Repository: UIHistories Project: UI Library School Alumni Newsletter - 24 [PAGE 10]

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1 rC 1 at Virginia. Minnesota, has been appointed director of librari#.° ° lege es ( Minn esota State P ^ • • ™ « Department of Education,^ St. ^ ^ _ ^ ^ _ ^ _ ^ _ _ _ ^ ^ >\ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ Paul. ^ th e E s t h e r Eytcheson, B.S. '33, resigned her position at Butler Uni T to accept a position in the catalog department of the Gary, Indian> l M)li c 3}}\ Library. Virginia Gray, B.S. '33, w h o has been teaching in the Central S i 1 Missionaries at Lubondai, in the Belgian Congo, will return to the v •°°

.ee Lee F. Zimmerman, B.S. '32, until recently librarian of the Inn*

"frequent visitors~among us are invariably people oi travel, culture and depfl people who are fascinating or inspiring, people who bring us ideas from the whole wide world. Our daily schedule is a full one but it moves in a leisurely way as every thing will in the tropics. The recreations during the late afternoon hours may be any one of several, but I usually find myself out for a walk. I swing off along grass-bordered paths under a dazzling blue and white sky, to stroll back facing a tropical sunset. Even though our daily life only bring* us into contact with a semi-civilized rim of Africa which its name implies often that untrammeled half of the real Africa appears starkly to remind u that we are in a world apart and different. When the men are gone from Lubondai for an hour and return with two antelopes; when the natives drag in from the forest a ten-foot python; when I wake up in the night to hear the wailing bark of a coyote, then the wild life of Africa becomes a reality W . W . Harkins, B.S. '33, was appointed assistant librarian and head of the catalog department of the University of Mississippi in February. He ha been doing graduate work in the University of Michigan Library School Sarah J. Moore, B.S. '33, resigned her position in the children's room, Millicent Library, Fairhaven, Massachusetts, t o become an assistant in the catalog department of the Queens Borough Public Library, Jamaica, New York. Lucile E . Lucas, B.S. '34, has returned to the Rio Grande College Library at Rio Grande, Ohio. Robert S. Alvarez, B.S. '35, was transferred from the reference department to the science and technology department of the Rochester, New York Public Library this year. H e has taken a year's leave of absence to continue his graduate studies at the University of Chicago, starting February, 1937. Elma P . Anderson, B.S. '35, resigned her position in the loan department of the University of Illinois Library to become assistant librarian at the University of Kansas City Library, Kansas City, Kansas. Mary E. Dallera, '34-'35, is now librarian of the Santiago College University of Chile. While teaching romance languages in the University • Illinois she completed about fifteen hours of Library Science which she i> now putting to good use. She says, "with the help of the chief librarian of the Public National Library I reorganized the Santiago College collection of books, and now I have been reappointed to continue the job among th«[ University libraries for next year. Life here is very pleasant Mother and I are living in a beautiful bungalow just built for us But everything » very expensive, nothing is cheap but wine and fruit. T h e r e is no countr] with peaches, plums, cherries, grapes, etc. like Chile SantiiKo is a ver; modern city with large up-to-date buildings and modern parks People arn very European in their manner of life and there is not -\ cultured per who does not know three or four foreign languages. Chilean food is highly seasoned and of great variety. Chilean women are slender and graceful ami dress in the latest style, though clothes are very expensive* most the > dresses come from Europe and the duty on imported goods is v c r v«»r\ high.' Her home address is Av. Julio Prado 1140, Santiago, Chile >