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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1944
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354 BOARD OF TRUSTEES [May 24 EXECUTIVE SESSION T h e Board in executive session considered the following reports of committees and matters presented by the President of the University. APPRECIATION OF SERVICES OF MRS. PLUMB M r . Davis, for the Committee on General Policy, offered the following resolution. Whereas, Mrs. Glenn E. Plumb, who has served as a member of the Medical Center Commission, has because of her removal from the State offered her resignation as a member of that Commission, and Whereas, the Board of Trustees is aware of the distinguished services over many years of Mrs. Plumb on this Commission and on other educational and social service boards and commissions (including the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois), therefore Be it resolved, that the Board of Trustees, in accepting this resignation, instructs its Secretary to send to Mrs. Plumb a copy of this resolution as a mark of its appreciation of her great services to education and to the advancement of public welfare. On motion of M r . Davis, this resolution was unanimously adopted. APPOINTMENT TO MEDICAL CENTER COMMISSION Mr. Davis, also for the Committee on General Policy, presented a recommendation that Mrs Morgan L. Fitch, an alumnus of the University in the class of 1922, Vice-president of Charles Ringer Company, past President of the Chicago Real Estate Board, and now President of the Illinois State Real Estate Board, be appointed as the representative selected by the Board of Trustees (in place of M r s . P l u m b ) on the Medical Center Commission. O n motion of M r . Davis, this appointment was made as recommended. LEAVE OF ABSENCE FOR PROFESSOR D. W . KERST Mr. Davis reported also, for the Committee on General Policy, that as a result of conferences with the W a r Department in Washington it appeared that Professor D. W . Kerst was urgently needed for special service for the W a r D e p a r t m e n t ; it was recommended therefore that this leave be granted, on condition that D r . Kerst r e t u r n to the University as soon as the special service is completed, or at the end of the war. T h e President of the University stated that he is still of the opinion that the work Professor K e r s t is doing at the University is of great scientific importance. H e recommends that Professor Kerst be released from University service only in case public policy considerations take precedence, and if released that he be given a leave of absence under terms and conditions specified by the University on recommendation of Professor Kerst and the Department of Physics. On motion of M r . Davis, this leave was granted as recommended. PURCHASE OF PROPERTY IN URBANA A N D CHICAGO M r . McKelvey presented the following report of the Committee on Buildings and Grounds. The Board on April 29, 1943 (Minutes, page 332), referred to the Committee on Buildings and Grounds a report from the Director of the Physical Plant Department, transmitted through the Comptroller, proposing the purchase of
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