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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

[March 13,

T h e facts in this matter are as follows: Mr. DeLany was appointed by the Board of Trustees on March 9, 1915, to fill the unexpired term ending June 30, 1916, of Mr. Peter White, deceased, and was reappointed on March 14, 1916, for a term of three years, beginning July 1, 1916. The term of Mr. DeLany's service to date has thus covered the C. P. A. examinations of May, 19.15, May, 1916, and December, 1916 (only one examination was held in 1915). During the same period there has been referred to the Board of Examiners one application for a certificate under the waiver clause—that of Mr. John Franklin Forbes, of San Francisco. The 1915 examination was held on May 25-27. Mr. DeLany prepared his share of the questions in good season, and supervised in person his share of the examinations; but we did not get our returns from this examination until September 16. The Secretary of the University Committee on Accountancy (Mr. McConn) wrote to Mr. DeLany on June 28, 1915, and again on July 23 and August 11, asking in regard to the grades. No reply was received to any of these letters. F r o m a letter from Mr. Hall, the Chairman of the Board of Examiners, dated August 26, 19-15, it appears that he wrote to Mr. DeLany in regard to the same matter on June 12, July 23, and1 August 26; he had received no replies to the first two letters. Tt appears that Mr. Hall had also telephoned Mr. DeLany's office on several occasions, but had been "unable to get any satisfaction." Early in September the Chairman of the University Committee, Mr. Kinley, took the matter up with Mr. DeLany, who then attacked the papers and got the grades to us on September 16, as noted above. Mr. DeLany's explanation of his delay in this case was that he had been ill. For the examination of May, 1916, we did not receive any papers from Mr. DeLany.. Mr. McConn wrote him on April 17, 1916, asking for copy for the examination questions, "due May 6, 1916, at the latest/' On April 26 Mr. DeLany wrote that the questions would be sent "during the course of the next week," but this was the last we heard from him. On May 9, by which time it was necessary for us to have the manuscript for the printer immediately, Mr. McConn telephoned Mr. DeLany's office, and being unable to get him telephoned Mr. Hall, with whom it was arranged that he should prepare the two papers which had been assigned to Mr. DeLany, as well as his own part of the examination. Mr. Hall did this and graded all the resulting papers. In other words, Mr. DeLany took no part in the conduct of the examination of May, 1916. The last examination was held on December 5-7, 1916. Under date of February 10 Mr. McConn received a letter from Mr. Hall in which the latter stated that he had completed the marking of his own share of the papers before the end of December, and had written Mr. DeLany twice with reference to a conference on the returns without receiving any reply. Meanwhile the application of Mr. John Franklin Forbes, of San F r a n cisco, for a certificate under the waiver clause, had been pending over a year and a half. The papers in this case were sent to Mr. DeLany by Mr. McConn under date of May 12, 1915. On May 17 Mr. DeLan}' acknowledged