Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1906 [PAGE 142]

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UNIVEESITY OF ILLINOIS.

[June 27

That Mr. E. S. Good be reappointed Instructor in Animal Husbandry at $500 and Assistant in Animal Husbandry at $900, an increase of $200.

DAIRY HUSBANDRY—

That Mr. Carl Emil Lee be appointed Instructor in Dairy Manufactures at $800, to replace Professor Hart, resigned to go to South America, and that he be reappointed First Assistant in Dairy Manufactures in the station at a salary of $600. This is a new position on the college side and a reduction of work and salary on the station side; total increase $200. Mr. Lee has been temporarily filling this vacancy and is doing it acceptably. That Mr. C. C. Hayden be reappointed Instructor in Dairy Husbandry at $400 and Assistant in Dairy Husbandry in the station at $800, an increase of $100. That Mr. H. E. Hopper be reappointed Instructor in Dairy Husbandry at $400 and Assistant in Dairy Husbandry in the station at $800, an increase of $200.

HORTICULTURE—

That the salary of Assistant Professor J. W. Lloyd in the college ($1,200) be unchanged, but that as Assistant Chief in Olericulture in the station it be increased from $400 to $600; total $1,800. That the salary of Professor C. S. Crandall in the college ($600) remain unchanged, but that as Assistant Chief in Pomology in the station it be increased from $900 to $1,200; total $1,800. These two last are extremely strong men. That Mr. A. C. Beal be reappointed Instructor in Floriculture and that his salary be advanced from $1,200 to $1,400. That Mr. James R. Shinn be appointed Field Assistant in Pomology in the station at $1,000, to begin July 1. Mr. Shinn is a graduate of this University and has been employed in a temporary way for three years, and last year gave his whole time to field work, successfully discharging responsible duties. That Mr. A. Phelps Wyman be elected Assistant Profesor of Landscape Gardening at $1,000 to be paid in ten installments, commencing Sept. 1, 1905, with the understanding that he render service to the University for two and one-half days each week and that he defray his own traveling expenses. It will be remembered that a position in Landscape Gardening was created last September at $1,200. It has not proved possible to find an acceptable man to give his whole time at that salary. Mr. Wyman is practicing his profession in Chicago, and has been conducting our class most acceptably the present semester, giving the latter part of the week to this work. It is believed that part time of a strong and well trained man in actual practice is far better for us than the full time of any man who could be had for $1,200, In his letter to me recommending Mr. Wyman, Professor Blair says of him: "I have already called your attention to the fact that Mr. Wyman is undoubtedly one of the best landscape gardeners in the country. His interest in landscape gardening work was first aroused when taking Professor Bailey's lectures on the subject at Cornell in 1894. Although he was graduated from the College of Agriculture in that institution, he made an earnest effort to secure instruction in other colleges also, in all subjects allied to landscape gardening. Upon leaving Cornell in 1897, he began working with Mr. O. C. Simonds of Chicago, a landscape gardener of high rank; probably no one in the profession having a greater sympathy for natural things. After spending a year with Mr. Simonds, Mr. Wyman went to the nurseries of Ellwanger & Barry, Rochester, N. Y., for the purpose of gaining more accurate knowledge of planting and materials used in the art of gardening. The following year he pursued similar work in the Arnold Arboretum, where he became associated with Professors Sargent and Hack. One winter was