Repository: UIHistories Project: UI Library School Alumni Newsletter - 36 [PAGE 24]

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University of Eudocia Stratton became director of state aid, Michigan State Librar •y, head of the Catalog Def brary, Mt. Pleasant^ Miss iting the Michigan 1942-43. She serve •lrman of its legislative committee, 1943-44. Donald E. Thompson, acting director of libraries, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, is chairman of the Postwar Planning Committee of the Alabama Library Association. His committee has prepared'a report on library conditions in the state. Arthur E. Whitenack, M.S/39, was married to Etha Lindsay of Monticello, Illinois, on December 24, 1944 at the University Place Christian Church, Champaign, Illinois. Mrs. Whitenack was librarian of the Community High School, Monticello. The couple are now living at 614 Lewis Street, Fredericksburg, Virginia, where Mr. Whitenack is assistant librarian of Mary Washington College. Class of 1938 Lura E. Crawford, librarian, Gage Park High School Branch, was elected vice-president of the Chicago Library Club for 1944-45. Herberta L. Faithorn has accepted a position in the Catalog Department, University of California Library. Miss Faithorn, who received the M.S. in L.S. degree from the University of California in 1944, had been serving as librarian of DeWitt General Hospital, Auburn, California. Wanda Pringle, M.S/41, is now living at 109 North University Street, Peoria 5, Illinois. Marion Milczewski, M.A.'40, assistant to the director of International Relations, attended the Third Congress of Librarians and the First of Archivists in Mexico City, the latter part of October 1944. In an article on "An International Board?" in the A.L.A. Bulletin, November 1944, Harry M. Lydenberg thus describes Mr. Milczewski's work in the International Relations Office: "It is Mr. Milczewski who by his experience, his patience, his tact, steers the office* through the alphabet combinations confronting anyone trying to establish a new position in Washington or to find a new assistant, to ship a packet of books outside the country, to match hours of work with government regulations, to solve which things may be bought in the open market and which have to be approved by high authorities, who can be approached only 'through channels.' . . . It is Mr. Milczewski who by his long experience with supervision of existing projects helps us to make sure of avoiding mistakes and errors on all fronts. . . . He is the general balance wheel/' Louise Smith, cataloger, Beloit College Library, is associate, editor of the Review Index. Mary Elizabeth Powell Sublett (Mrs. James L. Sublett) is still circulation librarian, University of Louisville Library, Louisville. 1 ntucky. contrary to the erroneous report given in the last News Letter* Felix Snider, M.S/39, librarian, Southeast Missouri Stale Tochers College, Cape Girardeau, is a member o\ the Certification Board 0< tne