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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1952
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642 BOARD OF TRUSTEES [March 13 RESOLUTIONS OF APPRECIATION OF SERVICES OF M E S S R S . KENNEY E. W I L L I A M S O N , WALTER W . MCLAUGHLIN, AND KARL A. MEYER Mr. Fornof offered the following resolution which was adopted. To KENNEY E. WILLIAMSON The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois expresses its grateful appreciation of your services during the past six years, and for your previous service in the year 1940, as a member of this Board. During the years of 1949 to 1951, as President of the Board of Trustees you administered this office with dignity and statesmanship. You gave generously — far beyond the call of duty — of your time and energy to the work of this office. It is a splendid example of unselfish public service. As Chairman of the Finance Committee for four years you performed a conspicuously useful service. The University of Illinois and the Retirement System have been fortunate in having a man of your experience serving in capacities where your special business talents have been invaluable. The President and other administrative officers of the University have expressed their desire to join the members of the Board of Trustees in commemorating this occasion and in extending their best wishes to you and Mrs. Williamson for the years that lie ahead. The Board of Trustees directs that this resolution be incorporated in the minutes of today's meeting to become a part of the official public record, and that a suitable copy be given you as a permanent reminder of the esteem and affection in which you are held. Given at Chicago, Illinois On the thirteenth day of March, one thousand nine hundred and fifty-one, and In the eighty-fourth year of the University. Mr. Herrick offered the following resolution which was adopted. To WALTER W. MCLAUGHLIN The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois expresses its grateful appreciation of your services during the past six years as a member of this Board. In your own quiet, efficient way, you served as Chairman of the Civil Service and Employees Committee, as Chairman of the Committee on Agriculture, as Chairman of the General Policy Committee, and as Chairman of the Finance Committee. These assignments have required much of your time and energy, which you have given unstintedly and graciously. The services you have rendered in these posts have been invaluable. The University of Illinois and the people of the state are fortunate in having had on this Board a man of your talents, experience, and high ideals of public service. The President and other administrative officers of the University desire to join the members of the Board of Trustees in commemorating this occasion and in extending to you and Mrs. McLaughlin their best wishes for the years that lie ahead. The Board of Trustees directs that this resolution be incorporated in the minutes of today's meeting to become a part of the official public record, and that a suitable copy be given you as a permanent reminder of the esteem and affection in which you are held. Given at Chicago, Illinois On the thirteenth day of March, one thousand nine hundred and fifty-one, and In the eighty-fourth year of the University. At this point, Mr. Livingston asked that Mr. Hickman take the chair. Mr. Livingston offered the following resolution which was adopted. To KARL A. MEYER The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois expresses its grateful appreciation of your eighteen continuous years of faithful, distinguished service as a member of this Board and as its President for one term. Few trustees have served the University so long, and none with greater devotion to the University's best interests. Your accomplishments and services on this Board are too long to be enumerated but let it be said that they include the chairmanship for nine years of the Committee on the Chicago Departments, the chairmanship fof
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