Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1904 [PAGE 320]

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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS.

[June 6,

"That Mr. Harry Houser Love be appointed Assistant in Chemistry, to take the place of Mr. C. A. Schroeder, resigned, at a salary of $600, to be paid from the corn fund of the station. Mr. Love comes from Wesleyan University, and is a young man of apparently exceptional character and his training in chemistry for our purposes has certainly been excellent. "That Mr. Andrew Ystgard be appointed Assistant in Chemistry at a salary of $720, to be paid from the soil fund of the station. This appointment will be for the purpose of making good the lack in our chemical force in consequence of Mr. Smith's absence. Mr. Ystgard is a new man recommended to us by the University of Wisconsin. Though he has had most of his training in Norway, he is evidently an excellent chemist, writes both German and English, and seems to be well qualified for this work. "That Mr. Jerome Edward Readheimer be appointed Superintendent of Soil Experiment Fields at a salary of $1,000, to be paid from the soil fund. Mr. Readhimer ought not to be considered as a fresh young graduate. He has been doing this work for three years during his course, which for this reason has been very much prolonged. He is thoroughly acquainted with the work, is a mature man, and fully worth the salary named. "That Mr. Louis Dixon Hall be made Instructor in Animal Husbandry in the College and First Assistant in Animal Husbandry in the station, at a salary of $1,400, of which $900 should be paid from the college and $500 from the live stock fund of the station. Mr. Hall has been with us for the past year on temporary engagement. He has done his work well and is better qualified for these duties than any man we can discover. "That Mr. William Dietrich already Instructor in Swine Husbandry in the college, be advanced to the corresponding title of First Assistant in Swine Husbandry in the station, and that his salary be increased from $1,000 to $1,200, of which $300 should come from the college fund and $900 from the live stock fund of the station. "That Mr. Rufus Chancey Obrecht, Instructor in Horses, be advanced to the corresponding title of First Assistant in Horses in the station, and that his salary be increased from $1,000 to $1,200, of which $900 should come from the college fund, and $300 from the live stock fund of the station. "That Mr. Edwin Station Good, Assistant in Animal Husbandry, be made Instructor in Animal Husbandry in the college, and that his salary be increased from $1,000 to $1,200, of which $300 should come from the college fund and $900 from the live stock fund of the station. "That Assistant Professor Wilber John Fraser be advanced to the title of full professor in Dairy Husbandry and that his salary be increased from $1,800 to $2,400, of which $800 should be paid from the college fund and $1,600 from the dairy fund of the station. I have previously expressed my feelings as to the inconsistency regarding Professor Fraser's case. He is the head of a department difficult to administer, drawing a salary $200 lower than two other men within the department serving under him. All my other recommendations relate to minor employees below the title of Assistant Professor, but this is a matter of simple justice to the head of an important department. ' T h a t Mr. Joseph William Hart be advanced from Instructor of Dairy Manufactures to Assistant Professor in Dairy Manufactures in the college, with the corresponding title of Assistant Chief in Dairy Manufactures in the station, without change of salary. Mr. Hart is a mature man of broad experience and he has succeeded admirably here during the last year, not only meeting but exceeding our expectations. He is well worth the title of Assistant Professor. "That Mr. Arthur James Glover be reappointed without change of title or salary. "That Mr. Cassius Clay Hayden be reappointed without change of title, and that his salary be increased from $900 to $1,100, of which $400 should be paid from the college fund and $700 from the dairy fund of the station. "That Mr. Herbert Andrew Hopper be reappointed without change of title, and that his salary be increased from $800 to $1,000, of which $300 should be paid from the college fund and $700 from the dairy fund of the station. "That Mr. Carl Emil Lee be reappointed without change of title, and that his salary -be increased from $1,000 to $1,200, to be paid from the dairy fund of the station. "That the salary of Mr. Alvin Casey Beal, Instructor in Floriculture, be increased from $1,020 to $1,200, to be paid from the college fund. "That $300 of Professor Charles Frederick Hotte's salary be paid from the Experiment Station (Professor Hottes being Chief in Vegetable Physiology) instead of $500 a s before. The change is recommended because of his inability to render as much serservice to the station as was expected, owing to press of instructional work. "That the salary of Mr. James Theophilus Barrett be increased from $720 to $840, to be paid from tne station funds. "That Mrs. Gertrude Clark Sober be reappointed Instructor in Household Science, without change of title or salary. "That Miss Susannah Usher be appointed Instructor in Household Science at a salary of $1,000, to be paid in ten installments. Miss Bevier says of her: "That Miss Usher is a native of LaCrosse, Wisconsin. She holds a certificate from Teachers' College, is a graduate of the teachers' course of Pratt Institute. She spent five years in Massachusetts Institute of Technology, specialized in biology and graduated from that institution in 1898. Since that time she has taught in the Boston