Minutes of the Special Called Meeting of the Executive
Committee of the Board of Trustees of the University of Kentucky,
Monday, July 12, 1982.



    The Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees of the
University of Kentucky met in a Special Called Meeting in the
Board Room on the 18th floor of the Patterson Office Tower on the
Lexington Campus at 5 p.m. (Eastern Daylight Time) on Monday,
July 12, 1982.

    A.   Meeting Opened and Acting Secretary Appointed

    Mr. William B. Sturgill, Chairman, called the meeting to
order at 5:20 p.m. and pronounced the invocation. The Chairman,
in the absence of the Secretary, Mrs. Betty Pace Clark, appointed
Mr. Albert G. Clay as Acting Secretary of the Executive Committee
of the Board of Trustees. The following members of the Executive
Committee were present: Mr. William B. Sturgill, Mr. Albert G.
Clay, and Mr. A. Stevens Miles. Absent from the meeting were Mr.
William R. Black, Governor Edward T. Breathitt, and Mrs. Betty
Pace Clark, Secretary, ex officio, Members of the University
administration present included President Otis A. Singletary; Mr.
John C. Darsie, General Counsel; Dr. Jack C. Blanton, Vice
Chancellor--Administration, Lexington Campus; and Mr. George J.
Ruschell, Assistant Vice Chancellor--Auxiliary Services,
Lexington Campus. Representatives of the various news media were
in attendance. A quorum being present, the Chairman declared the
meeting officially opera for the conduct of business at 5:21 p.m.

    B.   Appointment to Medication Panel, State Racing Commission
(PR 1)

    President Singletary reported that in Section 5 of House Bill
143 passed by the 1982 General Assembly there is provision for
the University of Kentucky to appoint a member to the Kentucky
Equine Drug Research Council, He recommended that the Board
approve the nomination of Dr. Louis Diamond, a pharmacologist at
the University of Kentucky, to this medication panel.  He noted
that Dr. Diamond is a respected senior member of the faculty
whose major academic appointment is in the College of Pharmacy
and that he also holds an appointment as Professor of
Pharmacology in the College of Medicine. President Singletary
added that he would inform the Secretary of State and the
Chairman of the Kentucky State Racing Commission of the action
taken today by the Board.

    With President Singletary so recommending, Mr. Miles moved
approval of the nomination of Dr. Louis Diamond for appointment
to the Kentucky Equine Drug Research Council.  His motion was
seconded by Mr. Clay and passed without dissent,