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Master of S c i e n c e D e g r e e s in L i b r a r y Science A w a r d e d J u n e - O c t o b e r 1945 Ruth Marie Baldwin Frank Joseph Bertalan, Jr. Thomas Harold Cahalan Dorathca \V. Friedrich Lillian Elvira Hedstrand Virginia Irwin Sherman FACULTY Syble Ethel Mason Helen Louise Norris Zelda Leigh Osborne Sarah Rebecca Reed Floda Victoria Smith Donald Arthur Woods NOTES

Director Downs spent three weeks during September and October at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, as consultant in the reorganization of the library and in the preparation of plans for a new library building for the Colleges of Agriculture and Home Economics. On October 1-3 Mr. Downs represented the American Library Association at a national conference on educational statistics called by the United States Office of Education in Washington, D.C. In a similar capacity he attended, November 23-24, a meeting in New York City of the Library of Congress committee to advise on the distribution of foreign acquisitions. Mr. Downs attended the meetings of the Association of Research Libraries last summer at the New York Public Library, where he presented a report of the Committee on Statistics of Library Holdings, of which he is chairman. P. L. Windsor, director emeritus, was honored last June by the Northwestern University Alumni Association, which presented him with its 1945 award of merit. The award, given annually for outstanding achievement in business or professional life, was made at the alumni luncheon during the Commencement festivities at Evanston, Illinois. The citation accompanying the award praises Mr. Windsor as "a citizen of the highest type who has served untiringly in educational and civic capacities and has generously and unstintingly given of his knowledge without seeking personal recognition." Lewis F. Stieg, assistant director, reviewed for the Library Journal of September 15, 1945. Edward A. Wight's Evaluation and Revision of the Library School Curriculum and The Program of Instruction in Library Schools, by Keyes D. Metcalf and others. Mr. Stieg attended the Institute August ber 1. Frances Simpson, director emerita, spent the month of August in Manchester, Vermont. She spent a day with the Cleavingers at their home at Brandon, Vermont. Ethel Bond, associate professor, is vice-president and president-elect of the Division of Cataloging and Classification of the American Library Association for 1945-1946. She attended a meeting of the Board in Cleveland in July. Anne M. Boyd, associate professor, has assumed the presidency of the Association of American Library Schools. Miss Boyd also served on the Subcommittee on Library School Curricula i)i the Adult Education Board

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