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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

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BUSINESS PRESENTED BY T H E PRESIDENT O F T H E UNIVERSITY

The Board considered the following reports and recommendations from the President of the University.

APPOINTMENTS TO THE 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. EARL G. PLANTY, Professor of Management, beginning September 1, 1955, at an annual salary of $9,000 ( D ) . 2. KENNETH W. PORTER, Visiting Professor of History, beginning September 1, 1955, at an annual salary of $8,000 ( D ) . Appointments to Nonacademic Staff The Director of Nonacademic Personnel reports the following appointments to supervisory positions of upper level responsibility at the Chicago Professional Colleges. 1. ANSELMA E. CABRERA-CARDUS, Dietitian, Research and Educational Hospitals, beginning March 1, 1955, at an annual salary of $3,600. 2. EDWARD C. H E I L , Custodial Supervisor, Physical Plant Department, beginning April 4, 1955, at an hourly salary of $2,213. 3. DOROTHY D. MOORE, Supervising Housekeeper, Physical Plant Department, beginning April 6, 1955, at an hourly salary of $2.09. 4. WILLIAM MOSS, Superintendent of Operations, Physical Plant Department, beginning April 4, 1955, at an annual salary of $7,500. 5. A N N A M A R I E RANSFORD, Dietitian, Research and Educational Hospitals, beginning April 11, 1955, at an annual salary of $3,720.

On motion of Mr. Nickell, these appointments were confirmed.

ADVISORY BOARD FOR INSTITUTION FOR TUBERCULOSIS RESEARCH (2) T h e professional operation and all other management and control of the Institution for Tuberculosis Research are vested by law in the University of Illinois. T h e law also provides for an advisory board consisting of five medical directors, two of whom shall be doctors appointed by the Municipal Tuberculosis Sanitarium of Chicago, two doctors appointed by the University, and one elected by the other four. On April 19, 1950, the Board of Trustees appointed to this advisory board Dr. A. C. Ivy, then Vice-President in Charge of the Chicago Professional Colleges, and Dr. Stanley W. Olson, then Dean of the College of Medicine. Neither of these appointees is now in the position he occupied at the time of appointment. New appointments begin on July 1 of the year of appointment T h e law does not specify the term except that all members serve until their successors are appointed. It is desirable to reconstitute this advisory board, and' on recommendation of the Chairman of the Administrative Committee for the Chicago Professional Colleges, I nominate Dr. H a r r y F . Dowling, Professor and H e a d of the Department of Medicine, and Dr. H o w a r d J. Shaughnessy, Professor and Head of the Department of Public Health. T h e other members appointed by the Municipal Tuberculosis Sanitarium ot Chicago are Dr. Herman N. Bundesen, President of the Chicago Board of Health, and Dr. Ernest E. Irons, Consulting Physician, Presbyterian Hospital. Dr. Walter H . Theobald, Clinical Professor of Otolaryngology, Emeritus, in the College of Medicine, on the staff of the Municipal Tuberculosis Sanitarium and a member of the Medical Center Commission, was elected by the other four. T h e Institution is administratively under the Office of the Vice-President in Charge of the Chicago Professional Colleges, and the advisory board has no managerial functions. O n m o t i o n of M r . H e r r i c k , t h e s e a p p o i n t m e n t s w e r e a p p r o v e d . CHANGE IN STATUS OF SMALL HOMES COUNCIL (3) T h e Small Homes Council, established by authority of the Board of Trustee; to carry on research in all phases of home building, has done notable work, and