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University of Illinois Library School

Clara M. Spratt, B.S. '32, librarian of t since 1932, announced her marriage in De Mullen. They are residing in Rock Hill, Mis Clarence A. Tilger, B.S. '32, is an assists 7 \>~ ~'~r i ~ " ~ *UDIIC Libran, Comm ssion at Lincoln, Nebraska. Mr. and Mrs. I llgtr arc the parents o f son bo Bettie Paul Thomas, B.S. '32, was married September 11, 1932 to Mr. pauI Lange according to recent information received by the Library School. Their address is 634 Wilson Street, Emporia, Kansas. Lucile F. Vickers, B.S. '32, has resigned her position in the Sioux City Iowa, Public Library, to become librarian ot the Last Senior High School Library in Sioux City, Iowa. Margaret Wardell, B.S. '32, is part-time Reviser in the Library School and is taking part-time work towards the Master's degree in Library Science at the University of Illinois. Miss Wardell has been in the Order department, State University of Iowa, Iowa City, the past two years. Harriet P. Wirick, M.A. \32, recently assistant in the Armour Institute of Technology Library, Chicago, Illinois, has accepted the position of librarian at Southwestern College, Winfield, Kansas. Rose Williamson, B.S. '32, was married to Gilbert DeForest Kinzer of the University of Illinois Physics department in the Episcopal Chapel, December 30, 1935, Champaign, Illinois. Mr. Kinzer expects to receive his Doctor's degree, June, 1936. Mrs. Kinzer is working in the Loan department of the University of Illinois Library. Lela Elizabeth Allred, B.S. '33, has recently been made librarian of the Senior High School Library at Little Rock, Arkansas. Estella Esther Bryant, B.S. '33, is cataloger at the Public Library oi Lincoln, Illinois. Katherine L. Croxall, B.S. '33, has moved to Richmond, Indiana, with her parents, and has started the Mart Rental Library on Tenth Street. Her new address is 20 South 14th Street. Mrs. Carolyn Folz, B.S. '33, who has been assistant in the Periodical department of the University of Illinois Library while taking courses in Library Science, is now living in Moscow, Idaho, where her husband has recently accepted a position with the University of Idaho. Dr. Folz received his Ph.D. degree in June from Illinois. Virginia Gray, B.S. '33, writes that she has completed one year of the three she is to stay in Africa. Apparently she views the passage of time with regret. Her letter contains most interesting accounts of the rainy season in the Belgian Congo, the native agriculture, and the food habits. "Their menus include all kinds of flesh from the dogs of their villages to the tough muscles of leopard crocodiles, and hippopotami. They like all sorts of birds and eat insects When a swarm of locusts appear they are exultant over the feast of the moment, forgetting the damage to their crops. There are flying ants which at one season, comes swarming out of their holes at twilight every day Crowds of natives squat around the holes catching the ants as they appear and popping them into their mouths alive. VTV & The women work in the fields, but the men are not idle Thev build the mud huts, they hunt, they make the family money. Not every family L s mono but more and more is coming into circulation, and in native markets exchan is on a money basis as well as in kind. Many native men work £J *U+ rn^fons for the state on road work, for the plantations. All transport ItLnl.Tne to man power either by crude carts pushed by nun or bamboo poles laid across muscular shoulders. There was much more of equal inter*** ii J J « ;« Care A.P.< Mission, Lubondai (Tshimhala) District de1 K ^ i r .' r U ^ t - ri ' ^ a '. Congo Bel