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Show HanksResignsCSU Board; Opposition To Legislation by Trustees President Hoyden C. Bruith-waito Bruith-waito reported to College of Southern Utah Board of Trustees Trus-tees in monthly meeting Thursday that a resignation .Mlbmilted by Board member Alarlon D. Hanks lias been accepted by Governor Ramp-ton. Ramp-ton. The Governor indicated that he will fill this vacancy at the earliest possible moment. mo-ment. In other action Board members mem-bers voted to oppose the passage pas-sage of Senate Bill 32 now There is a provision in the proposal that an increase collected col-lected as a result of Investment Invest-ment shall be credited to the General Fund of the state and not to the institution. Losses would be homo by the institution, insti-tution, however, but no gains would accrue from the investments. invest-ments. Total gifts and grants of $385,867 were accepted by the Board. This included a grant of $373,923 from the U. S. Department De-partment of Health, Educa- issue a supplemental contract to Cedar City architect L. Robert Ro-bert Gardner to do the additional ad-ditional design made possible by the Federal grant. Scholarships Schol-arships amounted to $550, athletic ath-letic awards were $330 and the library received books and periodicals to the value of $1,659.60 and $66 in cash. Per-mission Per-mission was also granted by the Board to investigate the possibility of adding a Seymour Sey-mour Reserve Reading Room in the new library to be furnished furn-ished and equipped by Dr. oeiore me uian Mate Legislature Legis-lature which would provide that the Board of Trustees will lose their present power to invest or reinvest funds bo-longing bo-longing to the institution. non ana " enaro to assist in construction of the new library. lib-rary. Total cost of the structure struc-ture will be $1,123,923. Per-mission Per-mission was granted to the Utah State Building Board to John L. Seymour, Las Vegas. Dr. Seymour has already donated don-ated a number of valuable books and opera scores to the library and this month presented pre-sented $2,395 worth of equipment equip-ment to the Division of Agriculture, Agri-culture, Biological Science and Forestry. Honorary Degrees The Board approved a statement state-ment that candidates for honorary hon-orary degrees would be suggested sug-gested by board members, fac ulty of the college, and citizens citi-zens at large. These recom-mendations recom-mendations will be made to the office of the college president pres-ident for preparation of biographical bio-graphical sketches. Final sel-ection sel-ection will then be made by the Board of Trustees. Board member Reed Farnsworth, Cedar Ce-dar City, urged that all recommendations re-commendations be submitted as soon as possible in order to meet the deadline for the approaching June commencement. commence-ment. Leaves Granted Providing qualified replac-ments replac-ments are available, sabbatical sabbati-cal leaves were granted to the following staff members for the coming school year; W. Craig Jones (two years for Ph.D. studies in political science); Dean of Students J. Willard Tingey to meet residence re-sidence requirements in a doctoral doc-toral program already in pro-gress pro-gress at Columbia Teachers College, New York; Dr. J. Paul Vorkink to accept a position as Visiting Professor at the University of Alaska; Kimball Jones, Ph.D. studies in ma-thematics ma-thematics at the University of Utah; Dr. Kent E. Myers, to pursue a program of research and writing; Dean of Instruction Instruc-tion J. Harry Plummer, for study of programs and methods meth-ods of foreign language instruction ins-truction at institutions in the U. S. and Latin America; D. C. Schmutz to travel in Latin America for two quarters to re-enforce re-enforce his teaching in geo-graphy; geo-graphy; Dr. Morris A. Shirts was granted leave for two months this coming summer to write a text or manual on the historical and philosophi-cal philosophi-cal foundations of education. Report on Library ' Report of the Library Fund Development to the Board indicated in-dicated that a number of leaders have been appointed to head up various aspects of the drive: Dee Cowan, Cedar City businessman, will direct the efforts of the Alumni Association; As-sociation; Steven Jones, Los Angeles, will spearhead the campus student drive and Dr. Gwyn Clark will lead activities activi-ties of the Faculty Association. |