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positions Will you please fill in the enclosed questionnaire, remembering always to keep in mind the needs of your position? T r y to forget your reactions to a course while in school. Jt is important to tell us what preparation for;, work was missing. Remember, too, that there is a graduate year of jy. If you were teaching first-year library school students, how would you prepv them for your work? We consider your cooperation an important service to the profession. W e shall welcome all comments whether you completed the work for the degree or not. It is not necessary to sign your name, though that might help us in several ways. Please return the questionnaire to the Library School Office, soon as possible. KANSAS CITY M E E T I N G The University of Illinois Library School Alumni Association held its annual dinner meeting on June 16, 1938, at the Hotel Muehlebach in Kansas City during the 60th Annual American Library Association Conference. Jt was also the 41ft year since the organization of our Association. There were 219 present. Following an entertaining program of music and dancing presented by local performers the meeting was called to order by the President, W'ilma L. Shelton, who gave a brief address. Aliss Frances Simpson, Assistant Director of the Library Schoo emerita, was then welcomed by the 1 'resident, and responded with a few wor of greeting to the members of the Association. The report of the Secreta: Treasurer, Aliss Houchens, was read and approved. A letter of greeting t/om Mr. Windsor was read by the President. Aliss Ethel Bond read a letter I* Miss Amelia Krieg describing the general prospects for placement of gradua of the School. Aliss Bond also announced that Felix E. Snider of Fremon Missouri, had been awarded the Sharp Memorial Scholarship for 19J8-1W Air. Arnold I rotier gave a report on the Adah Patron Memorial Fund. \f financial report of the Trustees of the Endowment Fund, submitted b> John b. Ueavinger, was read by the acting secretary T h e report of the Cor m lt e a olnte<: to J, consider the proposed celebration of the 40th annivcrs* f !u T ?£ ot the Library School was read by the acting secretary in the absence of Mi JNelle Signor chairman. The Committee agreed that the celehrition should *• & T „• Techno ogy, which will celebrate its 50th anniv in S aIS W b n tnc T a m eyear, Th e? Committee ' recommended <*W»«ing its 75thcommit!' t h e same ^ e « l h ' ^ • ° " ' " , ? that a nermanent anniv in d m , , gethCr m K S ? S r & & T ¥ S | S r f ° A «'-as G ™ ormniate | thcr S,i riterttofie f"which to S S ^ S S S P H ^ *K ^ "h»e* " of , had been left to the incominTpresiclent "' *" « * * " « < '" Upon motion by Everett O. Fontaine, the sccrctarv u » . •n s t.r c ,c<l i , , „ to the fam.Iy of Miss Mary Eileen Ahern the fiKuS ' « . " l, .„) for Miss Ahcrn's funeral by members of the facultyJn 1 s<tafff o f*, 'V"' ,' • y ta f library and Library School. 'he I mvet>

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