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jrious Y0 W a s h % friend,' £Z ^' ^ ^ n Sne rtd meeting many r>oi jT \ friends in these places and attended the Washingt on alumni, at which she spoke informally, >Um uwittujr* ^ F v . . ^ . , «»-*,...»».... ^rotessor, who formerly served as librarian o the Education Philosophy and Psychology Reading Room, is now teach f in? full time m the Library School. wv, Lancaster,' . assistant « I f -- — " *» •» "»« leave ior xne icurrent seis on for the mester to teach physics to A.S.T.R. students in the University At the September convocation of the University of Chicago, Alice Lohrer was awarded the M.A. degree by the Graduate Library School. The Committee on Library Service to Schools of the I.L.A. Planning Board, of "'As* which Miss Lohrer was chairman, presented its final report at the October meeting of the I.L.A. in Chicago. Miss Lohrer is a member of the subcommittee of the University faculty on the selection of a new president at Illinois. She is also a member of the Building Committee of the University , Women's Club. Miss Lohrer spoke on November 3 at the School Library &c hoi not j Clinic in Dupo, Illinois on the subject of library materials. Univrcrsr J Pauline Knowles has joined the faculty as assistant and reviser in the "an at Colt ] office of the assistant director. Miss Knowles holds the A.B. degree from j North Carolina College for Women and a B.S. degree from the School of 7" at a mett- Library Service of Columbia University. les in Chicago Dr. Carl M. White, former director of the University of Illinois rxas Regum. Library School, has a leave of absence from Columbia University to make a survey of Chinese libraries for the State Department. He expects to be :er, Elizak in China for at least eight months. Mrs. White, Sherrill, and Caroline are • attem •iving in Boulder, Colorado during his absence. Florence Rising Curtis, a member of the Library School faculty, 1908the report o c », died on October 6, 1944, in Richmond, Indiana. Burial was at Ogdcnsof \ i hurg, New York, her home. Miss Curtis who received the B J . S degree from the New York State Library School, taught m China and the PhilipPines aherTeaving the University of Illinois. Upon her return to this *ixt: country in 1922 she served as assistant director of Drexel Institute Library stun, ill je reroa j numb Chica list i>r to the Library J ^ ^ J * ^ received, through the kindness of Mrs. The Library School has recc * Q b E Count N e w Y ork, and soo II. W Hicks, f rarian of the Lake P acd ^ ^ ^ g ^ a small collection, of books wn ^ ^ a c q u i s i t i o n o f these volumes director of the Library ^ whQ k a r n e d o{ ^ existence at d i 7^ ; V ° ^ S e vacationing there last summer and notified Director the

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