Roy Vail Jordan, assistant professor of education, has been elected president of the board of Southern Illinois University foundation, a gift-receiving agency organized jointly by the University Alumni association, the State Teachers College board and the university itself.

Largest gift the foundation has received to date was the $25,000 bequest of the late Dr. Thelma Kellogg, former university faculty member, part of whose estate was left to the university as a scholarship fund to aid deserving and needy students majoring in English.