Proceedings of the Board of Regents (1999-2000)

June Meeting, 2000

contributed to the strength and breadth of these collections. He has been an active
supporter of LILA (Lavender Information and Library Association), serving as a
resource person for the history of gay rights.
For forty years, Mr. Weber has assisted generations of faculty and students and has
been the face of the University to a multitude of scholars from around the world who used
the Labadie Collection. He is an individual of remarkable honesty, compassion, and
intelligence, who will be deeply missed by his colleagues in the library and the
University.
The Regents now salute this distinguished librarian by naming Edward C. Weber
senior associate librarian emeritus.
Memorials. Vice President Tedesco submitted a memorial statement for Stuart
Sankey, professor of music (double bass).
Stuart Sankey, professor of music (double bass) died in Ann Arbor on May 1, 2000.
He was born in Los Angeles on New Year's Eve in 1927. He studied at The Julliard
School where he received his B.S. and M.S. degrees and then joined the faculty at the
University of Texas at Austin. He became a faculty member at Indiana University in 1980
and was named professor of music at the University of Michigan in 1986. During summers
from 1951 until his death, Professor Sankey was a member of the artist faculty at the Aspen
Music School and Festival in Colorado. He also held guest teaching appointments at the
Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing and the Toho Academy in Tokyo.
Professor Sankey was a master performer on the double bass, and in his work at
Aspen, Texas, Indiana, and Michigan he was an equally masterful teacher. His former
students currently can be found in very many symphony orchestras throughout the
United States, including the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Boston Symphony
Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, New York Philharmonic,
and the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra and as faculty members in such prestigious
institutions as the Eastman School of Music, Northwestern University, and many others.
Professor Sankey was the author of numerous articles on double bass performance
and revised and edited the Simandle New Method for String Bass, which is by far the
most widely-used teaching method for the bass. He transcribed a great amount of music
for use by double bassists and was for much of his life also active as a composer.
The Regents acknowledge his death with sadness and offer sincere condolences
to his wife, Li Ting, and daughters, Laura and Lili.
Degrees. President Bollinger submitted a recommendation for award of an
honorary degree to Vaclav Havel, president of the Czech Republic.
Consent Agenda Approved. On a motion by Regent McGowan, seconded by
Regent Brandon, the Regents unanimously approved the Consent Agenda.
Divestiture of Tobacco Securities
President Bollinger commented that he had sent a memorandum to the Regents in
support of the recommendation of the Tobacco Advisory Committee that the University
divest itself of tobacco stocks. He emphasized that this proposal had emanated from
within the University many months ago, and that the precedent for considering the issue
was set in the late 1970s and early 1980s when the issue was divestiture of stocks of
companies doing business in South Africa. The standard set at that time was that a
company or organization must be acting in ways that are deeply abhorrent to University

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