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THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY IN CAIRO Minutes of the Meeting of the Board of Trustees June 25, 1974 The River Club, New York City Present were Mrs. Hammond, Mrs . Lord, Mrs . Sande rs, Messrs. Aldrich, Bacon, Battle, Byrd, Crary, Devine, Hedlund, R e ed, Thorne (Chairman), Van Vleck, Wells, Yost; also att e nding were Mr. Wallace, and Mr. O'Connor as Executive Secretary. 1. Adoption of Agenda - The agenda was adopted as presented. 2. Consideration of Minute s of Previous M e eting - Because this meeting was hastily arranged, it was not possible to distribute the minutes of the previous meeting sufficiently in advance to permit adequate review, hence they were distributed by mail and it was agreed that approval will be sought at the October meeting. 3. Confirmation of Executive Committee Action Regarding the Presidenc y - The Chairman, Mr. Thorne, after drawing attention to the strong and widespread support for Dr. Byrd, reported to the Trustees the Executive Committee ' s action appointing Cecil K. Byrd as President and requested confirmation of this action. After general statements o