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, I I work under way and projected by the several departments, the program for expansion of the University's physical faculties and campus develop· ment, the projected University press, faculty housing, faculty and student exchange programs with U. S. universities, and the possible re-acquisition by the University of approximately one hundred acres in the Giza development sold in 1958 by the University. Such re-acquisition would be at the 1958 salesprice for a fraction of present market value. Dr. McLain then submitted a report on his activities as Chancellor during the past two and one half years in the development of government aid and outlined the historical evolution in recent years of gove~ment , aid pro· grams in relation to the University. Dr. Bartlett reported that, although Dr. McLain had resigned as Chancellor for a challenging new assignment with the University of Alabama, he would continue as a trustee. After discussion, on motion duly made and seconded it was RESOLVED, that with the retirement of Dr. Raymond F. McLain from the office of Chancellor of the American University in Cairo, the members of the Board of Trustees meeting in Cairo records its deep gratitude and its good wishes to Dr. and Mrs. McLain. Although he will continue to serve as a Trustee, with this meeting the relationship to the University's administration of Dr. McLain comes to an end after more than eleven years of continuous service. He was first elected as President of the University in 1954 and took up the duties of this appointment on January first, 1955. In 1963 he laid aside these responsibilities and returned to America to become the Chancellor of the University, which position he has held to this time. Dr. and Mrs. Mclain have now moved to the University of Alabama, where Dr. McLain takes up his new responsibilities as Dean of International Programs, and where Mrs. McLain will serve as advisor to international students. We record here our good wishes to them both as they take up their new duties; and It is further RESOLVED, that beginning with Dr. McLain's work as President, the University moved forward In a major curricular reorganization by opening up departmental major fields, studying in detail the fundamental role of the University in a country of rapid change and mounting national aspiration, and devising a financial program which led to -2