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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

[April 21

JAMES W. JOHNSON, vice president, Commonwealth Edison Company, Chicago KEITH W. MCHENRY, vice president, Research and Development, Amoco Research Center, Amoco Oil Company, Naperville R. F. NOOTBAAR, senior vice president, Eastern Region, Union 76 Division, Union Oil Company of California, Schaumburg R. W. PATTERSON, senior partner, Sargent & Lundy, Chicago R. C. PENNY, president and chief executive officer, The Penny Group, Oak Brook GARY PETERSEN, president, Weltek, International, South Bend, Indiana IVER J. PETERSEN, vice president, Central Region, General Electric Company, Chicago ROBERT H. PRY, executive vice president, Research and Development, Gould, Incorporated, Rolling Meadows NORMAN A. ROBINS, vice president of research, Inland Steel Company, East Chicago, Indiana JACK RUTHERFORD, president, International Components Group, International Harvester Company, Chicago E. W. STRANGE, JR., vice president, Manufacturing and Engineering, Teletype Corporation, Skokie WILLIAM H. WELTYK, vice president, Engineering and Development, Borg-Warner Corporation, Chicago I concur in this recommendation.

On motion of Dr. Donoghue, these appointments were approved.

Director, School of Social Sciences, Urbana

(6) The chancellor at Urbana-Champaign, with the advice of the dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, has recommended the appointment of Dr. Arthur Getis, presently professor of geography, head of the department, and acting director of the School of Social Sciences, as director of the School of Social Sciences beginning August 21, 1983, on an academic year service basis at an annual salary of $53,500. Dr. Getis will continue to hold the rank of professor on indefinite tenure. He succeeds Dr. Robert B. Crawford who resigned this administrative assignment to become acting director of International Programs and Studies. The nomination is made on the recommendation of a search committee 1 and with the endorsement of the Executive Committee of the college. The vice president for academic affairs concurs. I recommend approval. O n m o t i o n of D r . D o n o g h u e , this a p p o i n t m e n t w a s approved.

Head, Department of Advertising, Urbana

(7) The chancellor at Urbana-Champaign, after consultation with the dean of the College of Communications, has recommended the appointment of Dr. Kim B. Rotzoll, presently professor of advertising and associate dean of the College of Communications, as head of the Department of Advertising beginning August 21, 1983, on a twelve-month service basis at an annual salary of $45,000. Dr. Rotzoll will continue to hold the rank of professor on indefinite tenure. He will succeed Dr. Arnold M. Barban who asked to be relieved of this administrative assignment.

1 Howard S. Maclay, research professor in the Institute of Communications Research, professor of education and linKUistics, departmental affiliate in anthropology, and director of the Institute of Communications Research, chairman; James R. Kluege], associate professor of sociology: Edward A. Kolodziej, professor of political science and research professor in the School of Social Sciences; Colin £ . Thorn, associate professor of geography; Norman £. Whitten, Jr., professor of anthropology.