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University of Illinois Library School ruled out so it's litlur going to be the Fegan Chehhenham or the I;i of Concuss. What a !o*d to add to Africas burden Our scheme is to > f Jr one year, then «ive our students one year practical work under our suoor ' 1 and then keep on supervising. Some of them wdl be placed in these c e n t ' 0 be established as cultural community centers, others wdl return to their c o n ' un to run existing libraries or start some. . . . tr.ts Class of 1918 The extensive medical collection over which Angeline McNeill n sides as librarian of St. Luke's Hospital, Chicago, has been moved inT beautiful new rooms at the hospital. Class of 1920

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Rudolph II. Gjelsness was re-elected treasurer of the- A.L.A. for 1944-1 45. Mr. Gjelsness, until recently, was acting director of the Biblioteca Benjamin Franklin. He is pictured in the Library Journal May 15, 1944 with a group of Mexican librarians working on the Union Cataloging Project. Vice-President (president elect) of the Division of Cataloging and Classification of the A.L.A. for 1944-45 is Amelia Krieg, head of the Catalog Department of the Seattle, Washington, Public Library. | Elizabeth Pieters has been librarian of the Hospital Libraries of the 1 State University of Iowa at Iowa City since February 1943 and writes she is finding the work very fascinating.

Class of 1921

James B. Childs is a member of the Council of the Inter-American Bibliographical and Library Association. Florence Blackburn Thome, for many years assistant librarian of the Los Angeles City Schools Library, has been appointed librarian of the Nappanee, Indiana, Public Library. Class of 1922 A position as assistant professor in library science at the Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C., has been accepted by Myron W. Getchell, formerly of the Document Classification and Relative Indices Office of the Library of Congress. Jackson E. Towne, librarian of the Michigan State College Library- is directing a Friends of the Library program to be heard every Wednesday at 5:30 p.m., eastern war time, over WKAR, the colli e broadcasts 1 station. Mr. Towne is secretary of Michigan State's Friends of the Libra } group, organized in 1943, which has been instrumental in acquiring *° the college library such interesting rare items as a first edition ofDaw Coppcrficld. Mr. Towne was re-elected historian of the Michigan SociejJ Sons of the American Revolution, last spring. He taught history last )** to classes of Air Corps cadets and A.S.T.P. students.