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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

[February 17

Walker. A fourth member of the Board who served during the academic year 1969-70, Mr. W . Clement Stone, completed his service in November, 1970. Each of these gentlemen has served the University of Illinois with distinction; each has made a special contribution to the work of the Board and to the program and spirit of the institution. W e have prepared brief expressions of our respect in the form of resolutions. First, a resolution concerning Mr. H o w a r d W. Clement, which I should like to read. T o Howard W . Clement Your twelve years of service on the Board of Trustees, covering the period from March of 1959 to the present, have marked one of the most dynamic periods in the University's history. It has been a time of rapid change, new challenges, new University obligations, and of the development of a cluster of complex alterations in institutional relationships. Through this period you have occupied a position of unusual leadership, earning the confidence of students, faculty, and public alike. F o r four years, from 1962 to 1965, you were the President of the Board of Trustees. For nine of the twelve years you served as a member of the Executive Committee. From 1962 to 1970, except for brief intervals, you have been the Board of Trustees' representative on the Illinois Board of Higher Education. Perhaps it is this last area of service that best characterizes your contributions as a Trustee. In your service on that Board, from its founding years to the present, you have been able to balance with integrity the task of statesmanlike institutional representation with the interests of other institutions and the University's overall responsibility to the public interest in Illinois. This alone is an achievement for which all of the people of Illinois owe you their thanks. Beyond this, however, in the deliberations of this Board yours has always been a voice of conscientious leadership and of thoughtful analysis. You have articulated the generous and humane spirit in institutional affairs. F o r all of these qualities we are grateful to you. T h e President and other administrative officers of the University join with the Board in this tribute to you and in extending best wishes to you and Mrs. Clement. T h e Board of Trustees directs that this Resolution be incorporated in the Minutes of today's meeting to become a part of the official public record, and that a suitable copy be given you as a permanent reminder of the esteem and affection in which you are held. I move that this resolution be adopted. This resolution was adopted by a rising vote. Now a resolution concerning Mr. Theodore A. Jones, which Mr. Donald Grimes will present. T o Theodore A. Jones Appointed to the Board of Trustees in 1963, you are now completing a full term to which you were elected in November of 1964. In the course of your distinguished service on this Board you have participated fully in the work of virtually every committee of the Board, in each instance giving the business of the institution the objective, analytical attention that has been characteristic of your service as Trustee. The University has been well served by your special concerns — that there be continuous and careful long-range planning and that the Trustees be closely and appropriately involved in this w o r k ; that full attention be given to the many possibilities for intercampus cooperation and coordination; and for the general management expertise that you have brought to all aspects of the work of the Board of Trustees. Beyond giving time and energy for all the demands upon you, you have brought creative response to every problem and issue. Above all, has been your continued, insistent concern that the University of Illinois fulfill the Land-Grant mission of providing equal educational opportunity. You have provided a mature and balanced zeal for institutional efforts to serve the forgotten groups in American life. T h e direct results have been many and the long-range effects upon policies, procedures and activities will be enduring. T h e President and other administrative officers of the University join with