Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1954 [PAGE 1224]

EXTRACTED TEXT FROM PAGE:

1954]

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE

1221

Mr. Herrick, Chairman of the Committee on Agriculture, reported informally on the status of the search for a Dean of the College of Agriculture, Director of the Agricultural Experiment Station, and Director of the Extension Service in Agriculture and Home Economics.

REPORT OF ALUMNI COMMITTEE

Mr. Bissell, Chairman of the Alumni Committee, brought up for discussion a letter (referred by the President of the Board to his Committee) from the President of the University of Illinois Medical Alumni Association commenting on the lack of satisfactory advisory relationships between the Association and the Board of Trustees with particular reference to matters of policy relating to the College of Medicine. President Morey offered some suggestions for improving these relationships. On motion of Mr. Bissell, the President of the University was requested to arrange a conference with the President and other officers of the Medical Alumni Association and University officials including members of the Board of Trustees Committees on Alumni Affairs and the Chicago Departments.

CLASSIFIED GOVERNMENT RESEARCH SECURITY CLEARANCES FOR TRUSTEES

The Board of Trustees has declared, and has made this a matter of record, that its Executive Committee shall act for the Board on any contracts, and business incidental thereto, dealing with classified material relating to government research, so that only the members of the Executive Committee will be required to have security clearances and to avoid the necessity of securing such clearances for all the members of the Board. It now appears that in order to make the certification acceptable to government authorities and particularly the Office of Naval Research it will be necessary to adopt the following supplementary declaration:

The Board of Trustees further declares that only Trustees P a r k Livingston, U. S. Citizen, Herbert B. Megran, U. S. Citizen, and Frances B. Watkins, U. S. Citizen, who are the present members of the Executive Committee, will have access to classified security information, and that Trustees William G Stratton, U. S. Citizen, Vernon L. Nickell, U. S. Citizen, W i r t Herrick, U. S. Citizen, Robert Z. Hickman, U. S. Citizen, Harold E. Grange, U. S. Citizen, Wayne A. Johnston, U. S. Citizen, Cushman B. Bissell, U. S. Citizen, and Doris S. Holt, U. S. Citizen, will not have access to classified security information.

The Secretary of the Board requests this supplementary declaration and that he be authorized to send certified copies to the government agencies concerned. On motion of Mr. Bissell, this declaration was adopted and the Secretary was authorized to inform the government agencies concerned of the Board's action.

DISTRIBUTION OF BIENNIAL REPORT

As required by law, copies of the biennial reports of the University of Illinois, consisting of the transactions of the Board of Trustees, are sent to the Governor of Illinois. The latest published report (for 19501952) was sent to the Governor on December 19, 1952. Although not