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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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documentation of the practice, to the Secretary of the Board of Trustees for transmittal to the members of the Finance Committee. In considering such allegations, the Finance Committee will be guided by such factors as whether or not the action complained of is deliberate or inadvertent, whether the company is exceptional or alone in committing it, what proportion of the company's operation is involved in the offensive activities, and whether the company is making significant progress toward elimination of the effects of injury due to such activities. 2. Should the Committee decide that the complaint merits further investigation, it will notify the complaining group and arrange for a hearing in which further information will be sought bearing on the matters indicated above and, in addition, on the question of whether a substantial consensus exists in the University community on the specific question. 3. After consideration of the available information, the Finance Committee will recommend an appropriate course of action to the Board of Trustees, in the light of the gravity of the activities involved and the financial implications for University investments.

TRUSTEE EMERITUS AWARDS

Mr. Hughes made the following comments:

The plan for conferring Trustee emeritus awards, adopted by the Board of Trustees on March 17, 1962, provides that: "The award shall be conferred upon any Trustee who has retired from the Board after having served a full term, and who wishes to accept such a designation." The Trustees are pleased to confer Trustee emeritus certificates on two of our former colleagues of very recent years, Howard W. Clement and Theodore A. Jones. Howard Clement served on this Board for twelve years beginning in March 1959, serving as its president from 1962 to 1967. This was a period of rapid change and expansion in higher education which presented the University with new challenges and obligations. His leadership, statesmanship, and humanity through this era helped the University to meet these demands without diminishing its traditional quality and dignity. Ted Jones served on this Board from 1963 until 1971. His incisive and analytical inquiries have placed many University concerns, especially in the areas of long-range planning, intercampus coordination, equal educational opportunity, and management procedures, in new perspectives. The stewardship of these two men and their enduring influence on University activities give added significance to the award, Trustee emeritus. T h e Trustees, by a rising vote, approved the granting of Trustee emeritus status to Mr. Clement and Mr. Jones, both of whom were present to receive the award.

CITATIONS, MR. AND MRS. KRANNERT

M r . H u g h e s made the following statement: I should now like to call your attention to significant milestones in the relationship of the University of Illinois with Mr. and Mrs. Herman Krannert. As some of you will recall, the Krannert Art Museum completed its tenth year of service during 1971. Equally important, it will soon be ten years since the Krannerts expressed their willingness to make another major gift to the University and launched the plan for the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts. It is especially timely, in our view, that the Trustees take occasion to express once again to Mr. and Mrs. Krannert some measure of their deep appreciation to them. Therefore, we present the following citations for action by the Board of Trustees. The text of the citations approved by the Trustees is as follows: Ellnora Decker Krannert For a period of over twelve years, Mrs. Krannert has been deeply involved in important developments at the University of Illinois which could never have taken place without her support.