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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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of the testimony adduced from expert witnesses at the trial, and is between the valuations placed upon the property by the witnesses who testified for the University and those who testified for the defendant. For a period of thirty days from and after July 11, 1962, either side may file a motion for a new trial. If no such motion is filed, the court will thereafter enter a final order specifying the time within which the University must pay the amount of the verdict if it still desires to acquire title to the property. The Legal Counsel states that certain rulings of the court during the trial of the case could support the filing of a motion for a new trial. However, since the jury's verdict was within the range of the testimony as to value, and since construction on the site is scheduled to commence later this year, the Legal Counsel, the Director of the Physical Plant, and the Vice-President and Comptroller recommend that the University abide by the judgment entered upon the verdict, that no post-trial motion be filed by the University, and that, when the final order is entered, the property be acquired by the payment to the defendant of the amount awarded her by the jury in its verdict. I concur. O n m o t i o n of M r . P o g u e , t h i s r e c o m m e n d a t i o n w a s a p p r o v e d . REPORT AND RECOMMENDATION OF T H E COMMITTEE ON BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS ON RELOCATION OF THE ALMA MATER STATUARY

Mr. Pogue, for the Committee on Buildings and Grounds, submitted the following report.

A request from the Board of Directors of the University of Illinois Alumni Association that the Lorado Taft Alumni statuary group be moved from south of the University Auditorium to the area in front of Altgeld Hall and the Mini Union, facing the intersection of Wright and Green Streets, was formally presented to the Board of Trustees on June 20, 1962, and was referred to the Committee on Buildings and Grounds. The Committee has previously had this matter under consideration pursuant to an informal report submitted by the Physical Plant Department. At a meeting of the Committee held on July 17, Mr. Paul K. Bresee, Treasurer of the Alumni Association and a member of its Board of Directors, appeared before the Committee in support of the Association's request. H e stated that the Alumni Association Board has been discussing this matter for three or four years, and finally requested the Physical Plant Department to study all possible and appropriate sites where the statuary would be on the periphery of the campus, and preferably at some entrance point. At a meeting of the Board of Directors of the Alumni Association held on June 2, the Board endorsed the site recommended by the Physical Plant Department as meeting the desired criteria, and voted to provide the funds for the cost of moving the statuary and the construction of a suitable base on the new site. Following public announcement of the Alumni Association's request, a number of letters were received from students objecting to the proposed relocation of the statuary, and some letters were received from alumni and others in support of the change. Copies of these letters had previously been sent to all members of the Committee on Buildings and Grounds and other Trustees, and were presented for record at the meeting on July 17. The Committee recommends the relocation of the Alma Mater statuary in the area in front of Altgeld Hall and the Illini Union as proposed to the Board of Trustees on June 20, 1962. O n m o t i o n of M r . P o g u e , t h i s r e c o m m e n d a t i o n w a s a p p r o v e d . MEMORIAL TO J O H N STELLE

Mr. Dilliard offered the following memorial and moved its adoption:

The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois records with sorrow the passing on July 5, 1962, of John Stelle, former Governor of Illinois and a former ex officio member of this Board. Born in McLeansboro, Illinois, August 10, 1891, he received his education in the public schools of that city, at Western Military Academy, and at Washington