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BOARD OF T R U S T E E S

[February 19

MINUTES APPROVED T h e Secretary presented for approval the press proofs of the minutes of the Board of Trustees meetings of M a r c h 2 1 , 1973, through February 20, 1974, copies of which h a d previously been sent to die Board. O n motion of Mr. Swain, these minutes were approved as printed on pages 179 to 467 inclusive. RECOGNITION, RETIRING TRUSTEES Mrs. R a d e r asked to be recognized and she, followed by Trustees Livingston and H a h n , presented, respectively, resolutions in recognition of the services of retiring Trustees: President Earl M . Hughes, Trustee Timothy W. Swain, and Trustee Russell W. Steger. Resolutions, adopted unanimously by the Board, are as follows: To Earl M. Hughes Your eighteen years of service on the Board of Trustees have marked one of the most dynamic periods in the University's history. I t has been a time of rapid change, new challenges, new University obligations, and the development of a cluster of complex alterations in institutional relationships. During these years, you have occupied a position of unusual leadership. For six successive terms you served as President of the Board, covering a time of intense national and campus unrest and, more recently, retrenchment and economic uncertainty. Additionally, you have served as the University's representative on the Illinois Board of Higher Education and as President of the State Universities Retirement System. Perhaps most significant of all, you conducted with poise and dignity the search and selection processes by which the institution chose its thirteenth President, Dr. John E. Corbally, in 1971. In all of these endeavors, you drew upon personal resources and the sureness of touch that has characterized all of your service to the University. As the holder of an earned doctorate, you have understood the hard discipline of research and the benefits that it can provide for the society that supports it. You have consistently sought balance and perspective in the work of the University and you have been an exemplar of those qualities. You have given of your time and your talent in an example of dedication and selflessness rarely witnessed. T h e President and other administrative officers of the University join with the Board in this tribute to you and in extending best wishes to you and Mrs. Hughes. T h e Board of Trustees directs that this resolution be incorporated in the minutes of today's meeting to become a part of the official public record, and that a suitable copy be given you as a permanent reminder of the esteem and affection in which you are held. To Timothy W. Swain T h e Board of Trustees hereby records with profound appreciation your twenty years of service as a member of this Board, a tenure exceeded by only two other persons elected in the history of the institution. Appointed to the Board in January 1955, you were elected to the first of three terms in November of 1956 and served as its President from December 1967 to March 1969. Your background in law and business has enabled you to make a permanent contribution to the affairs of the University and the work of this Board. You have