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Addresses and Other Information

ARMY CITATIONS TO ALUMNAE ^rsityofllli] [ Two Library School alumnae have recently been cited by the War DeLibrary School I partment "for meritorious civilian service." Mary Alice Matthews, B.L.S. Chicago, IUinoB '03, who at the age of seventy-three emerged from retirement to assist at Illinois L'bran the Army War College Library, was commended in the following terms in an official citation: "She has performed an important and difficult task with llinois Library exemplary skill and ability and in a manner and under conditions that have set a distinct and unusual record of achievement." The War Times a ibrary weekly for War Department personnel, devotes an article in its November 17, 1944, issue to an account of Miss Matthews' "outstanding service to the Library 5 Army War College Library" during the present emergency. In her cataloging of the 10 000 or more books which constituted her task, Miss Matlioois Libre thews is saia to have accomplished several hundred per cent more work than the chief of the Library had considered poss.ble in his prehm.nary estimate of the job to be done. War e u_ irarj-S*

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