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1290 BOARD OF TRUSTEES [June 19
APPOINTMENT OF HEAD OF DEPARTMENT OF
PHYSICAL EDUCATION FOR MEN
(25) Dean S. C. Staley of the College of Physical Education has also been serving
as Head of the Department of Physical Education for Men since the change in
status of the School of Physical Education to College and its reorganization into
departments. He has asked to be relieved of the headship and has recommended
the appointment of Dr. C. O. Jackson, Professor of Physical Education for Men,
as Professor of Physical Education for Men on indefinite tenure and Head of the
Department beginning September 1, 1958, at an annual salary of $11,000 on "A"
basis.
This appointment has been recommended after consultation with all members
of the Department of professorial rank and is concurred in by the Vice-President
and Provost and the Dean of the Graduate College.
I recommend approval.
On motion of Mr. Nickell, this appointment was approved.
CONVEYANCE OF LAND TO GRADE SCHOOL DISTRICT 532
PUTNAM, MARSHALL, AND LASALLE COUNTIES
AND TO McKENDREE COLLEGE
(26) The Head of the Department of Agronomy and the Director of the Agricultural
Experiment Station recommend that the experimental fields at Lebanon
and McNabb, Illinois, be discontinued. It is the judgment of the staff of the
Department that all of the experimental data and other scientific information it is
possible to get under present conditions on these two fields have been obtained. The
fields have not been used since April I, 1958. Accordingly, the Department was
authorized to abandon them and confirmation of this action is requested.
The field at Lebanon was granted to the University in 1910 for experimental
use. The field at McNabb was originally leased from John Swaney for the period
from 1907 to 1999 at a nominal rental of $36 a year. By his will this property
became part of a trust created by him for the benefit of the school district in
Magnolia Township, Putnam County, Illinois, in 1918. To settle the estate, the
land was sold in 1950 subject to the L'niversity's lease. It was purchased by the
Marshall-Putnam Counties Farm Bureau which in turn deeded it to the University
with the provision that the land revert to School District 532, Putnam, Marshall
and LaSalle Counties, after it ceased to be used as an experimental field for two
consecutive years. Since both of these fields were acquired by gift without cost to
the University (except for the nominal rental paid for the McNabb Field) with
the provision that they would automatically pass to the grantees if not used for
experimental purposes for a period of two years, I recommend that the title of the
field at Lebanon revert to McKendree College and that the title to the field at
McNabb be passed to the John Swaney Consolidated Grade School District 532 of
Putnam, Marshall, and LaSalle Counties in Illinois, as provided in the deeds
transferring the fields to the University. I further recommend that the Secretary
and the Comptroller of the Board be authorized to execute the necessary quitclaim
deeds on the tracts described as follows:
Six (6) acres of land being part of the East half (E 1 ^) of the Southwest
quarter (SWK) of Section Fifteen (15), Township Thirty-one (31) North,
Range One (1) West of the Third Principal Meridian, commencing at a point
Twenty (20) Rods South and Eighty (80) Rods East of the Northwest
corner of said Quarter Section, thence South Twenty (20) Rods, thence East
Forty-eight (48) Rods, thence North Twenty (20) Rods, thence West Fortyeight
(48) Rods, to the Place of Beginning, Situated in the County of Putnam,
State of Illinois
to be conveyed to the John Swaney Consolidated Grade School District 532, P ut "
nam, Marshall, and LaSalle Counties; and
Parts of lots #43 and #44 in the Southwest YA Section #19, Township 2
North, Range 6 West of the 3rd Principal Meridian, described as follows,
to-wit: Beginning the survey thereof at a point three hundred and twentyfive
(325) feet south of the intersection of the south line of Second South
Street, and the east line of the right of way of the East St. Louis & Suburban
Railway Co. Thence running south along the east line of said Railway seven
hundred forty three and three one-hundredths (743.03) feet: Thence east