AMERICAN VISITOR

Wanganui Chronicle, 24 February 1947, Page 7

AMERICAN VISITOR

LIBRARIAN ARRIVES. Having heard from returned American servicemen of the hospitality and friendliness of New Zealanders Miss Geraldine Le May, United States State Department librarian attached to the U.S. Legation office in Wellington, who arrived on Monday in Auckland in the Marine Phoenix, is certain that her two years’ stay in this country will be a happy one. Miss Le May comes from Georgia and was for over four years librarian at Camp Stewart, an anti-aircraft centre in South Georgia, during the Second World War. Recently she attended the University of Chicago and gained her master’s degree in library science at the end of last year.

Miss L? May will be assistant to Miss Mary Parsons, Director of the United States Jni’oimotion Library in Wellington, which operates an extensive reference library for the purpose of supplying answer.-- to inquiries people wish to make about America. The department was established here in 1943 and Miss Le May is tak’r" the place of Mis“ Katheryn Davis, who has returned homo after her two years’ work in