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MR. FLETCHER PRESENT

Questioned as to whether he had "threatened to resign" if the Board reversed the penalties,
Mr. Fletcher said that he had neither intended to make such a threat, nor did he recall saying
anything that could fairly be so interpreted. He thought it possible that he had used some such
phrase as that he "would rather resign". The remarks had been made under great stress and under
circumstances that it would now be very difficult to reconstruct. The clear intent of his
comments had been that his position in the University would be utterly untenable if the Administration
were not supported in imposing severe penalties for the type of misconduct that he had been
investigating by day and night along with his other work for the previous three weeks. Mr. Walker's
misconduct was, in his judgment among the most aggravated of all the misconduct in this affair

Mr. Fletcher retired from the Board room

Mr. Denny then made closing remarks on behalf of Mr. Walker, thanked the Board and withdrew
to catch the train for an urgent trip.

The Board recessed for lunch at 1:25 p.m.