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Alumni News Letter

t -rand got bacK in »"»f- ^ " « - • F ^ W *uu V rci UIMVC trip vshuh included f f Scandinavian countries, so she is probably watching the war in the north I & special interest. Jessie A. Re id Spencer, B L.S. ' 2 3 i s n o w ' l i v i n g a l 750 North Second \street Rockford, Illinois. Mr. Spencer died suddenly while tin w c . r c |j v j n L , in Australia, and Mrs. Spencer returned to the States to live. Frances B. Church, '23-'24, librarian of Ward-Belmont College in Nashville, Tennessee, died on November 28 at her apartment in Nashville. She had been librarian of this college since 1929 and developed it into one of the outstanding Junior College libraries in the South. Miss Church was president of the Nashville Library Club at the time of her death and was a member of a committee of the American Library Association. She aN«. edited the Monthly Bulletin of the American Association of University Women of which she had been an active member for a number of years. " Floy Carroll, B.S. '27, M.A. '29, w h o has for some years been supervisor of school libraries at the Kearney, Nebraska State Teachers College, was made librarian there this fall. Helen M. Clark, B.S. '27, Director of W o r k with Schools, Enoch Pratt, Free Library, Baltimore, Maryland, has been loaned by Mr. Wheeler for ten months in 1939-40 to organize school library service for Oregon State Library at Salem, Oregon. She writes with enthusiasm of her experiences in traveling over the state to regional teachers meetings. Beatrice H. Holt, B.S. '27, M.A. '32, assistant professor at the School of Librananship, University of Denver, wrote in a recent letter: "I. had a most exciting spring and early summer. I sailed for Europe early in March on the German luxury liner Europa, arriving in time for all Ait Chechoslovakian trouble; then in April I found myself in Italy when Albania was taken and helped (?) celebrate the event in Florence. On May 1st m Germany, National Socialist party day, after listening to Hitler's speech, my Nazi friends entertained me by taking me to the famous beer cellars and gardens and all of the night clubs of the city. It was an experience which will never come again and which I don't care to have again. At times I was really scared inside but I pretended to be very brave. I was Was peopl derful? The war now is breaking my heart for the friends I made." Hazel Rea, B.S. '27, M.A. '29, resigned her position at the University of Kedlands to become Assistant to the Librarian at the University of Southern California, at Los Angeles, California. Lucile Elizabeth Wilcox, B.S. '27, M.A. '31, now Mrs. George Cox, has notified us of her change in address from Penrose, Colorado to Salmon, Jaaho. Mr. Cox is pastor of the First Presbyterian Church at Salmon. Naomi Mathilda Anderson, B.S. '28, has resigned her position as an Assistant in the Catalog department at the University of North Dakota L, brary, Grand Forks, North Dakota, because of ill health. . Mary Barrett, B.S. '28 (Mrs. Clarence Keyser) Rt. 1, Box 50, Poison, Montana, announces the birth of a son, Paul Barrett Keyser, born February J 8, 1939. Lois B. Payson, B.S. '28, librarian of the Montana State College Library at Bozeman, is having a leave of absence this year. G w. «nie J. Preston, B.S. '28, M.A. '36, resigned her position in the Saginaw, Michigan Public Library, to become Head of the Catalog department, Bierce Library, University of Akron, Akron, Ohio. .Inez L. Chestnut, S.S. '29, is now working with the Union Catalog Project, Lincoln, Nebraska. , Edna M. Tohannaber, B.S. '29, has been transferred from the Adult department of the Central Branch of the Public Library at Kansas City, Missouri, to the Northeast Branch of the Public Library.

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