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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1994
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80 BOARD OF TRUSTEES guished Service Medallion was created in 1973 to recognize individuals whose contribution to the growth and development of the University of Illinois, through extraordinary service or benefaction, has been of unusual significance. Mr. Boyle introduced the committee members: Dr. Gloria Jackson Bacon, Mr. Kenneth R. Boyle, ex officio, Mrs. Susan L. Gravenhorst, Mr. Thomas R. Lamont, and Ms. Judith R. Reese, chair. Mr. Boyle asked Ms. Reese for a report from the committee. On behalf of the committee, Ms. Reese recommended the following: Award of the Board of Trustees' Distinguished Service Medallion, 1994 The Trustees' Distinguished Service Medallion Committee recommends as the recipient of the Medallion for 1994 the following individual: Judith Life Ikenberry, First Lady of the University of Illinois. In addition to her full-time role as president's wife, Mrs. Ikenberry travels extensively and works constantly with students, alumni, and friends of the University. She often speaks on volunteerism in today's society. She has contributed to a book on the work of a university president's wife entitled "Volunteer or Volunteered." She has consistently opened her home, the President's House, to more than 10,000 guests per year for the past fifteen years. Mrs. Ikenberry serves as a director of Busey Bank, Urbana, and as a member of: the Illinois Council of the Arts, the Women's Board of the Field Museum of Chicago, Voices for Illinois Children Board, Champaign-Urbana Community Schools Foundation for Educational Excellence, and as Chair of the Executive Board, Partners Council of the Association of American Universities. She was the recipient of the Prairielands Council of the Boy Scouts of America Award for Honorary Distinguished Citizen of the Year in 1988. On motion of all trustees present, as indicated at the beginning of these minutes, this recommendation was approved. The committee meeting adjourned at 11:25 a.m. There being no further business, the board adjourned. MICHELE M. THOMPSON KENNETH R. BOYLE Secretary Chair
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