Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1960 [PAGE 1222]

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Department of Classics REVILO P. OLIVER, Professor of Classics, academic year, one-half pay; for preparation for publication of De seriis et iocis, and to complete a part of the Yale Edition of works of Sir Thomas M o r e ; work to be done in Italy. Division of General Studies OTTO E. KUGLER, Professor of Biological Sciences, second semester, full pay; for completion of research on the reproductive organs of the slug, and for study and observation of teaching programs at other institutions in the United States. Department of English A. L Y N N ALTENBERND, Assistant Professor of English, first semester, full pay; to study the impact of European travel on social and political thought of Adams, Howells, Twain, and James. ROBERT L. HAIG, Assistant Professor of English, academic year, one-half pay; for research to prepare a study of John Dunton and of social, religious, scientific, and literary trends in the eighteenth century, in the United States and Europe. ALLAN G. HOLADAY, Professor of English, second semester, full pay; for a biographical-critical study of the poet, Giles Fletcher, in the United States and England. J. N. HOOK, Professor of English and Counselor on the Council on Teacher Education, second semester, full pay; to study the teaching of English in the British Isles, including the work of the International Association of the Teachers of English, in England. CORNELIA P . KELLEY, Assistant Professor of English, second semester, full pay; to study the connection between novels of Henry James and their settings, in Europe. BURTON A. MILLIGAN, Professor of English, first semester, full pay; for study and research on the life and work of John Heywood and others in the Tudor period, and for completion of edition, Heywood's Spider and the Fly; work to be done in the United States. GARDINER B. STILL WELL, Assistant Professor of English, first semester, full pay; to study Chaucer's works in relation to sources and background materials; work to be done in the United States. Department of French CHARLES A. KNUDSON, Professor of French and Head of the Department, second semester, full pay; for research in medieval literature, in Europe. Department of Geography CHARLES S. ALEXANDER, Assistant Professor of Geography, first semester, without pay, and second semester, full pay; first semester leave contingent upon receipt of supplementary financial support through a fellowship or grantin-aid ; to study the physical and cultural geography of northern coastal zone of Tanganyika, British East Africa. HOWARD G. ROEPKE, Associate Professor of Geography, first semester, full pay; to study the movements of the British iron and steel industry — changes since World W a r I I (contingent upon receipt of outside grants) or changes in the agriculture of the Delmarva Peninsula. Department of Geology GEORGE W . W H I T E , Professor of Geology and Head of the Department, first semester, full pay, and second semester, without pay; for completion of a monograph on glacial geology of the Western Allegheny P l a t e a u ; work to be done in Ohio. Department of German FRANK G. BANTA, Associate Professor of German and Chairman of the Department, first semester, full pay; to study manuscripts of Berthold von Regensburg, in Germany and in Austria.