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      Minutes of a special meeting of the Executive Committee
 of the Board of Trustees, University of Kentucky, June 6* 1919.






      The Executive Committec of the Board of Trustecs, University
 of Kentucky, met in special session in the President's office at
 the University at 11:00, a. m., Friday, June 6, 1919.   The meet-
 ing was called for the purpose of considering the budget for the
 fiscal year beginning July 1, 1919 and other miscellaneous matters.
 On roll call thc following members vwere present: R. C. Stoll,
 R. P. Ernst, P.* P. Johnrsto.n, Jr., and J. phi. Ellision.  President
 Frank L. McV-y and :. Illington PZ-trick, Secrctary of the Committee,
 were also present.

      (1) Minutes of 'he Board of Trustees for April 1, 191 adopted.
 The following motion was made, seconded, and unanimously adopted:
 1Thereas a meeting rf the Board of Trustees was held on April 1, 1919,
 at 'which there was not a quorum present, now therefore be it re-
 solved that the acticns of said Board at that meeting are adopted
 as the actions of this Com=_ittee.

      (2) Minutes of the E-zccutive Committee approved.  The follow-
ing motion was made, seconded, and unanimously adopted.   Whereas
meetings of the Executive Committee wore held on April 23 and May
21, 1919, at each of which there iias not a quorum present, now
therefore be it resolved that the aotions of the Committee at the
aforesaid meetings are adopted as the 'fctions of the Committee at
this meeting.

     (3) The minutes of the meeting of the Executive Committee for
May 21, 1919, were read and adopted.

     (4) Doctor Patterson's Claim.   The following communication
from Dr. James T. Patterson was read, ordered incorporated in the
minutes , and referred to the Board of Trustees at its meeting on
June 17, 1919:




 






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                                   Lexington, Kentucky,
                                        May 27, 1919



     Honorable Richard C. Stoll#
          Chairman, Executive Committee,
               University of Kentucky,
                    Lexington, Kentucky.

     My doar Friend:

          I am reluctant to believe that the Board of Trustees
     of the University of Kentucky would by any action of theirs
     seek to inflict on me a gratuitous humiliation.    And yet
     they seem to me, for some unaccountable reason, at their
     meeting April 1, 1919, to have gone out of their way to
     take action not warranted by the opinion of the Attorney
     General and to revive the recollection of the action taken
     by them in repudiating in August, 1912, the agreement made
     with me in Dcoember, 1909, relying upon the execution of
     whioh in good faith I offered my resignation of the Presi-
     denoy of the University in January, 1910.

          The receipt which they required me to sign as a con-
     dition for the payment of the amount awarded upon the opin&.
     ion of the Attorney General contained matter not included
     in the opinion.   It contained matter which virtually re-
     affirmed and reenacted the repudiation of the contract
     with me and most humiliating of all, required my acquies-
     cence in their action.

          I appeal to your sense of justice to pay me the
     amount of the claim awarded me upon the opinion of the
     Attorney General on the Conditions laid down by him and
     upon these only.   I respectfully request that you present
     this paper to the Board of Trustees at their next meeting
     and that on my behalf, you request action thereon.

          With sincere regard,

                                         Your friend,

                                            James Xt. Patterson.

     (5) Maxwell Hall Repairs.   A motion was made, seconded, and
unanimously adopted directing the Business Agent not to pay to Mr.
McGregor any rent on Maxyrell Hall until such a time as the rent
shall equal the amount which the University has spent for repairs.
(See minutes of the Executive Committee for May 21, 1919.)




 







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     (6) Entcrtainment of Arkansas Farmers.  President McoVey reported
to the Committee that sixty farmers from Arkansas, headed by the
Governor of that State, wore on June 6 and 7 guests of the Univer-
sity; that arrangements had been made for their entertainment at
supper at the home of Colonel Taylor on Frankfort Pike; and that
at the last moment Colonel Taylor had stated that ho could not
entertain the visitors at supper as contemplated.  President MoVey
asked authority of the Committee for the expenditure of approximate-
ly $125 for their entertainment as guests of the University at sup-
per.  On motion such authority was given.

     (7) Farm Boys' Encampment. The following communications with
respect to the Farm Boys' Engampmcnt were read, ordered incorporated
in the minutes, and referred to the meeting of the Board of Trustees
on June 17:

                                        Lexington, Kentucky,
                                             June 4, 1919

    Dr. Frank L. MoVey, President,
         University of Kentucky,
               Lexington, Kentucky.

    My dear Dr. McVey:

         At the last meeting of the State Board of Agricul-
    ture, I was appointed a committee to request you to ask
    the Board of Trustees of the University of Kentucky to
    reconsider their action in regard to the payment of a
    portion of the expenses relative to the Farm Boys' En-
    campment and the Boys' Pig and Corn Club premiums, and
    to pay $600 the same as last year, towards the expenses
    instead of the $300 which they have already authorized
    to be paid.   The Board is unanimous in its opinion that
    this is the right and proper thing for the University to
    do in the interest of all parties concerned.

         With highest personal esteem and best wishes, I
    beg to remain


                                       Yours very truly,

                                             H. M. rroman,

                                   Member, State Board of Agriculture,
                                        Fifth Appellate Distr.ct.




 






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                                   June 6, 1919

Honorable H. M. Froman,

     Lexington, Kentucky.

My dear Senator Froman:

     In order that you may have all of the matter relating
to this question of the payment of $600 for the Farm Boys'
Encampment, I am indicating below the various steps thru
which the situation has passed.

     On April 27, 1918, Honorable M. S. Cohen, Commissiondr
of Agriculturo, sent the following letter to Dean Cooper:

          As you know it is about time for us to
     begin preparation for our State Fair catalog
     and I am taking the matter up with you relative
     to cooperation in the Boys' and Girls' Club
     work, also the Farm Boys' Encampment at the
     coming State Fair.

          For your information will say that last
     year, $1,OOO was guaranteed, or rather author-
     ized by the Extension Committee of the General
     Fund under your supervision for this work, which
     amount was met and matched by the State Fair.

          As I recall $500 was. used in defraying the
     expenses of the boys from the various clubs to
     the encampment, while $250 was set aside as
     prizes for the Boys' Club Tork and the same amount
     for prizes in the Girls' Department.

     After various discussions of it by the Director of
the Experiment Station and all Extension work, it was
finally recommended that a grant of $600 for the year be
made.   However, it is only fair to quote from a letter
of Director Mutchler's in which he says:

          I gin cortiiu that the Stetes Relation- Service
     would not consider one thousand dollars spent
     with the State Fair for the purpose named in
     Mr. Cohen's letter as a legitimate offset to
     federal funds.

     On June 10, 1918, the Executive Committee passed the
following resolution:




 






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           The President then brought up the matter
     of the Farm Boys' Enoampment, and asked that
     some action be taken.   On motion by Mr. Ernst,
     seconded by Mr. Gordon, the report of the Presi-
     dent was adopted, namely that $600 should be
     appropriated for the purpose this year, $300
     next year, and that after that time appropria-
     tions from the University shall cease.

     Undet 4ote if June 13, I wrote to Mr. Cohen as follows:

          At the meeting of the Executive Committee on
     Monday of this week, the matter of the Boys' En-
     campment was taken up and I am enclosing a copy
     of the action taken by the Committee.    I trust
     this will meet with your approval when you are
     ready to carry out the provision of the Committeets
     action.-

     In reply I received the following letter from
Mr. Cohen:

          I herewith acknowledge receipt of your com-
     munication of June 13, in which is attached there-
     to the action of the Executive Committee, relative
     to the Farm Boys' Encampment at the coming Ken-
     tucky State Fair, which is most acceptable to
     the State Fair Board.

     You will please note that the action taken by the
Executive Committee was "most acceptable" to the State
Fair Board.

     Mr. Cohen, however, informed me that he had a mental
reservation relative to the action of the Board, and brought
it up again this year.   I presented it to the Executive
Committee at its meeting on May 21, and the Committee held
that in view of the fact that the Board of Trustees had
adopted a resolution as above stated, it had no authority
to modify or change that action, and this statement was
communicated to Mr. Cohen thru Dean Coopdr.

     You now have before you all of the material.

                                    Very truly yours,

                                         Frank L. MoVey,



President.




 






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                                         June 6, 1919

      Honorable Mat S. Cohsn,
           Commissioner of Agriculture,
                Frankfort, Kentucky.

      My dear Mr. Cohen:

           For your information regarding the matter of subsidy
      for the Farm Boys' Encampment, I am culling your attention
      to the extract from the minutes of the Executive Committee
      June 10, 1918, a copy of which was forwardedito you under
      date of June 13, 1918.   The action of the Comnittee was
      as follows:

                The President then brought up the matter
           of the Farm Boys' Encampment, and asked that
           some action be taken.   On motion by Mr. Ernst,
           seconded by M-r. Gordon, the report of the Presi-
           dent was adopted, namely that $600 should be
           appropriated for the purpose this year, $300
           next year, and after that timo appropriations
           from the University shall cease.           I

           In reply to this action I reccived from you the
     following letter.

                I herewith acknowledge receipt of your com-
          munication of June 13, in which is attached there-
          to the action of the Executive Committee relative
          to the Farri Boys' Encampment at the coming Kentucky
          State Fair which is most acceptable to the State
          Fair Board.

          The conclusion which I drew from the letter was that
     the action of the Conmmittee was entirely satisfactory to
     you, and that there would be no objections to its follow-
     ing the rule which it had adopted on June 10, 1918.   At
     that time no protest was made against the action of the
     Cormittee and it was only fair for the Cor.uaittee to assume
     that the action taken was agreeable to you and to the State
     Fair Board.
                                         Very truly yours,
                                              Frank L. moVey,
                                                   President.

     (8) Adoption of Printed Form of Constitution and Rt-laws.
It was moved, seconded, anduunanimously adopted that.thc Executive
Committee in formal action approve as the final statement and
basis for regulation and government of the University the consti-
tution aind by-laws and regulations as published in printed form
in July, 1918, as Volume X, to. 7 of University of Kentucky bulletins.




 







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       (9) The folloving list of appointments and resignations Wis
 recomm.sndod to the Committec by the Prcsident, and on motion,
 duly made andL seconded, addopted as presented:

      ApI-'ir-ioc. nt of A. N- May as professor. of indlustrial education
 **ior Smith-Hughes work, at a salary ol $2,400 a year, effective
 July 1, 1919, payable from Smith-Hugh.s funds.   Professor May has
 been doing similar work at Berea College for a number of years.

      Appointment of W. P. Angel, assistant professor of Physics,
 for the year 1919-1920, at a salary of $1,800, to take the place
 of Professor C. D. Killebrew who is on leave of absence for the
 year. Mr. ahgel has an A. B. and an A. M. acgree from Johns
 Hopkins University, and was instructor in Physics at Johns Hopkins
 during the year 1917-1918.

      Appointment of Dr. J. S. Cleland, assistant professor of
 Sociology, at a salary of $2:000 a ycar, effective ~,t the begin-
 ning of next semester.   Professor Cleland comes to the Univer-
 sity from Carroll College, Waukesha, Wisconsin.   He received his
 i. M. degree from Princeton and his Ph. D. degree from the Univor-
 sity of Pittsburg.   He has had considerable experience as a
 settlement worker and also as a teacher at Dickinson and Carroll
 colleges.   The appointment is for one year.

     Appointment of Miss Belle Bates, Instructor in design, at
a salary of $1,200 a year, effective at the beginning of next
scholastic year.

     Appointment of Miss Sarah G. Blanding, Instructor in Physical
Education, at a salary of $800 a year, effective at the beginning
of next scholastic year.

     Appointment of Morris Z. McCarty of Purdue University, as
instructor in Zoology for the year 1919-1920, at a salary of
$1,300 a year.

     Appointment of John 0. Baridan as instructor in dairy manu-
factures and extension specialist in dairy manufactures, effective
June 1, 1919, at a salary of $1,500 a year.   Ho is a graduate
of Ohio Agricultural College.   For the past four years ho has
been employed as butter and choose maker in a creamery.

     Appointment of J. C. Crimes as instructor in animal husbandry
at a salary of $1,500 a yoer cffect~ive August 1, 1919.  He is a
graduate of the University of Tennessee and has specialized in
animal husbandry. Following his graduation from the University
of Tennessee, he spent too years as county agent in that State.




 










He is at present taking graduate work in the University of Zentjucky
and will complete his work for a master's degree in July.

     Appointment of Gambrell McCarty, emergency assistant agent,
Jefferson County, Kentucky, at a salary of $120 a month, for a pCriod
of five montgs, effective May 16, 1919, p.yablc $180 from emergency
fund, $135 from Department of Agriculture, and $285 from Jefferson
County.   (Correction of item in minutes of Executive Committee for
May 21, 1919.)

     Appointment of William H. Rogers, County Agent, Calloway County,
Kentucky, at a salary of $2,000 a year, for a period of one year,
effective May 1, 1919, payable from the Department of Agriculture,
$120; from Federal Smith-Lcver funds, $900; and from Calloway County,
$980.

     Appointment of Clyde D. Harrison, emergency assistant demonstra-
tion agent, Pulaski County, Kentucky, at a salary of $120 a month,
for a period of three and one-half months, payable $20 from the
Department of Agriculture, $180 from emergency fund, and $220 from
the Board of Education of Pulaski County.

     Appointment of Ralph R. Morgan, emergency assistant county
agent, Daviess and Hancock Counties, Kentucky, at a salary of $75
a month, for a period of one month, effective June 1, 1919,paya-
ble from emergency fund.

     Appointment of David P. Morris, emergency demonstration agent,
Owen County, Kentucky, at a salary of $133 1/3 a month, for a period
of one year, effective June 30, 1919, payable $780 from emergency
fund, $20 from Federal Smith-Lever funds and $800 from Owen County.


                          Resignations

     Resignation of Miss Jean G. MacKinnon, acting heal of Depart-
ment of Home Economics, effective at the close of the present year.
Miss MacKinnon resigns to enter commercial work.

     Resignation of Mrs. Zetta McG. Lowry, home demonstration agent,
effective May 31, 1919.

     (10) Purchase of lot on Winslow Street.   A motion was made,
seconded, and unanimously adopted authorizing the Business Agent
to purchase a lot on the corner of Winslow and Adams streets.

     (11) Professor L. K, Frankel to act as consulting engineer for
a tobacco warehouse.  Prcsidunt McVoy stated to the -Committee that
:.?n-f ssor L. K. Frankel had asked for permission to act as consult-




 




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ing engineer on some tobacco warehouse construction; that Professor
Frankel had stated that the work consisted in the main in the design
of steel trusses, which would require but little of his time.    The
President reported to the Committee that he had given his approval
with the written understanding that it was not to infringe on Profes-
sor Frankel's University duties, and that in accordance with the rules;
he was-reporting the matter to the Executive Committee.    After dis-
cussion by the Committee a motion was made, seconded, and adopted
requesting the President to call Professor Frankel's attention to pre-
vious difficulties in matters of this kind and to point out to him
the necessity of avoiding anything that would lead to such difficul-
ties again.

     (12) Income of the University for the fiscal year beginning
July 1, 1919.   The following communication was read -and ordered
incorporated in the minutes:

                                         Frankfort, Kentucky,
                                              June 5, 1919

     President Frank L. McVey,
          University of Kentucky,
               Lexington, Kentucky.

     Dear Doctor Mc7ey:

          We have your letter of May 29 which came to the of-
     fice during the absence of the undersigned in Eastern
     Kentucky, and since his return we have been trying to get
     the information desired by you.    We have approved eighty-
     four counties, and taking the first recapitulation of the
     thirty-six counties not reported, the total assessment of
     the counties amounts to $1,751,000,000; then estimating
     the increase that will be made by the thirty-six counties
     which will ancunt to at least $30,000,000, will make a
     total assessment of the counties of $1,781,000,000.    We
     cannot give you the exact figures on the assessment of
     *railroadc, but feel sure that it will amount to at least
     $159,000,000 and miscellaneous corporations to $31,000,000.
     This makes a total of $1,971,000,o00.    of course, you
     understand that live stock is included in this assessment
     and we can only estimate this by the amount of last year.
     Last year there was a $50,000,000 assessment of live stock.
     We think it will run much higher this year because a few
     of the counties have assessed live stock high because it
     bears only a 10 cent rate to the State and a full rate
     to the county. The judggacnt. of the writer is that the
     assessment of live stock will be about $90,000,000.    We
     are glad to report to you the above facts.    Wishing you
     success in your work, we are

                                        State Tax Commission,
                                             J. A. Scott,
                                                  Chairman.




 






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     (13) Budget for 19191920.   The budget for the expenditures
of the University for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1919, was
taken up by the Committee, considered, approved, and recommended
to the Board of Trustees for adoption at its meeting on June 17,
1919.

     There being no further business for consideration the Commit-
tee adjourned.

                                        Respectfully submitted,

                                             Wellington Patrick,

                                        Secretary of the Committee.