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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1968
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372 BOARD OF TRUSTEES [February 9 MEMORIAL TO FRED LOUIS WHAM M r . Dilliard presented the following: The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois records with sorrow the death on February 2, 1967, of Judge Fred Louis Wham, a former member of this Board, a distinguished jurist, and an esteemed alumnus of the University. Following his graduation from the College of Law with the Class of 1909, and his admission to the bar in the same year, he practiced law for eighteen years, first in the State of Arkansas, followed by two years of service as Assistant Solicitor for the United States Department of Agriculture, and then for ten years as a member of the well-known Illini law firm of Wham and Wham of Centralia. In 1924, he was elected to The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois for a six-year term beginning in March, 1925. He served faithfully in this post and as a member of Board Committees until March of 1927, when he was appointed Judge of the United States District Court and resigned from the office of Trustee shortly thereafter. In 1956, after twenty-nine years of service on the bench, Judge Wham retired but he continued to accept assignments to courts in various Federal circuits in the United States until two months ago when failing health forced him to give up the work. It is noteworthy that Judge Wham devoted more than half of his lifetime to public service to his state and to the nation. His professional career included almost forty years of dedicated service on the Federal bench, a record seldom equaled. Through all of the years since his graduation from the University of Illinois, he had a continuing interest in his Alma Mater. He served on the University of Illinois Citizens Committee and frequently returned to the campus for alumni and other events. The Board directs that this memorial be entered in the minutes of today's meeting for the public record as a tribute to a noble citizen of Illinois and an illustrious alumnus of its University; and that suitable copies be sent to members of Judge Wham's family as an expression of sympathy from the members of this Board. This memorial was adopted by a standing vote. REQUEST FROM T H E STUDENT GOVERNMENT COMMITTEE ON ACADEMIC FREEDOM CHICAGO CIRCLE T h e President of the Board announced that the Secretary had received a petition and a request for its presentation from the Committee on Academic Freedom of the Student Government at Chicago Circle and endorsed by the Urbana Student Senate Committee on Student Rights. T h e Board agreed to receive the petition 1 and to hear a statement from Mr. Richard Kling, Chairman of the Chicago Circle Student Government Committee on Academic Freedom. Following this presentation, the President of the Board stated that he was referring the subject to the Committee on General Policy for consideration. BUSINESS PRESENTED BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNIVERSITY T h e Board took up consideration of the following reports and recommendations from the President of the University. PRESIDENT'S REPORT President H e n r y presented a report on selected topics of current interest, copies of which were distributed at the meeting, and a copy was filed with the Secretary of the Board. ' T h e petition asked (1) that the Board of Trustees re-evaluate Sec. 21 of The General Rules Concerning University Organisation and Procedure dealing with political speakers on the campuses of the University of Illinois, and (2) that the Trustees request the repeal of the "Clabaugh Act," a state statute which places limitations on speakers at the University of Illinois.
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