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Caption: UI Library School Alumni Newsletter - 38
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g University of Illinois Library School Alcorn County Library, Corinth, Mississippi. Guest speakers at the con ferencc were Elisabeth Cammack '38, regional librarian serving with the Louisiana Library Commission, and Julia Wright Merrill '03, of A I \ Headquarter* Pearl J. Sneed.'35, librarian, Jackson Public Library,'^ as appointed chairman of the Minimum Standards County Library ( 0 m mittee. Manie L. Berry '41, librarian of Tupelo High School was appointed to tfre Publicity Committee, and Alice Collins '40, catalog University of Mississippi, to the Constitution and By-laws Committee' Whitman Davis '33, librarian. University of Mississippi, is serving on the Legislative Committee. Other alumnae who are members of the Mississippi Library Association are Mary E. Garst '31, assistant librarian, Carnegie Public Library, Clarksdale, and Lorayne Bryson '42, librarian, Tupelo Junior High School, Tupelo. • W A S H I N G T O N , D.C., A L U M N I The alumni of Washington, D.C., were entertained at tea on March 31 in the home of Dorothy Hill Gersack '33, M.S/37, president of the Library School Association. Paul Howard '30, director, A.L.A. National Relations Office, was the guest of honor and gave a talk to the group. News of the Classes Class of 1903 Julia Wright Merrill retired on March 1 as chief of the A.L.A. Public Library Division and Department of Information and Advisory Services, a position she has held since 1933. Miss Merrill has been a member of the A.L.A. Headquarters since 1925 when she became its executive assistant in Library Extension. Previous to that date she served as head of city and county extension of the Cincinnati Public Library and for a short time with the Wisconsin Free Library Commission and the Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Public Library. She has published numerous professional reports and articles, mainly dealing with library extension. An article about Miss Merrill by Carl Yitz appears in the March issue of the A.L.A. Bulletin. Since her retirement Miss Merrill is living at 245 Gilman Street, Mt. Auburn, Cincinnati 19, Ohio. Class of 1905 Grace Derby, associate librarian, Kansas State College. Manhattan, Kansas has been appointed faculty adviser of sororities at the college. isas, of the ] Banner Librarv books has increased twenty-eight per cent. Three branch u * braries, three book stations for Negroes, and a demonstration Bookmowi e
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