"Gwladys Spencer, who had joined the faculty in 1940 and had demonstrated brilliance in teaching, research, and scholarhip, died in November 1947." (Downs, 1992, p. 26)
Downs, Robert B. (1992). The school's third quarter century. In Walter C. Allen and Robert F. Delzell (eds.), Ideals and standards: The history of the University of Illinois Graduate School of Library and Information Science (pp. 23-29). Champaign, IL: Univerity of Illinois.