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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

[January 19

These two goals are not incompatible. Like a solution in a chemistry laboratory, they will separate unless we keep shaking the container by reexamining our priorities and goals to keep these two objectives before us. The months ahead will be trying times, crucial to the future of this University. Public appropriations are in short supply, and this problem continues at a time when we have survived five years of underfunding by dint of ingenuity, reallocation, and retrenchment. The University is simultaneously asked to assume new and expanded responsibilities without commensurate funds. We must reeducate the people of this state to the importance of the work done here in teaching, research, and public service, so we can regain some of the priorities in public funding that have eroded in past years. In closing, I look forward to the challenge of the year ahead and pledge to work to meet it. Thank you for your confidence. Executive Committee Mr. Howard asked for nominations for the Executive Committee. Mr. Neal nominated Mrs. Rader, and Mr. Forsyth nominated M r . Neal to serve as members of the Executive Committee, with the President of the Board as Chairman, ex officio. O n motion of Mr. Livingston, the nominations were closed, and the Secretary was instructed to cast a unanimous ballot of the Board for the election of Mrs. R a d e r and Mr. Neal to the Executive Committee. T h e ballot was so cast, a n d Mrs. R a d e r and M r . Neal were declared elected members of the Executive Committee, to serve until the next annual meeting of the Board in January 1978, or until their successors shall have been elected. Secretary, Comptroller, and University Counsel of the Board President Corbally reported that, in accord with the Bylaws, his advice to the Board of Trustees was that the three incumbents — Earl W. Porter, Secretary of the Board; Ronald W. Brady, Comptroller of the Board; and James J. Costello, University Counsel — be reelected. M r . Livingston moved that a unanimous ballot be cast, and the three incumbents be reelected. T h e nominations were closed, a unanimous ballot was so cast, and the three incumbents — Mr. Porter, Mr. Brady, and Mr. Costello — were declared elected Secretary, Comptroller, and University Counsel of the Board, respectively, to serve until the next annual meeting of the Board in January 1978, or until their successors shall have been elected. Treasurer of the Board Mr. H a h n nominated Mr. R . R. Manchester, a Vice President of the First National Bank of Chicago, as Treasurer of the Board. T h e nominations were closed, and the Secretary was instructed to record the unanimous ballot of the Board for Mr. Manchester as Treasurer of the Board for a two-year term in accordance with the statutory provision for a biennial term for Treasurer. T h e ballot was so cast, and Mr. Manchester was declared elected Treasurer to serve until the annual