HOSTETTER. Anita Miller - Putnam

Graveside services for Miss Anita Miller Hostetter, formerly of Ladoga, were conducted at the Ladoga Cemetery Friday afternoon in charge of Rev. Paul Burt of Urbana, Ill. Men serving as pallbearers were Elvin Warrick, Donald E. Strout and Harold Goldstein of Urbana, Ill., Sam Hostetter of Roachdale, David Hostetter of Fort Wayne, and Howard Hostetter of Bainbridge. A sister, Miss Marie M. Hostetter, accompanied the body here from Claremont, Calif. Miss Hostetter, who died in Claremont, Calif., received international recognition during her career in the field of education for librarianship. In 1937, with Keyes Metcalf, chief librarian of Harvard University, she surveyed opportunities of education for librarianship in California. The study included Claremont area colleges in which library service was under the direction of Willis K. Kerr. Miss Hostetter had been Kerr’s first assistant at Kansas State Teachers College in Emporia. For 30 years she was chief of the Office of Education for Librarianship and secretary of the Board of Education of the American Library Association in Chicago, retiring in 1957. In 1959, Miss Hostetter received the annual award and citation for distinguished service in the Library Education Division of the American Library Association. Her leadership in establishing standards of education for librarianship is recognized in library schools in the United States and in many foreign countries. - kbz