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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1976
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250 BOARD OF TRUSTEES [April 16 MINUTES APPROVED The Secretary presented for approval the press proofs of the minutes of the Board of Trustees meetings of March 20, 1974, through June 19, 1974, copies of which had previously been sent to the Board. On motion of Mr. Livingston, these minutes were approved as printed on pages 469 to 608 inclusive. MEETINGS OF BOARD COMMITTEES President Neal announced there would be meetings of the Student Welfare and Activities Committee and the Finance Committee at the conclusion of the regular agenda and before the Executive Session. BUSINESS PRESENTED BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNIVERSITY President's Reports President Corbally presented a report on selected topics of current interest, copies of which were distributed at the meeting, and a copy was filed with the Secretary of the Board. Presentation, Illinois Agricultural Experiment Station Centennial Medallion President Corbally called on Dean Orville Bentley of the College of Agriculture at the Urbana campus who made a presentation of the Medallion and addressed the Board as follows: I am pleased to present this medallion to the University of Illinois Board of Trustees. T h e medallion was struck to commemorate 100 years of service to agriculture and to all people of our nation on the part of the agricultural experiment stations of America. T h e first experiment station was established in Connecticut in 1875. And while the Illinois station was not established until 1888, Illinois people played vital roles in the development of the land-grant college establishment and the conception of that first research facility in Connecticut. Citizens of Illinois, led by Jonathan B. Turner of Jacksonville, Illinois, were prominent in drawing up the bill that led to the movement of land-grant universities in 1862. Illinois people were also leaders in the campaign to establish state agricultural experiment stations. A quote from a U.S. Department of Agriculture publication on the history of state agricultural experiment stations documents this fact: " T h e first campaign to awaken the awareness that each agricultural college needed an experiment station took form, soon after the ending of the Civil War, at the newly founded Illinois Industrial University." And I am certain that the people who held the positions you hold here today were deeply involved because the state charter of the Illinois Industrial University required that the corresponding secretary of the Board of Trustees administer a state-wide program of farmer-conducted tests of specified field crops. Subsequently, in 1871, the Board purchased for agricultural research a 200-acre farm, the center of which is now the famous Morrow Plots, a National Historic Site. It is impossible to document all the contributions the Illinois Agricultural Experiment Station has made to the people of this nation and, through international programs, to people throughout the world. But basic among its many other
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