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borrower has returned $200 on a $300 loan and there it still #250 out in loans, which are not yet due. Three News Letters have been issued since the last meeting, in September, December, and Tune. The editor finds it very difficult to Cet news items and urges all alumni to send in changes of position or £ny other item which might be of interest in the letter. It is especially hard to find notes of all articles, addresses, and publications of the alumni and the editor would be very grateful if a copy of all such publications could be sent directly to her. The most important item of new business is the passage of the Life Membership amendment and the School hopes that every alumnus at the meeting will sign up for a life membership and that each will recruit others, so that the Scholarship fund may grow.

JOSIE B. HoUCHENS,

Secretary-Treasurer Alumni Gossip Helen A. Bagley, Ex'06, for a number of years Librarian of Oak Park, 111., has accepted a position in the Reference Department of the Detroit Public Library. Lois M. Woods, '17, is now Librarian of the 11th Naval District, San Diego, Calif. Arthur C. Curry, '21, and Mrs. Curry announce the birth of a daughter, Jean Eloise, in August. The Currys are now at Fort Worth, Tex., where he is the Librarian of the Texas Christian University. Opal Williams, S.S. '25, has been appointed to the librarianship of the Randolph College Library at Cisco, Tex. Wintress Brennan, '17, spent four months in Europe this summer; among other interesting experiences she confesses to having witnessed a Bull Fight in Spain. She has just accepted the position of Reference Librarian at Iowa State Teachers College, Cedar Falls. Evelyn M. Foster, Ex'26, is an instructor in the Library School of the Western Reserve University. Helen V. Barnes, Ex'26, is a Cataloger in the Public Library of the District of Columbia. Elizabeth Greene, '05, writes that she is working in New York City on the unfinished Sabin "Bibliotheca Americana." Beatrice Prall, '16, resigned her position in Little Rock, Ark., and went to the Hoyt Public Library, Saginaw, Mich., in August, where she will be Assistant Librarian. Ruth Balsam, Ex'25, is now in the Reference Department of the Ryerson Library, Art Institute, Chicago. Isabella Brokaw, '20, has gone to Whiting, Ind., where she will be the Librarian of the Standard Oil Company of Indiana. Wilhelmina E. Carothers, Ex'05, has resigned as Reference Librarian of the James Jerome Hill Library at St. Paul, Minn.

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