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Alumni News Letter 11 | University of Illinois Library News 1^ N E W CIRCULATION LIBRARIAN Katharine M. Stokes assumed the position of circulation librarian of the University of Illinois Library on September 1, succeeding Emma R. Jutton, retired. Miss Stokes came to the University from Pennsylvania State College Library, where she was in charge of Readers' Service. She took her first year of library training at Simmons College, Boston, and received the Master's degree in Library Science at the University of Michigan in August 1945. S T A T E GEOLOGICAL S U R V E Y L I B R A R Y A new departmental library, for the State Geological Survey, was opened in July in the Natural Resources Building. Mrs. Regina Lewis, the librarian, received her B.S. in L.S. degree at Columbia. She comes to Illinois from the United States Geological Survey in Washington, D.C. This new library will cooperate closely with the University Library. r fa asebe . Alumni Still in Uniform Changes of address have been so frequent for Gerard Baker, B.S/36, M.S.MO, that he writes, "I begin to get nervous after I have been in one place for a few weeks." A letter of July 26 told of his assignment to Hawaii where, at that time, he was in charge of two Italian prisoner of war companies. He mentioned having seen two Library School alumnae, Lucile Huntington Wilkinson at the Library of Hawaii and Gale Sakai at the University Library. A later letter tells of his transfer to "Hilo on the Big Island (Hawaii) to take charge of two compounds of Koreans. I have been told that the situation over there is much superior to the one here so perhaps in a month or so I will change my idea of the Hawaiian Islands but iust now I do not think that the place is worth taking the trip to see." His address is Lt. J. G. Baker, 0-268346, P.W. Branch Camp, Cpd. 12, A.P.O. 960, c/o PM, San Francisco, California. From Hawaii on October 10 Rose Baldwin, B.S/44, wrote Ethel Bond of her interesting experiences in the Navy. She "was lucky enough to get o v p r < , M , d u t v iust before the war ended," making the trip from the States bv lir Miss Baldwin's address is: L. R. Baldwin, Sp(Q)2/c, U.S. Naval Barracks (WR), Navy #128, c/o FPO, San Francisco, California. Tewel D Kennemer, B.S.'37, is classifying and cataloging textbooks in th GI University, Shrivenham American University, Shrivenham, Eng: , before joining the army, Sgt. Kennemer was assistant librarian of t Oate Teachers College, Commerce, Texas. His wife, the former DoVothy Morgan, S.S/36, lives at 1710 Live Oak Street, Commerce, Texas. T is A. Kenney, B.S/40, wrote on September 27 from London, EngYou may be interested to know that I have just completed a one land: course of training for librarians here in England. During the first
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