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The University of Illinois Foundation—Its Aims and Organization

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H E University of Illinois F o u n dation is an organization incorporated not for profit but for the purpose of assisting the University ^ in obtaining gifts of money for specific buildings, collections of valuable works of art, rare books, museum collections, scholarships, etc. T h e r e a r e many established alumni funds among the colleges and universities of the United States as will be seen from a partial list on another page of this pamphlet. Probably the oldest and one of the most successful is the Yale Alumni University Fund, founded in 1890. I t had a small beginning, subscriptions in its initial year coming from 385 contributors and amounting to $11,000 but in 1934 the F u n d showed total subscriptions of $146,506 from 7,045 contributors. T h e F u n d had received up to July 30, 1933, a total of $10,212,154. While the University of Wisconsin has no a l u m n i fund, as such, it has an alumni research foundation organized in 1925, which handles various patents issued to members of the Wisconsin faculty, the royalties forming an endowment, the income from which is used to

promote and finance various research problems at the University. But why, some might ask, does the University need an organization like the Foundation? T h e University of Illinois is one of the great educational centers of the nation and has as its primary function the systematic instruction of the youth of Illinois and other states in all branches of knowledge. You, fellow reader, are a product of that system. But, as you know, t h e r e is more than book knowledge in a college course. T h e proper environment must be created, cultural influence emphasized, the wholesome development of the body encouraged, mental stimuli provided outside of the regular Curricula, and a host of other influences maintained for absorption by the young people w h o use the campus during a four-year period. This new Foundation hopes to help build up some of the social and esthetic influences; our constitution had provided rather broad powers for our action which may be summarized as follows: (1) T o assist in developing and increasing the facilities of the University of Illinois for broader educational op-

portunities for, and service to, its students and alumni and to the citizens of the State of Illinois. (2) T o receive, hold and administer such gifts with the primary object of serving purposes other than those for which the State of Illinois ordinarily makes sufficient appropriations. (3) T o act a s the business agent of the University Board of Trustees. (4) T o do such other acts and undertake such other enterprises as in the judgment of the Board of Directors shall tend to promote the interests and welfare of t h e University of Illinois. T h e organization of the new Foundation was completed by the acceptance by the University Board of Trustees of the form of the organization in February of this year, the provision for its maintenance in the budget of the U n i versity, the incorporation of the F o u n dation u n d e r the laws of the State of Illinois and the election of a board of directors by the Executive Committee of the Alumni Association at a meeting in July. T h e Board of Directors with the exception of two directors yet to be elected will be found below.

K. J. T. Ekblaw/09 President

Ralph Chapman/15 Vice-President

G. M, Hobbs/91 Executive Director

A. C. Willard Director

W. W. Williams,'03 Director

G. A. Barr/97 Director

E. E. Barrett/93 Director

P R E S I D E N T A R T H U R CUTTS W I L LARD, director ex-officio, elected president of the University last year, was for many years head of the mechanical engineering department and for a time was dean of the College of Engineering. A graduate of Massachusetts Tech in 1904, he came to the University in 1913 as assistant professor of heating and ventilation. He is recognized as an international authority on his subject, has done probably more in warm air furnace research than any other man. He was largely responsible for the successful ventilation of the Holland Tunnel in New York. W A L T E R W. W I L L I A M S , '03, director ex-officio, is president of the University Board of Trustees as well as director of the W P A in southern Illinois. He was graduated in law from the University, returned to his home in Benton and went into law practice with Judge Hart. He has been a member for two years of the state legislature. KARL J. T. E K B L A W , '09, (also '17 M.E. Yale) of Chicago, is president of the Alumni Association and of the University of Illinois Foundation. He is vice-president of the Western Advertising Agency. H e has had a varied experience from the farm mechanics faculty at Illinois to educational director of the Portland Cement Company. H e is the author of several articles and books. GEORGE A. BARR, '97, prominent Joliet lawyer, associated with his brother, Senator Richard J. Barr, (*96), is a member of the University Board of Trustees (formerly president). He was for four years states attorney of Will County, was delegate to the Illinois Constitutional convention in 1921 and director of the state department of trade and commerce, 1921-22. E D W A R D E. B A R R E T T , '93, is president of Roberts & Schaeffer (engineers and contractors), Wrigley building, Chicago, vicepresident and director of banks and corporations, and is a past president of the University Board of Trustees. He was United States surveyor and inspector, 1893-00; assistant engineer, C. B. & Q., 1900-01; civil engineer for Fairbanks Morse & Company, 1900-04; then

R. F. Carr/93 Director

J. N. Chester/91 Director

C. S. Pillsbury/07 Director

H. A. Pogue/16 Director

Lloyd Morey/11 Treasurer

director and manager of Roberts & Schaeffer. H A R O L D A. P O G U E , '16, of Decatur, a famous Illini footballer, is a trustee of the University, and W P A director for central Illinois. H e was for two years with the Continental and Commercial Bank of Chicago. During the war he was a balloon observer. He was afterwards secretary of the Decatur Association of Commerce. For the last nine years he has been in the lumber business. R O B E R T F . CARR, '93, president of the Dearborn Chemical Company of Chicago, the company he has been with since graduation, was formerly on the University Board of Trustees (past president) and was chairman of the Illinois Stadium Committee. H e is now director of the Continental Illinois National Bank, and of the Sheffield Car and Equipment Company of Kansas City. R A L P H D. C H A P M A N , '15, since 1934 a partner in Farwell, Chapman Company, members of the New York and Chicago stock exchanges, widely remembered as "Slooie" Chapman, first Illinois All-American. He was in the bond department of the Fort Dearborn Bank in Chicago. Until 1922 he was sales manager of the bond department at the Northern Trust Company. J O H N N. C H E S T E R , '91, of Pittsburgh, is president of The John N. Chester Engineers, specializing in water works. H e is an inveterate traveler and is an ardent collector of first

editions, has in his library many interesting and valuable books. Mr. Chester has presented to the University Library many rare books and made other gifts as well. C H A R L E S S. P I L L S B U R Y , '07, is manager of operations and director of the Chicago Bridge and Iron Works in Chicago. He is the son of W. L. Pillsbury, former registrar of the University. During the war he served with the A.E.F. as major of engineers, and was awarded the French Legion of Honor and a citation from General Pershing for his army construction work. L L O Y D M O R E Y , Comptroller of the University, was graduated at the University 1911, C.P.A. 1916, Comptroller of the University since 1917; Professor in Accounting since 1921; Consultant for The Municipal League, 1920-28; U.S. Office of Education; Author of "C.P.A. Problems and Solutions" (with W. B. Castenholtz), 1918; "Manual of Municipal Accounting," 1927; "University and College Accounting/* 1930. G L E N N M. H O B B S , '91, the new executive director, is a graduate both of Illinois and Chicago (Ph.D.), has been instructor in Physics in both universities. H e has been for twelve years head of the scientific department Of the W. M. Welch Manufacturing Company, Chicago, and was for some time secretary of the American School of Correspondence, and also head of the testing department at Sears Roebuck & Company.

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