Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1964 [PAGE 305]

EXTRACTED TEXT FROM PAGE:

260

BOARD OF TRUSTEES

[November 9

OTIS, JACK, Psychiatric Social W o r k Supervisor and Associate Professor of Hygiene — leave of absence, without pay, for one year from September 1 1962, so that he may accept a position at the University of California. ROBERTSON, JAMES E., Research Professor of Electrical Engineering (College of Engineering) and in the Digital Computer Laboratory — leave of absence, without pay, from July 1, 1963, through December 31, 1963. SINHA, RAMESH C , Research Associate in Botany — leave of absence, without pay, for one month from January 1, 1963. MEMORIAL TO RALPH F. LESEMANN

Mr. Dilliard offered the following resolution:

T h e Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois records with deep sorrow the death on October 19 of Ralph F . Lesemann, former Legal Counsel and Professor of Law. Mr. Lesemann was born in Nashville, Illinois, on December 9, 1899. He graduated from the University of Illinois with the degrees of Bachelor of Arts in 1922 and of Doctor of Jurisprudence in 1924. H e was a teacher from 1920-21 and principal from 1922-23 in the Nashville High School. In 1924 he began practicing law and was with the firm of Kramer, Kramer, and Campbell, East St. Louis, from 1924-26. H e subsequently served as First Assistant United States Attorney from 1926-31, and then returned to the private practice of law as a member of the firm of Baker, Lesemann, Kagy, and Wagner, East St. Louis. On July 1, 1951, he became Legal Counsel and Professor of Law at the University, serving in that capacity until 1961 when, because of health, he asked to be relieved of these duties and was appointed Special Counsel on part time, During these eleven years he served the University with distinction and untiring devotion to the work of his office. His constructive and insightful analyses of University problems which were brought to him contributed in many ways to strengthening the University's procedures and position in matters of legal controversy, and he won numerous favorable court decisions in University litigation. His death is indeed a great loss to the legal profession, to the University, and to his community as well as to his family. T h e Board directs that this resolution be incorporated in the minutes of today's meeting as a memorial to Mr. Lesemann and as a public tribute to his services; and that a suitable copy be sent to the members of his family as an expression of the Board's sympathy with them in their loss.

This resolution was unanimously adopted. EXECUTIVE SESSION On motion of Mrs. Watkins, an executive session was ordered for consideration of the following items of business:

RECOMMENDATIONS OF T H E UNIVERSITY PATENT COMMITTEE (1) The University Patent Committee submits, with the concurrence of the University Research Board, the following reports and recommendations relating to patentable inventions by members of the staff. The Committee at a meeting held on September 14, 1962, agreed to recommend that the rights of the University in these inventions be released to the inventors if they indicated an interest within thirty days of notice or to the sponsoring agency if the inventors indicate no personal interest. 1. Plasma field displacement isolator and circulator — Joseph T. Verdeyen, Instructor in Electrical Engineering, inventor. It has been shown that the propagation of electromagnetic waves in a parallel-plane wave guide, which is filled with a magnetized plasma, exhibits a nonreciprocal behavior. The effect is similar to that found in a ferrite field displacement isolator. The Patent Committee has heard nothing from the inventor after advising him of the action of September 14 and, therefore, recommends release of the rights of the University to the sponsoring agency, the United States Air Force. 2. Bent logarithmically-periodic zig-zag antenna — John William Greiser, Research Assistant in Electrical Engineering, inventor. These antennas are continuous structures of a single conductor formed in the shape of a planar logarithmically-periodic zig-zag which has been bent along its longitudinal axis.