Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1932 [PAGE 135]

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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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O n motion of Mrs. Evans, this appropriation was made, by the following vote: Aye, M r . Armstrong, M r . Barr, Mrs. Blake, Mrs. Evans, Mr. Fisher, Mrs. Grigsby, Dr. Noble, Mr. Simpson, M r . Trees; no, none; absent, M r . Blair, Mr. Emmerson. RECOMMENDATIONS O F THE COMMITTEE O N LANDSCAPING THE C A M P U S AT MEETING HELD DECEMBER 8, 1 930 Mrs. Blake presented the following report: The committee recommends that the Department of Horticulture determine its arboretum requirements and consult with M r . Piatt and Mr. Vitale in the preparation of a landscaping plan for the arboretum development to be submitted to the Board. In view of the Board's decision not to pave certain important streets on the campus, the committee recommends that the Board establish the policy of putting in concrete curbing on the streets and request Professor White's recommendations as to carrying out such policy. In view of the planting requirements of the University's landscaping plans and the desirability of raising this material ourselves at low cost, the committee recommends that six to ten acres more be allotted for nursery purposes. O n m o t i o n of D r . N o b l e , these r e c o m m e n d a t i o n s w e r e adopted. COMMITTEE O N BUILDINGS A N D G R O U N D S Mr. Armstrong, for the Committee on Buildings and Grounds, made a report of progress on the consideration of the use of the Noyes house, and presented the following recommendations. GOLF C O U R S E A recommendation that Professor White's plan of development of the golf course south, and west of the Stadium, taking in possibly 25 acres of the forty-acre pasture to the south, and such portion of the area between First Street and the Illinois Central, to the west, as m a y be necessary to secure a good course, be approved, and that M r . Huff be authorized to develop the course on this area, at the expense of the Athletic Association; further that the City of Champaign be requested to vacate Florida Avenue from First Street to Fourth Street, in consideration of the opening by the University of a new avenue across the forty acres further south, the exact location and direction of the avenue to be determined as the studies for the golf course develop. O n motion of M r . Armstrong, these recommendations were adopted. H A R D W A R E FOR PRESIDENT'S H O U S E A further recommendation from the Committee that the contract for the hardware for the President's house be awarded to the Midwest Hardware Company, the lowest bidders, on the basis of their bid of $a,ooo. O n motion of M r . Armstrong, this recommendation was adopted. President Barr requested Mr. Fisher to take the chair. NAMING OF STREETS A N D DRIVES Mr. Barr, for the special committee on naming campus streets and drives, presented a recommendation that the drive just west of the Chemistry and Agriculture buildings be named Draper Drive. O n motion of Mr. Barr, this recommendation was adopted.