May 6, 1943.

Mr. Marshall B. Martin,
8606 Goodman Road,
Merriam, Kansas.

Dear Marshall:

I have had a short visit with your brother, Stanley. He tells
me that you are interested in physical education and that you have 5
- played on your Southeast High Scheel second team and made a fairly geod
record. He pointed out that your size was perhaps against you while you
were in high school. Meniay thinks you might be interested iu © phynicah
education course at the University of Kansas.

I am sending you a catalog of our physical education curriculum.
Page four will give you the outline for the four years here in college.
The fact that you are 17 years of age would enable you to get at least

one year of college work before you be called. I am very sure that
Unele Sem will plan some sort of a pos program for the men in the
service. :

A college education offers a young man many epportunities. Mo
only does he make friends of mon in all counties of the state, which is
en invaluable aid to his professional or business life after has
graduated, but physical education and athletics practice
joyment during your college days. Piysical education is definitely now
a profession. Se ee ee ee ee durable course for
@ livelihood, but when the war broke out the Navy, the Marines and the

Army all called on the men who were in physical education and coaching

activities. And too, Sit a Eels te de cee ee for the

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ciples will be strongly stressed. It is my opinion that a leader who
gees to the top in the way of preparing himself for this worth while
activity will find many avenues of advancement and progress open to him.

Practically all of my varsity basketball team were culled into
the service immediately at the close of our basketball season - Ray
‘Evans, Charlie Black, Otto Schnellbasher, Armand Dixon, Jack Ballard,
Hoyt Baker, George Dick, Bill Brill, Don Bleir, Gene Sherwood and Bob
Pitspatrick, all are in the service and many of them are training for
aviation and physical education in their various branches of the service.

I am writing you this letter in the hope that I can open a
vista of the future that will enable you to study the catalog rather
carefully and write me as to the possibilities of your entering the