TRUSTEES AND OFFICERS 



At its annual meeting in January the Board of Trustees elected 

 Stanley Field to serve as President of the Museum for his 50th 

 consecutive year. Dedicated service in a responsible position as 

 head of an institution for so long a time naturally attracted wide 

 attention, and the newspapers of Chicago were generous in paying 

 tribute to Mr. Field in their editorial comments as well as in their 

 news columns (see page 95). On March 4, 1958, on the occasion 

 of the celebration of the 121st anniversary of the City of Chicago, 

 Mayor Richard J. Daley presented to Mr. Field an official "Chicago 

 Medal of Merit" in recognition of his leadership and unselfish service 

 in behalf of the people of the community (see below). 



The Board of Trustees arranged a dinner in honor of Mr. Field, 

 at which he was presented with an engraved plaque testifying to 

 the action of the Board of Trustees in naming the Museum's re- 

 markable collection of plant models "The Stanley Field Collection 

 of Plant Models" (see page 56). The designation of this collection, 

 which is unrivaled by any institution in the world, is particularly 

 apt because Mr. Field himself established the plant-reproduction 

 fund in 1916 and had carried its entire support for a number of 

 years. The staff of the Museum presented Mr. Field with "The 

 Man and the Museum," a volume reminiscent of the changes that 

 have occurred at the Museum under Mr. Field's leadership. 



At the annual meeting of the Board of Trustees, Vice-Presidents 

 Hughston M. McBain, Walther Buchen, and Joseph N. Field and 

 Treasurer Solomon A. Smith, Secretary Clifford C. Gregg, and 

 Assistant Secretary John R. Millar were re-elected to the positions 

 that they had previously held on the Museum's Board of Trustees. 



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