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Caption: UI Library School Alumni Newsletter - 37
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Alumni News for Letter breakfast in Newfoundland, the first sight of the Azores and the deoar l e ' ,„« from there m a gorgeous sunset, and the arrival at P a r ; I " ^ ^ P " " rss£ £&£ [ 1 one-Mf hours af«rleavi„ g New York. A * f S t ^ ^ Pal,erson was ,o repo p "» -«"«. <Mfc f l ~ » LeRoy L. Quails B S / 3 9 , on leave from his position as newspaper librarian, University of Illinois Library, wrote on September 9 from Manus Island: "I just left the country on 13 August. . . . During June and July I was under instruction at the Bureau of Naval Personnel in the program of Educational Services. I am now assistant educational services officer here on Manus Island, with the Repair Unit. . . . "The island is largely coral and coconut trees, but it has a wonderful harbor, where the Philippine invasion fleet was staged. There are a few thousand natives in the Admiralties, mostly on Manus. They are in the charge of the Australian government. In fact, this is so much of an Australian region that everyone drives on the left side of the road. When I get out a jeep, I'll have to concentrate on keeping to the left. "The base has been well built up during the eighteen months since it was taken from the Japs. Roads are good (courtesy of the Sea Bees!) and covered with coral to get rid of the mud. It rains nearly every day, but that'keeps it cooler. W e live in huts that are floored with plywood boards, roofed with canvas, and have screened sides to let in air and keep out insects. Malaria is well under control." His address is: Ens. LeRoy L. Quails, U.S.N.R., Repair Unit, Navy 3205, FPO Branch A, c/o FPO, San Francisco, California. T. E. Ratcliffe, B.S/40, writes on September 20 of his work as librarian of Shrivenham American University, England: "The school opened with much fanfare on 1 August—without one book on the open shelves in the library and behind the desk on reserve everything thoughtful instructors had had the foresight to bring along with their personal baggage from the States Aside from a few crates of texts in process of being unpacked, there was nothing available—shipments from the States had not been heard from. With hurried calls to the theater librarian in Paris the United Kingdom librarian in London, the Red Cross and Special Services and loud blasting appeals throughout the country side, books started pouring in. Evacuating hospitals, air bases, Red Cross units and uprooted Englishmen with hands full of miscellaneous trivia shipped all their conglomerate stocks to us until we had the corridors outside the library stacked with packing cases But because some of the collections had been budt with some eye for cases, jjur DCU* „ v c r a I hundred titles of real worth were salvaged—and from Jhis £ " h e nucleus of the present collection of nearly six irom this saivag ^ f o r m e d . With only a few trained personnel on hT ttin^the chaos straightened into some orderliness was for the first hand, ge ^ a i m o s t overwhelming task, especially with the accompanying tew wee ^ c i v jii a n instructors out of our hair with the persuasion Ke effort .° at ience all would be well. The shipments from the States started that wi p ^ ^ . ^ notification of. the new titles available, instructors arriving, ^ ^ ^ ^ . ^ s u c ^ g r a t jg e ( j thankfulness that we were soon rel with such reverence that we had to keep our halos polished.
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