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Show Westminster College Faculty To Be Presented Pay Boost Westminster College faculty salary raises and contributions to the college for the first five months of this school years of more than double those during the corresponding period in 1955 were announced Wednesday by Dr. Frank E. Duddy, Jr., president of the college. Action on the raise was taken Tuesday afternoon by the Board of Trustees. The salaries of the 26 full-time faculty members , now receiving less than $6,000 a year are raised at the rate of $200 per year effective effec-tive with the January salary checks. This means that faculty members will receive an additional addi-tional $100 for the remainder of this school year to be divided among the six remaining salary checks. Raises are not to be given at this time to staff members, part-time faculty members or to those now receiving $6,000 or more. A substantial part of the additional addi-tional funds necessary to cover the raises will be derived from income in-come from the Ford Foundation grant, the rest to be made up from college funds. The increase was endorsed unanimously by the Finance Fi-nance committee and the Board of Trustees as a necessary beginning in the direction of raising salaries of all college personnel. An interim report given by Dr. Duddy to the board on the status of the present short-term drive to raise $60,000 more per year in gifts than the college has been getting so that the current operating operat-ing budget may be underwritten, revealed that since November 1, when the drive started, some $32,-000 $32,-000 has been raised. This includes $18,386 in cash and approximately $14,0000 in stock which has not yet been sold. Currently a committee com-mittee of some 50 business and professional men are engaged in making more than 400 solicitations, solicita-tions, and it is reported that prospects pros-pects are excellent for raising in the near future approximately $10,000 more to add to the $32,000 total. Gifts have come from 49 corporations cor-porations and 349 individuals, 131 of whom live in Salt Lake City, since July 1, 1956. Forty-eight of the donors, business and individuals indi-viduals have given to the college this year for the first time, and T3 nearly 150 former donors have their contributions. For the first five months of this school year all contributions total nearly $69.0000 as against a little less than $31,0000 for the period July to December, 1955. At the board meeting Tuesday, Dr. Warren S. Bainbridge, pastor of the First Methodist Church, Salt Lake City, was elected to membership replacing Dr. John Crowe who has moved to Kansas City, Mo. The board expressed unanimous approval of the progress of the financial drive and of the generally gen-erally improved financial condition condi-tion of the college. |