Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1954 [PAGE 1138]

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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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8. ROWLAND RATHBUN, Assistant Professor of Architecture, in the Department of Architecture and Art, Chicago Undergraduate Division, beginning September I, 1953, at an annual salary of $5,600 ( D ) . 9. RAYMOND E. ROBERTSON, Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, College of Medicine, beginning September 1, 1953, without salary ( D Y ) . 10. JEANNE SPURLOCK, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, College of Medicine, beginning October I, 1953, at an annual salary of $5,76o (DY80). O n m o t i o n of M r . J o h n s t o n , t h e s e a p p o i n t m e n t s w e r e c o n f i r m e d . UNIVERSITY O F ILLINOIS CITIZENS COMMITTEE (4) In 1941, on recommendation of the President of the University, the Board of Trustees established a General Advisory Committee to advise the President and the Board on matters relating to the welfare of the University, its development and services to the state, and on questions of general public policy. Subsequently, the name was changed to the University of Illinois Citizens Committee. Major Lenox R. Lohr, President of the Museum of Science and Industry, was Chairman of the Committee. For the past four years the Committee has not been active and the terms of all members have expired. I recommend that this Committee be reactivated and reconstituted as follows: General Purpose A Citizens Committee, made up of public-spirited and opinion-forming citizens, is established to perform an important function in the life of the University and make valuable contributions to public education in Illinois. The Committee will give officers of the University an opportunity to inform a group of important citizens of this state, who are not otherwise intimately connected with the University, of its accomplishments in instruction, research, and public service, of its aspirations and needs. With this knowledge members of the Citizens Committee can convey information about the University to their associates and thus interpret its functions to more people of Illinois. Through an Executive Committee of nine to be appointed by the Board of Trustees from the general membership, the Citizens Committee will advise the President of the University and the Board of Trustees on specific matters referred to it for opinion. The Committee as a whole can also serve as a "sounding board" for new ideas and thus reflect the attitude of the people of Illinois toward their University. Membership and Appointments 1. This Committee will be composed of citizens of Illinois nominated by the President of the University and appointed by the Board of Trustees to serve for a period of three years. 2. Included in its membership, in an ex officio capacity, will be present and past members of the Board of Trustees, officers of the University's Alumni Association, officers of the Dad's Association, and officers of the Mother's Association. 3. There will be an Executive Committee of nine appointed by the Board of Trustees from the general membership upon recommendation of the President of the University. 4. Meetings of the Citizens Committee and of the Executive Committee will be held on call of the President of the University. 5. There shall be no specific limit to the size of the Committee. (For the present it is proposed that the Committee will number about two hundred including ex officio members.) 6. The Secretary of the Board of Trustees will serve as ex officio Secretary of the Citizens Committee and the Executive Committee. If the foregoing recommendation and plan are approved, I further recommend that the Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees be authorized to act for the Board upon nominations by the President of the University for appointments to the Citizens Committee and to its Executive Committee. All such appointments will be reported to the Board for record. O n m o t i o n of M r . H e r r i c k , t h i s r e c o m m e n d a t i o n a n d p l a n w e r e a p proved, a n d a n a s s i g n m e n t of $ 2 , 5 0 0 w a s m a d e f r o m t h e G e n e r a l R e s e r v e F u n d f o r t h e fiscal y e a r 1 9 5 3 - 1 9 5 4 f o r t h e e x p e n s e s of t h e