life
guard at a swimming pool. His draft board later sent him to Leavenworth
and again he was rejected. He has been told by the board that he will not
be called.

He would have considered going to K. U. last fall if he would have
known that he was not to be taken into the service. Your semesters did
not run so he could transfer at the mid-term.

If the draft is not changed to force 4-F's into industry and Owen is
a civilian next school term, I would like very much to see him in school
at Lawrence. JI.am sure he would make good as a student, also at whatever
job he was assigned. I don't believe he will disappoint you on the
basketball court.

I hope I have given you some of the information you wished. If there
is anything specific that I have not mentioned, please ask me.

Sincerely yours,

Marion A. Wools
; Basketball Coach
Wyandotte High School

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