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1947 J

U N I V E R S I T Y OF I L L I N O I S

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Professor Spider and others, and recommends that the Board approve the following: i. That the University of Illinois Foundation be requested to assume the responsibility of receiving, holding, and disbursing funds for these camp projects. 2. That the acceptance of sites be authorized, under conditions generally comparable to the gift of Robert Allerton. 3. That farm advisers and home advisers, and their successors, in the respective areas be authorized to participate as individuals in nonprofit corporations, to own and operate such camps.

Professor Spitler commented on this matter. On motion of Dr. Meyer, these recommendations were approved and adopted, and the appropriate officers of the Board and of the University were authorized to execute and to carry out the program, without financial responsibility of the University for development or operation and maintenance beyond the limits of funds received for these purposes from gifts or camp income. The President of the University was requested to have a study made of the responsibilities of the University arising from this program. OPEN SESSION When the Board convened in open session on the afternoon of April 24, 1947, the same members and officers were present as during the morning session.

MINUTES APPROVED

The Secretary presented the minutes of the meeting of March 27, i^)A7On motion of Mr. Davis, the minutes were approved as printed on pages 301 to 332 above.

TRIBUTE TO FRANK A. JENSEN

General Davis presented the following:

It is appropriate that the Board of Trustees pause in its deliberations today to pay tribute to the memory of a former colleague and friend, Frank A. Jensen, Superintendent of the LaSalle-Peru Township High School and LaSalle-PeruOglesby Junior College, and a member of the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois from 1939 to 1945, who died suddenly at his home in Peru, Illinois, on Sunday, March 30, 1947. Doctor Jensen was one of the great public school men of Illinois. He began teaching at an early age. All of his adult lifetime was given to education, as teacher and as school administrator. The last twenty-four years of his life, covering onehalf of his professional career, were spent in Illinois as Superintendent of Schools of Rockford, Illinois, from 1923 to 1935, and as Superintendent of the LaSalle-Peru Township High School and the LaSalle-Peru-Oglesby Junior College from 1935 until his untimely death. H e was an outstanding citizen, a distinguished educator, a public leader, and a loyal friend. His devotion to education was far beyond the call of public or professional duty. Only two weeks before his death he was at the University participating in a conference on teacher education. H e was the leader among public school men of Illinois in the movement for an expanded system of junior colleges needed to provide more adequate facilities for higher education in this State. These same qualities of leadership, of unselfish devotion to public interest, and of doing more than his share of work marked his faithful service as a member of the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois. During his six-year term he missed only one meeting, and that because of illness. Those members of this Board who served with him are grateful for the opportunity of having worked with an inspiring colleague and a loyal friend whom they will never forget. Be it resolved by the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois that this memorial be published in its records and a copy be sent by the Secretary to Mrs.