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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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a report from the President of the University that, under Civil Service law and rules, written charges as grounds for discharge had been filed by the Director of Nonacademic Personnel against Patrick J. May, Plant Operating Engineer in the Physical Plant Department of the Chicago Undergraduate Division at Navy Pier, and that Mr. May was served with notice of the same on February 23, 1951. He had requested a hearing, and pursuant to due authorization by the Board, the President of the Board appointed the following committee to hear the charges and make a recommendation to the Board:

ROBERT P . HACKETT, Associate Dean of Commerce and Business Administration and Professor of Accountancy, Chicago Undergraduate Division, Chairman HAROLD W. BAILEY, Associate Dean of Liberal Arts and Sciences and Professor of Mathematics, Chicago Undergraduate Division WARREN O. BROWN, Dean of Men and Counselor in the Division of Special Services for W a r Veterans, Chicago Undergraduate Division CHARLES H . BOWMAN, Assistant Professor of Law, Urbana J. FRED KNIGHT, Purchasing Agent, Chicago Colleges

The committee's report and its recommendation are submitted herewith.

REPORT OF T H E HEARING COMMITTEE IN THE PROCEEDINGS FOR THE DISCHARGE OF PATRICK J. M A Y FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS CIVIL SERVICE

In this proceeding, the exhibits for the complainant, and the record, show 1. That formal charges were filed against Patrick J. May, an employee of the University of Illinois, classified as a Plant Operating Engineer under the University Civil Service, to discharge Patrick J. May from his position. These charges were filed in accordance with the statute on February 23, 1951. 2. That in accordance with Chapter 24J4, Section 38b, Illinois Revised Statutes, 1949, and with the University of Illinois Board of Trustees' Rules for the Classified Civil Service of the University of Illinois, Patrick J. May requested a hearing on such charges. 3. That Robert P . Hackett, Chairman, Harold W . Bailey, W a r r e n O. Brown, J. Fred Knight, and Charles H . Bowman were duly appointed by P a r k Livingston, President of the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois and acting under the authority of such Board, as a Committee to hold a hearing on such charges in accordance with the provisions of the statute. 4. T h a t a hearine before such Committee was held on the charges filed against Patrick J. May, on April 9, 1951, in the administrative offices of the University of Illinois, Navy Pier, Chicago, Illinois. After hearing and weighing the evidence introduced at the hearing, the Hearing Committee makes the following findings of facts: 1. T h a t Patrick J. May, hereinafter referred to as May, is and has been since January, 1947, an employee of the University of Illinois in the civil service classification of fireman and then as a plant operating engineer. 2. That while so employed by the University of Illinois and while on, in, and about the premises of the University at Navy Pier, Chicago, Illinois, 'May did, at various times beginning shortly after his employment in January, 1947, and continuing until February 23, 1951, receive from other persons on, in, or about such premises, sums of money varying in amount from ten cents to two dollars each, which May undertook to place by telephone with bookmakers in the city of Chicago as bets on race horses running at various tracks in the country. 3- That on February 7, 1951, May accepted from one Barry two dollars as a bet on Sunshine Rose to place in the seventh race at Hialeah P a r k ; that on February 23, 1951, May accepted from Barry two dollars as a bet on Old Bess in the second race at Hialeah Park.