MINUTES OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES



     President Barker offered the following resolution on the death of Mr. John B.

 Atkinson, a member of this Board:

     Since the June meeting of the Board of Trustees of the State University

 of Kentucky, Mr. Sohn B. Atkinson, a member of the Board, departed this life. air.

 Atkinson was a man of great culture both of mind and heart and had for many years been

 intimately connected with and engaged in the development of the resources of Kentucky.

 He was a man of wide sympathy and broad views and was especially interested in the

 educational interests of the State of Kentucky.  As a member of this Board he was

 faithful to the interests of State University and in his death this institution has

 sustained a great loss. He was a good citizen, a good friend and a good man. The

 world is better because he has lived and poorer because he has died.

     BE IT RESOLVED by the Board of Trustees that this memorial be spread upon the

minutes of the Board and a copy transmitted to the family of MNr. Atkinson.

     The above resolution was, upon motion duly made and seconded, unanimously

adopted.





     President Barker requested that action be taken by the Board in regard to the

offer of the Trustees of the Peabody Education Fund of $O,000. as an endowment of

the School of Education of the State University. He read a letter from Dr. Wfickliffe

Rose, the Secretary of the Peabody Fund, stating that he could not send the proposed

contract in time for the December meeting of the Board. The following resolution

was thereupon unanimously adopted:

    BE IT RESOLVED by the Board of Trustees of the State University of Kentucky

that the Executive Committee of this Board be and it is hereby empowered to enter into

a contract with the Trustees of the Peabody Education Fund, relative to the endolment

of 340,000., with which it is proposed to endow the School of Education in this in-

stitution.  When the proposed contract between the Trustees of the Peabody Education



December. 12, 1911