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•irshall Collegre, was elected vice president for 1933. She al K e r on -The public library situation in West Virginia" which v!m xC r Jult of a survey made by the American Association of University V WWest Virginia. • Vivian Reynolds Boughter, librarian of the State Normal S oi •jrmont. presided at the opening sesaion of the meeting. W Julia Wright Merrill, executive assistant of the Library Extcnsi. fca'rd of the A.L.A., spoke on the topic, "A look ahead"; she looked b k i a visit made to West Virginia five years ago and showed the organix fen, its progress, etc., painting also a picture of the future in librarv Kmplishments for the state.

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Flora E. Hottes, children's librarian at Kenosha Public Library, d lussed "Children's books in various editions" at the 41st annual met [f the Association last October at Appleton. ALUMNI GOSSIP Margaret Mann, '9Z-96, professor of Library Science at th Unitersity of Michigan, has a leave of absence this semester and is spending he time in Europe. , , Gertrude Forstall, 94- 95, has changed from librarian, Victory Cororation, 231 South LaSalle Street, Chicago, Illinois, to librarian Chris* opher House Library, 2507 Greenview Avenue, Chicago, Illinois. Linda M. Clatworthy, B.L.S. 1900, librarian of Denver University tied of a heart attack on the 23rd of January, 1933, partly as a result pf injuries and shock suffered when she was struck by a hit-and-run piotorist a few weeks earlier. Miss Clatworthy had been librarian of khe University for 12 years. During that time she was chiefly responsible por the library's growth from a small institution to the present beautiful new Mary Reed Library which was dedicated last fall. She was known o thousands of students and alumni who found her extensive knowledge jof history and literature helpful to them. I She was born in Dayton, Ohio, and educated at Denison University, Vassar College, Northwestern University, and received her B.L.S. from the University of Illinois Library School in 1900. She also received he Master's degree at Denver University. She was very fond of the indoors and spent a good deal of time with her brother, Fred A. Clatworthy, a nationally known photographer at Estes Park. She was living with her mother, Mrs. Emma Clatworthy, at 2055 S. Columbine Stret Denver. Miss Clatworthy was a past president of the Colorado Library Association, organizer of the Dayton Art Museum, member of the National Council of the National Economic Association, and a member of Delta Delta Delta and Pi Gamma Mu sororities. . Helen K. Starr, B.L.S. '04, librarian of the James J. Hill Reference Library, spoke at the Fiftieth Anniversary Celebration of the S t Paul Public Library, October 3-17, 1932. Josie B. Houchens, B.L.S. '05, A.M. '12, will be a inemher of i faculty of the School of Library Service at Columbia during tin sum met session. ^ Helen Mary Crane, B.L.S. '05, ha* been appointed head of ilu ( M !n apartment, Public Library, Detroit, Michigan. She was forn rlv li ^ n a n , John Montcith Regional Branch Library, Detroit. I "I