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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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Appropriation by the Athletic Association

(2) T h e Board of Directors of the Athletic Association of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign on March 2, 1979, approved a special appropriation of $49,000 from unappropriated surplus for the purchase of twenty electric golf carts and a storage building for the carts. Construction of an aluminum storage building will cost $15,000 and the carts will cost $34,000. The carts are needed to accommodate increased demand at the Savoy golf course and will provide additional revenue. T h e chancellor at the Urbana-Champaign campus has recommended that the appropriation be confirmed. I concur. O n m o t i o n of M r . L e n z , this a c t i o n w a s c o n f i r m e d .

Appointments and Reappointments to the Board of Directors of the Athletic Association of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

(3) O n recommendation of the chancellor at Urbana, I submit herewith nominations for appointment to the Board of Directors of the Athletic Association of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1 to become effective at the 1979 annual meeting of the Board of Directors and to continue until the 1980 annual meeting or until the successors of these directors have been appointed. Two new appointments from the faculty and two new appointments from the Alumni Association are being recommended. All others are recommended for reappointment. From the Faculty New Appointments RICHARD K. BARKSDALE, professor of English and associate dean of the Graduate College. His appointment to the board will fill the vacancy created by the expiration of the term of Elisabeth R. Lyman. (Professor Barksdale has been a member of the faculty for seven years.) MARIA KEEN, assistant professor of English as a second language. H e r appointment to the board will fill the vacancy created by the expiration of the term of T . Emerson Cammack. (Professor Keen has been a member of the faculty for thirty-one years.) Reappointments JAMES W. BAYNE, professor and associate head of the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering. (He has served on the board since 1977.) WILLIAM A. FERGUSON, associate professor of mathematics, executive secretary of the department, and faculty representative to the Big Ten. (He has served on the board since 1976.) CHARLES H. HENDERSON, associate professor of social wort. (He has served on the board since 1978.) JOHN P. HUMMEL, professor of physics and of chemistry and associate head of the Department of Chemistry. (He has served on the board since 1976.) EMILY S. WATTS, professor of English and director of graduate studies in English. (She has served on the board since 1977.)

1 The government of the Athletic Association, as established in its articles of incorporation, is vested in a board of thirteen directors, seven of whom must be from the faculty and six from the membership of the Alumni Association of the University, elected by the Board of Trustees of the University upon recommendation of the president of the University. Appointments are for one year.