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UNIVERSITY OF I L L I N O I S

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The sum of $316,975 of the $640,000 State appropriation has been used for purchase of equipment, materials, and services in connection with the building remodeling for the United States Naval Training Schools, and this expense has been charged against the classification "Building Remodeling, General," item 1 above. T h e University will be reimbursed by the Navy for all of these expenditures. T h e appropriation bill authorizes the transfer of unused balances from one item to another within the grand total. I recommend that the unassigned balances in the original items from 3 to 6, inclusive, be appropriated by the Board to "Building Remodeling, General" as an offset against the funds used for the Naval Training School work and that the President of the University be authorized to approve minor assignments from this appropriation. O n m o t i o n of M r . J e n s e n , t h i s r e c o m m e n d a t i o n w a s a p p r o v e d . CASE OF AGNES McEACHERON (20) Some members of the Board have been served with a summons in mandamus in the Circuit Court of Cook County in the case of Agnes McEacheron versus the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois. T h e facts in the case are as follows: Miss Agnes McEacheron was employed as a Dietary Attendant in the Research and Educational Hospital and was suspended September 22, 1941, for repeated misappropriation of hospital foods. A second suspension was issued effective October 23, 1941, pending a hearing for removal. Mr. Ray F. Thiesse, Assistant Attorney General, 208 South LaSalle Street, Chicago, represented the University at the hearing held at 10:00 a.m. on January 2, 1942, at 715 South Wood Street, Chicago. Professor W. C. Robb, Professor R. N . Sullivan, and Professor H . W. Bailey of the University's Civil Service Committee sat as the hearing committee and reported to the Board of Trustees that the evidence amply supports the charge with respect to the date of September 21, 1941, and the committee therefore recommended that the employee be discharged. The Board of Trustees on February 14, 1042, approved and adopted the recommendation of the Committee and authorized and instructed the University Appointing Officer to make the discharge of this employee effective as of September 22, 1941, the date of her suspension from work. T h e mandamus action has been brought to the attention of the Assistant Attorney General, who represented the University at the first hearing on this action. T h i s r e p o r t w a s received for record. CLAIM OF ADOLPH HAMMER AGAINST THE STATE OF ILLINOIS (21) One of the members of the Board has received a letter from Mr. Edward P. Saltiel, Attorney, concerning the claim of one Adolph Hammer against the State of Illinois now pending in the Court of Claims. The Attorney suggests that this claim "might well be compromised" and inquires "if there is any possibility of working out some amicable solution to this matter prior to the time set for the hearing." T h e facts in this case are as follows: One Joseph Hammer founded a firm which prepared scientific models and maintained a studio at the University of Munich in Germany. It also organized such a studio in Chicago, and in 1915 asked for the use of a room in one of the medical buildings as a work shop. In return for the use of the room, with heat and light, this firm agreed to permit the professors in the medical school lo utilize its scientific models for instructional purposes in the College of Medicine. T h e junior faculty of the College of Medicine recommended to the Board of Trustees in October, 1915, that a small room in the north end of the top floor of the annex to the dentistry building be assigned for this purpose without rent to Hammer's Atteliers until further notice. The Board approved the arrangement on October 14, 1915, and it continued until about 1930, when Adolph Hammer went to Germany. Members of the faculty denied that any request was made of Mr. Hammer, as stated in Mr. Saltiel's letter, for permission to use the moulages and models he left, nor that any assurances were given him they would be preserved against the possibility of his return.