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BOARD OF T R U S T E E S

[March 19

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

(4) On recommendation of the chancellor at the Urbana-Champaign campus, I submit herewith nominations for appointment and reappointment to the board of directors of the Athletic Association of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign/ to become effective at the 1981 annual meeting of the board of directors and to continue until its 1982 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 New Appointments Faculty PHILIP E. FESS, professor of accountancy and Arthur Andersen Alumni Professor of Accountancy. Professor Fess has been a member of the faculty for twenty-one years. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois College of Commerce and Business Administration in 1960. He has been a member of the Alumni Association board and treasurer of the association for fifteen years. He was associate dean of the College of Commerce and Business Administration 1978-1980 and is the only nonpracticing member of the Auditing Standards Board of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. Professor Fess is the author of a major textbook in accountancy and author of numerous other professional books and journal articles. He will serve on the board in place of Professor James W. Bayne. JOHN E. NOWAK, professor of law. Professor Nowak has been a member of the faculty for nine years. He is a 1971 graduate of the University of Illinois College of Law and was editor of the Law Forum. He was a clerk for former Illinois Supreme Court Justice Walter V. Schaefer, is coauthor of a leading textbook on constitutional law, and author of numerous law review articles. Professor Nowak is chairman of the Association of American Law Schools' Section on Constitutional Law. He will serve on the board in place of Professor John P. Hummel.

Reappointments RICHARD K. BARKSDALE, professor of English and associate dean of the Graduate College. Professor Barksdale has been a member of the faculty for nine years. (He has served on the board since 1979.) WILLIAM A. FERGUSON, associate professor of mathematics, executive secretary of the Department of Mathematics, and faculty representative to the Big Ten. Professor Ferguson has been a member of the faculty for twenty years. (He has served on the board since 1976.) CHARLES H . HENDERSON, professor of social work. Professor Henderson has been a member of the faculty for twelve years. (He has served on the board since 1978.) MARIA KEEN, assistant professor of English as a Second Language. Professor Keen has been a member of the faculty for thirty-three years. (She has served on the board since 1979.) EMILY S. WATTS, professor of English. Professor Watts has been a member of the faculty for seventeen years. (She has served on the board since 1977.)

From the Alumni New Appointments Association RUTH R. JOHNSON, class of 1942, homemaker and former school teacher, Arlington

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 graduates of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign who are members of the Alumni Association. These directors are elected by the Board of Trustees of the University upon recommendation oi the chancellor at Urbana-Champaign and the president of the University. Appointments are for one year.