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A L U M N I GOSSIP Laura Gibbs, '02, has been appointed head of the readers advisory ervice in the Boston Public Library. Iva McConagha, '25-'26f has accepted a position at the Kansas Igricultural College Library, Manhattan. Mr. and Mrs. George Cook (Catherine Oaks, '12) announce the arth of a son, Charles Wright on Jan. 20th at Geneva, N. Y. | Sylvia Laithwaite, ^ S - ^ , is an assistant in the John Monteith Regional Branch, Detroit Public Library. I Agnes Smalley, '25, has accepted the position of librarian of the Public Library at Alma, Mich. The marriage of Grace A. Anderson, '23-'24, to Mr. Clair C. Olson on the fourth of February, 1928, has been announced. They will be at home at 553 Alexander street, Rochester, N. Y., where Mrs. Olson will have a position in the Public Library. Myron T. Getchell, '22, librarian of the Eastern State Normal School at Madison, N t D., has been appointed associate editor of the Decimal Classification. He and Mrs. Getchell (Louise Winn, '27) will live in Washington, D. C. Helen Bagley, '04-'05, instructor in the Library School at Drexel Institute will give courses in cataloging at the summer session of the School for Library Service at Columbia. The marriage of Corinne Brag McClelland, '27-'28, to Mr. Joseph D. Mitchell on the 28th of February, 1928, has been announced. They will make their home in Pawhuska, Okla. Jessie L. Arms, '11, has had a three months' leave of absence from her position as classifier at the University of Minnesota Library and spent most of the time in Southern California. Mrs. Cora Case Porter, '23-'24, librarian of the Muskogee Public Library, made the trip to Paris with the American Legion and afterwards spent some time in England and Scotland. Jerome K. Wilcox, '28, was married to Grace L. Griffin, of the staff of the University of Utah Library, on December 25, 1927, at Salido, Colo. Adah Patton, '02, head of the catalog department of the University of Illinois left in March for a six months' motor trip in Europe with Prof, and Mrs. Fred Clark (Carrie Patton, '10). Margaret Oldfather, '26-'27, who has been spending the year in Europe with her family will return in the fall and has accepted the position of cataloger in the Lawrence College Library, Appleton, Wis. Julia E. Pressey, '27, instructor in cataloging at the Library School of the Carnegie Library at Atlanta, will teach in the summer session at the University of Illinois Library School. Elleine McClelland (Mrs. V. S.), '27, who has been at the Dayton Public Library since September, sailed for San Salvador on May"5th. There she will join her husband who is engaged in railway work I lor address will be care International Railways of Central America! San Salvador, El Salvador. I^H^H^H^H^^H^H^H