RESOLUTION



       The Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees of the University
of Kentucky notes with regret that the term of

                         ROBERT W. RUDD

as a non-voting faculty member of the Board of Trustees of the University of
Kentucky expired on June 30, 1971 and wishes to express on behalf of the full
Board thanks and appreciation for the contributions which he has made to the
deliberations of this body during his tenure.

       Dr. Rudd, Professor of Agricultural Economics and Chairman of the
Department of Agricultural Economics, has served the University well not
only in his own discipline but in other areas also. Because of his reputation
as one of the younger faculty members with a real potential for leadership,
President John W. Oswald selected him as his first Faculty Assistant in 1963.
When his year was completed, President Oswald was so impressed with his
administrative ability that he requested Dr. Rudd to serve as Acting Dean of
the College of Commerce. This assignment was handled in such an effective
manner that upon the death of Professor Aubrey Brown, Dr. Rudd was named
as Chairman of the Department of Agricultural Economics and has served in
that capacity since 1968.

      A man of keen intellect and pleasing personality, Dr. Rudd was chosen
by his colleagues as one of the faculty representatives on the Presidential
Search Committee charged with the responsibility of seeking Dr. Oswald's
successor. In the election for one of the non-voting faculty members of the
Board of Trustees held in the spring of 1968, Dr. Rudd was the majority
choice to fill the vacancy created by the expiration of Dr. Stephen Diachun's
term. With his academic and administrative background, Dr. Rudd's opinions
always carried considerable weight with his fellow Board members and his
advice and counsel were frequently sought and acted upon. He will be missed
from the future deliberations of the Board.

      Now, therefore, wishing to make the Board's recognition of Dr. Rudd's
valuable contributions during the past three years a matter of record, be it
resolved that this resolution be adopted, spread upon the Minutes of the meet-
ing, and a copy transmitted to Dr. Rudd.