Repository: UIHistories Project: UI Library School Alumni Newsletter - 23 [PAGE 15]

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Alumni

News

Letter,

1937

until recently that I wasn't young any more, and so ^ > t I bobbed by hair, hoping it would rejuvenate me. Mary has had three- trips to Europe and across the continent, d i i u u r e juy o i rciiaEMlitUtlllu a lOO-vrar-nM ~ •• ii, and the joy of rehabilitating a . f A making a garden. " I can *~ • < thrills • find lots of " - wherever 1 - u n e v e n ffi&S* ng or 99tUiy once while s a l . Th* %u°^ m o r e than a sunset,, w. ^possibly uutc in a wnne a sunrise" sshe savs 1 Ise nc .:iL»nifirpnt we see them „ r — but we» are unable to he New HX*' York sunsets are magnificent, xv* c»» *u*~ often, i c lu MMl ber anv New York sunrise. Alice L. Wing, B.L.S. '04, writes that she has been acting as a representative of several I lucago book publishers for the last two years and that she enjoys the freedom and variety of the work very much. She is at present rem necteel with the George L. Shuman Co., 203 North Wabash Avenue, Chicago Hi" Grace Darling Phillips B.L.S '05, who has spent the last two years as an instructor at the Boone Library School, Wuchang, China, has returned to the United States and for the present is at her home, 3021 Forest Avenue Kansas City, Mo. She is lecturing on China and has for exhibition beautiful'Chinese costumes and works of art. Delia J. Sisler, B.L.S. 05, is acting director of the School of Librarianship University of California, Berkeley. She taught advanced cataloging at the School of Library Service, Columbia University last summer. Frank M. Bumstead, 1905-06, head of the accessions department of the University of California at Berkeley, is ill at the Alum Rock Sanatorium, San Jose, California. He would be glad to have letters and notes from friends. Stella Blanche Hedrick, 1908-09, has resigned her position as head of the department of acquisitions at the University of Missouri Library, Columbia, Missouri, where she has been since 1921. Miss Hedrick has retired from active library service. • Oscar E. Norman, 1908-09, librarian of the Peoples Light, Gas, and Coke Co. in Chicago, was married during the Christmas holidays. Margaret Winning, 1913-14, has been appointed superintendent of the extension department of the Brooklyn Public Library. From 1927-35 she was head of the county department of the Fort Wayne, Ind., Public Library. Margaret M. Herdman, B.L.S. '15, associate director of the School of ibrary Science, Louisiana State University, is on leave of absence this year id is taking graduate work at Chicago University Graduate Library School. Norma Lee Peck, B.L.S. '15, sent us a picture of the Book Truck in which she makes bi-weekly trips to rural patrons, stopping at the gates of isolated "louses or in the center of a group of homes in a small community. From September to the end of May the adults are catered to, but during the summer children's books are added. There is a panel on the outside of the truck which pens and the small children can select their books without going in. Margaret S. Williams (Mrs. Edward H. Jones), B.L.S. '16, now has Flat Rock, N.C., as her permanent address. Dr. Jones bought an estate close to Flat Rock and they have been very busy restoring the old house. This spring they will decorate and furnish it and make it their home. Formerly called the Lodge, they have renamed it Heaven Trees, because of the magnificent trees which cover such a large portion of the estate. . Edna W. Decker, 1917-18, librarian of the Wright Junior City College T Library, Chicago, gives her home address as 3547 N. Meade Ave. Chicago. Ruth Eleanor Jones, 1917-18, resigned her position as librarian of the 0 gecurity-First National Bank of Los Angeles and is living at 2301 Hay Street, an Francisco. _., ~ • Margaret Church Gillis, 1918-19, librarian of the Public Library at Ogdens»urg for a number of years, died at her home on October 4, 1936. bne naci teen ill for some months but concealed the seriousness of her illness and carJed on her duties, even attending library meetings. Her death was a great hock to her friends, one of whom has written, "Her service to Ogdcnsburg had «en so genuine and so personal that the city was united in sorrow Beatrice Sims, 1921-22, resigned her position as head cataloged of.the>£»»** t (ublic Library and has returned to the staff of the University of Arkansas ibrary where she formerly held a position. •* ..» rr^„. Jessie A. Rcid (Mrs. Charles F. Spencer), B.L.S. '23, 40 Brook Ave., Edge-