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

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It has been a great privilege to serve it in the capacity I have held in the last five years. This report was received for record and with applause.

ELECTION OF OFFICERS

The Board took up the special order of business for the annual meeting and Mr. Clement called for the election of officers. President of the Board Governor Kerner nominated Mr. W a y n e A. Johnston; Mr. H a h n seconded the nomination and Mr. Swain spoke in support of the nomination. Governor Kerner moved that the nominations be closed and that the Secretary be instructed to cast a unanimous ballot of the Board for the election of M r . Johnston as its President to serve until the next annual meeting of the Board of Trustees in March, 1968, or until his successor shall have been elected. T h e ballot was so cast, and M r . Johnston was elected President of The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois. H e took the Chair. T h e Board expressed its appreciation to M r . Clement for his services as President, and Mr. Pogue offered the following resolution. To Howard W. Clement The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois hereby expresses its grateful appreciation of your services as its President during the past five years. During those years you have shown yourself an able and conscientious leader in the Board's deliberations on the increasingly complex problems and issues which have faced it. You have been an articulate — yet always thoughtful and judicious — representative of this Board on the Illinois Board of Higher Education, in addition to acting as its spokesman on matters of interest to the public. The Board of Trustees directs that this resolution be incorporated in the minutes of today's meeting to become a part of the official record. This resolution was unanimously adopted. Secretary of the Board Mr. Hughes nominated Mr. Earl W . Porter. On motion of Governor Kerner, the nominations were closed, and Mr. Porter was declared elected Secretary of the Board, to serve until the next annual meeting of the Board in March, 1968, or until his successor shall have been elected. Comptroller of the Board Mr. Jones nominated Mr. H. O. Farber. On motion of Governor Kerner, the nominations were closed, and the Secretary was instructed to record the unanimous ballot of the Board for the election of Mr. Farber as Comptroller. T h e ballot was so cast, and M r . Farber was declared elected Comptroller, to serve until the next annual meeting of the Board in March, 1968, or until his successor shall have been elected. Executive Committee Mr. Pogue nominated Mr. H o w a r d W . Clement and Mr. Donald R. Grimes to serve as members of the Executive Committee, with the President of the Board as Chairman, for one year.