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MINUTES OF THE UNIVERSITY FACULTY, MAY 9, 1960

The University Faculty met in the Assembly Room of Lafferty Hall

Monday. May 9, 1960 at 4:00 p.m. Vice President Chamberlain presided.

Members absent: Philip Austin, Richard Blanton, Roland Boughton, George
Byers, Lucian Carter, Carl Cone, Marcia Duke”, Frank G. Dickey*, C, F,
Elton‘, Bernard Fitzgerald, Lee Gildart, Lyman Ginger, William E. Grubbs,
Wilbur Hsinz, Sidney Kaplan, Abby Msrlstt*, Prank Peters0n*, Tullio Pignani,
Niel Plummer, E. W. Rannells. T. G. Roberts*, H. A. Bomanowitz. G. W.
Schneider*, 9. E. Shaver, Robert Straus*, Lawrence Thompson‘, M. Stanley
Wall, Warren Walton, G. T. Webster“, T. J. Welsh, M. M. White, and Ralph

Wisoman*.

The minutes of April 4 were read and approved with the change of the
word ”COuncil" to "Faculty".

Dr. Thomas B. Stroup, Chairman of the Honors Program Committee,
presented a report to the Faculty for its information. The Faculty

approved the report as read.

Honors Program Committee Report

The University Honors Program was created by the University
Faculty last May when the Faculty adopted the report of the Subcommittee
of the Committee of Fifteen on the Gifted Student. The Committee on
Committees recommended twelve persons, representing all undergraduate
colleges of the University. to the President who made the appointments.
The Committee now consists of Dean Marcia Duke, Professors Carl Cabe,
Lee Coleman. Vincent Cowling, Enno Kraehe, James Ogletree, Herbert
Riley, Robert Rudd, William F. Wagner, C. A. Walton, W. W. Walton,
and Thomas B. Stroup. The Director of the Program, selected by the
Committee, became the thirteenth.member ex Officio. The Committee
elected its own Chairman. You are familiar with the provisions
and recommendations of the report of the Subcommittee on the Gifted
Student. The Honors Program Committee's work was authorized by it,
and its task has been to put those recommendations into effect. The
Committee has not knowingly gone beyond the authorizations and pro—
visiOns of that report.

Its first, and we think wisestP act was to choose as Director of
the Program Professor Stephen Diachun of the College of Agriculture.
He now spends oneehalf his time directing the Program. He is
responsible to the Honors Program-Committee and reports to the President
of the University directly. The President was able to provide adequate
office space and secretarial help for the Director. The office is for
the time being in room 2 of the Fine Arts building.

The second work of the Committee was the formulation of a budget.
The budget which was recommended requested not only funds for operation
but for scholarships. It was appended to a statement of the pros
visions of the Program and presented to the President in hope that he
might be able to use this statement to acquire funds for it from either
private or public sources, or both. The Board of Trustees approved a
modest sum for operation until July 1. More reCently a budget for the
next two years has been approved. One of the greatest needs, the
Committee feels, is for scholarship funds. Whereas it is mindful that