Proceedings of the Board of Regents (1963-1966)

1126

NOVEMBER MEETING, 1965

Regent Brablec said, "I agree."
Bookstore: Report In answer to a question by Regent Murphy concerning the progress
To Be Made
of the proposed report on a University bookstore (p. 1093), the VicePresident for Student Affairs said he was hopeful that the collection of
facts would be ready for report to the Regents at their December
meeting. However, because he had himself been recently hospitalized
for a short time, the preparation of the report had been somewhat
delayed; hence he could not absolutely promise that the report would
be ready in December.
"Alumni in Ac- The Vice-President for University Relations made a brief report on
Reported on the Alumni Association's annual "Alumni in Action" program as well
as a report on the $55 Million Program.
The Vice-President prefaced his report by a reference to the programs prepared in the University Television Studio for commercial
presentation. He said that while he had been at Portland, Oregon, at
Cincinnati, Ohio, at Milwaukee, Wisconsin, at San Francisco, California,
and at New York City, he had been able to tune in television programs
prepared for distribution by The University of Michigan.
In continuing, the Vice-President for University Relations said this
year the theme of the Alumni in Action program was a preview of the
Sesquicentennial Celebration. His office, he said, had helped to prepare
the text and slide material for the presentation, and had been assisted
by other units of the University, in particular by Professor F. Clever
Bald of the Michigan Historical Collections. The Alumni in Action
program, he believed, assisted the work of the $55 Million Program by
developing enthusiasm for the Sesquicentennial Celebration and a
receptive climate for seeking support from alumni and friends of the
University for the $55 Million Program.
$55 Million Continuing, the Vice-President for University Relations said that by
Reportd o July 16, 1965, $22,445,374 had been collected for the $55 Million
Program. As of November 18, 1965, the total had risen to $25,596,339.
This total, he said, included an anonymous gift of one million dollars
announced at the National Leadership Conference on October 1, 1965.
The immediate goal was to reach the half-way mark by the end of 1965.
This meant, he said, that two million dollars needed to be collected in
the next several weeks.
The Vice-President, in continuing his report, emphasized the need of
interesting major gift prospects-those who were able to pledge $100,000
or more. As of last July 16, 536 individuals outside of Detroit had been
identified as such prospects. That figure had now been increased to 570.
To date, 268 major gift prospects had been assigned in thirty-one
organized areas of the country.
The Vice-President was particularly pleased to report that Mr. Harry
Chesebrough, Vice-President of the Chrysler Corporation, had accepted
the post of National Corporations Committee Chairman. Before accepting the National Corporations Chairmanship, Mr. Chesebrough had
been instrumental in obtaining his own company's gift to the University
of $1,300,000 for the Chrysler Center for Continuing Engineering
Education on the North Campus (p. 894).