Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1918
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614 BOARD OF TRUSTEES [ November §, On motion of Mr. Garr, the President of the University was authorized to have prepared and put in place at the state fair of 1918 an exhibit of the history and work of the University. IRISH FELLOWSHIP FOUNDATION (15) A letter from John P. McGoorty, Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of Chicago, in regard to the salary of Father Andrew O'Kelleher. July 28, 1917 President Edmund James, University of Illinois MY DEAR PRESIDENT : I am authorized by the Irish Fellowship Foundation Committee to state to you that we will guarantee payment of $1200 for Father Andrew O'Kelleher's salary for the ensuing year. I will be pleased if you will write a brief letter addressed to Joseph A. O'Donnell, D. Ryan Twomey, and myself stating what has been accomplished by Father O'Kelleher and Dr. Schoepperle during the past year. I have written Dr. Schoepperle asking her to furnish you with any necessary information and suggest that this letter be written on a single sheet and sent in a mailing tube to Joseph A. O'Donnell, Metropolitan Block, Chicago. Believe me to be with kind regards, Sincerely yours, JOHN P. MCGOORTY I wrote to Justice McGoorty that Father O'Kelleher's salary had been fixed at $1,000 last year and that $200 had been allowed for travelling expenses and for incidental expenses connected with the department, and that I thought that Justice McGoorty would approve such an arrangement for this year, but I have not had word from him as yet. On motion of Mrs. Evans, the President of the University was given authority to appoint Father O'Kelleher to be Staff Fellow in Gaelic Studies for one year from November 18, 1917, at a salary of one thousand dollars. ANNUAL REGISTER (16) A recommendation from the Council of Administration that the Annual Register be printed in two volumes. On motion of Mr. Carr, it was voted that the form followed in printing and issuing the Annual Register of 1916-17 is satisfactory to the Board. ADVISORY BOARD, CERAMIC ENGINEERING (17) A recommendation from Dean C. R. Richards that Mr. Theodore G. Dickenson, President of the- Marquette Cement Manufacturing Company, Chicago, be appointed as a member of the Advisory Board of the Department of Ceramic Engineering for a term of three years, beginning September 1, 1917. On motion of Mr. Hoit, this recommendation was approved.
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