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Tanc A. Craig. ' ° . returned to Urbana after spending the last seven months in California, part of the time she was acting librarian of the California Agricultural College at Davis, while Nclle U. Branch '10, who is librarian there, made a trip round the world. ' Christine Sanders, '26-'27, who has been librarian of the Public Librarv of Helena, Ark., has accepted the position of Secretary of the Arkansas Library Commission at Little Rock. Helen T. Kennedy, '03, second assistant librarian of the Los Ang l e s Public Librarv. has been recuperating from an illness out on the Mary Buffum, '27, has resigned her position at Southwest College, Westfield, Kan., and in September will become librarian of the Texas State College for Women at Denton. Lucy R. Foote, '26-'27, has been appointed head cataloger of the State University of Louisiana Library at Baton Rouge. Frances Simpson, '03, will sail on June 30th on the S. S. Lituania, Baltic American Line. She will be a member of Dr. Koch's Bibliographical Tour. Nell Young, '27-'28, withdrew from the school in December and recentlv has been married to Mr. Albert H. Searle. Their address will be Manila, P. L, care of the Bureau of Education. While not exactly Alumni News, most of the former students of the school will be much interested to learn of the marriage of Mary Frances Windsor to Dr. Gordon Harding, on December 25th, 1927. They will make their home in Akron, Ohio, where Dr. Harding has a position as technical expert in the Akron Pure Milk Co. J. S. Cleavinger, '08, Associate professor in the S< brary Service at Columbia University, Mrs. Cleavinger and will spend the summer in England. F. K. W. Drury, '05, Associate librarian of Brown University, with Mrs. Drury and their son Jack (who is a freshman at Dartmouth), are spending six months in Europe. , , Ida Tod, 21- 22, librarian of the Education Seminar of the University of Illinois Library, is in the Burnham hospital in Champaign, suffering from a broken leg and other injuries as a result of being knocked down by an automobile about six weeks ago. Word has been received of the death of Esther R r a W Tnwpr Jan. 14th, 1928. She was the first librarian University of Michigan in 1905, and continuing until 1918 when she was granted a leave of absence for work in France. She spent a year with the American committee for devastated France, doing reconstruction work in the district of the Aisne. On her return she resigned from the Normal school and went to the University of Michigan as librarian of the Romance Language seminar. In 1920 she married William L. Tower and since that time has lived in Carmel, Calif. The staff and faculty of the University of Illinois Library would like to remind the Alumni that West Baden is not so verv far 4 Urbana, and a cordial welcome is extended to all who can stop O V c r and see the new Library and the many new buildings on the campus

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