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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1918
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616 BOARD OF TRUSTEES [November 9, Faculty, certain students elected by the students, and certain alumni elected by the alumni. All the funds taken in by the Association are administered by the Association and are under the direction of the University. All the profits of the Athletic Association go to the University. There are no stock holders in it to receive dividends, and no profits from this Association have ever been given to any individual. Trusting that this will answer your question satisfactorily, I am Faithfully yours, EDMUND J. JAMES This report was received for record. LEAVE OF ABSENCE FOR DIRECTOR P. L. WINDSOR (20) A request from Mr. Phineas L. Windsor, Librarian, for leave of absence for one or two months to assist in the organization of camp libraries now being provided for cantonments and posts of the American Army in this country and in Europe. November 9, 1917 DEAR PRESIDENT JAMES : The American Library Association has raised over one million dollars for libraries for our soldiers and sailors and in organizing this work in the thirty-two larger cantonments and posts, they are calling upon a number of the experienced men librarians for volunteer organizing service. The men to be employed permanently in these camp libraries will probably receive seventy-five to one hundred dollars a month pay. A few days ago I wrote to Mr. Putnam, of the Library of Congress, who has general charge of all of this work, telling him of two of the young men members of the University Library staff who have special qualifications for library work in France. This morning I received a reply, which among other things, suggests that I volunteer my own services as a volunteer organizer to serve without pay for one or two months in one of the camp libraries. They would be able to give me subsistence and traveling expenses. It is financially impossible for me to accept any work which means the loss of my salary, and I am writing to ask you whether the University would be willing to loan my services for one, or at most, two months for this work of organizing camp libraries. I do not know how soon I should be needed, nor where I should have to go, but I should naturally like to be in a position to answer such a call if you and the Board are willing and can give me the necessary leave with pay. I enclose the correspondence which I have had with Mr. Putnam and Mr. Dudgeon bearing on this matter; Mr. Dudgeon would like an immediate reply from me, and if the proposal meets with your own approval, I hope that you will present it to the Board this afternoon. Yours very truly, P. L. WINDSOR Librarian
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