An Opportunity to be Better - Documents




June 12, 1950

Miss Sarah Cauldwell
459 West 24th Street
New York, N.Y.

Dear Miss Cauldwell;

I have been delayed in answering your letter sooner due to the fact I have been out of town and upon returning, I found your letter awaiting me.

Your proposed trip to European Adopted Towns sounds very interesting and I believe you girls have something that can do a lot of good by contacting these different places which we Americans have adopted.

Our position is somewhat different in this respect: one of our local girls and her husband who works for T.W.A. in Paris have made two different trips to Feves, acting as our Good Will Ambassadors. They visited Feves in May 1949 and again in the latter part of May 1950. They had these visits returned to them by the Feves schoolteacher and his wife who spent a week in Paris with them. Then, another of our local townspeople who went on the European�s Farmers� Tour last October, made a side trip visit to Feves. He could talk German and so got along fine with the people of Feves. Then, this September, another citizen who is a schoolteacher is getting a six months leave of absence and she too is planning on visiting Feves this fall while on her European trip. So we feel that we do not need an official representation to Feves as we have already had this over a year ago. Then, too, Mr. Lafe Todd of Operation Democracy there in New York paid a visit to Feves and the people there considered him a citizen of Morganville.

The people that have visited Feves from Morganville, have secured quite a few pictures, both in color and also in black and white.

I wish both of you a pleasant journey and a lot of success in your trip to Europe this fall.

Sincerely,


Daniel J. Roenigk
Mayor
Morganville, Kansas