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statements supplementing this report on plans to deal with a possible epidemic of the Asian flu. On motion of Mr. Nickell, the Board voted to approve the steps which have been taken.

APPOINTMENT TO COMMITTEE OF DELEGATES ADVISORY TO ILLINOIS COMMISSION OF HIGHER EDUCATION An Act of the Seventieth General Assembly of Illinois approved July 9, 1957, created a permanent "Illinois Commission of Higher Education" of nine persons, appointed by the Governor for specified terms. The members of the Commission of Higher Education a r e : Term Expiring February, ig$g PAUL A. GEIGSBY, Superintendent, Community High School, District No. 9, Granite City, Illinois LENOX R. LOHE, President, Museum of Science and Industry, 57th Street and South Lake Shore Drive, Chicago 37, Illinois OTTO STEFFEY, President, Illinois Agricultural Association, 43 East Ohio Street, Chicago n , Illinois Term Expiring February, 1961 WALTER E. HANSON, Consulting Engineer, Collins & Rice, 1622 South Fifth Street, Springfield, Illinois FRED W. HEITMANN, JR., Vice-President and Director, Northwest National Bank of Chicago, 3985 North Milwaukee Avenue, Chicago 41, Illinois RICHARD STENGEL, Attorney, Coyle, Stengel & Gilman, Cleaveland Building, Rock Island, Illinois (former State Representative) Term Expiring February, 1963 WILLIAM MCKNIGHT, JR., Publishing Executive, McKnight & McKnight Publishing Co., Towanda Avenue and Route 66, Bloomington, Illinois WALTER W. MCLAUGHLIN, Vice-President and Manager of F a r m Service Department, Citizens National Bank, Decatur, Illinois (former Director of the State Department of Agriculture of Illinois) DEL RUTHERFORD, Member and former President of Mount Vernon Community College Board of Education, Box 512, Mount Vernon, Illinois Honorary Member VERNON L. NICKELL, Superintendent of Public Instruction, 302 South State Office Building, Springfield, Illinois The Act provides that the Commission shall have the power and it shall be its duty: "a. To analyze the present and future aims, needs and requirements of higher education in the State of Illinois. "b. T o study requests to the Governor or to the General Assembly for appropriations of state funds for higher education for any purpose or in any form whatsoever, and to make recommendations thereon to the Governor and the General Assembly. "c. To study the means and methods of financing the operational and physical plant requirements of higher education. "d. T o study the role of and the need for different types of institutions and programs of higher education in the State of Illinois. "e. To compare at its discretion higher education in the State of Illinois with other slates. "f. T o advise the Governor when the Governor may from time to time request regarding any area of higher education. "g. T o submit a written report on or before the first Monday in February of each year of its activities and recommendations made during the preceding calendar year to the Governor, and the members of the General Assembly. "h. T o make rules, regulations and by-laws, not inconsistent with the law, for its meetings, procedures and the execution of the duties imposed upon it by this Act." The Act also provides that the Commission shall be advised in at least one meeting each quarter by a Committee of Delegates. T h e Committee shall be