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University of Illinois Library School

•ind asking those who were not present to send theirs to our Secret* T t a w r e " Miss lone Williams, London Kentucky * T S n r ^ n r at the dinner were: Lena B. Nofcier and Pcrma R;cu at F f the Kentucky^ 7 ^ ° * *™*« Wallace fc S b w S n ^ S r E l i x a b e t h Hanson University of Kentucky, i ^ J g } . 1 E S S ^ n e S r and Mary Powell Sublett, University of Louisville, g j BothV Western Ky. Teachers College, Bowling Green. * I shalf be glad to know of other Illinois graduates in the state for we should like to have them as members of our group. Sincerely yours,

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PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES OF ALUMNI A.L.A. Committees—Checking the list of Committees and Boards in thcJ Handbook of the American Library Association, we found it fairly bristling with Illinois Alumni: James Bennett Childs, Amelia Kneg, Delia J. Sislcr, Arnold Trotier, Harriet E. Howe, Helmer L. Webb, Elsie L. Baechtold, ] Margaret Mann, Emma Felsenthal, Mae C. Anders, Effie G. Abraham, Amy C.l Moon, Anne M. Boyd, Rudolph H. Gjelsness, Julia C. Pressey, Beatrice Prall, { Arthur E. Gropp, John S. Cleavinger, Jeannette M. Drake, Jackson E. Towne. Jerome K. Wilcox, Ida F. Wright, Francis K. W. Drury, Margaret M. Herdman, Vera J. Snook, Ola M. Wyeth, Thomas P. Ayer, Dorothy Black were among the names we noticed. 1 Elaine Boylan, librarian of the Dallas Morning News, is on the publicity division of the Project Study Committee of the Texas Library Association, I 1935-37. William Baehr, librarian of the Augustana College, Rock Island, presided J over the College and Reference Section of the Illinois Library Association | meeting in October. j Lorena Baker, Circulation department, Texas University, is on the Unem-j ployment Committee of the Texas Library Association, 1935-37. Mary C. Bigelow, assistant librarian of the Public Library, Rockford, Illinois, arranged the exhibits at the Illinois Library Association* meeting in O tober. j Mary J. Booth, librarian of the Eastern Illinois State Teachers College, gave a paper on "Some Problems of a Teacher's College Library" before the Illinois State Library Association meeting. Anne M. Boyd, assistant professor of Library Science, University of Illinois, talked on "Book Selection, Whatever That I s " before the Illinois Library Association last October. Mary Isabella Brokaw (Mrs. E. E. Wallace), librarian of the Standard Oil Company at Whiting, Indiana, was elected one of the directors of the Special Libraries Association for 1935-36 at the October meeting in Chicago Katherrae A. Brose, Circulation department, Mills College Library, is secretary of the first district (Frisco Bay region) of the California Library As sociation. Nellie Mae Coats, head of the Catalog department of Indiana State Libran is chairman of the Ohio Regional group of catalogers for 1935-36 Mrs. Maude Cowan, librarian, Southeastern Teachers College Durant. Oklahoma, sent a program giving the Commencement exercises of the Ja.m R l , h S > 0 ! ? l u ! ! ! ! l \ < ? , * - „ ± ? L i Southeastern Teachers College. This took the form of an historical pageant commemorating the three hundredth anniversary of the founding pf secondary schools in the United States. 1635-1935 Mrs Cowan planned and managed the pageant and used over a hundred riiiM™ in the various scenes. wuwren Grace A. Campbell, document librarian of the State \ „„i \r r n... Stillwater, Oklahoma, read a paper, "Government Documents *«» ,. ,;» M the m of the Oklahoma Library Association, Tulsa, April, 1935 ' "" James Bennett Childs, chief of the Document Division of th* T i .f Congress, (.resented a paper on "Acquisition of Publications ot Fore i