Regents History: June 14-15, 1962
Board Membership
Harry Hagemann, President, Waverly
Maurice Crabbe, Eagle Grove
Elsie Evans, Emerson
Wilbur Molison, Grinnell
Alfred Noehren, Spencer
John Oberhausen, Dubuque
Stan Redeker, Boone
Dannie Rosenfield, Des Moines
Harriet Valentine, Des Moines
Meeting Highlights
James A. Dixon was appointed as associate professor in the University of Iowa Department of Music. Dixon, who had previously served as conductor of the UI Symphony Orchestra, resumed the role with this appointment and held it for the next 35 years. He retired in 1997 as the Phillip Greeley Clapp/Carver Distinguished Professor of Music, earning the Gustav Mahler Medal in 1963 and the Laurel Leaf Award from the American Composers Alliance in 1978. The university named him a distinguished alumni with a 2005 Forevermore Staff Award.
The Board approved the purchase of lot one in block 94 in Iowa City from the John Brady Estate. The block was situated west of Madison Street and south of Burlington Street and included rental apartments, a two-story brick building and a filling station. Today, this location is home to the UI Campus Recreation and Wellness Center, completed in 2010.
A leave of absence was granted to Dr. Malcolm Price, professor of education at the State College of Iowa (UNI) for the first semester of the 1962-63 academic year. Price, who served as the institution’s fourth president from 1940-1950, would retire from teaching upon his return in 1963.
The Board received an opinion from Evan Hultman, Iowa Attorney General, regarding its plan to raze the International House property south of Lincoln Way and build a modern dormitory. The International House property included a historic house, formerly named The Gables, which was left to the university to provide housing to foreign students whose native language is not English. Hultman’s opinion stated that ISU would be in compliance with the will as long as the dormitory provided accommodations that were at least equivalent in quality and numbers to those provided by The Gables. Buchanan Hall opened on the site in 1964, largely serving international students. It remains in operation to this day.
