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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1948
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1947] UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS 883 on the occupants of the Polk Street property to vacate by December 1. Court proceedings can be started at any time after those dates. In the interest of efficiency and economy, it is desirable to employ special counsel in Chicago to assume primary responsibility for these proceedings. The real estate firm of Farr and Company, which has represented the University in the acquisition of these properties, has recommended Joseph Lowitz, 111 West Washington Street, Chicago. The law firm of Chapman and Cutler concurs. The Legal Counsel has been authorized to retain Mr. Lowitz as counsel for this purpose. On motion of Mr. Davis, the action of the President of the University in authorizing the employment of special counsel was approved and confirmed. OFFER OF GUERNSEY HERD (4) Mrs. Chauncey McCormick, St. James Farm, Naperville, Illinois, who has one of the finest Guernsey herds in this part of the country, is planning to dispose of the herd and has offered to present it to the University of Illinois. The details of this have not been worked out, but the Dean of the College of Agriculture recommends that the Board of Trustees authorize acceptance of this gift if upon further investigation it is found acceptable. I concur in this recommendation. On motion of Dr. Meyer, the President of the University was authorized to accept this gift as recommended. COLLEGE ADVISORY COMMITTEES IN AGRICULTURE AND EDUCATION (5) For many years some of the colleges and other divisions of the University have had advisory committees appointed by the Board of Trustees. F o r example, the College of Agriculture and the Agricultural Experiment Station have an Advisor}' Committee for each department and a general committee for the College. The functions of these committees are of a specialized nature. The members are selected because they are experts in their respective fields and they are called on to advise the departments and the College on questions of public policy. The committees assist in keeping the educational and research programs "in tune" with economic developments and public needs. At the meeting of the Board of Trustees on August 5 there were presented recommendations for appointments of Advisory Committees in the Colleges of Agriculture, Commerce, and Veterinary Medicine. T h e question was again raised about the status of these committees with the suggestion that the college and departmental committees should be subcommittees of the Citizens Committee and selected from its membership. In my judgment, this would not work satisfactorily. It would be difficult to select from the present membership of the Citizens Committee all of the committees desired by the various colleges and be sure of having the experts needed without greatly enlarging the Citizens Committee. The question is largely one of procedure. The same thing can be accomplished by adding the people whose services are desired on the college committees to the Citizens Committee and assigning them to specific departmental or college committees. I would not add anyone to the Citizens Committee for such an assignment unless he is recommended by the college. Accordingly, I submit herewith the following nominations for additional appointments to the Citizens Committee and recommend the assignment of these men to the college advisory committees as specified (new members are indicated by an asterisk) : COLLEGE O F AGRICULTURE Agricultural Engineering *W. H . BEAUMAN, Tunnel Hill GILBERT W . BROWN, Geneseo ROYAL OAKES, Bluffs T. J. SHAMBAUGH, J R . , Oakley Agricultural Economics J O H N P . H A N N A , Geneseo FRED E. HERNDON, Macomb *EARL M. H U G H E S , Woodstock ERNEST D. LAWRENCE, Danvers H . H . MCLAUGHLTN, Salem
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