Tom Butcher Letter

May 8, 1970

Mr. H. W. Hargiss
2503 Missouri
Lawrence, Kansas

Dear Coach:

The pall of gloom that settled over the Butcher household after the "Normal" got licked by the "College" in the fail of 1913, after an unsuccessful football season, is one of my earliest impressions of Emporia.  And the satisfaction of my father and the rest of us when Bill Hargiss took over and began winning again was wonderful.

Over the years, to all of the Butcher family, the name Hargiss has meant the finest in football tradition, and Freda, too, remembers you as the winning coach of the early 1920's when she was here in school.

To my father your accomplishments were a source of deep satisfaction, and to all of us you have always been an important part of our world. It is with genuine pleasure that we look to having some small part in the honors planned for Bill Hargiss Day.

Most sincerely,

T. P. Butcher, M. D.