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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

[December 20

APPOINTMENTS TO T H E FACULTY (1) T h e following new appointments to the faculty of the rank of Assistant Professor and above, and involving tenure, have been approved since the previous meeting of the Board of Trustees, 1. HARRY A. BLISS, Assistant Professor of Medicine, beginning January 16, I 9SS, at an annual salary of $9,000 ( D Y ) . 2. ELLIS BONNELL, Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, College of Medicine, beginning November 1, 1954, without salary ( D Y ) . 3. TERRELL C. MYERS, Assistant Professor of Biological Chemistry, College of Medicine, beginning December 1, 1954, a t an annual salary of $6000 ( B Y ) . 4. GEOUCE H . SCHERR, Assistant Professor of Bacteriology, College of Medicine, beginning December 1, 1954, a t an annual salary of $5,500 ( D ) . O n m o t i o n of M r . J o h n s t o n , t h e s e a p p o i n t m e n t s w e r e c o n f i r m e d . COLLEGE OF PHARMACY ADVISORY COMMITTEE (2) T h e Dean of the College of Pharmacy recommends the appointment of Ceburne D. Smith, Manager of the Chicago Branch of Parke, Davis and Company of Detroit, Michigan (residence address, Evanston, Illinois), as a member of the College of Pharmacy Advisory Committee for a period of five years (July 1, 1954-June 30, 1959) to succeed David Stiles of the Abbott Laboratories, North Chicago, whose term has expired. I concur.

On motion of Mrs. Watkins, this appointment was approved.

APPOINTMENT OF FREDERICK T. WALL AS DEAN OF T H E GRADUATE COLLEGE (3) I recommend the appointment of Dr. Frederick T. Wall, Professor of Physical Chemistry, as Dean of the Graduate College for the period beginning September 1, 1955 (or possibly August 1, if feasible), and ending August 31, 1957, on "Y" basis at a salary of not less than $17,000 per year with the understanding that this will be increased to whatever figure it is possible to raise salaries of other comparable deanships at the beginning of the next biennium. His combined positions will be Dean of the Graduate College ( B Y ) and Professor of Physical Chemistry ( A Y ) . This appointment has been recommended by a special committee of the Executive Faculty of the Graduate College after a canvass of the entire graduate faculty and is unanimously endorsed by the College Executive Faculty of eighteen members representing all divisions offering graduate work.

On motion of Mr. Livingston, this appointment was approved. Mr. Livingston expressed his pleasure that Dr. Wall is willing to accept this appointment, and asked to have this recorded.

CHAIRMANSHIP OF THE DEPARTMENT OF GERMAN

(4) In February, 1954, Professor Helmut Rehder, Head of the Department of German, accepted a position at the University of T e x a s and submitted his resignation from the faculty of the University of Illinois to take effect at the end of the first semester of the current academic year. Since then, a search has been underway for a successor. As a result of this impending change and following statutory procedure, the faculty of the Department of German has voted to request a change in the administrative organization of the Department from one organized with a head to a department organized with a chairman. The Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and the Executive Committee of the College recommend approval. The Dean and the Executive Committee also recommend the appointment of Dr. F r a n k G. Banta, presently Assistant Professor of German, as Chairman of the Department effective February 1, 1955, at an annual salary of $5,500 on an academic year basis. This appointment will be for the balance of the current academic year, but a subsequent reappointment will be for two years as provided in the Statutes. I concur in these recommendations.