Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1934 [PAGE 436]

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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

[January 26

Determination of the amount of air leakage through mine stoppings Development of the optimum design for bends and splits in mine air courses A scientific research project in acoustics at the University. ( T h e services of a physicist are needed to construct an amplifier and use it t o test the itensity of sound.) T h e making of a list of all the books and pamphlets in the University Library published during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the resulting list to be arranged chronologically by years, and alphabetically by authors within each year, with index

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This report was received for record.

OFFICE SPACE FOR DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC HEALTH IN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE (20) A recommendation from the Dean of the College of Medicine that Dr. F r a n k J. Jirka, Director of Public Health, be permitted to continue his office in the College of Medicine for one year, or until January 1, 1935. O n m o t i o n of D r . M e y e r , t h i s p e r m i s s i o n w a s g r a n t e d . SPACE IN THE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE BUILDING FOR MEDICAL PARK ASSOCIATION (21) A report that the association which has been organized to promote the development of a park area around the medical center has been given desk space in the College of Medicine Building at 1853 West Polk Street.

This report was received for record.

TRANSFER OF MCKINLEY ENDOWMENT F U N D SECURITIES (22) T h e deed of gift executed by the late Senator W . B. McKinley creating an endowment fund for a chair in the economics of public utilities (Minutes, January 12, 1924, page 376) provides that for a period of ten years the securities originally constituting that fund and any securities purchased by the Board as a reinvestment of the fund should be deposited in escrow with the Trevett-Mattis Banking Company. This period having expired, the TrevettMattis Banking Company, at the direction of the Comptroller, has turned over to the First National Bank of Chicago, Trust Department, depository for the University, the following securities held by it in connection with this fund: First farm mortgage, Mathew and Lucy L. Dunn $ I 600 First farm mortgage, M. H . H a r t 14 000 First farm mortgage, B. W . Pope, et al 5 000 Appalachian Power Company, first mortgage bonds, 5%, due 1941 4 000 Chicago Union Station Company, first mortgage bonds, 4^4%, due 1953 15 000 Commonwealth Edison Company, first collateral gold bonds, 5%, due 1953 7 100 Duquesne Light Company, First mortgage bond, 4^4%, due 1067 5 000 Illinois Bell Telephone, first and refunding gold bonds, 5%, due 1956.. 3 000 Kansas City Terminal Railroad, first mortgage bonds, 4%, due i 9 6 0 . . . 20 000 Swift and Company, first mortgage, 5%, due 1044 10 500 Terminal Railroad Ass'n of St. Louis, first mortgage bond, 4 j ^ % , due 1939 1 000 West Pennsylvania Power Company, first mortgage bonds, 5%, due 1063 10 000 These securities have been fully accounted for, and the Comptroller has released the Trevett-Mattis Banking Company from further obligations under the escrow provisions of the deed of gift.