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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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CECIL A. MOYER, Professor and Head of the Department of Accountancy (reappointment; has served since 1953) ALVIN L. LANG, Professor of Soil Fertility (reappointment; has served since 1954) ROBERT B. BROWNE, Professor of Education, Dean of the Division of University Extension, and Dean of the Summer Session (new appointment) Alumni Association ROBERT REITSCH, Class of 1928, Reitsch Bros. Lumber Company, 1015 West State Street, Rockford (reappointment; has served since 1952) RALPH CHAPMAN, Class of 1915, Farwell, Chapman and Company, 208 South LaSalle Street, Chicago (reappointment; has served since 1953) WILLIAM F . H A H N E , Class of 1922, Managing Director of Hotel Kaskaskia, LaSalle, Illinois. Dean Browne will replace Professor Charles H . Bowman and Mr. Hahne will replace Mr. Robert W . Riegel, Class of 1937, Tolono, both of whom have served on the Board since March, 1951. The other nominations are for reappointments. Dean Browne has been a member of the University faculty since 1929. H e is currently Chairman of the University Senate Committee on Athletics (elected by the Senate) and has been the faculty representative of the University of Illinois in the Western Intercollegiate Conference since March, 1950, and last year was reappointed until 1958. ( T h e latter appointment is made by the President of the University.) Mr. Hahne is a successful businessman who is interested in all sports as well as in other University matters. H e is a graduate of the College of Commerce and Business Administration, with honors. While an undergraduate student he was junior assistant football manager and in his senior year he was basketball manager. H e is highly recommended by all who have been consulted regarding this matter and in my judgment will make an excellent member of the Board of Directors. O n m o t i o n of M r . Nickell, these n o m i n a t i o n s w e r e a p p r o v e d .

DEPARTMENT OF PLANT PATHOLOGY

(7) The faculty of the College of Agriculture has recommended the establishment of.a Department of Plant Pathology in that College, to which will be transferred the educational and research programs in plant pathology, together with the faculty engaged therein, now being carried on in the Departments of Agronomy and Horticulture. This proposes the creation of an administrative unit only since the courses of instruction at both the undergraduate and graduate levels are already being offered and a graduate program leading to the Ph.D. degree in plant pathology under the supervision of the Graduate College has been previously authorized. The Dean of the Graduate College and the Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences concur in this proposal. Since it involves the transfer of work from one college to another, the proposal has also been submitted to and approved by the University Senate. I concur in these recommendations. If the Board approves, the budget will be set up in this manner for 1955-56, and transfers of personnel will be made accordingly.

On motion of Mr. Livingston, this recommendation was approved.

DEPARTMENT O F PREVENTIVE MEDICINE (8) In 1952, when the headship of the Department of Preventive Medicine was vacant, the department was merged with the Department of Medicine. There are advantages in separate administration of the program in preventive medicine and the Dean of the College of Medicine, with the concurrence of the Executive Committee of the College, recommends that the Department of Preventive Medicine be re-established as an independent department effective September I, 1955. This change will require no new space or funds not presently available to the Department of Medicine. It would not entail any new line of work involving questions of general educational policy, or the transfer of work from one college to another which would call for concurrence by the University Senate.