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Letter of Recommendation, 1943
The First National Bank, Lawrence,
Kansas
January 21, 1943
Kansas State Officer Procurement District
Porter Building
Kansas City, Missouri
Gentlemen:
We have been requested to write our opinion in regard to the general standing of
Homer W. Hargiss of Lawrence, Kansas.
We have been well acquainted with Mr. Hargiss for many years. We have known him
for the fifteen years he has been in Lawrence, Kansas and were acquainted with him
while he was located in Emporia, Kansas for a number of years prior to his residence
in Lawrence.
Mr. Hargiss has been one of our valued customers for the past several years and
he has had an excellent reputation for all of the years we have known him. He was
a successful manager or the Department of Physical Education and Director of Athletics
at the State Teacher's College of Emporia, Kansas prior to coming to Lawrence as
Professor of Physical Education and head football and track coach. He was the only
successful football coach we have had at Lawrence in the past thirty-four years
and his football team of 1930 won the only Big Six championship ever won by the
University of Kansas. We probably do not need to mention his successful career as
a track coach in which he developed such outstanding athletes as Glenn Cunningham,
James Bausch, the Decathlon Olympic winner in Los Angeles, Earl McKown, national
champion pole vaulter of several years back, John Kuck, world's champion Olympic
winner in the shot put, and many others.
Mr. Hargiss also has a very fine record as a teacher of physical education and he
is well known over Kansas as an outstanding public speaker, particularly among the
civic club organizations and high school commencements.
Possibly we have emphasized in this letter Mr. Hargiss' ability to develop outstanding
performers and we have neglected to mention his most valuable trait; that is his
ability to develop character. His athletes are good, clean sportsmen who know how
to play the game in accordance with the rules.
Yours very truly,
George Docking
President
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