Repository: UIHistories Project: UI Library School Alumni Newsletter - 7 [PAGE 5]

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MY ILLINOIS

F. K. W. DRURT, '05

On the prairies rolling free Stands our University, Alma Mater which we praise in song and story: Other hearts may long to be Near the great wide western sea, Or Atlantic's rough and rock-bound shore, But we Illini, ever true, will thy fair name enjoy And promote the good and welfare of our own c Chorus.—My Illinois, my Illinois,

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The University I love the best; My Illinois, old Illinois, What memories thy name recalls. To the Orange and the Blue I will evermore be true, To my own, my Illinois. We are loyal to thy name, We are jealous of thy fame, And we cherish deep the spirit that makes heroes; We rejoice in thy success, We are anxious to express The devotion that is wholly thine. Hail, Alma Mater! naught can ever thy good name destroy, East and West pay willing tribute to our own dear Illinois. Chorus. SCHOOL NEWS The prospects for a large and interesting Summer Session are good. On June first the office had accepted the applications of twenty-two new candidates and eighteen who had been enrolled in former summers. Several of these are returning for the third summer. Eight others are members of the University library staff, and in most cases, have already begun their training. Eight applications are being considered and new ones are received every day. The total enrollment will be sixty or more. Miss Mis School of the Decatur, 111., Senior High School Library. The revisors are to be Frances Ambuhl, Helen Haug, Downing O'Harra, and Jeannette Van der Ploeg, all of the present Junior class. Marie M. Hostetter, '22, will be a member of the faculty next year. She graduated from the University of Kansas in 1919 and received her B.L.S. from the University of Illinois in 1922; she was classifier and cataloger in the University of Kansas Library for some time. For the last two years she has been in the Omaha Technical I ligh Sch 1 Library.

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