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UNIVERSITY

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ILLINOIS

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PROGRESS REPORT ON SELECTION OF A PERMANENT SITE FOR THE CHICAGO UNDERGRADUATE DIVISION OF T H E UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS (40) I have received from the Committee on Future Development of the Chicago Undergraduate Division a summary of studies relating to a permanent site made to date by the Committee, with the assistance of the Real Estate Research Corporation of Chicago. This report has been sent to the special committee of the Board of Trustees (Mr. Wayne A. Johnston, Chairman) for review prior to presentation to the Board of Trustees. Mr. Johnston has been out of the state, and it has not been possible as yet for the Committee to consider the report. Hence, discussion by the Board is deferred to a later time. The appropriations recommended for the University for the 1955-57 biennium include no provision for the purchase of such a site. Nevertheless, the University considers that it must secure and develop a University-owned site and hence is continuing its consideration with a view to selecting the best possible location so that advance plans can be made for its acquisition and development. Several types of sites in different parts of the area are under consideration. As rapidly as feasible members of the Board and University officers are making inspection of various possible sites.

This report was received for record.

ROBERT ZACHARIAH HICKMAN

Mr. Herrick presented the following statement:

The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois hereby records its appreciation of the services of Mr. Robert Z. Hickman of Danville, Illinois, as a member of this Board from March 8, 1949, to March 8, 1955. Mr. Hickman is an alumnus of the University of Illinois, having received the degree of Bachelor of Arts with honors in 1929. H e won a Rhodes Scholarship awarded in this area of the country for three years of study at Oxford University in England and graduated from that University in 1932 with the degrees of Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Civil Law. His undergraduate record at Illinois was distinguished not only by excellence in scholarship but by a fine contribution to student life through participation in various worth-while extracurricular activities. In his senior year he was Student Colonel in the University Reserve Officers' Training Corps, the highest student office in the Brigade, and he was also on the varsity football squad which won the Western Intercollegiate Conference Championship in 1928. Since his graduation from Oxford, he has practiced law in Chicago and more recently in Danville with the exception of a tour of military service during World W a r I I . In 1941, he served as a member of the Board of Directors of the University's Athletic Association. The Board directs its Secretary to incorporate this tribute to Mr. Hickman in the minutes of today's meeting and to send him a suitable copy as a formal expression of the Board's appreciation.

This resolution was adopted.

SECRETARY'S REPORTS

The Secretary presented for record the following lists: (1) appointments made by the President; (2) graduate fellows; (3) resignations and declinations; (4) leaves of absence.

APPOINTMENTS MADE BY T H E PRESIDENT

(The date in parentheses is the date on which the appointment was made by the President of the University. C = College; S = Station; E = Extension.)

AMAHA, MIKIO, Research Assistant in Food Technology ( S ) , seven months beginning February 1, 1955, $4000 a year, supersedes (2-16-55). ARASE, HIROSHI H., Registered Pharmacist in Hospital Pharmacy, in the College of Pharmacy, February 14-August 31, 1955, $4500 a year (2-23-55). AUGENSTINE, LEROY G., Research Associate in the Control Systems Laboratory ( S ) , on one-half time, February 15-August 31, 1955, $2080 a year, supersedes (2-15-55). OAILAR, M R S . FLORENCE L., Instructor in Mathematics on 42/100 time, for the second semester of 1954-55 beginning February I, 1955, $756 (3-3-55)-