Association of College and Reference Libraries PRESIDENT: Robert W. Severance, Deputy Director, Department of the Army Library, Washington, D.C. VICE PRESIDENT AND PRESIDENT-ELECT: Harriet D. MacPherson, Librarian, Drexel Institute of Technology and Dean of School of Library Science, Drexel Institute, Philadelphia, Pa. EXECUTIVE SECRETARY: Arthur T. Hamlin, ACRL, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago n, 111. TREASURER: Joseph C. Shipman, Librarian, Linda Hall Library, Kansas City, Mo. PAST PRESIDENT: Ralph E. Ellsworth, Director of Libraries, State University of Iowa, Iowa City. College Libraries Section Chairman, Donald C. Davidson, Librarian, Santa Barbara College, Univ. of California, Santa Barbara; Vice Chairman and Chairman-Elect, Helmer L. Webb, Librarian, Union College, Schenectady, New York; Secretary, Elizabeth A. Smith, Cataloger, Wittenberg College, Springfield, Ohio; Director, Louise F. Kampf, Librarian, Colorado College, Colorado Springs. Junior College Libraries Section Chairman, Ruth Ellen Scarborough, Librarian, Centenary Junior College, Hackettstown, N.J.; Vice Chairman and Chairman-Elect, Lottie M. Skidmore, Joliet Junior College, Joliet, 111.; Secretary, Mrs. Thelma Vogt Taylor, Los Angeles Harbor Junior College, Los Angeles, Calif.; Director, Frances L. Meals, Librarian, Colby Junior College, New London, N.H. Pure and Applied Science Section Chairman, Robert E. Betts, Librarian, Texas Engineers Library, College Station; Secretary, Nellie Larson, Librarian, Peoria Branch U. S. Dept. of Agriculture Library, Northern Regional Research Laboratory, Peoria, 111.; Director, Francis P. Allen, Librarian, State College, Kingston, Rhode Island. Reference Librarians Section Chairman, Frances Stalker, Head, Reference Dept., Officers for 1952-53 Section Officers, 1952-53 *DIRECTORS: Julian Fowler, Librarian, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio; Guy R. Lyle, Director of Libraries, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge; N. Orwin Rush, Director of Libraries, University of Wyoming, Laramie. ACRL REPRESENTATIVES ON ALA COUN- CIL: Charles M. Adams, Librarian, Woman's College of the University of North Carolina, Greensboro; Johanna E. Allerding, Librarian, Engineering Library, University of California, Los Angeles, Calif.; Mary N. Barton, Head, General Reference Department, Enoch Pratt Free Library, Baltimore, Maryland; Donald T. Clark, Associate Librarian, Graduate School of Business Administration, Harvard University, Boston, Mass.; Donald Coney, Librarian, University of California, Berkeley; Andrew J. Eaton, Associate Director, Louisiana State University Libraries, Baton Rouge; Mrs. Frances Kemp Hurley, 500 Kappock St., New York, N.Y.; William H. Hyde, Librarian, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, 111.; Margaret L. Johnson, Librarian, Smith College, Northampton, Mass.; Florence L. King, Librarian, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Mass.; Edmon Low, Librarian, Oklahoma A & M College, Stillwater; Robert A. Miller, Director of Libraries, Indiana University, Bloomington; Mrs. Jean Macalister Moore, Japan Library School, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan; Gerhard B. Naeseth, Associate Director in Charge of Technical Services, University of Wisconsin Library, Madison; Robert W. Orr, 1 Director of Libraries, Iowa State College, Ames; Louis S. Shores, Dean, School of Library Training and Service, Florida State University, Tallahassee; Dorothy M. Sinclair, Head, History, Travel, and Biography Departments, Enoch Pratt Free Library, Baltimore, Maryland; Katharine M. Stokes, Librarian, Western Michigan College of Education, Kalamazoo; Raynard C. Swank, Director of Libraries, Stanford University, Stanford, Calif. Indianapolis Public Library, Indianapolis, Indiana; Vice Chairman and Chairman-Elect, Everett T. Moore (On leave from the Reference Dept., University of California at Los Angeles Library), Japan Library School, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan; Secretary, Josephine M. Tharpe, Ref. Libn., Cornell University Library, Ithaca, N.Y.; Director, Florence M. Gifford, Head, General Reference Division, Cleveland Public Library, Cleveland, Ohio. Libraries of Teacher Training Institutions Section Chairman, Bernadine Hanby, Librarian, Northern Illinois State Teachers College, De Kalb; Secretary and Chairman-Elect, James E. Green, Assistant to the President, Michigan State Normal College, Ypsilanti; Director, Ethel Feagley, Teachers College Library, Columbia University, New York, New York. University Libraries Section Chairman, Arthur M. McAnally, Director of Libraries, University of Oklahoma, Norman; Vice Chairman and Chairman-Elect, Lawrence Clark Powell, Librarian, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Calif.; Secretary, Neal R. Harlow, Librarian, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada; Director, Lewis C. Branscomb, Director of Libraries, Ohio State University, Columbus. * Also includes the directors listed under Section Officers and ACRL representatives on ALA Council serving their last year (Miss Allerding, Mr. Clark, Mr. Eaton, Mr. Hyde, Miss King, Mrs. Moore, Mr. Naeseth, and Miss Sinclair).
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