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Caption: UI Library School Alumni Newsletter - 37
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m Alumni News Letter 19 w, i en 10 Claw of 1924 °^ 1o^ f! ° kogec, Oklahoma, Public Lito.ry since 1925 resigned last summer. The August 14 issue of the Muskogee DatlyPhoenxx carries a testimonial issued by the Library Board reviewing Mrs. Porter ^professional activities and her many contributions to the improvement of library service in her city and region. Class of 1927 Lansing, A1A. Council for the term 1945-49 Elleine H . Stones attended a three weeks course of training for archival work given in Washington, D. C. last June by the National Archives in cooperation with the American University and the Maryland Hall of Records. Mrs. Stones, who is chief of the Burton Historical Collection, Detroit Public Library, reports the course was interesting and helpful* Wilma Troxel, librarian, University of Illinois College of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmacy Library, was elected president of the Illinois Chapter of the Special Libraries Association at its May 1945 meeting. She had served as vice-president during the preceding year. Helmer L . Webb, M.A/27, librarian of Union College, Schenectady, New York, was on leave for several months during the past year to do confidential work for the government with the Office of Scientific Research and Development. Part of the time was spent in England. On September 1, Jerome K. Wilcox, M.S/28, assumed the librarianship of the College of the City of New York. Before leaving California, where he was associate librarian of the University of California Library, Berkeley, Mr. Wilcox served as chairman of the Committee on State Documents of the California Library Association. His committee succeeded in securing the passage of a state law improving the distribution and indexing of California documents and making California the first state to have a depository system for the publications of the state. Class of 1928 In August Evalene Kramer Angus resigned her position as librarian of University High School at the University of Illinois to accompany her b u s b a r W S T Angus, to Miami, Florida. Mrs. Angus is working in the library of the high school in which her husband accepted a position. Wilma Bennett, formerly librarian of Whittier College, is now chief of the Readers Division, Michigan State College, East Lansing, Michigan. T?A;*U Rotnrl M S Columbia '32, librarian of the Teachers Professional Library San Franci'sco, has been elected secretary for 1945-46 of the School Library Association of California. Fd M Brown, M.S. '30, was elected assistant treasurer of the District o rColumbia .Library Association for 1945-46. Icko Iben, MA/29, formerly assistant, Archives Department, State I ibrary Springfield, Illinois, has returned to the University of Illinois Ca rtCr,libr an f t h e Mus "of ™ ersit n d ,v , head eaching has an 5 issue braries as also itor of I Rob: Uni- I ice at Xeu two iy he tn reand jides sued jafi ashin in iiH • .41
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