0. Memorial Tablets.

      President Donovan stated that for many years, if not from the
 very beginning of the University it has been the practice when erect-
 ing a new building, to place at the entrance a stone or bronze plaque
 indicating the name of the building, the names of the members of the
 Board of Trustees, the president, the architects, and the general
 contractor who erected the building.   He said that he believed that
 every building on the campus at the present time is marked by a tab-
 let or a stone giving the above facts.

      The President stated further:

           Probably a word of explanation should be made to the
      Trustees as to whose names appear on a tablet or stone when
      a new building is erected.   The principle was established
      long ago that the Governor, who is chairman of the Board,
      and the membership of the Board at the time the contract
      was let are the persons whose names should appear on these
      stones or plaques.   In case there are two or more contracts
      awarded for the erection of a building over a longer period
      of time, and the membership of the Board of Trustees changes
      during this period, the names of all of the Trustees who
      may have been serving on the Board at the time of the let-
      ting of each contract are included on these markers.   For
      example, the first appropriation made for the Memorial
      Coliseum was in 1942 during the administration of Governor
      Keen Johnson when the General Assembly appropriated $400,000
      for this project.   The site of the Coliseum was acquired
      during the Johnson administration and some of the funds
      were held over for the erection of the building.   During
      the administration of Governor Willis, an additional appro-
      priation of $60oo0,0 was made and the contract for the
      foundation and steel structure was let.   In 1948, Governor
      Clements recommended to the General Assembly an appropriation
      of $1,700,000 and the third contract was made for the com-
      pletion of the building.   Applying the principle that has
      heretofore prevailed, the names of the three Governors and
      all the Trustees who were serving at the time each contract
      was let will appear on the stone at the entrance of the
      Memorial Coliseum.   Since the construction of this building
      was spread out over a period of several years the stone will
      bear the names of three Governors and twenty-five Trustees,
      instead of the customary fifteen members of the Board that
      appear on the markers when there is just one general con-
      tract let for the erection of a building.



      President Donovan stated that he desired to give the Board mem-
bers this information that it might be made of record,

     Upon motion duly made, seconded and carried, the remarks of the
President were authorized made of record.