Repository: UIHistories Project: UI Library School Alumni Newsletter - 6 [PAGE 2]

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Executive Board, 1925-1926 President—Laura R. Gibbs, 19 Exeter St., Boston, Mass. First Vice-Pres.—Grace England, Public Library, Detroit, Mich. Second Vice-Pres.—Fcnnimorc Schwartz, Public Library, New York City. Scc.-Treas.—Josie B. Houchcns, University of Illinois Library. Member cx-officio—Mary A. Batterson, Tacoma Public Library, Tacoma, V Attention Alumni!!! The amendment creating the Life membership has been passed, and with it the Association has embarked on a new policy. At every meeting where it has been discussed the idea of a scholarship has been met with enthusiasm by those who felt that the Association would be bigger and stronger if it had such a worth while goal for which to work. The real test is yet to come for the President has set the goal for one hundred life members and two hundred regular members by October, 1926. Can we do it? We can. Twenty-five dollars is not a large sum, especially when it can be distributed over five years. We have elected Trustees; we must now gather a fund for them to administer, so send in your check as soon as you can to the treasurer. An Honor roll will be published in the next letter. The secretary has received the following letter from Mr. Windsor expressing his appreciation of the action of the Association:

DEAR M I S S HOUCHENS:

I am glad that some of our alumni are becoming life members of the Association, chiefly in order to create a permanent endowment fund; it is but another manifestation of loyalty to the School and to the profession on the part of our former students. Graduate study and research in other subjects are commonly promoted by the offering of scholarships and fellowships to a selected fe>w of the more recent college graduates; if the Library School can make a similar offer, it will attract into the profession a still larger number of these graduates. We frequently are in correspondence with good students who can not come to the School even for one year of study, because of the expense; and every year there are students who do not return for the second year's study, for the same reason. They do not feel justified in going into debt for the whole of the very considerable sum necessary for a year's work. Money should also be available for publishing such student and faculty studies as would be valuable to the profession at laree A publication fund will promote the preparation of suitable theses "and monographs. These are two of the present needs of the School which our alumn' can supply if enough of them take out life memberships. No doubt other needs will arise in future years. The building up of a permanent endowment fund bjr these life memberships, and by other gifts will give a value, a dignity, and a permanence to the work of the Association, which are most desirable.

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