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llcmhor Kx-Ofticio-Ota M. Wyeth, Public Library, Savannah, Georgia. Trustees of Kmlowment Fund—J. S. Cleavinger, 1935-38; Louise B# " K r a« s c. . B K u„ W4-37; Margaret Williams Jones, 1936-39. * > J W A N T T O GO TO C H I N A ?

If anyone is interested in a library school position in China at a salary of $av a year in United States currency, please get in touch with the Library hool office. The prospective candidate is expected to pay his or her own passage both ways. One can live quite comfortably for $30 a month Age- 35 to 42 years. Good health is essential. Episcopalian preferred. ANNUAL MEMBERSHIPS You say you are not ready to become a life member; that may be true, but why not join now on a regular membership of one dollar a year and help us defray the expenses of the News Letter. For several years the cost of this has excet led our income, thus drawing on the reserve which we had hoped to keep for a loan fund. Out of over twelve hundred alumni actively engaged in library work, only one hundred and seventeen paid their dues last year. Surely dollars ™e not so scarce now—don't you just forget? LIFE MEMBERSHIPS Several more names have been added to the Honor Roll

LOUISE W I N N GETCHELL, '27 CATHERINE MCIVOR, '34 OLIVE LEWIS, '29 MARY LOUISE SEELY, '36

There is an acute need for additional life members so that the principal of the endowment fund may be increased. For the past four years the interest on this fund has been sufficient for one three-hundred dollar scholarship each year. However, interest rates are being lowered from five to four, and even three per cent, and our capital invested at such rates will no longer yield the necessary amount. The younger alumni might well consider such a membership as an investment in their profession, for this scholarship has helped and will help especially qualified fellow alumni to a year of graduate study, which might otherwise be impossible. ALUMNI REUNIONS

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The following alumni held an Illinois breakfast at Shreveport, Louisiana, on April 24th: Metella Williams, Alice Alben, Lois Shortess, Lora Baker, W. E. Carrothers, Charles Flack, R. W. McComb. MINNESOTA On March 19, 1937, at a dinner meeting at Minnesota University, was held the 50th anniversary celebration of the establishment of the first library school t Columbia University. ,•A _ . . . The program consisted of a clever little play, called A Conversation with -Mr. Dewey," given by members of the staff of the Minneapolis Public Library, t took us back to the days of the first class in 1887. Mr. Frank Walter gave a short talk on the library training idea, and a aper, written by Mr. J. Christian Bay, was read, entitled "The Library School •nd Library Life." , . , .... . . • Fifteen library schools were represented and twelve ///mi were seated ogether Miss Isabel Anderson was the Illinois member of the general committee Pd it was through her efforts that arrangements were made for our happy eunion, though she herself was unable to be there. The Illini present from the Twin Cities were: Jessie L. Arms, Hora M. r,w« T r u . r U ^ rvifmthrll. Cleona L. Case. Katharine Poster, Maxine Heg-