JAMES ROSS, PRES. LOY N. ROBERTS, SEcy. JESSE VAUGHN, TREAS.
: W. R. SEWELL, SUPERINTENDENT = e

Public Schools

ESSEX CONSOLIDATED DISTRICT
ESSEX, MISSOURI

February 20, 1939

Coach Forrest Allen
University of Kansas
Lawrence, Kansas

Dear Coach Allens:

I was very much pleased to receive your answer concerning
~——-Andreu_Goedert oe this school, and am glad to be able to fur-
nish you w he information you desire.

Andrew's father is a barber in this town and has a family
of ten children. However, being a good business man he has
managed to keep these children in school every day. Andrew has
an Ne. Y. A- job on which he has worked for the past two school
years. From this you can see that the boy will need some kind
of employment in order to get through college. I assure you
that he is a hard worker and will be easy to satisfy since he
is very anxious to graduate from college.

Concerning his academic excellence, his semester grades for
the first seven semesters in high school are 10 C's and 18 B's.
Two of his classes have been under me, and I am certain that he
is industrious and intelligent enough to have no scholastic
difficulties.

Another point I would like to stress is that he is a dandy
baseball player, infield or outfield, and any information you
would like concerning his baseball playing could be secured
from the Himmelberger-Harrison Lumber Company of Morehouse,
Missouri, with whose team he played last summer.

I would appreciate any reply you might make, and you can
be assured of my full cooperation in any attempt to enroll this
boy at your school. I firmly believe that he would make a good
student and be an asset to your ball team.

Very sincerely yours,
Wilson «she

Basketball Coach.