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Caption: UI Library School Alumni Newsletter - 27
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Alumni News Letter Aurella Knapp (Mrs. Elmer D e r s h e m ) , B.L.S. '12, left the John Crerar J n August 1. 1938. after serving for many years in the periodical brary S s e R . Sears, i U - S ' 1 2 , librarian of the Virginia Library, Presbyterian Ccal Seminary, Chicago, sends her greetings from San Francisco. Theol Chore she is spending some time after a severe illness. Calif. «corge A. Dcveneau, '16, assistant director of personnel for the Panama r*nal a former Chicagoan, died recently in the Gorgas hospital, Balboa, fin*)' Zone. Death apparently occurred from the shock of a kidney operation Mr- Deveneau was 49 years old. H e had years of experience as a personnel director and technical expert. H e was appointed executive sccreun -t the Illinois state committee on unemployment in 1933. Later ^ associated with the P.W.A. in Illinois. I n March, 1935, he entered the canal service. H e formerly lived in Flossmoor. H e was active in command affairs there and served on the school and community church board . native of Chicago, Mr. Deveneau was graduated from the v/niv rsity of Chicago in 1912. L a t e r he served in the library of the Univi ;ity of Illinois, and subsequent years with industrial nouses as a techr :al e x p e r t Surviving are his widow, Gertrude; three daughters, Phyllis. Marion, and Eleanor; and a son, Nelson. Arthur R. Curry, B.L.S. '21, is state wide supervisor of the W P A library project in Texas. His home address is 415 Blanco Road in San Antonio, Tex. ^ • j a m e s B. Childs, B.L.S. '21, Chief of the Documents Division of the Library of Congress, has five sturdy sons. Their picture with their father and mother appeared in the Illinois Alumni News in July. Marie M. Hostetter, B.L.S. '22, assistant professor at the University of Illinois Library School, Urbana, is on leave of absence this year and plans to be registered at the University of Chicago Graduate Library School. May C. Hessler, '24*25, resigned her position as reference librarian general library division, Illinois State Library, Springfield, to be married April 15, 1939 to Mr. William F. Lacey Jr. of Canton, Illinois. They will live in Springfield, O. Octavia Rogan, B.L.S. '24, resigned as librarian of the Grand Lodge of Texas Library and began work in March as Library Supervisor W P A Texas district no. 9, she has headquarters at Austin. Gertrude M. Suess Brumbaugh, M.A. '27y has recently been made librarian of the Clackamas County Library, which is cooperating with the Oregon City Public Library, of which Mrs. Brumbaugh has been librarian. Charlotte Newton, '24-25, M.A. '29, has resigned her position as head of the Acquisitions Department, University of Georgia Library, Athens, Georgia to become head of the Circulation Department, University of iorida Library, Gainesville, Fla. Ruth Sinclair, '25-26, married John Fred Bell who is now at Temple university. Their address is 210 Cypress Ave., Jenkinstown, Pa. They have jwo little daughters, Barbara and Elizabeth. Mary Lois Crouch, '25-26, M.A. '30, who has been assistant librarian of [lie Nebraska State Teacher's College Library at Wayne, Nebr., writes jhat -he has recently been made librarian. H. Frances Barnett, '25-26, is working in the Little Rock, Arkansas, Public Library. Esther Stallmann, P>.S. '27, taught at the Syracuse, New York Library School this summer. She will be registered again this year at the University of Chicago Graduate Library School. Hazel Rea, B.S. '27, M.A. '29, resigned hef position with the Kearney, Nebr State Teachers College Library, to become cataloger at the I niverSity of Redlands Library, Redlands, Calif., starting her new work July 1, 1038. CP MM m ^
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