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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1944
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1030 BOARD OF TRUSTEES Great publicity has been given by the Kelly-Nash Trustees and their tool, Arthur Cutts Willard, to their authorization to the American Council on Education to make a survey but no mention whatever has been made of the survey and report of Business Analysts, Booz, Fry, Allen, and Hamilton. It is obvious that this report, which has been in the hands of Arthur Cutts Willard for over 30 days, confirms and substantiates the charges which I have made against the Kelly-Nash Trustees and their puppet, Arthur Cutts Willard. I now charge that this report has been suppressed not only from the Public but from the Republican Trustees by the Kelly-Nash Democratic Trustees and their puppet President, Arthur Cutts Willard, and I shall demand that it be released for publication forthwith. The anxiety with which the Kelly-Nash Trustees and their tool, Arthur Cutts Willard, direct that your Commission shall make its report by October 20, 1942, which is two weeks before an election at which the Bosses, Kelly and Nash, are attempting to foist three more controlled trustees upon the people of Illinois, the method of selection and approval of the investigators by the Kelly-Nash Democratic Trustees, their direction of silence with reference to the matter of Sveinbjorn Johnson's double salary for two full-time jobs, and suppression of the report of Business Analysts, Booz, Fry, Allen, and Hamilton, are proof positive that your Commission is also slated to become a tool of Kelly-Nash and their "Boss" dominated trustees for a whitewash for political purposes. I will not become a party to such an obvious Kelly-Nash Democratic whitewash and therefore I must decline the invitation contained in your recent letter. * # * * In carrying out its study the Commission with the help of its full-time executive secretary secured extensive statistical and other data from numerous offices and administrative officers of the University. It personally interviewed the President of the University and most of the other administrative officers, members of the faculty representing all academic ranks, members of the Board of Trustees, alumni, officials of the Alumni Association and of the University General Advisory Committee. Finally, the Commission wishes to make it perfectly clear that this study is not in any sense a comprehensive educational survey of the University. As already stated, it concerns two main issues. It is only to be expected that in dealing with these issues, corollary matters would claim attention which might prove worthy of final inclusion in the report. [12 —A.C.E. Report]
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