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outstanding Q,,jetl „»v contribution ostentatiously, she made an invaluable www.bution to the Library of oguing and in the training of others. Sh is now with her family on a farm near Bradford, Vermont. Edna L. Goss, B.L.S. '02, resigned her position as Cataloger and Bibliographer, Stanford University Library, Stanford University, Call. fornia, September 1, 1934. After a trip East and a visit with friends and relatives near Chicago she will be at home 2414 Telegraph Avenue, Berkeley, California. A. May Ingles, 1900-01, Librarian of the Technical High School Library, Omaha, Nebraska, vacationed in Labrador last summer. Torstein Knutson Jahr, B.L.S. '00, died during the summer of 1934 ] at his home in Holmestrand, Norway. He was a member of the Library of Congress staff from 1901 to 1928 when he resigned because of ill health. He was born in Norway in 1871 and was a graduate from Luther j College, Decorah, Iowa, in 1896, and from the University of Illinois j Library School in 1900. While a member of the Catalog division of the | Library of Congress he continued his studies and travelled extensively j abroad. A specialist in Scandinavica, he was a frequent contributor to ) various journals on historical, literary, and bibliographical subjects. j Mary E. Todd, B.L.S. '01, is now Librarian of the Onondaga Valley Academy Library at Syracuse, New York. J Grace O. Kelly, B.L.S. '03, —it's Dr. Kelly now—the University of Chicago having awarded her a Ph.D. degree. Thesis: "The Classification of Books in Libraries, in Terms of Use." She is readers consultant in the Queensborough Public Library, Long Island, N. Y. Anna V. Jennings, B.L.S. '03, Librarian of the Nebraska State Teachers College and Normal School, Kearney, Nebraska, vacationed in Europe last summer. f Francis K. W. Drury, B.L.S. 0S Librarian of the Carnegie Library at Nashville, Tennessee and Mrs. Will R. Reeves were married on December 1, 1934. It will also interest the many friends of Mr. Drury to know that his son Jack was married this spring, we understand to a Nashville girl, though actual details are lacking. - Grace D Phillips, B.L.S. '05, resigned her position as Librarian of the Divinity Library, University of Chicago, last summer, and accepted a posmon as instructor in the Boone University Library School, Wuchang, She began her new work in September and writes with enthusiasm. I am really very happy over here in China and not a bit disappointed. The more Chinese I know, the more I like them and I am in tofc with my work. I like my students very much. I cannot imagin? a b S h t c r or more. ea*er group. There are five boys and five girls in the fun or class, nine boys in the senior class, but no girls because last year t h e ^ was no dormitory provision for the girls. In each class t h e r f t r e " 2 2 or two who have trouble with English, but by dint of writing on the ZlckLlrl letting them use my lecture notes and having one explain t o t h e othSs 5 Chinese, we manage to get along very nicely. otners i» I am to live in a little three-room bungalow near the Iibrarv and it is all beine: done over for me. I have had to do the shopping 'for