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From the Faculty

U N I V E R S I T Y OF I L L I N O I S

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N e w Appointments

JAMES R. SHIPLEY, Professor and Head of the Department of Art

From the Alumni Association RALPH S. JOHNS, Class of 1925, Managing Partner, Haskins and Sells, Certified Public Accountants, Chicago; President-elect of the University of Illinois Alumni Association (Mr. John's appointment on the Board is for the period of his tenure as President of the University of Illinois Alumni Association) CLIFFORD L. PETERSON, Class of 1941, Vice President, Deere and Company, Moline O n m o t i o n of M r . S t e g e r , t h e s e a p p o i n t m e n t s a n d r e a p p o i n t m e n t s were approved. DIRECTORSHIP OF THE LIBRARY, CHICAGO CIRCLE (6) The Chancellor at Chicago Circle has recommended to me the appointment of Mr. William B. Ernst, Jr., presently Associate Director of Libraries, State University of New York at Buffalo, as Professor of Library Administration on indefinite tenure and Director of the Library at Chicago Circle, beginning August 1, 1969, on a twelve-month service basis, at an annual salary of $24,000. The appointment is to succeed Professor Frazer G. Poole who resigned as Director as of May 20, 1967. Professor Louis Schultheiss has been serving as Acting Director. This recommendation is made with the advice of a consultative committee 1 and is supported by the Executive Vice President and Provost. I concur. O n m o t i o n of M r . S w a i n , t h i s a p p o i n t m e n t w a s a p p r o v e d . HEADSHIP OF THE DEPARTMENT OF SPEECH, URBANA (7) The Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Urbana, recommends the appointment of Dr. Roger E. Nebergall, presently Professor of Speech and Chairman of the Department of Speech at the University of Oklahoma, as P r o fessor of Speech on indefinite tenure and Head of the Department of Speech, Urbana, beginning September 1, 1969, on an academic year service basis, at an annual salary of $20,000. This appointment will fill the vacancy which was created by the retirement of Professor Karl R. Wallace as of September 1, 1968. Professor John J . O'Neill has been acting Head. The nomination of Dr. Nebergall was made with the advice of a search committee2 and is supported by the Executive Committee of the College, the Executive Vice President and Provost, the Chancellor at Urbana, and the Dean of the Graduate College at Urbana. I concur. O n m o t i o n of M r . C l e m e n t , t h i s a p p o i n t m e n t w a s a p p r o v e d . APPOINTMENTS TO THE FACULTY (8) The following new appointments to the faculty of the rank of Assistant Professor and above, and involving tenure, have been approved since the previous meeting of the Board of Trustees.

1 Samuel A. Weiss, Professor of English, Chairman; Joseph Boyer, Professor of Chemistry; Paul Fong, Professor of Mathematics and in the Center for Advanced Study; H. F. Koeper, Associate Professor of Architecture; Ernest Masur, Professor of Engineering Mechanics and Head of the Department of Materials Engineering; Evelyn A. Moore, Assistant Reference Librarian with rank of Assistant Professor; Yuri I. Nakata, Documents Librarian, with rank of Assistant Professor; Warren Sanderson, Professor of Art; Richard Seidel, Acquisition Librarian with rank of Assistant Professor; Mary E. Trenery, Assistant Librarian Verification with rank of Instructor; Harry Upshaw, Professor of Psychology and Acting Head of the Department of Psychology. 2 A. L. Altenbernd, Professor of English and Head of the Department of English, Chairman; H, S. Maclay, Research Associate Professor of Communications and Director of the Institute of Communications Research; M. H. Nichols, _ Professor of Speech; J. J. O'Neill, Professor of Speech, Director of Speech, and Hearing Clinic, and Acting Head of the Department of Speech; T. M. Scheidel, Associate Professor of Speech.