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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

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sional Colleges Senate concurring, that the Department of Clinical Science be discontinued upon Dr. Ivy's retirement so that the space it has been occupying and the other facilities it has been using can be assigned to other departments of the College. This recommendation is reflected in the College budget for 1961-62 in that no provision for the Department is included and its staff is assigned to other departments. Dr. Ivy's request has now received due consideration by the Executive Committee of the College of Medicine and the appropriate University officials having administrative responsibility for the decision in such matters. A t this point, D r . George W . Crane and D r . J o h n F . Pick appeared before the Board, having previously requested and having been granted this opportunity, and presented statements in support of Dr. Ivy's request. President H e n r y presented a formal statement which he prepared for the information of the Trustees concerning D r . Ivy's request and in anticipation that it would be brought to the attention of the Board in this public fashion. The President's statement follows: Memorandum for the Information of Members of the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois At a meeting of the Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees held on July 25, 1961, in an executive session on personnel matters, the Vice-President and Provost reported upon developments relative to the scheduled retirement of Dr. Andrew C. Ivy, Head of the Department of Clinical Science in the College of Medicine. Since Dr. Ivy had reached age sixty-eight, under the provisions of the University Retirement System of Illinois his retirement would be mandatory on August 31, 1961, unless an exception were to be granted in accordance with provisions of the Act governing the University Retirement System of Illinois.1 The College of Medicine had expected that Dr. Ivy would retire and had prepared its budget requests for 1961-62 accordingly. Under these recommendations, Dr. Ivy would become Distinguished Professor of Physiology, Emeritus, in the Departmeut of Physiology, and the Department of Clinical Science would be discontinued, such functions as remain being transferred to other departments of the College. In a letter addressed to Vice-President Begando of the Chicago Professional Colleges on July 18, 1961, Dr. Ivy presented the following requests: (a) "That the Department of Clinical Science be continued for one year from September 1, 1961, through August 31, 1962, and that the 'necessary facilities now had ami needed' be provided"; (b) that a budget for the Department of Clinical Science be provided in the amount either of $21,601 (including $1.00 for Dr. Ivy's salary plus his retirement annuity) or of $40,101 (including Dr. Ivy's full salary of $18,500). After some discussion, it was agreed by the Executive Committee of the Board that Dr. Ivy's letter should be referred to the Executive Committee of the College of Medicine for consideration, and that the latter Committee's recommendations concerning Dr. Ivy's requests should be reviewed by the appropriate administrative officers in relation to the budget requests submitted by the College of Medicine. Vice-President Begando referred Dr. Ivy's letter to Associate Dean D. JCaseley of the College of Medicine (acting in Dean Granville A. Bennett's absence), with tbe request that it be considered by the Executive Committee of ttef College and that recommendations be made concerning Dr. Ivy's requests. At a meeting held on July 28, 1961, the Executive Committee of the College of Medici™ voted unanimously to reaffirm its earlier recommendation of April 14, 1961, that the Department of Clinical Science be discontinued as of August 31, 1961. (" should be noted that the Executive Committee's action of April 14, 1961, had been approved by the Senate of the Chicago Professional Colleges on June 7, 1961.) The action of the Executive Committee of the College of Medicine w reported to me in a letter dated August 1, 1961, from Vice-President Begando, who concurred in the recommendation. The Vice-President and Provost of ">e

1 "Any Participating Employee shall be retired no later than the first day of SyPj"1'!! immediately following his 68th birthday; provided, that upon the written request of the "pi™!;; and upon certification of the Employer, in exceptional cases and for substantial cause, retire-men shall he deferred for a period not to exceed 1 year at any one time."