MINUTES OF THE MEETING
of the
BOARD OF TRUSTEES
March 16, 1967
Termination of David B. Burner, Asst. Prof., History Dept.,
effective August 14, 1967.
Termination of James 0. Bailey, Jr., Ass't. Prof., Modern
Foreign Languages & Literatures effective August 14, 1967.
Termination of Walter Feinberg, Ass't. Prof., Teacher Education,
effective August 14, 1967.
Sabbatical leave for George T. Matthews, Dean of the College
of Arts & Sciences, at full salary, effective May 1, 1967
through July 31, 1967. He will study at home,
Sabbatical leave for Thomas Fitzsimmons, Prof. of English,
at half salary, effective September 6, 1967 through April
20, 1968. He will study and travel in Europe.
Sabbatical leave for Donald C. Hildum, Assoc. Prof. of Psychology,
at half salary, effective September 6, 1967 through April
20, 1968. He will study at the University of Ghent.
Military leave for Rufino Muncal (Food Service and Dorms)
without pay effective February 28, 1967 through June 30, 1967.
Appointment of Ernest Harold Bennett as Specialist in Education,
at $11,000 effective September 1, 1967.
Appointment of Donald Everett Morse as Asst. Prof. of English
at $10,300 effective August 15, 1967.
Appointment of Roy Anthony Kotynek as Instructor in History
at $8,000 effective August 15, 1967,
Appointment of Charles Forton as Instructor in Mod. Foreign
Languages & Literatures at $7,400 effective August 15,
1967 through August 14, 1969.
Appointment of Helene Mitterkalkgruber as Ass't. Prof. in
Modern Foreign Languages &Literatures at $8500, effective
August 15, 1967.
Appointment of Norbert W. Noeldechen as Instructor in Mod.
Foreign Languages & Literatures at $7,200 effective August
15, 1967 through August 14, 1969.
Appointment of James R. Ozinga as Instructor in Political
Science at $8,300 effective August 15, 1967.
Appointment of John Emery Rue as Assoc. Prof. in Political
Science at $13,000 effective August 15, 1967.
Change in salary for David J. Doherty, Director Comm. School
Pr. Mott Center & Ass't. Director AP-VII, from $13,000
to $14,000, effective February 1, 1967.
Report of the death of Paul Solonika, Manager of the Engineering
Shop, on February 23, 1967. Mr. Solonika was born on May 19,
1921, and had been employed by Michigan State University for
one year and by Oakland University since January 3, 1961.
It is recommended that his widow continue to receive his
salary for a period of 9 months beyond the date of his death,
or until November 23, 1967.
Recommendations from the Director of Personnel as follows;
a. Establish an Account Clerk III position in the Business
office
b. Reclassify a Clerk-Stenographer III to a Departmental
Secretary V position in the Mott Center
c. For Physics:
1 ) Transfer a Laboratory Manager
AP-V position from Physics to Biology and change the position
from half-time to full-time.
2) Reclassify an Electronic Technician
AP-IV to a Laboratory Manager AP-IV
Recommendation that the following persons be granted honorary
degrees at commencement on April 22:
a. Thomas H. Hamilton, President of the University of Hawaii,
commencement speaker.
b. David Riesman, Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences
at Harvard University.
c. William T. Gossett, President-elect of the American Bar
Association, community leader, and strong supporter of Oakland
University. (p.271)
Communication from Mr. Varner:
A year ago it became apparent that our constitution for
university governance was obsolete in view of our newly approved
university organization. We appointed a special committee
of ten, and charged it with the mission of preparing a new
constitution. The committee members included five chosen by
the Senate and four to be appointed by the Chancellor, with
the Chancellor to serve as chairman. The Chancellor's appointees
were Provost O'Dowd, the Dean of the School of Engineering,
the Dean of the School of Education, and the Dean of the College
of Arts and Sciences. Those members appointed by the Senate
were Professor Richard Brace, Chairman of the Department of
History; Professor James Haden, Chairman of the Department
of Philosophy; Professor Edward Heubel, Chairman of the Department
of Political Science; Professor G. Philip Johnson, Chairman
of the Department of Mathematics; and Professor Reuben Torch,
Assistant Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and a member
of the Department of Biology.
This committee has worked diligently for the past six months,
and has at last produced a document which has been ratified
by a group which included the members of the current Senate,
augmented by all tenured faculty members and all department
chairmen not already members of the Senate. The vote of the
ratifying body was preceded by two open and public hearings.
The salient features of the document are these:
1) It provides for a relatively small (47) body to serve
as the University Senate and charges this body with the major
policy-making function of the University.
2) Much of the routine academic procedural business will
now be conducted by the organized faculties of the School
of Engineering, the School of Education, and the College of
Arts and Sciences. Their action is subject to the concurrence
of the Senate.
3) A recall and referendum procedure has been established--this
to satisfy those who feel strongly that there should be an
opportunity for involvement by all the members of the faculty
in the ultimate governance of the University. It is anticipated
that this is a feature that will rarely, if ever, be used.
4) Among the 47 seats in the body, three have been awarded
to students. This represents a clear departure from past patterns
here and one which has been quite controversial within the
faculty. I have consistently supported this position
on the grounds that most junior and senior students have achieved
a workable level of maturity and judgment and because they
have a clear stake in the affairs of the University. Furthermore,
I believe it much more desirable to involve them at this level
of policy-making rather than holding them out and then engaging
in a never-ending process of explanation and confrontation.
I, of course, do not believe that this move in itself will
solve all these problems, but it at least gives clear indication
that we take seriously the concerns of the students and are
willing to deal with them on a serious level.
There are many other words in the document, but these are
the points at which it varies from our current constitution.
I submit it to you and, through you, to the Board of Trustees
with the hope that it will be approved at an early date so
that we may proceed with its implementation.
Copies of the proposed constitution were distributed with
this agenda.
Alteration and improvement items approved since the January
Trustees' meeting and charged to Alterations and Improvements
91-9163:
| a. |
Change partitions, hang two doors, and electrical
work in Room 363
Science Building. |
$ 161.14 |
| b. |
Convert a room in North Foundation Hall to a classroom
|
152.35 |
| c. |
Install bookshelves in Room 247 Science Building
|
30.22 |
| d. |
Install shelves in Rooms 203 and 215 Science Building
and-seal off
door and mail windows in Room203 |
176.42 |
| e. |
Paint the Music House |
110,00 |
| f. |
Remodel the old personnel and purchasing reception areas
in North
Foundation Hall |
478.00 |
| g. |
Remodel Accounting Department area in North Foundation
Hall |
495,75 |
| h. |
Construct new area for Personnel Offices |
1,396,90 |
| i. |
Construct new area for Purchasing Department |
2,050.40 |
| j. |
Acoustical tile and adhesive for Room 156 North Foundation
Hall |
72.24 |
| k. |
Install two chalkboards in Room 363 Science Building
|
86.00 |
| l. |
Architectural fees for alterations to administrative
area in North Foundation Hall. |
2,488.00 |
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(p.272) |
7,697.42 |
Additional payments to salaried employees since the January
Trustees' meeting, as follows:
| Computer Center |
|
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Miscellaneous |
|
| J. L. Beaumont |
$51.84 |
|
Laurence Auld |
$100.00 |
| Virginia Haywald |
66.00 |
|
Harry Hahn |
25.00 |
| Barbara A. Hood |
16.20 |
|
C. E. Morton |
625.00 |
| M. P. Jones |
19.76 |
|
Edward Starr |
70.00 |
| Diana Roberts |
100.14 |
|
Marian Wilson |
49.00 |
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| Continuing Education |
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School District of Troy |
|
| C. G. Forton |
20.00 |
|
John Broome |
50.00 |
| Robert Howes |
50.00 |
|
L. J. Hetenyi |
25.00 |
| C. B. Sargent |
100.00 |
|
David Lowey |
35.00 |
| Samuel Thomas |
35.00 |
|
W. F. Sturner |
100.00 |
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| Student Affairs |
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| Thomas Aston |
1,000.00 |
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| Robert Howes |
999.99 |
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Gifts and Grants:
Gifts and grants as follows to be used for scholarship purposes:
a. $300 from Consumers Power Company for Scholarship Account
32-3230
b. For Scholarship Account 32-3229:
$1,250 from Alvin M. Bentley Foundation of Owosso
$1,512 from Howard L. McGregor, Jr. National Foundation
of Rochester
$ 50 from Ben D. Mills of Dearborn
$ 200 from Mr. and Mrs. Walter P. Reuther of Rochester
$153 from John Taylor of Rochester
c. For Awards Account 32-3359:
$ 100 from Alpha Delta Kappa Sorority of Pontiac
$ 290 from the American Business Women's Association of Clawson
$ 1,411 from The Daily Tribune of Royal Oak
$ 150 from Detroit High Schools Student Aid Foundation, Inc.
$ 100 from the Good Shepherd Lutheran Church of Royal Oak
$ 200 from Hodges Charitable Foundation of Ferndale
$ 300 from Hodges Dodge, Inc., of Ferndale
$ 100 from Junior Achievement of Grand Rapids
$ 100 from L'Anse Cruse Public Schools of Mt. Clemens
$ 500 from The R. C. Mahon Foundation of Detroit
$ 250 from Miles Laboratories, Inc., of Elkhart, Indiana
$ 100 from Natwa Scholarship Foundation of San Mateo,California
$ 334 from Pontiac PTA Council
$ 100 from Rochester Board of Education
$ 360 from Rockford Public Schools
$ 250 from Romeo PTA
$ 378 from Woman's National Farm & Garden Association
$121.53 from Yale Public Schools
Grant of $2,000 from the Michigan College of Osteopathic
Medicine of Pontiac to be used under the direction of Reuben
Torch in Arts and Sciences to sponsor a series of seminars
in the life sciences.
Grant of $42,228 from the United States Office of Education
to be used under the direction of H. T. Hahn in Education
for an Institute in Reading.
Grant of $4,560 from the National Science Foundation to be
used under the direction of R. C.Mobley in Physics for the
undergraduate research participation program.
Grants as follows to be used under the direction of Chancellor
Varner:
a. For the Meadow Brook Music Festival, 22-2031:
$ 500 from Bohn Aluminum & Brass Company of Detroit
$ 200 from Borg Beck/Long-Long Manufacturing Company of Detroit
$1,000 from the Budd Company of Detroit
$ 100 from Creative Industries of Detroit
$ 100 from Darin & Armstrong, Inc., of Detroit
$ 100 from the Detroit Free Press
$ 250 from Ernst & Ernst of Detroit
$ 250 from Essex Wire Corporation of Fort Wayne, Indiana
$ 500 from Max M. & Marjorie S. Fisher Foundation, Inc.,
of Detroit
$ 250 from Fisher-New Center Company of Detroit
$1,000 from Great Lakes Steel Corporation of Ecorse
$ 500 from the Harlan Foundation of Southfield
$ 250 from Hawthorne Metal Products Company of Royal Oak
$ 100 from Holley Carburetor Company of Warren
$ 250 from Interchemical Foundation, Inc. of New York City
$ 100 from Albert Kahn Associated Architects & Engineers,
Inc. of Detroit
$ 250 from Kuhlman Electric Company of Birmingham
$ 350 from McCord Corporation of Detroit
$2,500 from the National Bank of Detroit
$ 300 from the National Broach and Machine Company of Detroit
$ 250 from Reynolds Metals Company of Richmond, Virginia
$ 200 from Safran Printing Company Fund of Detroit
$ 150 from Sheridan Corporation of Southfield (p.273)
$ 250 from Young & Rubicam, Inc. of Detroit
$ 200 from Sundberg-Ferar, Inc., of Southfield
Stock dividend of 2 shares of The One William Street Fund,
Inc. stock valued at $43.53
b. $500 from Max J. Pincus of Detroit for the Fernald Company
of the Meadow Brook Theatre.
c. $5,000 from the Ford Motor Company Fund of Dearborn for
the Marvin L. Katke Gift Account.
d. $500 from Raymond T. Perring of Bloomfield Hills for the
Discretionary Gift Fund, account 32-1162.
e. 20 shares of Pontiac State Bank common stock valued at
$1,040 from Howard B. Barker of Bloomfield Hills for the Oakland
University Foundation's Chancellor's Club.
On motion by Mr. Harlan, seconded by Mr. Stevens, it
was voted to approve all Oakland University items. (p.274)