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I t MI:NUTES OF A MEE:l.'ING of th,e Executi va Conrrnit tec-) of the AMERICAN UNIVERSITY IN CAIRO held at the office of the corporation at 175 Fifth Avenue, New York City on June 22, 1965 at 3:00 P.Me PRESENT: MGHS rS~ :Jirk s , Barco, l'1cLaln" Bar'tlett, VanVleck, Harbi 'u,l l1 :ayne , Cole, C:l"'a!'y~ The CD;: lt1Gllor repol"ted on Miss I.ister i s situation and tJ:le ar~al'1gen .?lts for her I" etiren!ent e He gtated that the Uni'lrers:Lty ha.d paici. approx:L:iJlately $1, '700 fOl' special nurse s dU2.~lng her illness, wi).::;} the oiJ2:1.er med.ical costs bei.ng assumed by h0r, laX'gely t!1.:t'ougl'l Blth3 Gl"OS S. HA sald that in approxi­mate'ly t 'v,1Q lro1ee lG'~ B;'H"\ J\":::wlctod to l"eturn to ·the ofl'ice on a part time basis; t hat 83..:10(3 a '~ lb~lessGe w'as taking OVEH' the pl'esent qusn'ters at; 175 Pil't>:.. ,A'i.renue 011 S0ptember 1, Miss Lister would discontinue hel? [~o,_.· vioo 011 tlta t date b€Jing 011 call u.ntil De­(; eIl'iber 31, at i"t.':.11 ~ i;l.la~:,:" during this period .. The foregoing 9.2'l·a.ngemen1i was a::,')pr'ov8r.!. and it was suggested. that the Chan­cell01' and :Mi.> 0 Bflcdeau p.t"epal'i3 a special minute regarding her sGrvice p i'oI' action by the Board in December' . 'rhe Pl"'esit'l81-7; X"opc»:-ted on the following mattt-)rs: 1.. Ee said that Dro Hussein Said, presently Vice Recte)1" (.).t' Cairo University, 8....'11 authoY'ity in the field of' botany, wIth a 1'ine p).'>ofeszio:nal. rep.ltation in Egypt , approx­imat~' Jly 59 yeR.rs 01' a.ge~ was prepared to accept the nomina. tion as Vi.cE) Pj:>esidellt u1" A"U",C " and ' hat a re-l.ease from the GO 'iTer'n­ment f'rom hi::~ du\"' if:S 13. 1. Cairo UniVBl'oity had. been obtained" Dr'. Ba.:C'tle-ct st;ro:rtg1y reeornmencled that the Board act 1"avorably on the appointment and spoke highly of' Dr. Said. The President ::3aid that he pla.nned to involve the new Vice President, who will x'ep l ace Dl' .. Hanna R:i.zk, who is reti.ring , in a variety of tasks, i ncl udi.ng GoveI'lIDle::lt liaison, executive secretaryship of the Univ81"s:1.ty Gounci19 consultant on stat'£' relationships, executive secreta:r.·yship of the aca.demic board, resolving que s­tions of' eond.ucting social J.·esearch as between the Social Science Depa.rtment and the Social Resear'ch Center and also with responsibility i'or the Arabic Studies Department in the absence of Dr e Marsden Jones, while on sabbatical leave. Af'ter discussion, on motion du.ly made and seconded, the following l'esolution was unanimously adopted : RESOLVED that Dre Hussein Said be and he here­by is appointed as V:tce President of' AoUoC., subject to hls aeceptance, and that his compensation be the same as that cur:C'ently paid retiring Viee President Rizk, Dr. Sa:ld to eo~n.rtltl rwe his duties in or arOlmd mid Octo­ber 1965