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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1954
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1954] UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS 1219 Secretary of the Board as a part of the record of today's meeting. This record shows good and sufficient cause for the action taken by the Board of Accountancy 0{ Colorado in revoking the certificate issued to Mr. McCarthy by that state and the same cause impels the University Committee to recommend that the Board of Trustees of the University also revoke his Illinois certificate for the same cause. On motion of Mr. Herrick, the Board made and entered the following order: It is ordered by the University of Illinois and the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois on this 19th day of January, 1954, that, for good and sufficient cause shown to the satisfaction of said Board of Trustees, Illinois Certified Public Accountant Certificate No. 1500 issued to Mervyn L. McCarthy by the University of Illinois on the 14th day of March, 1939, be, and the same is hereby, in all things, revoked and cancelled, and that the Secretary of this Board be, and he is hereby, authorized to give due notice of this action to all interested parties and to take any and all other steps which may be necessary or appropriate to its consummation. T h e vote on this m o t i o n w a s : A y e , M r . Bissell, M r . H e r r i c k , M r . Hickman, M r s . H o l t , M r . J o h n s t o n , M r . L i v i n g s t o n , M r . M e g r a n , M r . Nickell, M r s . W a t k i n s ; n o , n o n e ; a b s e n t , M r . G r a n g e , M r . S t r a t t o n . HENRY PERLY RUSK At this point, Mr. Herrick, Chairman of the Committee on Agriculture, offered the following tribute: The Board of Trustees records with deep sorrow the passing on January 9, 1954, of Henry Perly Rusk, Dean of the College of Agriculture, Director of the Agricultural Experiment Station, Director of the Extension Service in Agriculture and Home Economics, and Professor of Cattle Husbandry, Emeritus. Dean Rusk was born in Rantoul, Illinois, on July 19, 1884. In his early youth he lived in Champaign County and later in Indiana and Missouri. Following graduation from Valparaiso University and the University of Missouri he taught at Missouri and at Purdue University. H e joined the faculty of the University of Illinois in 1910 as Associate in Animal Husbandry. In 1922 he became head of the Department of Animal Husbandry (now the Department of Animal Science) and served as Head of that Department for seventeen years. In 1939 he was appointed Dean of the College of Agriculture and Director of the Experiment Station and the Extension Service, which positions he held until his retirement on September 1, 1952. Few men have served the University of Illinois so long and with such distinction as did Dean Rusk. With his passing another glorious chapter in the history of the College of Agriculture is closed. One of the foremost agriculturists of our time, Dean Rusk received many honors indicative of national and international recognition. H e was a great teacher and scientist, a first-rate administrator of integrity, courage, and sympathetic understanding. It is unnecessary to list his accomplishments in these areas. In all of them he set a high standard of service on state and national levels. His achievements are well known and will long be remembered. No man can have a greater monument than the gratitude and appreciation of his fellow citizens. The Board directs that this tribute to a great agricultural statesman be recorded in the proceedings of today's meeting and that its Secretary send suitable copies to members of the family of Dean Henry Perly Rusk. This tribute was unanimously adopted. EXECUTIVE SESSION At this point an executive session having been requested it was so ordered for consideration of the following matters of business. DR. LLOYD MOREY ELECTED PRESIDENT OF THE UNIVERSITY Mr. Megran presented a recommendation from his special Committee on the Selection of a President of the University that Dr. Lloyd Morey be elected President of the University effective February 1, 1954, and
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