Repository: UIHistories Project: UI Library School Alumni Newsletter - 8 [PAGE 2]

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Will not each one of you who reads this constitute yourself a cominittee of one to do what you can to boost the Association? Become a member, become a life member if you can, and if you have already joined the Association, encourage others. Sincerely,

M. WYETH

President Executive Board 1926-27

President—Ola M. Wyeth, Public Library, Savannah, Ga. First Vice-Pres.—Minnie E. Sears, H. W. Wilson co., New York City. Second Vice-Pres.—Ruth E. Hammond, Public Library, Wichita, Kan. Sec.-Treas.—Josie B. Houchens, University of Illinois Library, Urbana. Member ex-officio— Laura R. Gibbs, 19 Exeter St., Boston, Mass.

R E P O R T OF T H E ANNUAL M E E T I N G A T ATLANTIC C I T Y The University of Illinois Library School alumni held a most enjoyable dinner at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel on Thursday, October the seventh. Eighty-one alumni were present. After the dinner the Alumni Meeting was held, Fenimore Schwartz, the vice-president, presiding. Elizabeth Forrest read an abbreviated statement of the treasurer's report. She also discussed the possibilities of the use of the income from the Life Memberships, and spoke of the establishment of one or two scholarships open either to first or second year students, or of the publication of an alumni directory or later of monographs or theses by faculty or students as alternatives for the expenditure of our Membership fund. She also spoke of the contingent opportunity .of appropriating from the general treasury to supplement our Life Membership fund, and attention was called to the very wise feasibility, suggested by Mr. Windsor, of putting our fund into the trusteeship of the University of Illinois and thereby securing confidence and stability. Miss Forrest spoke of the hope that later wealthy alumni would give us larger donations and remember us in their wills. She said that it had been the wish of pome alumni to use part of the fund to secure the representation of either the director or the assistant-director at every A. L A b ' r that this is rendered unnecessary by t h el jfal c t that the University' •.„«.. w .„ „ . „ , . * „ « — , ; 7 r ^ _ ^ *•"«" «ic university will now grant such travel expenses. Miss Forrest closed by urging- tl necessity of increasing our number of life memberships, as it would Y? wonH be can £3 £iU?ital She then made a motion ave the incoming president appoint a committee to study the 1 a tion and report. After discussion this was adopted. In the discu " " n it developed that the sense of the meeting was strongly in favor of u ' ° Sin our Fund for the support of a scholarship. & The name of the Association was changed by vote from that of i University of Illinois State Library School Alumni Association to* tl f u - * - "niversity of Illinois Library Srhool Association. This bring* *f rrrL us in line with the present nomenclature of the Schoo,' -e word Alui„ ni ' '

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