Repository: UIHistories Project: UI Library School Alumni Newsletter - 38 [PAGE 14]

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Class of 1936 Gerard Maker, M.S/40, returned to the Catalog Department of the Uni versity of Illinois Library in February, following his discharge from th Army. Josephine M. Cowles became assistant librarian of the Wichita Hiirh School North, Wichita, Kansas, last September. Gracie Fern Latimer joined the library staff of the Veterans Administration Center in Los Angeles, California, in November 1945. Martha Sanford Peacock (Mrs. Richard C. Peacock) has rejoined the University of Illinois Catalog Department as a serials cataloger following two years as cataloger at Rollins College Library. Her husband is enrolled in the University of Illinois during the current semester. Jessie Richmond, librarian of the Kennedy General Hospital of the United States Army at Normal, near Memphis, Tennessee is featured in the December 1, 1945 issue of The Showboat, published by the hospital. In its "Civilian of the Week" section the magazine carried a photograph of Miss Richmond with a description of her work in the hospital library. "On the same day that Kennedy received its first patient early in 1943," comments the article, Miss Richmond "started the library in an empty room with a box of books. The library grew rapidly into its present status of over 9,000 popular books with a staff of six assistants assigned to library duty." Before going to the Kennedy General Hospital, Miss Richmond had worked in the Cossitt Public Library, Memphis. Mary Louise Seely, M.S/39, will teach cataloging and classification in the summer session of the Graduate School of Library Science at the University of Southern California. Miss Seely is assistant librarian, Redondo Union High School, Redondo Beach, California. Class of 1937 John R. Banister has been appointed district librarian in charge of Region 6 of the Illinois Library Service Demonstration Program. George B. Brown, M.A.'40, received a temporary promotion on March 19 to the rank of major. He is with the Personnel Branch Military Intelligence Service in the Pentagon, Washington, D.C. Irene Ford, M.S/46, resigned her position in the Catalog Department of the University of Illinois Library in April to become librarian of the special library of the National Society for Crippled Children and Adults, Inc., in Chicago. Louis Kaplan resumed his duties as reference librarian at the University of Wisconsin Library last December. He had been on leave for service in the Navy since March 1943. Elizabeth D. Knapp became librarian of the New York University Graduate School of Business Administration in January. She is living a 14 Washington Place, New York 3, New York. After three years in the Navy where she held the rank of lieutenant

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