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University of Illinois Library School

nciurvd with other members of the Division in the A.L.A. Bulletin Ma 1 [945. 194 Mr. Trotier also serves on the A.L.A. Council Committee on'p* sonoel and Placement Service. Myrtle J. Weatherholt took charge of the Public Library, Hutchin an.December 11. 1944. Miss Weatherholt was formal,, i.u K. of Class of 1927 William Baehr, M.A.'30, librarian of Kansas State College, Manhattan is a member of the Planning Board of the Kansas Library Association, representing the University and College Section. Mary Lois Bull, A.M.'2°, assistant to the director, University of Illinois Library, was elected president for 1945-46 of the University Women's Club Urbana. Helen M. Clark, assistant librarian, Michigan State Library, Lansing was one of the compilers of A Basic Selection of Books for Boys and Girls in the Schools of Michigan, issued in the fall of 1944 by the Michigan Department of Public Instruction. Louise Winn Getchell (Mrs. Myron W. Getchcll) has been elected chairman of the Maryland, Virginia, and District of Columbia Group of Cataloged and Classifiers for the next two years. Mr. and Mrs. Getchell are living at Apt. 310, 2504 10th Street, N.E., Washington, D.C Mrs. Getchell is head cataloger, University of Maryland Library, College Park, Maryland. Dorothy Moyer Halmos, M.S.'35, joined the staff of the University of Southern California Library on April 1, 1945. Mary Abegail Mann died on January 27, 1945, at Carle Memorial Hospital, Urbana, Illinois, after an illness of nearly two years. Miss Mann had been a member of the University of Illinois Library staff since 1926. As serials cataloger, she recorded, almost without assistance, the University Library's holdings for* the List of Serial Publications of Foreign Governments; International Congresses and Conferences, 1840-1937, a Union List of Their Publications; and the second edition of the Union List of Serials. Margaret Oldfather, M.A/32, chairman of the Publications Committee of the A.L.A. Division of Cataloging and Classification, is pictured in the A.L.A, Bulletin, March 1945. Her committee issued the interesting Cataloged and Classifiers' Yearbook, No. 11, 1945. Miss Oldfather will teach cataloging and classification in the University of Illinois Library School during the summer session. Esther Stallman is a member of the A.L.A. Committee on Public Library-Public School Relationship, whose report, "Public Libraries and School Libraries*' appears in the April issue of the A.L.A. Bulletin. Miss Stallman, head of the Department of Librarianship, New York State College for Teachers, Albany, New York, received her Ph.D. degree from the Graduate Library School, University of Chicago, in VH2. Her dis rtation was on Public Library Service to Public School Children; Its Administration in Large American Cities. Jerome K. Wilcox. M.A/28, associate librarian. University of California

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