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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

[December 13

INTRODUCTION OF TRUSTEES-ELECT

President Howard announced that the trustees-elect, Dr. Edmund R. Donoghue of Wilmette and Mr. Paul Stone of Sullivan, had been invited to attend the meeting as observers and were present. He introduced each of them to the board and to the audience and welcomed them to the beginning of their service as trustees, the terms to begin officially at the January 1979 meeting.

RECOGNITION OF RETIRING TRUSTEES

P r e s i d e n t H o w a r d t h e n c a l l e d u p o n M r . H a h n t o p r e s e n t t h e following r e s o l u t i o n in b e h a l f of M r . P a r k L i v i n g s t o n : The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois hereby recognizes your twentyfour years of service as a member of this board and gratefully expresses its appreciation for your dedicated and vigorous service. The trustees have previously noted the extraordinary service you rendered to the University during your first eighteen years of service as a trustee and as president for ten years: your leadership during the critical expansion period following World War I I ; your special contribution to the establishment of the College of Veterinary Medicine, the University's Willard Airport and Institute of Aviation, and the Chicago and Galesburg undergraduate divisions; your service as a commissioner and president of the Medical Center Commission and as a director of the University of Illinois Foundation; and your long and close association with the University as student leader and staff member as well as trustee. Your most recent tenure on the board has afforded the University a unique opportunity to benefit from your experience and unflagging energy and enthusiasm. Your years of service as president of this board have been exceeded by only one other elected trustee. While you have served on every standing committee of the board, special recognition is due your sixteen years of service on the Executive Committee, nine years of service as member and chairman of the Finance Committee, and your eight years of service as member, two as chairman, of the Buildings and Grounds Committee. Your leadership and achievements in civic and charitable activities as well as in the corporate world are far too numerous to recount here. T o those endeavors, and to the University as well, you have brought a zest for living and for effectively working with others, as well as the wisdom of experience. T h e president and other administrative officers of the University wish to join with the Board of Trustees in this tribute to you and in extending best wishes to you and Mrs. Livingston. T h e Board of Trustees directs that this resolution be incorporated in the minutes of today's meeting to become a part of the official public record, and that a suitable copy be given you as a permanent reminder of the esteem and affection in which you are held.

Mr. Howard then presented the following resolution with regard to Mrs. Jane Hayes Rader:

The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois hereby records with deep appreciation your six years of service as a member of this board. While you have served on nearly every standing committee of the board during your tenure, you have given special leadership to the Alumni Committee, of which you have been chairman for each year of your term, and to the Trustees' Distinguished Service Medallion Award Committee, on which you served for five