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Library, Jamestown, North Dakota, last September. Miss Hemmings's home is at 410 North Adams Street, Mt. Pleasant, Iowa. In a recent communication Ethel Joy Williams Higby (Mrs. C. S Higby)*calls attention to her change of address to Tombstone, Arizona' Box 616. "My husband is now the minister of the Community Congregational Church here, in this 'in-the-throes-of-being-reborn ghost town a lively boom due to the Medical Center with new method of treating sinus. Ingrid V. Jensen, librarian of the Centralbiblioteket, Esbjerg, Denmark has sent greetings to Library School friends. "We have gone through a terribly hard time in our little country, found death and terror every minute of the day. The first two years we were dull and senseless but suddenly we all awoke and we have fought and worked and lived as never before. . . . We shall never, never forget America's wonderful help — we know that you have suffered greatly and have lost many American lives but we congratulate you on V-J Day. You have delivered the whole world from a terrible Nazi disaster." Miss Jensen reports that her library has made records in all phases of its work during the past few years. "The books are all worn out and it will take time before we are able to get real binding materials, not these dreadful 'ersatz-goods' we can get now." She asks that she be remembered "to those people that still remember me." Rose Williamson Kinzer and her husband, Gilbert D. Kinzer, are living at 7904 Girard Avenue, S., Minneapolis 9, Minnesota, after a vacation in Arizona and New Mexico. Announcement has been received of the marriage of Ralph W. McComb, M.A/36, to Mabel Lois Martin on January 6, 1946, at Springfield, Missouri. Mrs. McComb is an alumna of the Library School, class of 1937. Lockwood Wiley has returned to his former position as librarian and dramatic coach at the East Alton Community High School, Wood River, Illinois, after serving three and a half years in the Navy. C l a s s of 1933 Lt. and Mrs. Joseph R. Gersack, Washington, D.C., became the parents of a daughter, Judith Ann, on December 23, 1945. The mother is the former Dorothy J. Hill, M.S/37, president of the Library School Association. Mrs. Gersack is assistant chief, Division of Veterans' Records, National Archives, Washington, D.C. 1S Kanardy L. Taylor, Chief, Public Service, John Crerar Library, i chairman of the A.L.A. Committee on Photographic Reproduction of Library Materials. Lorena Platz Weatherly (Mrs. John F. Weatherly) has been appointed reference librarian of the Public Library, Waltham, Massachusetts. John Morrow, M.S., Columbia '36, joined the Reference Department of the United States War Department's Pentagon Library, Washington, D.U following his discharge from military service in IVcember. He was formerly librarian of the PoughkccpSiC, New York, Public Library. Donald A. Woods, M.S/45, became librarian of Milwaukee State Teachers College, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in September. He was formerly U-