Repository: UIHistories Project: UI Library School Alumni Newsletter - 17 [PAGE 1]

EXTRACTED TEXT FROM PAGE:

2

I

ASSOCIATION NEWS LETTER Number 17 December, 1932

Di i FELLOW A L U M N I :

^ J I V E R S I T Y OF ILLINOIS LIBRARY SCHOOL

It is our hope that this will be one of the most active years the University of Illinois Library School Association has ever known. To accomplish this we will need the cooperation of every alumnus. At present, of approxinlttely 1250 alumni eligible for active membership, 194 are Life members, and about the same number are annual members, which would indicate that only about one-third are giving their support to the Association. The supt of the remaining two-thirds is urgently needed in order that the News 1 i t t e r may be continued, that the Association's Loan Fund to help worthy students through the second semester may be increased, and that the Endowment Fund which is to establish a Scholarship at the School, may be completed. We plan to organize a group of regional secretaries, whose duties will he to stimulate the active participation in the Association of the alumni in their districts. Every alumnus should take it upon himself, or herself, to notify Miss Houchens or Miss Krieg of changes in position or changes in address. It is hard to get accurate items for the News Letter unless all cooperate. This is especially true with the alumni publications. Let no false ^nodesty prevent your sending in the notice of your book or article. Clip Newspaper and periodical articles about yourself and send them in. Remember that self advertising may some day bring in dividends. I This is a particularly important time for a closely knit alumni body, •alaries are being cut, positions for new graduates are few, and some of n r most experienced and efficient alumni report "depression vacations." [Those alumni in positions can help the School a great deal by their interest Ind active support of the placement work. Of course, just now you cannot create positions, but if you do know of vacancies, or if you have a position b offer, why not tell the School about it ? I Your attention is called to the recent action of the University of Illinois Library Club in establishing the Adah Patton Memorial Fund, a notice pf which will be found elsewhere in this letter. This project to publish occasionally worth while publications in the field of Library Science, is one [that merits your support if possible. I The purpose of this fund leads me to speak of a dream of mine, which pis, that some day the alumni body will issue a publication which will contain some of the more valuable theses which are being completed by the candidates for the Master's degree in the Library School. Before such a project could be undertaken, it would take a good deal of careful thought and the guarantee of continued financial backing on the part of the alumni. For several years there have been informal gatherings of alumni at the Mid-winter Meeting. This year we plan to have a dinner which we hope all alumni present will attend. If you are going to the meeting, please drop me a card, so that we can know approximately how many to reserve places for. There will be a notice of the time and place on the Bulletin Board at the Meeting.

Sincerely yours,

JKROMI

^H^^^^H^^^^H^^^H

K. WILCOX, I'resident John Crerar

111. g |