Repository: UIHistories Project: UI Library School Alumni Newsletter - 13 [PAGE 6]

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Pin1lit Crawford So.lt. '21. is e x e r t i n g to haw several books r.i this spring, all published by Jonathan Cape, a...I .)„• Is vvorkine on another for fall publication. She is al*» gm-ii «redit for assistance i providing local color in the preface of The Have, by Ethel Scott Mrs. Scott and her husband, Cyrill Kay-Scot i. have bought a h,m, in Santa Ft, New Mexico. . Helen M. Clark, '27, school advisor of the Indiana State Library has published a "Manual for Secondary Schools" in the Department of Public Instruction Bulletin 100-01. 1929. Gertrude Suess, *27, head of the Circulation Department of the University of Oregon Library, published "Keeping up with Campus Events," in the Library Journal, September 15, 192''. Jerome K. Wilcox, '28, of the Reference Department of the John Crerar Library, has compiled a "Bibliography on Mineral Wool." He has just finished another on "Delcomania." Both are mimeographed by the John Crerar I.ibrarv. Downing (Vllarra, '2$, has been contributing to the Publishers Weekly a series of articles on "Hook Publishing in the United States to 1901/' These have been for the most part a reprint of the thesis which he submitted for his A.M. degree. Mildred A. Kenny, '2S, Reference Assistant in the Denver Public Library, published "That bulletin Board/' in the Library Journal for October 1, 1929, p. 801-03. Alary E. Silverthorn, '28, of the Saginaw Public Library, published Recent Activities of the American Public Library Association/' in the Michigan Library Bulletin, June, 1929, p. 155-58. Opal Stone, 29, of the Southern Illinois Normal University, Carbondale, Illinois, has published an annotated list of "Government Publications of Interest to the Commercial Teacher in the Secondary School," in the American Shorthand Teacher, October, 1929, p. 60-64. E. M. Fitzroy, '25, writes that his "Illustrated editions of High School Classics" will be published in the near future by the A.L.A.

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ALUMNI GOSSIP Renee B. Stern, '98, gives her address as 5234 Dorchester Avenue, Chicago, Illinois. Jahr Torstein, '00, for many years in the Catalog division of the Library of Congress, has resigned and is now living at Holmstrand, Norway. Florence Beck, '00, is librarian of the Arkansas State Teachers' College, Conway, Arkansas. Grace Kelley, '03, has a leave of absence from John Crerar Library for this year, making a survey of the classification requirement of the Huntington Library, San Marino, California. Charles W. Smith, '05, has been appointed librarian of the University of Washington Library, Seattle, Washington, succeeding Mr. W. E. Henry, who resigned this position but retains the deanship of the Library School. Sabra Nason, '05-'06, is now librarian of Linfield College. McMinnville, Oregon.

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