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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1968
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424 BOARD OF TRUSTEES C( ^^mSmm^m The charter of the University of Illinois will be one hundred years old on February 28, 1967, a date which commemorates the signing of legislation creating Illinois Industrial University by Governor Richard J. Oglesby. From February 2B, 1967 to March 11, 1968j by action of the Board of Trustees, the University will commemorate the centenary of its founding. It is an occasion of great satisfaction to be able to bring greetings to our renowned state university and to reflect upon the rich and varied contributions which it has made to this state and nation. The Illinois Industrial University was a product of the land-grant college movement of the mid-nineteenth century. As a part of a new educational tradition its founders and leaders held that higher education was not alone for the children of a privileged aristocracy but equally for the sons and daughters of farmers, artisans and shopkeepers as well. The evidence is convincing that the original inspiration for the land-grant movement came from a citiien of this state — Jonathan Baldwin Turner of Jacksonville. Illinois' support for higher education has always rested on the conviction that learning could be practical as well as academic, and that higher education should be open to all who have the will and ability to profit from it. The University of Illinois has grown from humble beginnings to national and international distinction, achieving renown for educational excellence in the arts and sciences as well as in applied areas of educational endeavor. Through its extension services, cultural activities and instructional centers it has served every area of Illinois — urban and rural alike. In pausing to pay tribute to this great University, we join the more than 300,000 devoted alumni around the world whose daily lives are dedicated to the philosophy of public good. In looking ahead we see for it a distinguished future with continued expansion of its educational, research and service functions as it strives to meet, in the highest traditions of excellence, the ever-growing needs of the people of Illinois, of the Midwest, of the Nation and the world. NOV, THEREFORE, I, Otto Kerner, Governor of the State of Illinois, do hereby proclaim the period from February 28, 1967 to March 11, 1968, as CENTENNIAL YEAR OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS, and request the appropriate observance of this historic occasion. ci ^3_ a/trt ^fffflHi/'S '/ay ff— SIXTY-SEVEN /£• nno duH*fir**/a.Ht/ _, //r //if n>ir/r/'tffSMt/f r/' FORTY-MOTH • Qa^ iJ& %$&***£
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