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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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R. N. SULLIVAN, Assistant Professor of Law. H . P . RUSK, Dean of the College of Agriculture, Director of the Agricultural Experiment Station and Extension Service, and Professor of Cattle Husbandry. Nominations by the Urbana Employee Council: G. J. OEHMKE, Senior Laboratory Mechanic in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. H . E. DODDS, Electrician in the Physical Plant Department. Nomination by the Chicago Employee Council: W. R. WILLIAMS, Storekeeper in the Chicago Business Office. T h e Board has already designated Mr. Lloyd Morey, Comptroller, as the Appointing Officer, who will also serve as Executive Secretary.

On motion of Mr. Livingston, this committee was appointed as recommended. On motion of Mr. Cleary, Professor R. N. Sullivan was appointed chairman of this committee.

PHYSICAL EDUCATION PROGRAM IN THE CHICAGO COLLEGES (19) The Executive Dean of the Chicago Colleges and the Director of the School of Physical Education recommend a wartime program of physical education for the Chicago Colleges designed to provide three hours of physical fitness training weekly for 400 to 450 students. T h e physical training facilities will not accommodate more than this number. It is proposed to start the program in January at the beginning of the second quarter of the current academic year. T h e proposal is therefore urgent but has been received too late for appropriate study of the questions of educational policy, budget, and other considerations involved, prior to this Board meeting. It appears that this program will involve an appropriation of $6,085 for the balance of the current year (January I to June 30, 1943), of which $2,885 is largely a nonrecurring item. In view of the time factor, I recommend that the Board authorize setting up this program, subject to final approval by the President of the University after all considerations have been reviewed, and that an appropriation of $6,085 be made from the General Reserve Fund for this purpose.

On motion of Mr. Cleary, this program was authorized as recommended; the appropriation was made by the following vote: Aye, Mr. Cleary, Mr. Fornof, Mr. Jensen, Mr. Karraker, Mr. Livingston, Dr. Meyer, Mr. Wieland; no, none; absent, Mr. Adams, Mr. Davis, Mr. Green, Mrs. Grigsby.

LEAVES O F A B S E N C E (20) A recommendation that the following leaves of absence be granted members of the staff for the reasons and periods and under the conditions indicated in each case: FREDERIC E. L E E , Professor of Economics, sick leave from November 1, 1942, through January 31, 1943, on part pay. ( H e will be paid his full salary less the payments to a substitute who is carrying on his work.) 0 . R. OVERMAN, Professor of Dairy Chemistry, sick leave for six months from August 1, 1942, with full pay. D. J. DAVIS, Dean of the College of Medicine, leave with full pay, from February 1 to April 1, 1943. (Dean Davis has requested that he be permitted to retire from active service on February 1, 1943, because of the health of Mrs. Davis which requires her to spend at least a part of the winter in a warm climate. Dean Allen recommends, as an alternative arrangement, that Dean Davis be given leave during February and March, and toward the end of this period it can be determined when his retirement should become effective.)

On motion of Mr. Fornof, these leaves were granted as recommended.