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Alma Felter, '24 has accepted the position of Assistant librarian at Drake "University, Des Moines, la. ' Anita Hostetter, '19 is to be m the Omaha Technical High School Library next year. Elizabeth Porter Clarke, '10, is now Librarian of the Public Library in Kingston, X. y. A letter from Irvine G. Mooney, who attended the Library School the first semester, 1922-23, tells how, after nearly a year of travel through Europe, he has bought a poultry farm in Cornwall; this departure from Library work is due to the condition of his health, which requires an outdoor occupation. Isabel G. Home, Ex. '23, has recently resigned her position in the South Dakota Library Commission and accepted one in the Minneapolis Public Library. Marie Hedrick Stigers, '19, is organizing the Library of the Thompson Institute for Plant Research, Yonkers, N. Y., Stella Galpin Trowbridge, '14, is assisting her. The Chicago Regional Group of Catalogers had a meeting and dinner on April 21; J. B. Childs, '21, is Secretary; Adaline M. Baker, '02, is Chairman of the membership committee, and Rose Sears, '14, is Chairman of the program committee. Clara A. Ricketts, '11, is now assistant in the Library of the Commonwealth Edison Company, Chicago. Nelle V. Archer, Ex. '21, was married to Mr. Harry Morris in June. 1923. They have made their home in Akron, Ohio. The marriage has been announced of Mary E. Smith, Ex. '10, formerly of the Washington State College Library, to Mr. A. P. Graham; their address is 7016 16th Ave N. W., Seattle, Wash. Fanny A. Noyes, Ex. '12, has announced her marriage to Mr. Warren E. Knapp, on the tenth of May, 1924; they will be at home in Pulaski, Va. Jackson E. Towne, '22, has resigned from his position in Yale University Library and will be Supervisor of Departmental Libraries at the University of Iowa. Mr. and Mrs.. E. J. Reece (Sabra Stevens, '14) announced the birth of a son, Allen, at White Plains, N. Y., February 1st, 1924. Margaret Mann, '96, has accepted the position of Chief Instructor in the Paris Library School next year. Harriet E. Howe, '02, is acting as Executive assistant, Temporary Library Training Board, until fall, when her leave from Simmons College Library School will expire. Everett O. Fontaine, Ex. '18, is assistant to the Secretary of A. L. A. and is in charge of sales and subscriptions. Howard B. Sohn, '20, has been appointed librarian of the Public Library at Alliance, Ohio. Esther L. Bergen, '21, has resigned from the Decatur Public Library to become Head Cataloger in the University of Tennessee Library. Leila Wilcox, Ex. '15, has just been appointed Librarian of the Public Library, Port Huron, Mich. At a meeting of the California Library Association, the following alumni held a reunion and dinner: Grace Lefler, '03, Mr. and Mrs. W. O. Waters, '09, Grace Switzer, '05, Norah McNeill, '09, Mabel V. Miller, Ex. '22. Fannie A. Coldren, 72 Helen T. Kennedy, '03, and Jeanette M. Drake, '03. Lyda Broomhall, '08, is now one of the librarians with the Irving Bank-Columbia Trust co., New York city. She returned in March from four years in Peking, China, where she was the librarian for the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research. Caroline Orvis, Ex. '18, has been appointed librarian of the Public Library at Huron, S. D. Grace D. Phillips, '05, recently visited the School and reported that she had just finished a theological school and been appointed Minister of the Church of Christ at Batavia, H| Bertha Bond Putney, '05, who has been living in Urbana with her little daughter Ellen, has accepted a part time appointment in the Busey Memorial Library. The news of the death of Mable E. Marshall, Librarian of the State Teachers' College Peru, Nebraska, January, 1924, has been received. She was a graduate of the University 0 f Michigan and attended the Library School in 1902-03; for some years she was the Librarian of the Ohio State Normal College, Bowling Green, Ohio.