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R^nthal Maxie McCollum, B .S. '37, w a s m a r r i e d recently t o Herbert J 'rJSur. and Mrs. Kettier are living at 7307 Luella Street, Chicago. re Ena Ruth Moore, B.S. '37, reference librarian at Fort Hays Kansas state College, Hays, Kans., resigned h e r position a n d on December 24 was married to Clarence S. Paine, B.S. '37. Mr. a n d Mrs. P a i n e a r e residing at 909 \V t California Street, U r b a n a . Clarence S. Paine, B.S. '37, w a s m a r r i e d on D e c e m b e r 24, 1937, to Ena Ruth Moore, B.S. '37. Mr. P a i n e h a s a position in t h e catalog department of the University of Illinois L i b r a r y . Chula M. Remington, B.S. '37, resigned h e r position as librarian of the School at Edina, Minn., t o b e c o m e librarian of t h e Bessemer T o w n s h i p Public Library at R a m s a y , Mich., s t a r t i n g h e r n e w duties this September. Marjorie Jean Sprake, B.S. '37, reference assistant Adelphic College Library, writes that h e r p e r s o n a l a d d r e s s is 1341-214 Place, Q u e e n s Village, N. Y. In April s h e a t t e n d e d t h e regional c a t a l o g g r o u p m e e t i n g held in New York City. Mary Lea Stewart, B.S. '37, children's librarian at t h e Muskogee, Okla., Public Library, was married on N o v e m b e r 24, 1937, t o Crafton Davis James, at her home in Muskogee. Mr. and M r s . J a m e s a r e living in Muskogee. y M. Lyndal Swofford, B.S. '30, M.S. 37, librarian of the Central State Teachers' College Library, E d m o n d , Okla., spoke on " T h e Library in the Elementary School," at t h e E l e m e n t a r y School Librarians Meeting at L e e School, Oklahoma City, F e b r u a r y 11. Ora Thelen, B.S. '37, w r i t e s t h a t she is enjoying her new work as junior librarian in the Oak P a r k Branch of t h e S a c r a m e n t o , Calif., Public Library. Her home address is 136 A l v a r a d o Road, Berkeley. Donald E . Thompson, B.S. '37, s a y s : " I a m first assistant in the Business^ Library at T e m p l e University, Philadelphia, a n d enjoy my work. W e are in a new building just opened in J a n u a r y , 1936, t o the public. Most of the staff are under thirty years of age and are very congenial." OFF T H E MAIN ROAD Jessie Reid (Mrs. C. F, Spencer) has moved from London to Melbourne, Australia; h e r present address is 12 Neptune St., St. Kilda, S2, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. She recently sent her friends a most interesting round robin letter, telling of her 12,000 mile voyage to her new home. The letter follows: "After living in California w e did n o t like the dull rainy days of London and we do enjoy the warm sunshiny climate here. "We live in St. Kilda, three miles from Melbourne's main business section and ten minutes by electric train. St. Kilda is Melbourne's most Popular beach resort; we live just five minutes walk from the beach with »ts park of palm trees. "Melbourne has a fine classic stone library and the reading room under the rotunda reminds one of the Library of Congress. The catalog, however, i« terrible. T h e first library school has just been established in Australia. The University librarians a r e sent to the U.S.A. to be trained. Free public library service has not been so well developed but Australia is ahead of the U.S. in many economic reforms. T h e Australians are very sport minded and every sport may be indulged in all year around. T h e children are perhaps the healthiest in the world as there a r e playgrounds everywhere. The women a r e better dressed and more progressive than the English Women. American customs a r e followed rather than English. "It is the eighth city of the British Empire, and the capital of Victoria, with a population of over a million. I t is one of the most progressive cities; the main business streets are more thronged with people in the busy hum f the day than Oxford Street, London, or Broadway, New York. Through " electric railwav station with its suburban traffic more people pass in one