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Alumni News Letter

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After three years of military service in A - A Warren . in L.S., Washington »27, haT «urned • ^ 08 00 the «-. I£LI of pjget o o u n a » T a l ? Washington * College *#_ * SoundI Jacoma, w 2" P T?™~ * June 1944, Mr. Perry was

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Imtion to all American troops in Africa* and' sent to Rome as special service •ill ^ VA uic X Q V Command While overseas, Mr. Peiry was promoted from captain to major. He re ceived the Theater medal with combat star, and the Bronze Star anc Order of the Crown of Italy (Commander). Arnold H. Trotier, M.A/32, assistant university librarian in charge of cataloging, University of Illinois Library, is a member of the Editorial Committee of the American Library Association.

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Helen M. Clark returned to Baltimore^ in February to serve as direcExtension Miss Clark

1946 as an important day in the annals of the Texas otate College for Women Library, Denton, Texas, when its one hundred ^housandth volume was accessioned. The building up of the library reel its librarian, Mary S. Buffum, A.M/27, who iound it a collection of less than 30,000 volumes when she joined the staff in 1928. The increase in holdings represents a material strengthening in publications for reference and research use. The erection of two new wings for the library building is now under way. Martha M. Parks, director of the School Libraries Division, Tennessee State Department of Education, is division vice-president of the Division of Libraries for Children and Young People of the American Library Association. An attractive facsimile edition of a piece of printing frorn the first known press of Detroit, issued last December by the Detroit Public Library, was prepared by Elleine H. Stones librarian of the Burton Historical Library The original publication "An Act to Regulate Trade and Intercourse with the Indian Tribes and to Preserve Peace on the Frontiers/' printed in 1796 by John McCall, is in the Burton collection, a part of the Detroit Public Library. Helmer T Webb librarian of Union College Library, Schenectady, N e w Y o r S is'ch^rman of the Union List of Serials Supplement, Special Advisory Committee, of the A.L.A. Class of 1928 Edna M Brown, M.S/30, was one of three new members elected to the Advisorv Council of the Maryland, Virginia, and District of Columbia Regional Group of Catalogers and Classifiers, at the annual dinner meeting at Richmond, Virginia, November 10, 1945.