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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1926
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1926] UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS 637 D E A T H BENEFIT F O R ERIC F R O B E R G (18) Mr. Eric Froberg, Head Janitor at the College of Medicine, died May 16. He had been in the service of the University for seventeen years, and had designated as his beneficiary under our rules Mrs. Ethel Englejohn. I recommend that an appropriation of #750 be made from the Reserve and Contingent fund and that the Comptroller be authorized to pay this amount to Mrs. Englejohn. This recommendation w a s approved and the appropriation w a s m a d e b y the following vote: A y e , M r . Armstrong, M r . Barr, M r s . Busey, M r s . Evans, M r s . Grigsby, M r s . Ickes, M r . Noble, M r . Trees, M r . W h a m ; no, none; absent, M r . Blair, M r . Small. IN M E M O R Y O F CAPTAIN J O H N R. T R E V E T T Mrs. Busey presented the following resolutions, which were unanimously adopted. W h e r e a s , In the death today of Captain John R. Trevett, a member of the Board of Trustees from 1913 to 1919, the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois has lost an honored former member and friend, and W h e r e a s , His sudden death has come as a shock to his former associates and has deprived them and the University of one of their friends, be it Resolved, That the Board hereby expresses to his family i s t heartfelt sympathy in the loss of their husband and father, and that this testimony of its appreciation and sorrow be spread upon the minutes, and a copy sent to the surviving members of his family. Mary E. Busey W. L. Noble Fred L. Wham Committee CHANGE IN NAME OF FORMER COMMERCE BUILDING (19) I recommend that the name of Administration Building be applied to the double building formerly known as Administration Building on the Wright Street side and Commerce Building on the campus side. O n motion of M r . Bafr, this recommendation w a s adopted. COMPTROLLER'S REPORT O F CONTRACTS (20) The Comptroller's report of contracts executed by him during the month of May, and of purchase orders in excess of $1000. CONTRACTS E X E C U T E D B Y T H E COMPTROLLER M A Y 12 TO JUNE 7, 1926 Miscellaneous contract executed under general regulations: Name Amount Date Item Commonwealth Edison Various rates May 3, 1926 Application for services Company at 721 South Wood Street, Chicago, Illinois Lease contract executed per action of Board of Trustees, April 14, 1926 (page 561): Lease from Property Rental Date Tenure C. H. Morrison 33.78 acres of $<j per acre M a y 24, 1926 Indefinite from land adjacent to March 1, 1926 Odin Soil Experiment Field, Odin, Illinois
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