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T HE Journal regrets to have to inform
its readers that Mrs. Mary Ireton
Kapst, the Chamber's Librarian since the
middle of 1963, resigned during the month.
She first came to the Philippines in 1951 as a
provincial librarian for the U.S. Information
Service and was promoted to Director of
USIS libraries in the Philippines in 1953, a

position she held until her n
From 1958 to 196X2 she serve
the Dependents' School, U.S
Sangley Point, Cavite. Now
to Sangley Point as libraris
School there. Mrs. Kapst y
fessional librarian the Chi
and transformed what was.

of a few hundred books and pamphlets into
a sizeable organized business and economics
r esearch library which has been very useful
not only to the Joetrnal and Chamber staff
Colum n and to Chamber members, but to numerous
college students, businessmen, and researchers
narriage in 1957. who for several years have daily visited the
ed as librarian of premises and received every aid from Mrs.
S. Naval Station, Kapst. She also wrote many of the book
v she is returning reviews which have appeared in the Journal
mn of the Station during this time. We are all very sorry to
vas the first pro- see her go. However, we are somewhat
amber ever had consoled by the fact that the Chamber
a more collection Board has arranged for Mrs. Kapst to come
to the Chamber Library once a week, on
Saturdays, on a consulting basis.
F Mrs. Kapst's assistant, Mrs. Ludivina
(Lily) R. Sibayan, who joined the Library
staff in November, 1964, will now become
the Chamber Librarian. She previously
worked in the library of the University of
Manila and also organized the library ot the
Philippine Moslem College in Jolo, Sulu.
Her husband is Mr. Genedio C. Sibayan,
~. ^^^^^^^^ head of the Clerical Department of Qaasha,
Asperilla, Blanco, Zafra & Tayag.
AMONG the books which our Chamber
_ Librarian obtained at the National
Library some months ago was one entitled
"Proceedings of the International Congress
on Rizal, December 4-8, 1961", this Congress being held that year under the auspices
of the Jose Rizal National Centennial Commission. The book runs to over 500 pages
coveiing the official rosters and the minutes
of the various sessions held, and, most interesting, the text of the various "papers"
read by some of the local and foreign
delegates, the latter including prominent
scholars from Australia, Austria, Borneo,
China, Israel, Italy, Japan, Spain, Thailand,
United Kingdom, Germany, India, Indonesia,
Mexico, Netherlands, Pakistan, and the United States. The papers they read all had
to do with Rizal, and no reader can fail to
be impressed,-if he had not been already,
by the world impression Rizal created, not
cnly as a writer, scientist, scholar, patriot,
and martyr, but as a type of the truly
"universal man".
Yet froim a perusal of a book our Librarian obtained at the same time, "Minutes
of the Katipur.an" (2,60 pages), which,
besides these minutes, also contains, as
appendices, the memoirs of persons connected
with the Katipunan, their testimony before
the Spanish authorities after the organization had been ciscovered, some of this iinplicating Rizal, and the decrees concerning the
uptising by several Spanish GovernorGenerals, one develops a better comprehension of that period of Prdlippine history than
he probably had before. Some of the material
presented is quite grisly, both on the Fili_pino and the Spanish sides, and one understands at least how it was possible for the
Spanish authorities to execute Rizal. It was
a time of great danger and cruelty and fear,
such as we may confidently hope the Philippines will never have to go through again.

420 - THE JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
40, -:, August, 1966