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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEETING, MAY 14, 1938 The Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois met at the University, in Urbana, at 9 o'clock a.m. on Saturday, May 14, 1938. Mr. Oscar G. Mayer, Chairman, and Mr. Orville M. Karraker, member of the Committee, were present; also President Willard, Mr. A. J. Janata, Assistant to the President, and Judge Sveinbjorn Johnson, University Counsel.

REVOCATION O F C . P . A. CERTIFICATE O F P A Y S O F F T I N K O F F

Mr. Paysoff Tinkoff, respondent, having been introduced, Mr. Mayer announced that the meeting was open to the hearing of any testimony on behalf of the respondent, in the following statement:

The hearing will now proceed. It is now open to the respondent, Mr. Tinkoff, to offer whatever testimony he may have in answer to the charges filed. I suggest to all counsel that they confine themselves to the presentation of pertinent testimony in view of the charges made. Counsel are advised that objections to questions should be made without argument, that the chair will rule on the objections, either sustaining or overruling them, whereupon, however, no arguments will be entertained, on either side. After both sides have presented such testimony as they may have, or made offers of proof in case objections to testimony are sustained, and when both sides have rested, the Executive Committee will consider a request for the filing of a brief, thereby enabling all parties in interest to present whatever arguments or reasons they may have either for or against the revocation of the certificate of Mr. Tinkoff, against whom charges have been filed, or on any other relevant matters. The chair wants to make it clear to all parties and their counsel that it is the desire of the Committee that the hearing proceed without any unreasonable delay, that dilatory tactics will not be tolerated from any source, and that while the fullest opportunity will be accorded all parties to present testimony bearing on the charges, no procedure calculated to delay unjustifiably the progress of the hearing will be permitted.

Miss Louise Lietz acted as reporter. A copy of her stenographic report of the proceedings is filed with the Secretary of the Board. The following witnesses who were called by the respondent, testified under oath administered by the Secretary of the Board, who is a Notary Public: Judge Sveinbjorn Johnson, Professor William E. Britton, Mr. Paysoff Tinkoff. At the conclusion of the hearing, at 1:25 p.m., the respondent was allowed forty days to file his brief, with ten days for each side to file the replies.

MATTERS P R E S E N T E D BY P R E S I D E N T WILLARD

The Executive Committee considered the following matters presented by the President of the University.

INSTALLATION O F AIR-CONDITIONING SYSTEM IN LINCOLN HALL T H E A T R E (1) The budget for the current year (1937-1938) includes an item of $20,000 for the installation of an air-conditioning system in the Lincoln Hall Theatre. The Physical Plant Department submits the following schedule of bids received, and an analysis of the cost of this installation plus certain additional expenses incidental thereto.