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 Academy, and now resides in Janesville, Wis., writes that in due time it is possible that her sister may become a student here. Miss Bemis has spent several winters in the South.

Mrs. Mary Van Vechten Pinckney, '82, is living in Chicago at the Del Prado Hotel. Her husband, M. W. Pinckney, Judge of the Circuit Court, Chicago, is this year performing the laborious and absorbing duties of Judge of the Juvenile Court.

Miss Martha Powell, of Sutherland, Ia., '75, was one of earliest to request that the magazine should be published and to hope that it may have a large circulation. Miss Powell's health is not good, but her interest in good things is abundant.

Miss Louise Stevens, '06, has been in the University of Chicago most of the time since graduation. She was one of the prime movers in the original publication, "The Echoes of the Pines." She expresses much interest in the proposed quarterly.

Mrs. Jean Hughes Plambeck, '87, now resides in Fremont. Neb. She is active in musical circles there, and her daughter, with other friends, is now in the Academy, largely through the good account of the work of the institution given by Mrs. Plambeck.

Miss Vilona C. Brownlee, '93, is now instructor in vocal in Creal Springs College. Creal Springs, Ill. In a recent letter Miss Brownlee gave information concerning the whereabouts of Mrs. Lillian Hittle Bergtold, who now resides in Duluth, Minn.

Miss Elizabeth Irvine, '78, is spending the winter in Duluth, Minn., with her niece, Mrs. Adaline Hostetter Bjorkquist, of the class of '99. Ms. Bjorkquist, with her husband and daughter, Harriet, visited friends in Mt. Carroll and vicinity in December.

Miss Mary Nycum, '02, after completing a course of study in the Boston School of Domestic Science, was elected to the position of dietician in the city hospital of Wheeling. W. Va. Miss Nycum lectures three times a week before the nurses training classes of the hospital.

The Santa Fe New Mexican of recent date contains an account of the work of Mr. Edward C. Wade Jr., a promising young attorney of that city, whose name is mentioned for the position of State Commissioner of Emigration. Mr. Wade is the husband of Miss Avis Hall, '03.

Mrs. Harriet Hersey Higgins, Oskaloosa, Ia., '02, writes a long and enthusiastic letter concerning the proposed quarterly. Her