Three months later, a thank-you letter had come from Jarvis with a five-dollar bill enclosed.

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At the time Roger Valdiserri, the sports-information director at the University of Notre Dame, sent the "association" a thank-you letter and requested a new certificate because the first one had misspelled Notre Dame forward John Shumate's name.

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He sent me a thank-you letter back.

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