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Caption: UI Library School Alumni Newsletter - 23
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IJniversity T of Illinois Library School t n w on-sent were: Amy C. Moon, Saint Paul Public Library f. L y S o n ! C S o . M « U c a ! Society; Helen Weaver, Buhl; l & f c f e hilli neau jruiJiic i-iuiaijr, ^. St Saint Paul; 1. Charlott - ciou: A M Leone Ingram, Saint P. * C. MOO, TEXAS *H Eighteen Illini met at breakfast at the Texas Hotel, October 24, 1936 A,, ... s the Southwestern Library Association Meeting m Houston. There'*,' mg other Illini at the meeting who were unavoidably prevented from attending the Miss Jim P. Matthews presided. Mr. Icko Iben, though a graduate of the Illinois Library School, was an honor guest at the breakfast, as he succeeded by election of the executive committee Mrs. Cora Case Porter as president of the Southwestern Library Association for the unexpired term. Mr. Iben led the singing of "Hail to the Orange." A telegram of greeting and news from the Illinois Library School was read f rom Mr. Windsor. It was voted to send a response to Mr. and Mrs. Windsor. It was also voted to send a message to Mrs. Cora Case Porter, who resigned the presidency on account of illness, to say how much we missed her. Purposely no formal program had been prepared so that there might be more opportunity to become better acquainted. Practically each person present I contributed a news item about other Illini or about recent Illinois Library | School happenings. Those present, including several guests, were: Frances Burrage, Dallas Public Library; Mary Clay, Mary Hardin-Baylor College, Belton; Flora Eckert, cataloger, University of Texas, Austin; Opal Williams, librarian, East Texas State Teachers College, Commerce; Addie Smith, cataloger, A. & M. College, Stillwater, Okla.; Harriet Dickson, Houston Public Library; Helen T. Coffin, librarian, La Retama Public Library, Corpus Christi; | Octavia F. Rogan, librarian, Masonic Grand Lodge, W a c o ; Florrinell Francis,! Louisiana State University Library School, Baton Rouge (Instructor, Library! School, 1931-1933); Ralph W. McComb, Tulane University Library, New Orleans, La.; Ethel K. Millar, Hendrix College, Conway, A r k . ; Julia Grothaus. librarian, San Antonio Public Library and Bexar County Free Library; Mildred Botts, circulation desk, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, N. M.; Ruth McFayden Cunningham, University of Arkansas Library, Fayetteville, Ark.; James J. Hill, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Okla.; Icko Iben, A.&M. College Library, Okla.; Jim P. Matthews, University of Arkansas Library, Fayette- j yille, Ark.; Arthur E. Gropp, Department of Middle American Research, Tulane University, New Orleans, La. j OCTAVIA F. ROGAN j PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES OF A L U M N I Mae C Anders, assistant librarian of the Des Moines Public Library, wasj appointed chairman of the Plaque Award Committee of the Iowa Library Association. C. P. Baber librarian of the State Teachers College, Emporia, Kansas, had a paper on The living Jefferson" by James Truslow Adams at the State Librar Association meeting at Pratt City. His paper was read by Ruth Hoff. J Lorena Baker, loan librarian of the University of Texas was in charge of the program of the Austin Library Club on S t a f f O r g a n S o n A t h a t meet- 3fri5? £E£ ^ ^ and 1Cad the disc ssion on " '^^TpJtl^^ "*\ Mary E. Baker, librarian of the University of Tennessee Public Library *\ Knoxv.lle was chairman of the College and Reference Sectioni oftheSouthCt, n f eastern Library Association in October. ° ° "* Grace Barnes, librarian of the University of Maryland p r e s i d c d o v c r the presided over Agricultural Libraries Section at Richmond. * '
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