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Alumni News Letter, 1937

where t and on I in las> K t a i g department to become a cataloger in the great Folger ' S h a W ^ r e c i b r . r y t t Washington. »*~ The New York Times of March 11th carried a picture of Martha Cleavinger winner of a White Scholarship to S w a r t h m o r e College for next year This is a four-year scholarship and a great honor, for out of 180 applicants'only five were chosen. Martha is the daughter of F?rofessor and Mrs. John Simeon Cleavinger both ot whom are well known to many of th< alumni. • Gerald H. Sandy. M A . '32. and Margaret Spoon Sandy, M.A. '34, announce the irth of a son William F r a n k on March 6, 1937. Mr. Sandy is in charge of the Exchange divisi on of the University of Illinois and Mrs. Sandy was for several years reference assistant. eachers of reference subjects will be much interested in an article by Margaret Hutchins entitled, " T h e artist-teacher in the field of bibliography/' which appeared in the Library Quarterly for January, 1937. Miss Hutchins is Assistant Professor of Bibliography and Reference subjects in the Columbia School of Library Service and has a wide practical experience both in University and Public Librarv reference service to draw from A RECORD O F W H I C H TO BE PROUD

Several times in the last few years the University has made studies of Alumni Relations calling on the various colleges and schools of the University to give an account of the way in which they have kept in contact with their alumni and the way in which their alumni have manifested their continued interest in their college and the whole University. In such studies the relation of the Library School and its alumni have received most favorable comment; few colleges maintain such an active placement bureau or make a definite effort through a separate alumni association to keep Iheir former students united. When the University Foundation, for the purpose of unifying and perpetuating alumni giving, was organized Mr. Windsor sent the following resume of the generous and loyal activities of the Library School Association to President Willard, to Carl Stephens, Secretary of the general Alumni Association and to other University officials. Thirteen hundred alumni of the University of Illinois Library School are Ijjow working in libraries scattered from one end of the country to another. ih e y are, for example, nearly as numerous in the State of California as they are 5L Illinois, aside from those in Urbana. Jhese alumni, like most librarians, have a strong esprit de corps; they have manifested their loyalty to the School and to the profession in many ways, as may be gathered from the following paragraphs. 1- The alumni and former students of the School (including those of the T library School of Armour Institute, the predecessor of our own School), rjave had an Alumni Association of their own since 1898 and for years at e fcry annual conference of the American Library Association the organized a, nmni present have held a reunion dinner, with an attendance ranging in recent e >' ars from 100 to 220 This dinner, which is largely a social affair, chiefly for r(, nnion purposes, has done much to keep the alumni of the School acquainted |*»tn each other and interested in the School from which they graduated. 2. At many annual meeting! of state library associations, similar, though Waller, meetings of Illinois alumni are held. , .3. The reputation of our alumni influences students to come to Illinois for incir professional tniiniiiK 4. In 1920-22 the alumni of the School raised a fund of about $1200 and commissioned J orado Taft to make a bronze bas-relief tablet of MASS Katherxne s I: 'W/>, who was organizer and director of the Armour Institute Library School I89.V97. and from 1897, when the School was moved to the University, Wa * dii tor of th< School and librarian of the University until 1907. That