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BOAED OF TRUSTEES

[February 15

In your quiet, effective way, you have served at various times, and for long periods, on numerous Board Committees: the Committee on Agriculture for ten years, six of them as Chairman; the Committee on Athletic Activities for twelve yearSj eight as Chairman; the Committee on Buildings and Grounds for ten years; the Committee on General Policy for two years; the Committee on Patents, fouj years; the_ Committee on Nonacademic Personnel, six: years. Your assignments have also included representation of the Board of Trustees of the University oj Illinois on the Board of Trustees of the University Retirement System of Illinois and the Merit Board of the University Civil Service System. You have beai generous in giving of your time and talents to these assignments. The President and other administrative officers of the University desire to join the Trustees in commemorating this occasion which marks the close of your active service as a Trustee of the University of Illinois and in extending to you and Mrs. Herrick best wishes for the years that lie ahead. The Board of Trustees directs that this resolution be incorporated in the minutes of today's meeting to become a part of the official public record, and that a suitable copy be given you as a permanent reminder of the esteem and affection in which you are held. Urbana, Illinois On the fifteenth day of February, one thousand nine hundred and sixty-one, and in the ninety-fourth year of the University.

Mr. Hughes asked to be recorded as seconding this resolution, and it was unanimously adopted.

CHICAGO UNDERGRADUATE DIVISION SITE SELECTION

Mr. Johnston, for the Committee on General Policy, presented the following report:

Members of the General Policy Committee met in Chicago, Friday, February 10, to receive information from the firm of Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill anil later conferred with Mayor Richard J. Daley in regard to the city of Chicago! proposal to relocate the Chicago Undergraduate Division on a uewly modified Harrison-Halsted Street site at the intersection of the Congress and Soutli Expressways. Following these meetings, and receipt of alj available information regarding this site, the Committee reached the conclusion that the Harrison-Halsted proposal meets all major criteria originally established by the Board of Trustees in consideration of a site in Chicago. Members of the Committee have now concluded that litigation on the Garfield Park site imposes too great a delay and that the Board should give no further consideration to this site. This is the same reasoning that was applied to the Raii Terminal site, which also met some of the criteria established by the Board. The General Policy Committee fully realizes that if construction of ne« facilities is to be completed for occupancy by the fall of 1964, it is completely unrealistic that there be any further delay in the selection of a site. Not only does the University desire to vacate leased facilities on Navy Pier by the fall of 1964, it also desires to meet, insofar as possible, the education:-^ demands of the youth of Chicago, which wilt exceed the absolute capacity of Pier facilities prior to that date. It is the Committee's conclusion that the Harrison-Halsted Street site not only meets all criteria, but that it has the important plus factors of availability accessibility, and offers an opportunity to contribute to a civic development n Chicago of major importance. The Committee therefore recommends the Harrison-Halsted Street site for relocation of the Chicago Undergraduate Division as offered by the city o: Chicago. The Committee further recommends that the President of the University be authorized to develop a memorandum of understanding between the University of Illinois, the city of Chicago, and the Chicago Land Clearance Commission Such memorandum shall be submitted to the Board of Trustees for approval at a subsequent meeting.

On motion of Mr. Johnston, this report and recommendation were adopted by the following vote: Aye, Mr. Clement, Mr. Harewood.