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Alumni News

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Porter, B.S/42, librarian at Lowry Field, Denver, Colorado Ruby may Colorado be a Gordon cS^wili have as his address Hdq. Co. A . P . 6 . 80, Camp "*Fo7rest, TenB 'previous to joining the_army_he was junior librarian in charge °f the Chattanooga Branch of TVA Technical Library. For a time this fall he was stationed at Camp Breckenridge, Kentucky. After a twelve weeks officers' candidates course at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, Thomas E. Ratcliffe, Jr., B.S/40, was commissioned second lieuI tenan t in August and word has just been received that he has now been [ promoted to first lieutenant. He is now stationed at Fort Bragg, North Carolina where his address is Hq. 2nd Bn., 1st Regt., FARTC. Granted a military leave of absence from his position in the Order Department of the University of Illinois Library when he joined the Navy last summer, de Lafayette Reid, Jr., B.S/40, is now a Pharmacists mate 2nd class stationed at a new Navy hospital in Sampson, New York. He was named one of the honor men in his training class at Great Lakes | Training Station. His address is de Lafayette Reid, Jr., Ph. M2/c Barracks B-1S, U.S.N.T.S., Sampson, N. Y. A letter from Rolland Stevens, B.S/40, on military leave from his position as order assistant in the University of Illinois Library, tells of his arduous Pre-Radar course being given in Chicago by the Signal Service of the U.S. War Department. Until about the middle of December, 1942, he and Mrs. Stevens are located at 23 East 73d St., Chicago, 111. Sibyl Tubbs. B.S/33. Seventh Service Command Librarian, Omaha, Nebraska, presented a paper on "Libraries in Camp" at the Nebraska Library Association's convention held in Omaha early in October. Arthur E. Whitenack, order assistant, University of Illinois Library, has recently been inducted into the army and reported for duty at Scott Field, Illinois, on November 16. Since November 3, Henry Waltemade, B.S/35, A.M/38, has been located at Camp Logan, Denver, Colorado. He had been assistant librarian at the University of Colorado in Boulder, Colorado. Lockwood E. Wiley, B.S/32, resigned his position at Wood River, Illinois, High School, to join the Navy. He is stationed at the Na.al Training School, Great Lakes, Illinois. v - - . Catherine Wick, B.S/35, became librarian of the Naval Trammg

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