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JNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS LIBRARY SCHOOL

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June, 1933 THE FIRST ALUMNI SCHOLARSHIP The Executive Board of the Association and the Trustees of the Kndowment F u n d decided during the winter that the time seemed favorable for granting the first Scholarship from the funds which the .Association has been collecting for that purpose since 1925. The principal sum had reached $6,000 (see report of the Trustees in News Letter No. 17, December, 1932), and interest to the amount of $300 was available. This was in accordance with the action of the Association at T o ronto, which decided that no awards should be made until the principal urn had reached an amount to yield $200 or more. It was the unanimous opinion of the Executive Board and the Trustees that the amount was now sufficient for the first Scholarship. I Accordingly, Mr. Windsor presented the matter to the Graduate School of the University, recommending that no tuition, incidental and laboratory fees be charged to the holder of the Scholarship, and that Ihe Library School faculty or a committee of that faculty, consider all applications and recommend the best candidate to the Graduate School. The •pproved plan was then presented to the Board of Trustees of the University and they accepted the gift of the Association. I The Scholarship will operate according to the following plan: I 1. The amount of the Scholarship shall be $300 for the coming year and for succeeding years, with the understanding that the Board of Trustees of the Endowment Fund has authority to reduce this amount, notice of such reduction Bo be sent to the Library School faculty by January 1st of any year, so as not to Belay the advertising and other regulations concerning the award of the Scholar•hip which will usually be made in March. I 2. The money for each Scholarship will be paid to the Comptroller of the [University each year before the formal appointment of the candidate and this ioney shall be paid out to the holder of the Scholarship in accordance with the stablished practices of the Comptroller's office in the payment of other scholarships. I 3. The Scholarship shall be given publicity each year and the candidate shall |be selected by a committee of the Library School faculty who will consider all Applications and choose the candidate who in their opinion is best qualified to [receive the award. The announcement of the Scholarship was made in the January \Library Journal and a number of letters were sent out to alumni who might qualify; after the applications were received the faculty committee acted on them and decided that the award for the first year should go to one of our own alumni. Miss Lucy Brown Foote, head cataloger, Louisiana State University, will be the first recipient of the Katharine L. Sharp Scholarship. Miss Foote received her degree of B.S. from George Peabody College, and her first library degree with the Class of 1930. Her experience and personal traits eminently fit her for the honor bestowed. I Miss Foote's proposed thesis is "A study of the official state publications of Louisiana since 1899"—a project on which she has already begun work and which is in line with the current interests of the Public Documents Committee of the A.L.A. # This first Scholarship will he known as the Katharine L. Sharp Scholarship and is named for the organizer of the School.

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