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BOARD O F T R U S T E E S

[November

29

MATTERS PRESENTED BY PRESIDENT WILLARD

The Board considered the following matters presented by the President of the University.

HEAD OF THE DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH

(1) The fourteen members of the Department of English of professorial rank have requested a change in the organization of that department from the present organization with a chairman to a department organized with a head. T h e Dean of the College of Liberal A r t s and Sciences recommends and I concur in this change. T h e University Statutes provide for such changes. I further recommend that the status of Professor H . N. Hillebrand be changed from Chairman of the Department of English to Professor and H e a d of the Department of English on indefinite tenure, effective today. O n m o t i o n of M r . M o s c h e l , t h e s e r e c o m m e n d a t i o n s w e r e a d o p t e d . RETIREMENT OF PROFESSOR JAMES W . GARNER (2) Professor James W . Garner, H e a d of the Department of Political Science, has asked that he be retired from active service September 1, 1939, although he will not reach the retiring age of 68 until November 22, 1939. His request is prompted by a feeling that since he will reach the retiring age so soon after the beginning of a new University year the spirit, if not the letter, of the University Statutes would require him to retire at the end of the preceding year on the ground that if the rules providing for the retirement of professors at 68 is sound it would be inconsistent with the object of such rules for him to continue for almost another year after reaching the retiring age. Few men have given such distinction to an institution, and inspiration to students and faculty colleagues, as has Professor Garner to the University of Illinois during his thirty-five consecutive years of service. It is such men who make a university great. It is characteristic of his innate modesty and typical of his solicitude for students that he should request retirement when, under the statutes, he could remain in active service on full salary for another year. I asked him to reconsider his request, which he did, but he feels that the interests of the institution and his own health will best be served by retiring next year. It is with the deepest appreciation of Professor Garner's many years of distinguished service and of his public-spirited attitude tha.t I recommend he be retired effective September 1, 1939, with the rank of Professor of Political Science, Emeritus, at a retiring allowance of $3,000 a year. O n m o t i o n of M r s . P l u m b , t h i s r e q u e s t w a s g r a n t e d a s r e c o m mended. ADVISORY COMMITTEES OF THE COLLEGE OF COMMERCE (3) A recommendation that the following advisory committees of the College of Commerce and Business Administration be appointed for the period ending July 1, 1940: Accountancy Robert O. Berger Price Waterhouse and Company 33 N o r t h LaSalle Street, Chicago William M. Edens, Second Vice President Continental Illinois National Bank & Trust Company 231 South LaSalle Street, Chicago Paul Grady A r t h u r Andersen & Co. 13S South LaSalle Street, Chicago Otto Gressens, Comptroller T h e Commonwealth Edison Company 72 West Adams Street, Chicago