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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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Heights, Illinois. Mrs. Johnson serves as vice chairman of the Alumni Association board and is expected to become chairman of the board on May 16, 1981. She will be the second woman elected to lead the association. She has taught school, in Serena and Pekin, Illinois. She will serve on the board in place of Mr. Robert

D. Heath.

RUSSELL W. STEGER, class of 1950, general agent for New England Mutual Life, Chicago, Illinois. Mr. Steger is a former trustee of the University of Illinois and a member of the University of Illinois Foundation and the President's Council. H e has served on the Illinois Youth Commission by appointment of Governor Stratton and much of his civic activity has been in youth work. In 1978 he received the Distinguished American Award from the Chicago chapter of the National Football Foundation and Hall of Fame. Mr. Steger lettered four years in both football and baseball at Illinois and was an Ail-American in both. He won the Big Ten medal for scholarship and athletic achievement. Mr. Steger was a member of the committee for the Memorial Stadium Golden Anniversary Fund Campaign. He will serve on the board in place of Mr. Clark Root. Reappointments WILLIAM T. CAMERON, class of 1929, former vice-president of Northern Trust Company, Chicago, Illinois. Mr. Cameron has served on Republican trustee selection committees, is a member of board of grand trustees of Sigma Chi Fraternity, and on the board of the College of Commerce and Business Administration Alumni Association. (He has served on the board since 1978.) JOSEPHINE T. MANCUSO, Ph.D., 1972, chairman of the Department of Health and Physical Education at Lyons Township High School. She has taught in high schools in Illinois, Colorado, and Iowa and is active in physical education and girls' athletic organizations on the state, regional, and national levels. (She has served on the board since 1978.) ROGER POGUE, Class of 1941, owner of Mavis-Pogue Lumber Company, Decatur, Illinois. Mr. Pogue is a former president of the Alumni Association and a former trustee of the University of Illinois. He has served on the Alumni Association's board of directors and executive committee. He was chairman of the Alumni Association's awards committee for nine years and is a member of the University of Illinois Foundation's President's Council. (He has served on the board since 1979.) WILLARD THOMSON, class of 1956, president of Dixline Corporation, a casket hardware manufacturing business in Galva. He is active in the Grants-in-Aid program and has been one of the primary organizers of golf outings in Kewanee for many years. He is a member of the University of Illinois Foundation's President's Council. (He has served on the board since 1979.)

O n motion of Dr. Donoghue, these appointments were approved. (Mr. Peterson asked to be recorded as casting a negative advisory vote.) Head, Department of Architecture, Urbana

(5) T h e dean of the College of Fine and Applied Arts has recommended to the chancellor at Urbana-Champaign the appointment of R. Alan Forrester, presently professor and head of the Department of Architecture at the University of Manitoba, as professor of architecture on indefinite tenure and head of the department beginning August 21, 1981, on a twelve-month service basis, at an annual salary of $52,000. Mr. Forrester will succeed Professor Richard L. Tavis who has been acting head since August 21, 1980, when Professor Gar Day Ding asked to be relieved of this administrative assignment.