J.O.HARRISON, PRESIDENT
W.H.HARRISON,V. PRESIDENT
M.W.HARDMAN,V.PRESIDENT
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THE STATE BANK OF DOWNS

CAPITAL STOCK $35,000.00 SURPLUS $30,000.00

DOWNS, KANSAS

May 18, 1939.

Dr. Forrest C. Alien, Director
Department of Physical “ducation,
University of Kansas,

Lawrence, Sansas..

Dear "Phog™ :-

Vance Hall has been over to talk with me several times
lately and he is absolutely coming to K U if he can make the grade with
his finances. Just last week he told a couple of College Coaches who
were here with flattering offers that he had wanted to go to K U for
several years and that if he could just make his grades down there and
play on Phog Allen's feam he would just about have reached his athletic
goal. He. didn't know that he could make it with the job you had in mind
but wants to come to K U so badly that he will be down there trying at
wie! rate. .

' .He wanted to come down the first of the week and talk
things over with you but the fellows from here who were going to Topeka
decided to put it off so he won't get to come to Lawrence until about
time for School to statt next Fall. Helen goes to K.C. tomorrow to take
Billy for his monthly turn with the Dentist but Vance has to attend his
Graduation “xercises tomorrow night so couldn't go along with her. He
leaves Tuesday for work on a ranch in Texas where he worked last year, and
the last month of this Summer he will spend in Canada with some Doms folks
who have a Lodge in the Lake of the Woods country, as their guest. I hope
that he comes back from Texas as much bigger and huskier looking as last year
He seemed to grow inches and gain a lot of weight and said the hard work
and sunshine did it for hin.

: If there is anything you can pean that 1 do at this end
please let me know. I do feel certain that Vance will be there in the Fall —
and that no one will get to him this Summer. Every time some one contacts
him he comes to see me and jokes about their flattery and the rosy picture
they paint for him at other Schools. You certainly did the exactly right
thing when you talked just the oposite from all the others about hard work
and steedy apolication, and offered nothing on a silver platter. His being
away all Summer will keep him from being bothered by other Coaches, espec
from the smaller “chools, and he doesn't like their line any way.

With kindest regards, I am,

Sincerely tours,

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