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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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Chicago, Illinois August 17, 1935 Honorable Henry Horner, Governor of Illinois, Springfield, Illinois

MY DEAR GOVERNOR HORNER:

On July 12, 1935, Acting Secretary of Agriculture, M. L. Wilson, wrote you concerning a recently enacted law of Congress making available to the Land Grant Colleges a certain gross sum for extension work; you responded, with the action requested, on July IS, 1935The amount to which the University will be entitled under this Act will be paid into the State Treasury, but cannot be paid out without legislative authorization in the form of an appropriation. At a meeting of the Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees today, I was authorized to ask you to include in the forthcoming call for a special session, among the purposes specified, the following in substance: To enact laws and make appropriations in order to enable the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois to share in the benefits to Land Grant Colleges under an Act to provide for research into basic laws and principles relating to agriculture and to provide for the further development of cooperative agricultural extension work and the more complete endowment and support of land grant colleges, which received the approval of the President on June 29, 1935. If this item be not appropriated to the University, it will not be available during this biennium. Respectfully yours,

WALTER W. WILLIAMS

President of the Board and Chairman of the Executive Committee

FEDERAL F U N D S FOR CONSTRUCTION OF MEDICAL A N D DENTAL COLLEGE LABORATORIES B U I L D I N G

President Williams had presented a letter from the University Counsel concerning the legal status of the University's application for funds from the Public Works Administration. On motion of Mr. Barrett, Judge Johnson was authorized to go to Washington to present the University case for Federal Funds.

LIBRARY STACK ADDITION

On motion of Mr. Barrett, President Williams was authorized to request the Governor to include in his call for the next special session of the General Assembly, the consideration of an appropriation for the addition to the Library. The Executive Committee adjourned.

C. S. HAVENS, Acting Clerk WALTER W. WILLIAMS, Chairman EDWARD E. BARRETT KARL A. MEYER

TRIBUTE TO MRS. A N N A W I L M A R T H ICKES

Mr. Barr presented the following tribute to Mrs, Ickes.

TRIBUTE OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES TO MRS. ANNA WILMARTH ICKES

The members of the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois record with profound sorrow and a sense of great loss the death on August 31, 1935, of their former honored and beloved colleague, Mrs. Anna Wilmarth Ickes. From 1924 to 1929 she served as a member of the Board of Trustees of the University. Her faithful and efficient work was an inspiring example of unselfish devotion to public service. The Board of Trustees felt keenly the loss of her counsel and services when she resigned from the Board to become a member of the General Assembly of Illinois in 1930. They now feel even more keenly the loss which not only they but the community in which she lived and the State which she served have suffered in her passing.