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Alumni Nturs Letter Claw of 1913 f Edith H. Ford has Toledo, Ohio, to Columbia, Missouri *here her address is 1316 Anthon^ Street. Class of 1914 i The new address of Rose R. Sears, formerly of Claremont, California, g50 Chalmers Place, Chicago 14, Illinois. Class of 1915 In October, Fanny Dunlap returned to her duties as reference librarian at the University of Illinois Library after an enforced absence of several months. Miss Dunlap's ankle was broken and badly dislocated by a fall at

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Class of 1916 From Accra, the Gold Coast, Africa, where she is doing library work under the auspices of the British Government, Kate D. Ferguson has sent an interesting letter to Margaret Hutchins The message, datedI March 29, 1944, comes from the following address: 40 British Council, P.O. Box 771, Accra. Miss Ferguson writes: , . method and much wallowing. . . . We caiiea in * ,, W e s a w the had an opportunity to see the ^ ^ J ^ S ' ^ f S ^ A ^ i a r t i c and told s Institute d'Af rique. The young deputy curator ^ ™ d lendi libraries me of his extensive plans to organize a centralbrary ^ at present throughout the French Afrique Occidental on a subscript o v v *-- re so few books in the colony. «»* 2SQ m i k d r i v e > t ^e n a flat h aIte . We arrived at Achtmota College , ^ r o a d > end less stretches ot green country with small native villa ges . » J ~ J * c o c o a and various palms, of greenery, bananas, cotton trees <>«**>• ™ ^ ^ carrying babies on their A happy people always walking from gHage carry anythi i n t h e i r hands backs and their goods on their heads-tjey they use for eat -all goes on their heads numerous s m a l ^ o a ^ ^ ^ . ^ stgff> 7 k

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