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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

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half of the Superintendent's salary and shall also contribute equally to the salary of a nonacadetnic employee and to an operating fund for labor, seed, fertilizer, and other necessary expenditures. Southern Illinois University is to provide a minimum of forty acres of land near its campus and the necessary office and laboratory facilities and storage buildings. The University of Illinois agrees to provide the machinery and equipment needed for the operation of the Center. T h e Dean of the College of Agriculture and the Provost recommend approval of this agreement and a special appropriation of $6,000 for the University's share of the cost during the year 1954-55. Costs in future years will be met out of the aggregate allotment to the College of Agriculture if the project is continued. I concur.

On motion of Mrs. Holt, this appropriation was made by the following vote: Aye, Mr. Bissell, Mr. Herrick, Mr. Hickman, Mrs. Holt, Mr. Johnston, Mr. Livingston, Mr. Megran, Mr. Nickell, Mrs. Watkins; no, none; absent, Mr. Grange, Mr. Stratton.

APPROPRIATION FOR ARTERY BANK (16) On request of the Administrative Committee of the Chicago Professional Colleges and with the concurrence of the Provost and the Comptroller, I recommend an appropriation of $4,000 from the General Reserve Fund for establishing an artery bank in the Research and Educational Hospitals. This bank is of importance to research activities in the Department of Surgery and in the care of patients who need highly technical and modern therapy treatment of certain vascular diseases. Operating costs for continuation of the program will have to come from such funds as are available to the Chicago Professional Colleges during the next biennium.

On motion of Mrs. Watkins, this appropriation was made by the following vote: Aye, Mr. Bissell, Mr. Herrick, Mr. Hickman, Mrs. Holt, Mr. Johnston, Mr. Livingston, Mr. Megran, Mr. Nickell, Mrs. Watkins; no, none; absent, Mr. Grange, Mr. Stratton.

RELATIONSHIP WITH PROFESSIONAL ALUMNI ASSOCIATIONS (17) On January 19, 1954* the Board of Trustees received a communication from the Medical Alumni Association requesting consideration of closer relationships between that organization and the University. The matter was referred to the Board of Trustees Committee on Alumni which discussed it with representatives of the Medical Alumni Association and referred the matter to the President of the University to endeavor to develop a closer integration of the University of Illinois Alumni Association, the professional associations, and the University. Conferences have been held which included all interested groups, and an agreement has been reached on the following program for a trial period of two years: 1. An office assistant to handle alumni affairs will be added to the Public Relations Office at the Chicago Professional Colleges. 2. That office in cooperation with the general Alumni Association will handle all solicitation of memberships of graduates of the Professional Colleges and maintain a local mailing file. (Detailed information will be kept in the Alumni Association file at Urbana-Champaign. Membership dues will be $5.00 a year, $3.00 of which will go to the Alumni Association and $2.00 will be retained by the respective professional alumni associations.) 3. The present Faculty Newsletter of the Chicago Professional Colleges will be changed to Faculty-Alumni Newsletter and will be the official organ of all the professional associations although they may, from time to time, send special mailings to their own members at their own expense. At least three times a year this Newsletter will go to the entire alumni list of all Chicago Professional Colleges and an occasional issue of the Illinois Alumni News also will be sent. 4. All professional associations also will retain their own organizations and