Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1918 [PAGE 554]

EXTRACTED TEXT FROM PAGE:

548

BOARD OF TRUSTEES

[October 20,

3. That appointments to these assistantships be made for a period of two consecutive collegiate years, except in special cases where the candidate is recommended by the Executive Staff of the Station for appointment for one year. 4. That the University continue to maintain fourteen Research Graduate Assistants who shall devote one-half of their time during the academic year to the work of the Engineering Experiment Station, and the other half to graduate study. 5. That the annual stipend for these Research Graduate Assistants be $500, payable in ten monthly installments beginning September 1 and ending June 30 for each year of the appointment, and freedom from tuition, incidental, and laboratory fees. 6. That appointment to these positions be made by the President of the University on the nomination of the Executive Staff of the Engineering Experiment Station through the Director. Respectfully submitted,

C. R. RICHARDS

On motion of Mr. Carr, the President of the University was authorized to change the title of the Research Fellows in the Engineering Experiment Station to Research Graduate Assistants in the Engineering Experiment Station, or to such other title as, after consultation with the staff of the Engineering Experiment Station and the Faculty of the Graduate School, may seem to him most appropriate.

MEMORIAL TABLET TO MRS. JAMES

The following statement: At the meeting of the Board held September 21, 1916, I offered with the consent of the Board of Trustees to erect a bronze tablet in memory of my deceased wife, Mrs. Margaret L. James, on the south wall of the lobby of the Auditorium, either to the right or to the left of the middle entrance to the hall. Authority to erect such a tablet was subsequently given by the Board at the meeting held on November 18, 1916. Professor White submitted a sketch for the memorial tablet and indicated the exact location in the Auditorium on the south wall of the north foyer on the panel immediately west of the main entrance. The members of the Board later visited the Auditorium to inspect the location. By unanimous consent the sketch and location of the memorial tablet were approved. Professor Lorado Taft agreed to supervise the designing of the tablet in his studio. The tablet was erected on Monday, September 17, 1917, under the supervision of Professor White. It was designed by Mrs. Kathleen Beverly Ingels in Mr. Taft's Studio. It was cast by the Florentine Brotherhood. As it was the understanding that the tablet should have the approval of Professor Taft and Professor White, I am submitting letters from them in regard to it. I am presenting this tablet to the University of Illinois for two reasons.

(16)