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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

[September 15

Acting Deanship of the College of Applied Life Studies, Urbana

(6) T h e Chancellor at the Urbana-Champaign campus has recommended the appointment of Dr. Phyllis J. Hill, presently Associate Professor of Physical Education and Associate Dean for Undergraduate Programs, as Acting Dean of the College of Applied Life Studies, beginning August 1, 1976, on a twelve-month service basis, at an annual salary of $30,000. Dr. Hill will continue to hold the rank of Associate Professor of Physical Education on indefinite tenure. Professor Hill will succeed Dr. Cyrus Mayshark who was killed in an airplane crash on July 24, 1976. Professor Hill was nominated after consultation with the Executive Committee of the college and the departmental administrative officers. The Vice President for Academic Affairs concurs. I have approved this appointment and request confirmation of my action.

On motion of Mr. Livingston, this appointment was confirmed.

University Librarian, Chicago Circle

(7) The Chancellor at Chicago Circle has recommended the appointment of Dr. Beverly P. Lynch, presently Executive Secretary of the Association of College and Research Libraries, American Library Association, Chicago, as Professor of Library Administration on indefinite tenure and University Librarian at Chicago Circle, beginning January 1, 1977, on a twelve-month service basis, at an annual salary of $38,000. The appointment will fill the vacancy created by the resignation of William B. Ernst, Jr., effective August 3 1 , 1976. Professor Mary Lynn McCree will serve as Acting University Librarian from September 1 to December 31, 1976. The recommendation is made with the advice of a search committee 1 and after consultation with the Senate Committee on Academic Services, the Library Staff Association, and the faculty and department heads of the Library. The Vice President for Academic Affairs concurs. I recommend approval.

On motion of Mr. Howard, this appointment was approved.

Headship of the Department of Physics, Chicago Circle

(8) T h e Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences has recommended to the Chancellor at Chicago Circle the appointment of Dr. Paul M. Raccah, formerly Professor of Physics at Yeshiva University, as Professor of Physics on indefinite tenure and Head of the Department of Physics beginning September 1, 1976, on an academic-year service basis, at an annual salary of $36,000. Professor Raccah succeeds Professor Swaminatha Sundaram, who has served as head since September 1, 1968. The nomination of Professor Raccah is supported by the consultative committee 2 and by the faculty of the department. The Chancellor has approved the recommendation, and the Vice President for Academic Affairs concurs.

1 Karl F. Otto, Jr., Professor of German, Assistant Dean, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and Chairman of the Senate Committee on Academic Services, Chairman; Eligah Armstrong, Audio-Visual Aids Technician III, Library; Irvin Heckmann. Professor of Management; Barbara Hycnar, Acting Head of Cataloging and Assistant Catalog Librarian in the Library; John^Lussenhop, Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences; Mary Lynn McCree, Manuscript Librarian and Curator, Jane Addams' Hull House; Robert Moran, Serials Librarian; Yuri Nakata, Documents Librarian; Saeed Rezakhany, undergraduate student. * James Kouvel, Professor of Physics, Chairman; James Garland, Professor of Physics; Stephan J. Krieger, Associate Professor of Physics; Vera Pless, Professor of Mathematics and in the Computer Center; George Uslenghi, Professor of Information Engineering; and Professor Thomas H. Fields, Associate Laboratory Director for High Energy Physics at Argonne National Laboratory.