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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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against the Auditor of Public Accounts and to warrants on the University Treasurer covering vouchers approved in accordance with regulations of the Board. The Secretary of the Board of Trustees is also authorized to delegate to Lean C. Ryan, Addalein C. Hawk, in Springfield, authority to sign his name as Secretary of the Board of Trustees on vouchers against the Auditor of Public Accounts approved in accordance with the regulations of the Board. These authorizations are to continue in effect until the Auditor of Public Accounts has been supplied with specimen signatures of succeeding officers of this Board. And be it further Resolved, that the First National Bank of Chicago as a designated depositary of R. R. Manchester, Treasurer of this corporation, be and it (including its correspondent banks) is hereby requested, authorized, and directed to honor checks, drafts, or other orders for the payment of money drawn in this corporation's name, including those drawn to the individual order of any person or persons whose name or names appear thereon as signer or signers thereof, when bearing or purporting to bear the facsimile signatures of the two following: Howard W. Clement, President; and Earl W. Porter, Secretary; and the First National Bank of Chicago (including its correspondent banks) shall be entitled to honor and to charge this corporation for all such checks, drafts, or other orders, regardless of by whom or by what means the facsimile signature or signatures thereon may have been affixed thereto, if such facsimile signature or signatures resemble the facsimile specimens duly certified to or filed with the First National Bank of Chicago by the Secretary or other officer of this corporation. And be it further Resolved, that the Auditor of Public Accounts is hereby authorized and directed to honor vouchers bearing facsimile signatures of the President and Secretary of The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois if such facsimile signatures resemble the facsimile specimens duly certified to or filed with the Auditor of Public Accounts by the Secretary. STATEMENT BY MR. IRVING DILLIARD M r . D i l l i a r d a s k e d f o r t h e floor to p r e s e n t t h e f o l l o w i n g s t a t e m e n t .

M R . PRESIDENT :

Prior to the next scheduled meeting of this Board, Dr. David D. Henry will have begun, on September 1, his twelfth year as President of the University of Illinois. Of the dozen presidents of the University only three have served longer tenures than the eleven years Dr. Henry achieves next month. These were John Milton Gregory, thirteen years, Edmund Janes James, sixteen years, and Arthur Cutts Willard, twelve years. No one has served in periods of greater problems and pressures. Notable also is the fact that Dr. Henry's tenure is already twice the current average tenure of presidents of colleges and universities in the United States. For the University's President to have been able to accomplish this record of extended service during a time when the total enrollment of the divisions of the University of Illinois has grown to more than 40,000, not counting summer session students, is in itself a measure of his abilities and talents. Adding in the summer session student enrollments reported to the Trustees today, the total annual enrollment in the University of Illinois now exceeds 50,000. Mr. President, I move that this statement appear in the minutes of our meeting today to record congratulations to President Henry and the administrative staff from the Board of Trustees.

Mr. Dilliard's motion was adopted unanimously, and his statement was received for the record. SECRETARY'S REPORTS The Secretary presented for record the following lists: appointments to the faculty made by the President; resignations, declinations, and cancellations; leaves of absence.