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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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the full text of this Resolution, and such further documents or proofs in connection with the acceptance of the Government's offer as may be requested by the Federal Emergency Administration of Public W o r k s . T h e above resolution was seconded by Mr. Karraker, and was adopted, with the following voting aye: Mr. Karraker, Dr. Meyer; and the following voting nay: none. T h e Chairman, pro tempore, thereupon declared said Resolution carried, and the Secretary of the Board and Clerk of the Executive Committee thereupon signed said Resolution in approval thereof. Certificate I, Harrison E. Cunningham, the duly elected, qualified and acting Secretary of the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois and Clerk of the Executive Committee, do hereby certify that the attached copy of the extracts of the minutes of a regular meeting of the Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois held on the fifteenth day of July, 1938, is a true, correct, and compared copy of the original minutes of said meeting on file and of record, and I do further certify that the copy of the resolution pertaining to the acceptance of the Government's Offer appearing in such minutes is a true, correct, and compared copy of such resolution adopted at said meeting, which resolution is on file and of record. I further certify that Section 2 of an Act of the General Assembly of Illinois to Reorganize the University of Illinois, Approved May 7, 1873 (Laws of Illinois, 1873, page 16) contains the following with reference to trie powers of the Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois: "Said board of trustees may appoint an executive committee of three, chosen out of their own number, who, when said board is not in session, shall have the management and control of the said University and of its affairs, and for that purpose shall have and exercise all the powers hereby conferred on said board which are necessary and proper for such object, except in so far as the said board may and does reserve such powers to itself, and any powers granted at any time, by said board to said executive committee, may be by them at any time revoked." I further certify that Oscar G. Mayer, O. M. Karraker, and Karl A. Meyer were the duly appointed, qualified, and acting members of the Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois when the aforesaid Resolution No. 1 was adopted. Witness my hand and the seal of the said University of Illinois this fifteenth day of July, 1938.

H. E. CUNNINGHAM

Secretary of the Board of Trustees and Clerk of the Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois

N A M E OF STUDENT CENTER BUILDING

(13) The special committee which has been advising the President of the University on the new Student Center Building has included in its studies a name for the building. After carefully considering man} - suggestions and possible titles, it has recommended that this building be officially named "The Illini Union Building." I concur in this recommendation.

On motion of Dr. Meyer, this name was adopted as recommended.

SITE OF STUDENT CENTER BUILDING (14) For over two years a special advisory committee, appointed by the President of the University, has been studying the functions of the new Student Center Building, the facilities to be provided therein, and the various interests