Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1904 [PAGE 28]

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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS.

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From College F u n d s Salaries Agronomy Animal husbandry D a l y husbandry Horticulture Household science Veterinary science Thremmatology College extension Office and incidentals From ReceiptsDairy husbandry...,...

$4,200 00 900 00 700 00 700 00 700 00 160 00 75 00 100 00 125 00 350 00 $8,000 00 $1,000 00

From United States Experiment Station Fund— salaries Agronomy Animal husbandry Dairy husbandry Horticulture Botany. ... Thremmatology Office and incidentals Publications

$1,775 00 800 00 2.0 00 250 00 260 00 100 00 125 00 300 00 400 00 $3,750 00

15. My secretary, Miss Lillie Heath, has tendered her resignation, and I have accepted it to take effect October 1st, with only nominal service or leave of absence until that time. The step was made necessary by ill health, which has not been improved as we hoped by a long vacation. She has gone to a sanitarium at Kenosha, Wisconsin, as the officers of the institution say, for an indefinite length of time. The duties of secretary to the President have become heavy and responsible, calling for the strength and temperament of a young man in good health, of college training, and of versatility and resourcefulness in managing affairs. The physical disability under which I, myself, must now rest makes the position of much more importance to me and to the University. For a man who can fill the place we shall doubtless have to pay $1,600 or $1,800 per year. While I have given considerable thought to the subject J do not know where the right man is. I therefore respectfully ask the Board to authorize me to make such temporary arrangements for getting along as may be practicable, and to make a permanent appointment at such salary as may be necessary when I am able to do so. This upon the understanding, of course, that no more than necessary will be paid, and t h a t in any event the amount I have named above will not be exceeded. PEKSONAL. I t is a great satisfaction to me to be able to advise the Board that there is no reason to doubt my ability, as it will be my very great pleasure to resume regular work in the office at the 1st of October. My health is good and my strength has been steadily returning to me. I am now able to get about with considerable facility on crutches and an artificial leg. The summer has been a happy one to me, but I value the power to labor and to be useful more than ever before, and the day when I shall resume all my usual relations with the people and affairs of the University will be a happier one than any which has gone before it. Again I tender the Board my grateful thanks for its kindly and sympathetic consideration, and for each of its members I pray the full measure of health and prosperity. Very sincerely yours,

A. S. DRAPER,

President.

On the motion of Mr. Smith the recommendations of the President were adopted and appointments and appropriations were made as proposed. Mr. Smith reported that Judge Wright had granted the Urbana s Street Railway Company permission to stretch temporarily a feed wire along the line of the old track from Wright street east through the University grounds.