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On September 25 Dr. Gager was made a member of a committee 

 of the American Institute oi Park Executives to consider the ques- 

 tion oi organizing an association of botanic gardens and arbore- 

 tnms in affiliation with the Institute. The organization of this 

 association is reported on page 61. 



Miss lillcn Ildd\ Shaw, curator ot Elementary Instruction For 

 more than twenty-seven years, was given the degree of Master ot 

 Arts by her alma mater. Tufts College, at its Commencement on 

 June 17. President Carmicbacl. in awarding the degree, concluded 

 his citation as follows: "To you, Ellen Eddy Shaw, who have 

 taught generations oi children to understand the significance of 

 gardens, the degree of Master of Arts." 



Miss MicJialcua Lc hrere Carroll, instructor, was appointed a 

 member of the teaching staff of the Blue Ridge Southern Culture 

 Institutes, Blue Ridge, Xorth Carolina, for their summer session, 

 June 29 to August 4, and gave two courses in '' Art .Appreciation." 

 She also gave a course at the Rutherford ( N. J.) Adult School for 

 eleven weeks from September to December. 



Miss Hilda Vilkomerson, curatorial assistant at the Garden tor 

 seven years and 5 months, resigned as ot May 31. Miss Vilko- 

 merson came to the Garden as stenographer on March 1, 1929, and 

 became curatorial assistant on January 1, 1033. 



Miss Grace Elisabeth -lsli-wcil was appointed stenographer in the 

 department of Public Instruction, beginning September If). The 

 title was subsequently changed to curatorial assistant to correspond 

 with partial change of duties to begin as of January 1, 1941. 



Miss Elizabeth G. Bonta, who has had entire charge of the color- 

 ing of our lantern slides since June. 1020, died on September 19 

 after a brief illness. Miss Bonta had studied art at Pratt Institute 

 and in Manhattan. Her work was of a high order of merit, and 

 the position will be difficult to fill. 



Miss Helen E. Bennett^ stenographer in the director's office since 

 November 1, 1936, resigned as of November 30, 1940. On ac- 

 count of the financial situation at the Garden the position had not 

 been filled at the close of the year. 



