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U N I V E R S I T Y OF I L L I N O I S

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AWARD OF HONORARY DEGREE FOR DR. ALLAN NEVINS Upon recommendation of the University Senate, and with the concurrence of the President of the University, the Executive Committee has authorized the conferring of the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws (LL.D.) on Dr. Allan Nevins, of the Class of 1912, Professor of History at Columbia University, at the Commencement Exercises June 21, 1953, at Urbana-Champaign. Dr. Nevins will deliver the commencement address on that occasion. MEETING O F THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ON MAY 1 5 , 1 9 5 3 A meeting of the Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees was held in the Illini Union Building, Urbana, on Friday, May IS, 1953, at 4:00 p.m. President Park Livingston, Chairman, and Mrs. Frances B. Watkins were present. Mr. Herbert B. Megran was absent. Also present were Provost Coleman R. Griffith, Comptroller Lloyd Morey, and Mr. A. J. Janata, Secretary of the Board and Clerk of the Committee. The Secretary of the Board presented a recommendation from the University Committee on Patents, in which the President of the University has concurred, that a disclosure by Professor L. F. Audrieth of the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, which has possibilities of commercial development, be released to the University of Illinois Foundation. This is a development of a synthesis of thiosemicarhazide and preparation of thiocarbohydrazide which process may be commercially valuable in the manufacture of agriculture chemicals such as insecticides, herbicides, and fungicides. A great deal of development by some industry is necessary before the commercial possibilities of this process can be determined. It is further recommended that the University of Illinois Foundation negotiate with an industry which would pay the cost of a patent application and undertake the necessary development work in return for a license upon terms and conditions which will also be the subject of negotiations. Further details regarding these recommendations are contained in a report from the University Patent Committee which has been filed with the Secretary of the Board for record. On motion of Mrs. Watkins, these recommendations were approved and the University of Illinois Foundation was requested to proceed accordingly. Mr. Megran subsequently concurred in writing in the action of the Committee. The Committee adjourned.

A. J. JANATA P A R K LIVINGSTON

Clerk SECRETARY'S REPORTS

Chairman

The Secretary presented for record the following lists: (1) appointments made by the President; (2) graduate fellows; (3) resignations and declinations; (4) leaves of absence.

APPOINTMENTS MADE BY THE PRESIDENT

(The date in parentheses is the date on which the appointment was made by the President of the University. C = College; S = Station; E = Extension.)

ABRAHAMS, ELIHU, Research Associate in Physics ( C ) , one year beginning September 1, 1953, $4800 (4-23-53). BECKER, MILTON J., Research Assistant in the Department of Public Health, in the College of Medicine, four months beginning May I, 1953, $4200 a year, supersedes (4-17-53)BOAND, ARTHUR V., JR., Research Associate in Medicine, in the College of Medicine, five months beginning April 1, 1953, $5000 a year (4"23;53). BROCKRIEDE, W A Y N E E., Instructor in Speech, for the academic year beginning September I, 1953, $4400 (4-15-53) • BROWN, FREDERICK, Research Associate in Physics ( C ) , June 16-August 15, 1953, $400 a month (5-13-53) • CAMPBELL, JAMES A., Professor of Medicine ( R u s h ) , in the College of Medicine, July 1, 1953-August 31, 1954, without salary (4-18-53).