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University of Illinois Library School

News of the Classes

Class of 1894 Alice Tyler, dean emerita of Western Reserve University School f Library Science, Cleveland, Ohio, died in Cleveland April 19. I n 1894 \f ° Tyler received her certificate from the Library School of Armour fasti* of Technology, Chicago, now the University of Illinois Library School* After her graduation she successively held the following library position assistant in the Decatur Public Library, catalogue librarian of the Cleve' land Public Library, secretary of the Iowa State Library Commission, di I rector of the Iowa summer Library School, and dean of the School of Library Science at Western Reserve, a position which she held from 1913 until her retirement in 1929. She served as president of A.L.A. in 1920-21 Miss Tyler was internationally known as a library organizer and an authority on library law and was one of the school's outstanding alumni. Class of 1903 i

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Mary Alice Matthews retired in 1941 from her position as librarian of j the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, D. C, after twenty-two years service. Since then she has spent two winters in Florida and one in California. Last May she returned to Washington to assist in the work of the National Woman's Party. She has cataloged and classified 1200 volumes in the Florence Bayard Hilles Library of feminist ! literature, the only library in the world devoted exclusively to works by and about women and the feminist movement. In March of this year she returned to active library work accepting a civil service position in the library of the Army War College in Washington, D. C. Her address is 144 B Street, N. E., Washington, 2, D. C. Class of 1907 Mary E. Baker retired from her position as librarian of the University of Tennessee Library, Knoxville, last year and is now living with her sister at 131 North Summit Avenue, Decatur, Illinois. Tribute was paid her in the July 1943 issue of Tennessee Alumnus. Class of 1910 The Rockford Morning Star of last December 12 carried a feature story about Mary C. Bigelow, head librarian of the Rockford Public Library, saying that she "is interested in giving the best possible library service to the greatest number of persons in the community." She was responsible for the establishment of a special genealogy room and recent!} arranged discussion groups on Rockford's postwar needs. Class of 1911 Mrs. Bertha Lee Sharp Schroeppel resigned her position in the University of Illinois Catalog Department the first of this year to accept a