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BOARD OF

TRUSTEES

[April 27

MEMORIAL TO HARRY W O O D B U R N CHASE

Mr. Swain offered the following:

The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois records with deep sorrow the death on April 20, 1955, of Dr. H a r r y Woodburn Chase, a former President of this University. H e was born in Groveland, Massachusetts, on April 11, 1883. Following graduation from Dartmouth College in 1904, and from Clark University where he was on the staff and received the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in 1910, he served on the faculty of the University of North Carolina in various professorial and administrative posts from 1910 to 1930, and from 1919 to 1930 as President of that University. H e became President of the University of Illinois on July I, 1930, resigning on July 10, 1933, to become Chancellor of New York University, in which post he served for twenty-one years until his retirement in 1951. Doctor Chase came to Illinois with a constructive program of educational development, rationally progressive and entirely feasible in its essentials. He approached the problems of the University with sympathetic insight, clear understanding, and educational statesmanship. H e caused the faculty to turn its attention to self-appraisal of educational organization and to think in terms of its responsibility in formulating educational policies and of the University's processes in relation to its role as a great state university. It is unfortunate that his administration was so short and that he was not at the University long enough to implement in his own way policies he initiated. He came to Illinois at the beginning of the great economic depression of the nineteen thirties and within a year the University was faced with the necessity of drastic retrenchment due to the financial condition of the state. Yet during President Chase's administration the College of Fine and Applied Arts and the School of Physical Education were established and other programs were initiated which were developed in later years. In accepting his resignation as President of the University in 1933 the Board of Trustees coupled its avowal of regret with an expression of appreciation of the fine service rendered the Board, the University, and the people of Illinois, noting that he had demonstrated in character and conduct a capacity for cooperation with individuals and groups truly indicative of the highest executive ability and that he had given the men and women of Illinois the type of leadership associated with a great university. The Board directs that this memorial to H a r r y Woodburn Chase be spread upon the minutes of today's meeting and that the Secretary send copies to the surviving members of Doctor Chase's family.

This memorial was adopted.

SECRETARY'S REPORTS

The Secretary presented for record the following lists: (1) appointments made by the President; (2) fellows; (3) graduate fellows; (4) resignations and declinations; (5) 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.)

ALLEN, RAYMOND J., Research Assistant in Civil Engineering ( S ) , three months beginning June 16, 1955, $300 a month (4-13-55)AMIR-FAZLI, NASSER, Research Assistant in Civil Engineering ( S ) , three months beginning June 16, 1955, $300 a month (4-13-55). APPLEQUIST, DOUGLAS E., Instructor in Organic Chemistry, in the Graduate College, one year beginning June 16, 1955, $5000 (3-22-55). BAHNFLETH, DONALD R., Research Assistant, February 5-April 30, 1955, $4900 a year, and Research Associate, May i-August 31, 1955, $5400 a year, in Mechanical Engineering ( C ) ; for the convenience of the University, he will be required to live in the W a r m Air Heating Research Residence No. 2, tins accommodation valued at $60 a month (4-4-55). BALLARD, MRS. R U T H M., Lecturer in Mathematics, in the Chicago Undergraduate Division, on four-fifths time, March I-June 15, 1955, $400 a month (3-21-55)