CALLED MEETING OF THE E,-ECUTIVE COMMITTEE



               OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES

                  August 27, 1917


     The Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees met in
President Barker's office, pursuant to call, to finish busi-
ness interru'3ted by the meeting of the Board of Trustees, Au-
gulst 16. The following were present: Chairman Nicholas Messrs
McKee, Johnston, and Doctor Marks.

     The regular order of business was taken up. Under the
heading "Unfinished business" a report made by Acting Dean
Roberts, of the College of Agriculture, to the Executive Com-
mittee June 20, 1917, and at that time not acted unon, was
taken up.

     Recommendation 1 of Dean Robert's report, which asked for
the transfer of E. J. Gott from the Experiment Station to the
Teaching Division as Instructor in Bacteriology, to have full
charge of this work, wan adopted.

     Recommendation 2, that Doctor R. L. Pontius be designa-
ted Acting Head of the Department of Diseases of Live Stock,
was approved.

     Recommendation 4, that J. 0. LaBach be made Head of the
Food and Drug Department, if by July lst, R. M. Allen had not
signified def.nite intentions to return to the Experiment
Station work. The Board instructed Acting President 3oyd to
write further to Mr. Allen, asking for a definite reply to a
former letter written by President Barker, on this pointt

     Recommendation 6, that J. B. flutson be appointed as In-
structor in Farm Management at a salary of $1200, indicated in
the schedule of salaries was referred to the Budgeting Committee
and there acted upon.

     Recommendation 6, that Miss Linda Purikell be appointed
Instructor in Home Economics at a salary of $750 per year, was
adopted.

     Number 8, recommending that the salary of Judge Lafferty
(five hundred dollars), paid by the Exneriment Station as Legal
advisor thereof, be discontinued, was referred to the Budgeting
Committee and there acted unon.   1he action of the Oudgeting
Committee up6n said salary was that the same rule that obtain-
ed in last year's budget sh8 uld continue in this year's budget;
viz., that of Judge Lafferty's salary, the $500 referred to be
paid out of the Experiment Station funds, and the remainder out
of the University funds.