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Caption: UI Foundation Series - Bulletin 1 (1936)
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The University of Illinois Foundation—Its Aims and Organization T H E UimriMiv "1 Illinois F o unundation r. in .»«ionization incorpo•porated u«.i I«»i junfit but for the the purpose ni .r/.i-.iuiK the University in obtaining r i l l . ««l money for specific ;ific buildings, • old • h«.ir, <•! valuable works »rks of art, run !»«»•.I •.. museum collections, >ns, scholarship-., • i« I licie ;irc many estab;ablished allium! iimih among the colleges :ges and univci ifi* . < i ihr United States5 as » will be S i m IIMIII ,i partial list on another pan* <»' il»«*. pamphlet. Probably ibly the oldest an*I ..m nl lhe most successsssful is the V.il« Alumni I luiversity Fund, md, founded in \l'-'H) li had a small begin*inning, suhst i iph-'H, HI ils initial year ear coming hum U. i < mitributors and and amounting i«» :|.ll,niK) hnt in 1934 the the Fund should h.fal subscriptions of $146,506 lion, / j u s .mitributors. Th e r he F u n d had ir..iv.-.| ««p lo |uly 30, 1933, )33, a total ol :|;iu..'l.\l , .| While the- iiin\<r.iiv ul Wisconsin has has no alutiiiu hind. I% such, it has an zed alumni rr.M.ndi JmiuiJaliou organized ;nts in 1925, whi« h liau'lh-', various patents isin issued lo iimiiliii'. «.| (he Wisconsin DWfaculty, tin i • *\ »lii« - loi miug an endow* ment, the iiu.iiiii h.xn which is usedI to pmiunir and finance various research pmhlrtii'i at the University, I'»iil why, some might ask, docs the UIIIVCIMIV need an organization like the luiiiihl-iiHiiii' T h e University of Illinois < «»u«- <•• the great educational centers N < l Hi*- nation and has as its primary > fiim ••«*•• llir systematic instruction of the youth «»l Illinois and other states in all ln.iiu lies ol knowledge. You, fellow reach-1, ate a product of that system, I Jul, as yon know, there is more than hook ktinwlt-dge in a college course. T h e |)itipci t iivttoimient must be created, cultu1.11 ifitliictiec emphasized, the whole some development of the body encoura>*etl, nieiii.il stimuli provided outside of the II'KIII.U c tit t icula, and a host of othet mthieiHcs maintained for absorplion hy the young people who use the campus (liimig a four-year period. This new l*'iniinl.itinn hopes to help build up some «>l tin* social and esthetic influences, mn »(institution had provided ralhei IUU.KI powers for our action which may he summarized as follows: ( I ) T o a s a s l MI developing and increasiur. the Utilities of the University of Illinois loi luoader educational op- portunities for, and service to, its students and alumni and t > 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 as 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 University, the incorporation of the Foundation under 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 except ion of two directors yet to be elected will be found below. K. J. T. l.hhl-iiv's..j PrrnuN ui K',,i,,h Chapman,'15 Vice-President 3. G. M. Hobbs.'QI xecutive Executive Director A <\ Willard Director W. W. Williams,'03 Williams,'03 Director G. A. Barr/97 Director E. E. Barrett,'93 Director P R E S I D E N T Al.-i II UK (MITTS W I L LARD, dire« • ..Hi. •«.. i-U-cted presi• dent of the liniv.i^iiv \i\-M year, was for many yr.tr. it* « < « t tin* mechanical «l » engineering <l«>p,n im» m mt«l for a time was dean of Mi. C.ii, s..i «•! (engineering, A graduate < l IV!,.•-.*..«. lut-.Hts Tech in » 1904, he camr i.. iIn- University in 1913 as assisi.mi ,.t ,.i, •<<,H of heating and ventilation, ih H n « op.nized as an > international .tuih«.i«tv «» his subject, << has done proh.tl.lv **»*•*•-- in warm air furnace rescan h Hum .-my other man. He was largely i«-,|i..n»sil»lr for the successful ventilation .«t tin- Holland Tunnel in New YoiK W A L T E R W . W U . I . I A M S , ' 0 3 , dir e c t o r ex-officio, is (ilrnnUllt of t h e R. F. Carr,'93 Director J. N. Ch«Hter,'91 Director C. S. Pillsbury,'07 Director H. A. Pogue,'16 Director Lloyd Morey,'11 Treasurer f University Boaul <•! T u r n e r s as well iois as director of I be WI'A in southern Illinois. sityi He was graduated m i»w hom the University, returned to his Itomr m If niton and went into 5X1 law practice with Jmlrr I hut. He has been a ure. member for two VIMIS ol ihe state legislature. * g KARL J. T. KKHI.AW, '00, (also.'17 M.E. nini Yale) of Chicago, < i»ieni«lent of the Alumni > • Association and ol the University of Illinois t foundation. ITe in vn e president of idk e the a Western Advertising. AK<-n«-y. He has had a nics varied experience I torn the farm mechanics r I acuity at Illinois to e<lu« .itional director of the the Portland Cement Company. H e is the author of several ;uti< l«s and books. >liet GEORGE A. UAkK", '<»'/, prominent Joliet ator lawyer, associated with his brother, Senator tke Richard J. Barr, ("')(.), is a member of the resiUniversity Board of Trustees (formerly presi.ney dent). He was lot font years states attorney nois of Will County, was delegate to the Illinois ctor Constitutional convention in 1921 and director omof the state depattment of trade and commerce, 1921-22. jent E D W A R D K. H A R R I O T , '93, is president conof Roberts & SehaelTer (engineers and conricetractors), Wrijdey building, Chicago, viceorapresident and director of banks and corpora>sjt" tions, and is a past president of the University Board of Trustees. He was United States ates surveyor and inspector, 1893-00; assistant enenineer, C. B. & Q., 1900-01; civil engineer for airbanks Morse & Company, 1900-04; then ;hen director and manager of Roberts & Schaeffer. H A R O L D A. POGUK. '16, of Decatur, a famous Illini footballer, in a trustee of the University, and W P A director for central Illinois. H e was for two years with the Continental and Commercial Hank 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 , ' I S , since 1934 a partner in Farwell, Chapman Company, members of the New York and Chicago stock exchanges, widely remembered as "Slooie" Chapman,o n first Illinois Ail-American. He was * n t n e D ( l 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 Fnveterate 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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