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University of Illinois Library School

Julia Blanchard, M.S/38, was honored for her long service to V t» Wheaton College Library, Wheaton, Illinois, at a faculty-staff dinner ?! February 8. Miss Blanchard, professor of library science and libraria joined the college stall in 1908 and was appointed librarian in 1915. Pre^' dent Edman served as toastmaster at the dinner. The Wheaton Record student newspaper, of February 8, devotes two articles to an account of the 1 dinner and of Miss Blanchard * contribution to the work of the College. , Doris Achepohl Braueninger, M.S. 32, sent greetings last Christmas to | friends in Urbana, with pictures of her children, Rickey and Janet. j Helen E. Dean, assistant cataloger, University of Missouri Library, j is treasurer of the Missouri Library Association. Miss Dean has made a survey of special collections in Missouri libraries which was published in the MLA Quarterly in 1942 and 1943. James J. Hill, formerly associate professor of library science and assistant librarian of the University of Oklahoma, is now librarian of the University of Nevada Library. j Carlene Holly has been serving as circulation assistant in the University of Illinois Library since December 1944 while her husband, Brigadier General Joseph A. Holly, is on overseas duty. Her address is 607 South State, Champaign, Illinois. Anne Jensen has been librarian of the American University in Washington, D.C., since June 1942. The last issue of the News Letter erroneously reported her as librarian of the Graduate Division, a position she held for many years. Christmas greetings received from Edith MacRoberts Kusch (Mrs. Polykarp Kusch), M.A/36, described a new daughter, Judith Ann, born September 10, 1944. The Kusches have another daughter, Kathryn, aged five and one-half. Their address is: 375 Riverside Drive, New York, New York. Librarian of the Crawfordsville, Indiana, Public Library since January 16, 1945, is Olive Lewis, formerly librarian of St. Xavier College, Chicago. Miss Lewis has bought a house at 417 School Street, Crawfordsville, where she has been at home since April 2. Charlotte Newton, A.M/29, acting librarian of Southwestern University, Memphis, Tennessee, during the two-year absence of the librarian in Puerto Rico, is now librarian of the Athens, Georgia, Regional Library. Gerald H. Sandy, M.A/32, librarian, Kansas City, Kansas, Public Library, is an ex-officio member of the Planning Board of the Kansas Library Association. He is also chairman of the Legislative Committee of the Association. John Paul Stone, M.S/30, librarian, San Diego State Coll e, was a alK member of the organizing committer for the newly established ( Hcge [t University Libraries Section of the California Library ociation. * presented a paper, "What Adjustments Must the College Librarian M**c 1 to Meet I'ust-War Demands?' at the first meeting of the section m U» Angrles October 20, 1944. He also spoke at the general session of the Association as part of a diicussimi on "Regional Resources— Fixed or Mine