Lawrence Ely Letter
May 18, 1970
Dear Bill,
Greetings from The Air Crossroads at the
Top of the World.
My old Jayhawk
friend, Lee Benton
of Portland Oregon, advises
me that Fran Welch and Dana Durand are arranging a testimonial dinner
in your honor sometime later
this month. I wish to be among those who will offer you their congratulations and
best wishes on this occasion.
The days of Bill Hargiss, Jim
Bache, Glenn Cunningham and others will always be memorable ones to me and to all
other Cornhuskers who were privileged to know and work with you as I did. I'm told
that you are now past eighty years old. Although you took a
slight lead on me in age, I am catching up with you
real fast. Please send me your formula for longevity and tell me how many strokes
on a side you will give me the next time that I come
to the Sunflower state to play golf.
Two
or three years ago Governor "Knobby" from Nebraska was here
and spoke at our Chamber of Commerce luncheon and left $10.00 with me to place a
bet with our then Governor Wally Hickol, taking Nebraska over
the Jayhawkers in a football contest to be played in Lawrence. It took a Centennial
year in Nebraska, 1967 to be exact, for the Jayhawkers
to win its first game over Nebraska. Perhaps I have cheated on a game or two but
my memory isn't as good on
the bad Cornhusker
years.
Please give my best to Fran Welch and to Dana Durand and
to any of the others who remember Grand Island, Nebraska, the "Home of Friendly
Credit".
Cordially
yours,
Lawrence Ely
U of N Varsity 1930-1912
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