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Catalog department of the University of California Library at Berkeley succeed Agnes M. Cole, retired. •>• W Charles Holmes Stone, B.L.S. '16, resigned as librarian of the North C, M lina College for Women at Greensboro, North Carolina, to become head of 5? Department of Library Science and assistant librarian of the College of Win; l,ani and Mary at Williamsburg, Virginia. Ella Seaver Campbell, B.L.S. '17, is assistant librarian at the Pintore*, Branch of the Public Library of Pasadena, California. James R. Gulledge, 1919-70, ALA. '32, resigned his position in the Loan department of the University of Illinois Library, December 31, 1935, to become librarian of the East Carolina Teachers College Library at Greenville, N0rth' Carolina, starting his new duties J a n u a r y 2, 1936. J Janet May Arie, 1920-'21, resigned her position as supervisor of the High' School Libraries at Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and was married July 28, 1935, to Mr I George J. Roe. Mr. and Mrs. Roe are living at 1st Avenue Road, S.W., Cedar] Rapids, Iowa. Jim P. Matthews, 1920-'21, M.A. [33, formerly associate librarian at the University of Arkansas, has been appointed librarian. One of Afiss Matthews' first duties in her new capacity will be the moving of the University Library intof its fine new building. j James B. Childs, B.L.S. '21, and Mrs. Childs are the parents of a fourth son,) Daniel, born Feb. 10, 1935. Mr. Childs is on the staff of the Library of Congress at Washington, D.C. Leonore K. Schuppert, 1923-'24, who has been librarian of the Western College for Women at Oxford, Ohio, since 1927, was married on Saturday 1 afternoon, January 11, 1936, to Mr. William Low Russell of New Haven, and a graduate of Yale, at her home in Macomb, Illinois. Mr. Russell is geologist at the Tidewater Oil Company with headquarters at Ardmore, Oklahoma, where Mr. and Mrs. Russell will reside. Jeanne Everaerts, 1923-'24 (Mrs. A. E. Gray), sent four years dues to the Association in November. H e r present address is care of the American Consular1 Service, Bordeaux, France. W e wish she had also sent a letter with news of herself. I Ralph M. Whiting, 1923-'24, died Sunday, February 10th, 1935 in Los An-| geles, California. Death was due to pulmonary embolism and lobar pneumonia, a condition which was aggravated by an old war injury. Mr. Whiting was born in Whitman, Massachusetts, February 7, 1893. He was educated in the public schools of Brocton,, graduating from the High _ _ . 6 „ w „ _ „__„, School in 1911. boon afterward he went to work for the General Electric conv pany in Lynn. | 1111 4 1917 h ^ t?" J ?* ' v ? enlisted at Alliston as corporal in the 101st Infantry, Field Signal Corps, of the 26th Division. In September he went overseas with that unit and was cited for gallant conduct at Siecheprey on April 20 1918. The following June 19th he was severely wounded at Beaumont and he'never fully regained his health. At the close of the World War, Mr. Whiting attended Columbia University and the University of Illinois, receiving his degree of Bachelor of Science in Education in 1925 at the latter institution. For two years he served as assistant in the Business branch of the Minneapolis Public Library after whkh M became assistant librarian of the municipal Reference Library at t n c Anwl( California. Because of failing health in the summer of 1931 un ?X , •' 1

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