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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

[February 16

MEETING RECESSED On motion of Mr. Swain, the Board recessed for a meeting of the Committee on Buildings and Grounds, the Board to reconvene immediately thereafter. REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS The Committee on Buildings and Grounds, having met immediately before the meeting of the Board of Trustees, presented with its approval the following recommendations with regard to the renaming of two buildings at the Urbana campus:

RENAMING O F F L O R I C U L T U R E BUILDING, URBANA

(1) On recommendation of the Department of Horticulture and the Dean of the College of Agriculture and with the endorsement of the Chancellor at the Urbana-Champaign campus, I recommend that the building presently known as the Floriculture Building be renamed the Ornamental Horticulture Building. The term "ornamental horticulture," embracing all phases of the industry represented in the building including floriculture and landscape horticulture, seems more appropriately applied to the building. In addition, the Floriculture Curriculum in the College of Agriculture was renamed Ornamental Horticulture ten years ago.

RENAMING O F EAST CHEMISTRY BUILDING AS ROGER ADAMS LABORATORY, URBANA

(2) Upon recommendation of the Director of the School of Chemical Sciences and the Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and with the endorsement of the Chancellor at the Urbana-Champaign campus, I recommend that the building presently known as East Chemistry be renamed the Roger Adams Laboratory. The many and varied contributions of Professor Roger Adams during the years of his association with the University of Illinois, as a member of its staff from 1916 until his death on July 6, 1971, were not only of tremendous importance to his department and to the University of Illinois but also won him national and international recognition as a leader in the chemical and educational professions. His twenty-eight-year tenure as Head of the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, longer than that of any other head of the department, came during a period of rapid development, and his leadership established the department in the front ranks of chemical research and education on a truly international basis. O n motion of M r . Pogue, serving as chairman p r o tempore of the Committee on Buildings and Grounds, the recommendations were approved. BUSINESS PRESENTED BY T H E PRESIDENT OF T H E UNIVERSITY The Board considered the following reports and recommendations from the President of the University.

PRESIDENT'S REPORTS

President Corbally presented a report on selected topics of current interest, copies of which were distributed at the meeting, and a copy was filed with the Secretary of the Board. In addition, the president presented reports on the following special topics. Report of Academic Calendar Change, As Approved by the Urbana-Champaign Senate, Effective for 1975-74 (Excerpts of the report follow. The full text of the report is filed with the Secretary of the Board.)