Repository: UIHistories Project: UI Library School Alumni Newsletter - 38 [PAGE 8]

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Class of 1918 Ore forma, as cataloger in August Class of 1919 The Bicrce Library, University of Akron, of which Josephine Ctishman is librarian, has been publishing since April 1945 a bulletin called Facts and Figures, for business and labor interests. The publication is issued in cooperation with the Akron Public Library. Class of 1920 Anita M. Hostetter has been appointed to the committee to study the problem of sabbatical leaves for members of the A.L.A. Headquarters staff. Class of 1922 1 The marriage of Fanny Alice Coldren to John E. Goodwin on February 28, 1946, has been announced. The wedding was held at the Westwood Community Methodist Church, Los Angeles, California. Mrs. Goodwin has been reference librarian of the University of California at Los Angeles since 1924. Mr. Goodwin is librarian emeritus of the same institution. The Goodwins are at home at 1530 Calmar Court, Los Angeles. Some of Mrs. Goodwin's friends were interested in hearing her name mentioned by Robert St. John in his NBC news broadcast on the morning of March 8. According to Mr. St. John's story, a reporter questioned Mrs. Goodwin as she left the University Library for the last time, after twentythree years of service there, as to her plans lor the future. "I hope to catch up on my reading" was the reply, which so tickled the fancy of the commentator that he featured it as his good story of the day. Jackson E. Towne, librarian of the Michigan State College Library. East Lansing, Michigan, is a member of the nominating committee of the Association of College and Reference Libraries for 1945-46. Class of 1924 The story behind Phyllis Crawford's Hello, the Boat! is interestingly detailed by its publishers, Holt and Company, in a full-page advertisement in the Saturday Rcviezv of Literature for December 15. Miss Crawford's novel for young people first published in 1938 is. the publishers declare, "already becoming a classic in its held. It sells and sells, year after n, year." In May Miss Crawford joined the new publishing house, ^J JJ t0T Sloane Associates, as associate editor. A note about Miss C ™"\ ./ career, with her photograph, appears in the April 13 issue of Fubhsiict* Weekly. Class of 1925 Alice L. Beach resigned her position as librarian of Friends Linyersity, Wichita, Kansas, last July, to join her father in Hutchinson, win sota. Her address is 548 Franklin Street, South. Willamette University, Salem • the Pacific, Stockton, r a l i ' > d J& l»^l» ( L*** \\S^'

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