CALLED =TING OS THEI B3UCUTIVS OWEAITR

                  OF THE VAVRSITY OF .MTUC"Y

                      OANUARY 9, 1918.


       The Executive Conmittee of the University of Kentueky

met on above nagd date in the office of President McVey with

the following members present;. Chairman C.B.Nachols, R.C.Stoll,

Frank MeKee, Johh Brown, and P.P.Johnston 3r., Dr. S.B.Marks

and Mr. Claude B. Terrell being absent.

       Under the heading of hAppointments" President McVey

announced that he had procured the servic4d of Wellington

Patrick of Washington City, formerly a student of the University

of Kentucky from Magoffin County, to act as his private

secretary. The President said that Mr. Patrick was a student

in this University for two years beginning 1905; that he went

to Washington where he served as filing clerk in the War

Department then took a head clerkship in the Burear of Markets;

that he is an expert stenographer and typist, a graduate of

George Washington University with the degree of A.B. 1916 and

the degret of A.M. 1917, and that' Mr. Patrick was in position

to take up the work in case he was appointed JanUary 16, 1918.

President McVey said further that Mr. Patrick was interested

in school work and had been superintendent of schools ih Okla-

homa. Mr. Stoll moved that President McdVey's recommendation of

Mr. Patrick as private secretary to the President at a salary of

$1800 a year be ratified. Seconded by Mr. Brown, on the call of

the roll, this mot:.ion was adcpted unanirnously.