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Vivian Tottcn. B.S. '33, has accepted a Petition as an assistant in the Adult Reference department in the Public Library, Mount Vernon, New York. Donald Arthur Wood* B.S. '33, formerly employed as a salesman for Rcmin?ton-Rand Library Division Bureau at Chicago, Illinois, hat iccepted a position as librarian of the Superior State Teachers College Library at J Superior, Wisconsin ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^ ^ ^

_ B. Coleman, Jr., B.S. 34, has accepted a position as reference librarian at the W e s t e r n W a s h i n g t o n College of Education Library, Bellingham, Washington. Bertha Cooley, B.S. '34, w r i t e s : "I am enclosing a snap of our new baby around whom all our thoughts and activities center at the present. She is five months old and very sturdy, looks like her father but is fair like her mother." Dr. Cooley is professor at the University of Tennessee. Their address is 4617 Chambliss, Knoxville, Tennessee. Dorothy Staley, B.S. '34, has resigned her position as librarian of the Senior High School Library at Amarillo, Texas, to become field superintendent of the W P A library project at Amarillo. Edward B. Stanford, B.S. '34, has been granted an A.L.A. scholarship and is studying at the University of Chicago Graduate Library School, 1939-40. Hortense Houston Young, B.S. '34, has been promoted from the position of assistant librarian t o acting librarian of the Louisville Municipal College for Negroes Library, Louisville, Kentucky. Robert S. Alvarez, B.S. '35, who was employed as a district supervisor of the W P A state library service project at Decatur, Illinois, has accepted a position as a special assistant in the order department of the Enoch Pratt Free Library at Baltimore, Maryland. Paul S. Dunkin, B.S. '35, and Mrs. Dunkin announce the birth of a daughter Alice Anne, on June 11th, 1939. Mr. Dunkin is senior cataloger in the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D. C. Edna K. Harlan, B.S. '35, was married in June '39 to Mr. Delmer Rodabaugh. Mrs. Rodabaugh will continue working at the State University of Iowa Library. Gilberta May Heid, B.S. '35, resigned her position in the Loan department of the University of Illinois Library and was married August 3, 1939 to Dr. Ervin K. Zingler of Chicago. She has accepted a position in the reference division of the Louisiana State Library Commission at Baton Rouge. Dr. Zingler is an assistant professor in economics at the University of Louisiana. Elinor Mabel Heiss, S.S. '35, now Mrs. Hjalmer E. Berg, J r has a small son eight months old. W e hear they are no longer at Carmel, California, but have no new address. Elinor Parsons, B.S. '35, who was employed as librarian at the State Normal School Library, has accepted a position as assistant librarian at the High School and Junior College at La Grange, Illinois. Isabelle Prugh, B.S. '35, resigned her position as first assistant in the circulation department to go to the Topeka Public Library as head of the circulation department. John C. Settelmayer, B.S. '35, M.S. '37, has resigned his position as librarian of the Hibbing Junior Col ege Library at Hibbing, Minnesota, to tudy for his Ph.D. degree at the University of Chicago Graduate Library School. Carl E Welchner, B.S. '35. The sad news has been received of the sudden death of Mrs. Welchner last June Mr. Welchner is at present an a|»i§Unt in the Loan department at the Public Library, Detroit, Michigan.