HIGH SCHOOL BOARD FACULTY
W. L. OLSON, DireEtror GEO. A.G AM.
E. T. BECK, TREASURER é DW I GHT RURAL H IGH SCHOOL BOYDIE Se ee ee
EVERETT CLEMENS, CLERK MARION THOMPSON, Home Economics
JOEL N. MARTIN, PRINCIPAL JOHN F. HANSON, SCIENCE & ATHLETICS

DWIGHT, KANSAS

Feb. 20, 1939.

Dr. F. Cs Allen
Basketball Coach
Kansas University
Lawrence, Kansas.

Dear Dr. Allen:

I am today sending in to the Summerfield Scholarships
Committed a recommendation for one of our senior boys,

_Harold Wright By name. I am writing to you also, because
this boy is not only an outstanding student but also an
outstanding athlete and he majors in your sport, Dr. Allen,
basketball, I know the Summerfield Committee is not es-

pecially interested in bringing athletes to Kansas, but
thought you might be interested in this boy and might be
able to exert some influence, if not with this committee,
elsewhere to bring this boy to Kansas University.

This boy is one of the best students I have had in
_high school. He is in my opinion the smoothesé high school
basketball player I've seen. He is 17 years old at present,
stands just over 6 ft., and weighs about 170 pounds. His
playing has been responsible for carrying us as far as the
Regional Tournament last year, and in winning the Morris
County League and Tournament this year. I know that he
has the ability to make any Big Six basketball team, and
I'd like to see that be K. U. I've only had one player here
before that I'd give this recommendation and that was Ervin
\ Reid who is now playing at K. 5. C., Manhattan. Wright is
a better player today than Reid was as a Senior at Manhattan
High where he moved after playing three years under me. He
is big enough, very fast on the floor and his greatest strength
lies in his ability to get the ball off of the backboards,
both offensively and defensively. Unless I can make some
arrangeménts for him to get through college--he'll have to
make it on his own resources-- at Kansas University, he'll
probably attend Kansas State and waste his time on a mediocre
basketball team, just as Reid is doing.

He is also an exceptional baseball player and tied for
second in the broad-jump at the state track meet at Emporia
last year with a leap of somewhat over 21 ft. I hope that
you can find some way of helping influence this boy to attend
Bi Ve

ry trul rs,

   
 

Joel N. Martin, /Prin.
Dwight Kural High School
Dwight, Kansas.