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Class oi WLL v~iass of 1922 W. Getchell, retiring^ associate editor of the Dewey Decimal Ossification, was honored at the annual dinner meeting of the Maryland Virginia, and District of Columbia Regional Group of Catalogers and Clas' siEers, January 20. Julia Pressey, head of the Decimal Classification Section, Library of Congress, paid tribute to Mr. Getchell's long service as associate editor .and to the qualities he had brought to that work. Esther p. Potter, new director of the Decimal Classification, expressed the appreciation of the Decimal Classification Committee of the Lake Placid Club Education Foundation for his services. She concluded by presenting Mr. Getchell with a check for $200 as "tangible evidence of the Committee's appreciation." Mr. Getchell is now assistant professor, Department of Library Science, Catholic University of America, Washington 17, D.C. Miles 0 . Price, librarian, Columbia University Law Library, is president-elect of the American Association of Law Libraries. He represents the Association on the A.L.A. Committee on Indexing and Abstracting in LMajor Fields of Research. He is also a member of'the Joint Committee on Cooperation between his Association and the Association of American Law Schools. V Class of 1923 Luella Cory has returned to library work after having been out of it for several years due to poor health. She is now on the staff of the St ate Teachers College Library at Tempe, Arizona. Her address is 230 E. 8th Street, Tempe, Arizona. • . , Gertrude Wulfekoetter joined the faculty of the Um««.ty of Washs a s s ington School of Libr?.rianship, Seattle, Washington, l a s f £ f ^ professor of Librarianship she 'will teach ^ f ^ S h S S ^ ' ^ S headings, and bibliography - d reference, M i s s £ * * £ £ £ % % i acquisition librarian at the Umvers.ty of C m a n n a t ^ D y Personnel> associate librarian of the Library Section Bureau « United States Navy, Washington, D.C, during 1943 44. Class of 1925 Tbe February

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