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Caption: UI Library School Alumni Newsletter - 35
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University of Illinois Library School ?8 quotes from the tribute paid her by the president of her library L "There is scarcely an institution m Evanston which has not felt A * irn oress of Miss Wright's interest and assistance. She is one of vJ ' 1 tVa ' _. :*,. o c c t c . S h e h a s h*en m t t f t ^ " nston\ n untiring vigorous. Evanston peopic uwc wvic u u u than they probably r e v*"* w The article reviews her many professional and community activiti well as her outstanding work in building up the services of her own lita ** An editorial in the same newspaper comments: "It would be difficult^' find in Evanston a public servant who has given more years of inten 1 and valuable service than has Miss Ida Faye Wright. . . . For these? busy years . . . the public library has been Miss Wright. She has mj it a distinguished library . • " A reception honoring Miss Wright wa* held at the library on Sunday afternoon, October 8. The library board is also establishing a collection of books to be known as the "Ida Faye Wright Appreciative Collection/' A special book plate will be used, and anyone infprpQtprl mav contribute to the collection bv sending a check to the librarv in Class of 1905 Grace Darling Phillips is now living at 425 South 7th Street, Apartment K, Springfield, Illinois. She has accepted a position in the State Library. The sympathy of their many friends is extended to Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wesley Smith on the sudden death of their son, Bourne, in October. Bourne Smith had enrolled in the Library School this fall and because of his high scholastic record had been granted a scholarship from the University Graduate School. He was a graduate of the University of California Library School and had been a cataloger at Antioch College for several years. He chose Illinois for his graduate work partly because both his father and mother (formerly Christina Denny) were graduates of the Library School (B.L.S/05 and B.L.S.'08, respectively). His wife is engaged in editorial work at Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio. Class of 1906 Ola M. Wyeth, librarian of the Savannah, Georgia, Public Library, is president of the Southeastern Library Association. Class of 1908 Margaret Hutchins is enjoying a sabbatical leave for the current semester from her teaching at the Columbia University School of Libra Service. She has been spending part of the time at her country home, w Acres, near Lancaster, New Hampshire. Class of 1910 One of the representatives of the Association of College and Rcfc L'brarN „ the A.L.A. Council for 1944-45 is Grace Van Wormcr, [ »'v< iity of Iowa Libraries. £di* H From under the an interes * •
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