Proceedings of the Board of Regents (1963-1966)

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MARCH MEETING, 1966

Noble Estate On recommendation of the Vice-President in charge of business and
Pr thorizld finance, the Regents approved the sale of the remaining piece of Parcel
No. 4 of the real estate received from the Della M. Noble estate, located
near Highland, Michigan, to Richard Garvit.
ph'!ip. Cla-sical On recommendation of the Associate Dean of the College of LiteraPrizes: Regulatizes Chanled ture, Science, and the Arts and of the Vice-President for Academic
Affairs, the Regents authorized modification of the regulations governing
the Phillips Classical Prizes (R.P., 1960-63, p. 275) by opening the
competition on occasion, where appropriate, to junior students enrolled
in elementary and intermediate courses in Greek or Latin.
Residential After hearing a brief progress report on the Residential College by
ConleReqpeted the Vice-President for Academic Affairs, the Vice-President was asked
to present a complete and definitive report at the April meeting of the
Regents.
D. R. Scott: The President was pleased to remind the Regents that Major David
Ies-age to R. Scott. one of the two Gemini 8 astronauts, had been a freshman at
the University in 1949-50 and had lived in the East Quadrangle. After
his freshman year he had been admitted to the Air Force Academy.
The President said he had sent the following telegram to the astronaut:
"The University of Michigan sends you greetings and best wishes as you
follow another Michigan alumnus. Col. Edward H. White, on a 'walk
into space.' The thoughts of your former teachers and friends are with
you on the eve of your momentous journey."
Witts-,n Church- The President was happy to note that the Michigan Quarterly Rei': Interv. view in its spring issue, to appear on April 9. would record a suppressed
interview with young Winston Churchill by a University of Michigan
student in Ann Arbor in January, 1901.
Churchill, touring the United States with a series of lectures, had
recently escaped from a war-prison in Pretoria, South Africa, to be
elected Member of Parliament at the age of twenty-seven. During his
lecture at the University, students had booed and hissed him as an
imperialist.
Gustavus Ohlinger, A.B. '99. LL.B. '02. A.M.(hon.) '19, then
a law student and a reporter for The Inlander, the students' magazine.
interviewed Churchill in his room at The Cook House hotel at 126 East
Huron Street. Ann Arbor, through most of the night. Churchill promised
to speak freely, and did, on Ohlinger's promise to print nothing that
would reflect on Churchill's parliamentary career.
Churchill spoke about South Africa, China, and the Boxer Rebellion.
and Britain's role in the world, among a wide range of subjects.
Ohlinger wrote up his interview the next day, but published in The
Inlander only a few paragraphs of comments on the English language.
together with a photograph of Churchill in uniform, which Churchill
had autographed and given him.
After sixty-four years. Churchill's death released Ohlinger. a practicing attorney in Toledo, Ohio. from his promise; and Ohlinger has
released his interview, as it stood recorded in 1901.