Letter from William H. Kindle to Laurence L. Doggett (January 12, 1919)
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A two-page letter from William H. Kindle to Laurence L. Doggett, president of Springfield College, dated January 12th, 1919. In the letter, Kindle briefly tells Doggett about his experiences in Europe and his meeting with David D. Mattocks, a black man doing overseas "Y" work. William Horace Kindle graduated from Springfield College in 1916. After graduating he became a Physical Director at the "Colored Y.M.C.A. in Chicago, ILL." In 1917 he became an Athletic Director in the Army Y.M.C.A. Camp Upton in N.Y. After the war he would go back and forth between being a Y.M.C.A. Physical Director and a Physical Educator in different colleges in the United States, including Talladega College, and Columbia University.
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