Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1978
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1978] UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS 529 University of Illinois, through extraordinary service or significant benefaction, have been of unusual significance. The Distinguished Service Medallion Committee, consisting of five trustees, including the president of the board, ex officio, now recommends as recipient of the Trustees Distinguished Service Medallion for 1978 the following individual: JOHN BARDEEN — physicist, electrical engineer, faculty member at the University from 1951 until his retirement in 1975, he has earned international distinction for his contributions to basic research in electronics and in the theory of superconductivity. Twice a winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics and the recipient of numerous other honors, he has brought great honor to the University. The award would be conferred at the Commencement Exercises at Urbana on May 21, 1978. Presented by the Committee for the Trustees Distinguished Award: JANE HAYES RADER, RALPH C. HAHN Chairman Service Medallion GEORGE W. HOWARD I I I , ex officio EARL L. NEAL . NINA T. SHEPHERD O n m o t i o n of Mrs. R a d e r , this r e c o m m e n d a t i o n w a s approved. BUSINESS PRESENTED BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNIVERSITY President's Report President Corbally presented a report o n selected topics of current i n terest, copies of w h i c h were distributed a t t h e meeting, a n d a copy w a s filed w i t h the secretary of the board. REGULAR AGENDA T h e board considered t h e following reports a n d r e c o m m e n d a t i o n s from the president of the University. Award of Certified Public Accountant Certificates (1) The Committee on Accountancy recommends that the certificate of certified public accountant be awarded to 748 candidates who passed the standard written examination in November 1977 in Illinois and who have fulfilled all other legal requirements under Sections 1, 2, and 3 of the Illinois Accountancy Act of 1943, as amended. The names of the candidates are filed with the secretary. The Committee on Accountancy also recommends that the certificate of certified public accountant be awarded, under Section 5 of the Illinois Accountancy Act of 1943, as amended, to seven candidates who have presented evidence that they are holders of valid and unrevoked certified public accountant certificates obtained by passing a standard written examination in another state or territory of the United States and who qualify in all other respects under this provision of the law. The names of the candidates are filed with the secretary. The Committee on Accountancy, pursuant to Rule 16(d) of the Regulations, also recommends that the certificate of certified public accountant be awarded to fourteen candidates who wish to transfer the examination credit earned by passing the standard written examination in another state and who have fulfilled
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