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BOARD OF T R U S T E E S

[June 19

APPOINTMENT OF HEAD OF DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION FOR MEN (25) Dean S. C. Staley of the College of Physical Education has also been serving as Head of the Department of Physical Education for Men since the change in status of the School of Physical Education to College and its reorganization into departments. H e has asked to be relieved of the headship and has recommended the appointment of Dr. C. O. Jackson, Professor of Physical Education for Men, as Professor of Physical Education for Men on indefinite tenure and Head of the Department beginning September 1, 1958, at an annual salary of $11,000 on "A" basis. This appointment has been recommended after consultation with all members of the Department of professorial rank and is concurred in by the Vice-President and Provost and the Dean of the Graduate College. I recommend approval.

On motion of Mr. Nickell, this appointment was approved.

CONVEYANCE OF LAND TO GRADE SCHOOL DISTRICT 5 3 2 PUTNAM, MARSHALL, AND LASALLE COUNTIES AND TO McKENDREE COLLEGE (26) The Head of the Department of Agronomy and the Director of the Agricultural Experiment Station recommend that the experimental fields at Lebanon and McNabb, Illinois, be discontinued. It is the judgment of the staff of the Department that all of the experimental data and other scientific information it is possible to get under present conditions on these two fields have been obtained. The fields have not been used since April I, 1958. Accordingly, the Department was authorized to abandon them and confirmation of this action is requested. The field at Lebanon was granted to the University in 1910 for experimental use. The field at McNabb was originally leased from John Swaney for the period from 1907 to 1999 at a nominal rental of $36 a year. By his will this property became part of a trust created by him for the benefit of the school district in Magnolia Township, Putnam County, Illinois, in 1918. T o settle the estate, the land was sold in 1950 subject to the L'niversity's lease. It was purchased by the Marshall-Putnam Counties F a r m Bureau which in turn deeded it to the University with the provision that the land revert to School District 532, Putnam, Marshall and LaSalle Counties, after it ceased to be used as an experimental field for two consecutive years. Since both of these fields were acquired by gift without cost to the University (except for the nominal rental paid for the McNabb Field) with the provision that they would automatically pass to the grantees if not used for experimental purposes for a period of two years, I recommend that the title of the field at Lebanon revert to McKendree College and that the title to the field at McNabb be passed to the John Swaney Consolidated Grade School District 532 of Putnam, Marshall, and LaSalle Counties in Illinois, as provided in the deeds transferring the fields to the University. I further recommend that the Secretary and the Comptroller of the Board be authorized to execute the necessary quitclaim deeds on the tracts described as follows: Six (6) acres of land being part of the East half ( E 1 ^ ) of the Southwest quarter ( S W K ) of Section Fifteen (15), Township Thirty-one (31) North, Range One (1) West of the Third Principal Meridian, commencing at a point Twenty (20) Rods South and Eighty (80) Rods East of the Northwest corner of said Quarter Section, thence South Twenty (20) Rods, thence East Forty-eight (48) Rods, thence North Twenty (20) Rods, thence West Fortyeight (48) Rods, to the Place of Beginning, Situated in the County of Putnam, State of Illinois to be conveyed to the John Swaney Consolidated Grade School District 532, P ut " nam, Marshall, and LaSalle Counties; and Parts of lots # 4 3 and # 4 4 in the Southwest YA Section # 1 9 , Township 2 North, Range 6 West of the 3rd Principal Meridian, described as follows, to-wit: Beginning the survey thereof at a point three hundred and twentyfive (325) feet south of the intersection of the south line of Second South Street, and the east line of the right of way of the East St. Louis & Suburban Railway Co. Thence running south along the east line of said Railway seven hundred forty three and three one-hundredths (743.03) feet: Thence east