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10 April 45

President Donald B. Tresidder
Stanford University
Palo Alto, California

Dear Sir:
In response to your queries of March, 1945:

I am no longer in the military service, having received an honorable discharge for physical disability suffered in the line of duty.

I am planning to do some more graduate work, whether at Stanford or not will depend upon many factors, the post-war faculties and the availability of a teaching position being two of them. I have my engineering degree from Stanford received in June, 1939. I plan to work toward a Doctorate in Engineering, or if the university of my choice does not offer that degree, then a Doctorate of Science. I am pretty well decided that my thesis will be in geophysical field.

As to post-war education, I have one suggestion that is pretty general and perhaps impossible [of?] attainment at present, and one that I think should be recognized as soon as practicable.

The first is a better selective process to be adapted in the first year or two of high school. [Doing?] three and a half years in the army I found too many misfits educationally. Bank tellers with ABs who had majored in