August dy 1941.

 

Mr. Max Ontjes,
Stafford, Kansas.
Dear Max:

Thank you for your good letter of July 22 giving
me information regarding Jim Priess and Wendell Bagley. You can
tell Jim Priess for me that if he cares to enter the University
we will give him work at 35¢ an hour which should make him an
averate of $18 to $20 a month. ife are not doing this because he
is en athlete, because we have many boys here in the Physical
Education Department who are not
University of Kansas should strive to
and brilliant students in the State of Kansas.

then it certainly is my desire to help hin. Of course, if he goes
out for athletics naturally we are interested in him, but we are
not giving him a job to entice him into our basketball realm.

Please tell Wendell Bagley that we would be mighty
happy to heave him here at the University of Kansas, Wr. Victor
Hurt, our assistant football coach, happens not to be in tow at
the present moment, but I will show this letter to him with the
_ hope that he will write you concerning Wendell end Jim.

I have a very high regard for Mano Stukey, who is
one of my personal friends. Mano is a good judge of athletic
talent and human nature, and if Mano says they are 0.K., =< they
are 0. K.

I should like to have you tell me what the boys
desire to major in. If we could send them a catalog or any other
information that they would desire 2t will be a pleasure for us
to do so. Or better yet, if you could get Jim or Wendell to write
me telling what they desire in the way of an education we will be
very glad to render any service at our command. And too, if they
need a job we will be glad to give them a job. Most of our boys

 

 

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