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ALA Representatives

AT INAUGURATIONS, DEDICATIONS AND OTHER ACADEMIC CEREMONIES

On Oct. 8 Warren Boes represented ALA at the inauguration of Albert Edward Holland as president of Hobert and William Smith Colleges; and on Oct. 20 Andrew J. Eaton attended the inauguration of John Anthony Brown, Jr., as president of Lindenwood College. At the inauguration of Elwin Lloyd Skiles as president of Hardin Simmons University on Nov. 7, Perma A. Rich represented ALA. Sister Jeanne d’Arc represented ALA at the inauguration of Elizabeth K. McCormack as president of the College of the Sacred Heart in Manhattanville, N.Y., on Dec. 9.

On Jan. 14 Wilbur F. Helmbold attended ceremonies inaugurating James Huey Edmondson as president of Judson College in Marion, Ala.; on Feb. 13, ALA was represented by Guy Lyle at the Centennial celebration of Morehouse College. Foster E. Mohrhardt represented ALA at the Charter Day Centennial celebration of Howard University on March 2; and James R. O’Rourke was the ALA representative at the inauguration of Karl Kenneth Wilson as president of Asbury College on March 28.

On April 2, Edmon Low attended the investiture of Granville Oral Roberts as president of Oral Roberts University. Ray S. Barker represented ALA at the Centennial Convocation at Johnson C. Smith University on April 7; on April 8, Herbert B. Anstaett attended the Lebanon Valley College Centennial Convocation; and on April 14, H. William Axford, the Academic Festival at Colorado Women’s College honoring its founders and benefactors, and celebrating its renaming as Temple Buell College.

Mrs. Ruth W. Pinkerton was the ALA representative at the inauguration of G. Wayne Glick as president of Keuka College on April 15; on that date also, Herbert Anstaett represented ALA at the inauguration of Morley J. Mays as president of Elizabethtown College; and Jerrold Ome, at the inauguration of E. Bruce Heilman as president of Meredith College. Edward H. Elliott represented ALA at the Skidmore College Honors Convocation on April 18; and at the inauguration of John Carrier Weaver as president of the University of Missouri on that date Ralph S. Emerick was the ALA representative.

At the University of South Dakota inauguration of Edward Quentin Moulton as president on April 21 Kordillia C. Johnson was in attendance; on April 22, Emerson Jacob represented ALA at the inauguration of Chester T. McNerney as president of Edinboro State College, Edinboro, Penna.; and on that date also John L. Glinka attended the inauguration of James Edward Doty as president of Baker University; and Victoria Hargrave, the inauguration of Glenn Lowery McConagha as president of Blackburn College.

At the inauguration of Leonard L. Holloway as president of Mary Hardin-Baylor College on April 25, James H. Rogers represented ALA; and on April 29, Katharine M. Stokes was the representative to the University of Michigan International Conference on Higher Education in Tomorrow’s World, and Commencement Convocation. Elizabeth C. Welborn attended the inauguration of Joseph Wightman as president of Erskine College on that date.

On May 2, Juliet B. Clark represented ALA at ceremonies inaugurating John Summerskill as president of San Francisco State College; on May 6, Mrs. Lillian H. Smoke, at dedication ceremonies of the new campus of Hagerstown Junior College; Peter Spyers–Duran, at the inauguration of Bernard Schroeder Adams as president of Ripon College; Rice Estes, at the dedication of Hofstra University Library, and John O. Bronson, at the inauguration of Frank N. Philpot as president of Athens College, Athens, Ala. On May 7, Robert W. Orr attended dedication ceremonies of Cowles library, Drake University; and on May 8, Tyrus G. Harmsen, the inauguration of John Alden Greenlee as president of California State College in Los Angeles.

Frederick H. Wagman attended the dedication of the new library at Eastern Michigan