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February 25, 1941

Mr,» James Roderick
Wetmore, Kansas —

Dear James,

last year Mre Frank Mandeville spoke to me regarding
your academic and athletic abilitye He said then that you were a
very promising junior and would make a fine student at the University
or Kansase Mre Mandeville dropped in again today and mentioned the
fact that you were interested in the Universitys He told me that
you had saved up some money to be used as a nestegg in helping you
through the University.

: It is such students as you that we are interested ing ‘The
boy who is @ good student and a good athlete, who will train, is the
feliow that we like to work withe We hire a good many students in
the Physical Education Department, some working in the towel room, and
we pay 55¢ em hours We generally find that it is easy enough for a
fellow to work two hours a day and stili carry a full academic load of
15 hours, and then that leaves Saturday open so that a boy can do extra
work on that daye I tell any stucent that if he has $150.00 or $200.00
as @® nestegg and has the energy to work end the ability to make grades,
‘that there is no question about his ability to go through college here and
gre duates

I do not know what special course you are interested in, but
I am asking our Registrar to send you the catalogs of the University of
_ Kansas so you may stucy thems

: | Now this is the point that I wish to bring upe Mehy boys
read about the University of Kensas Basketball Teanu and become afraid
‘thet they cannot make the teams I want you to lmow that most of our
star players have come from small schools in Kansase I much prefer a
boy from a small school than a large one because the smaller schools
really develop athletes who train better than the larger ones. There
are too many diversions in the larger placese ,