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BOARD O F T R U S T E E S

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March. T h e Directors a r e appointed to serve until the next annual meeting or until their successors shall have been appointed. Since the present members of this Board have served only since July, 1941 (all of the members of the previous Board having resigned on July 9 ) , it seemed to me that changes in this Board might well be deferred until a month beyond the annual meeting of the Board of Trustees. About three years ago, and as a part of t h e reorganization of the Board of Directors when its number was increased from five to seven members, the Board of Trustees decided to follow a policy of periodical changes in the personnel of the Board of Directors in the interest of the diversified faculty and alumni representation. Normally this was understood to mean appointing one new faculty and one new alumni member each year who would replace the two members who had served the longest. At this time, however, a normal situation does not exist since all of the present members of the Board of Directors were appointed at the same time. Nevertheless, it is my judgment that the policy adopted by the Board of Trustees should be followed, and I am therefore recommending two changes. I nominate the following for the Board of Directors of the Athletic Association to serve until the annual meeting of the Board of Trustees in March, 1943, or until such subsequent time as their successors have been appointed: Faculty M. T . MCCLURE, Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. R. B. BROWNE, Director of University Extension and Director of the Summer Quarter. L. E. CARD, Professor of Poultry Husbandry.

G. B. WEISIGER, P r o f e s s o r of Law.

A lumni W. B. AMES, Class of 1917, Insurance Broker, 175 West Jackson Boulevard, Chicago. C. W. VAIL, J R . , Class of 1922, Attorney, 1 North LaSalle Street, Chicago.

CHARLES W H A M , Class of 1912, A t t o r n e y at Law, Centralia.

O n motion of M r . Livingston, these appointments w e r e m a d e as r e c o m m e n d e d , a n d t h e m a t t e r of t h e e n l a r g e m e n t of t h e B o a r d of D i r e c t o r s t o p r o v i d e f o r t h e a p p o i n t m e n t of a y o u n g e r a l u m n u s w a s referred to the Committee on Athletic Activities for study a n d report. ILLINOIS EYE A N D EAR INFIRMARY (29) An Act of the Sixty-second General Assembly amending previous legislation in relation to the Research and Educational Hospitals makes possible the inclusion of the Illinois Eye and E a r Infirmary as one of the constituent units of the latter, under a plan of joint operation and management by the Department of Public Welfare and the University. T h e Board has on previous occasions expressed itself in favor of such an affiliation. I recommend that the President of the University be authorized to conduct negotiations with the Department of Public Welfare and to report his recommendations to the Board. O n motion of M r . Cleary, t h e President w a s authorized t o conduct negotiations as r e c o m m e n d e d a n d t o r e p o r t t o t h e B o a r d in conference with the Committee on Chicago Departments. MEDICAL EXAMINATIONS O F UNIVERSITY STAFF MEMBERS (30) Estimates of staff, space, a n d budgetary requirements to carry out the program of physical examinations for all University staff members approved by t h e Board of Trustees on April 22. Action on this w a s deferred.