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Caption: UI Library School Alumni Newsletter - 6
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• UNIVERSITY O F ILLINOIS LIBRARY SCHOOL ' ALUMNI N E W S LETTER Number 6 December, 1925 To the University of Illinois Library School Alumni DEAR FELLOW-MEMBERS: Association The Alumni Association, at its last meeting, elected a president who was not there, consequently her communication in this issue of the News Letter will discuss the meeting solely from the point of view of the minutes. The most significant thing in these was Mr. Windsor's report on the possibilities of graduate work at the School. His conclusion, if I interpret the report aright, is that graduate work is being done, that a graduate school is quite feasible, but that the demand for its products would not be sufficient to warrant it at this time. That transaction which demands the immediate consideration of our members is, however, the amendment of the constitution to provide for life memberships as the basis of an endowment fund, the interest of which it is proposed to use,—though not so demanded by the Constitution,—for a scholarship in the Library School. The University of Illinois is among the oldest of the Library Schools of the country; it has an alumni body numbering nearly a thousand, over half of whom are now in library work, and consequently supposedly interested in the advancement of the profession. The Alumni Association has a membership of less than a,hundred fifty. If we are to found a scholarship we need two hundred life members. We need in addition another two hundred to pay the running expenses of the larger association. Shall we set the goal at half this for 1926? Can we go to the semi-centennial of the A. L. A. in October and report at our annual meeting there that we have reached or even passed this goal? That meeting will be a great celebration in the history of our profession; let us make it a red letter day in our Association annals as well. Will you send your check to the treasurer next month? Will you influence your friends and classmates to send theirs? Of course we want life members if we can get them, but we want members. How near can we come to one hundred per cent membership for those still in the work? Some of those who have left it still retain their membership and more of these will join the Association as it grows. Do you accept the challenge? Sincerely, LAURA R. GIBBS, '02 President
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