Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1920
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1920] UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS 699 PROFESSOR W. C. COFFEY ACTING HEAD OF ANIMAL HUSBANDRY DEPARTMENT (12) A recommendation from Dean Davenport that Professor W. C. Coffey be made Acting Head of the Department of Animal Husbandry during the absence of Professor Mumford, at a salary of forty-five hundred dollars ($4500) a year, beginning February 1, 1920. This recommendation was approved. LEAVE OF ABSENCE FOR PROFESSOR GARNER (13) A request from Professor J. W. Garner for leave of absence on one-half pay for the year beginning September 1, 1920. This request was granted. LEAVE OF ABSENCE OF ONE MONTH FOR MISS GLOVER (14) A recommendation from Dean Davenport that Miss Anna C. Glover, Secretary of the Agricultural Experiment Station, be given leave of absence on full pay for the month of March. Miss Glover has been ill for some time, and needs this vacation ta recuperate. This recommendation was approved. MCKINLEY HOSPITAL SECURITIES (15) The Acting President called|f attention to the fact that the money received from the sale of the McKinley securities last spring was in the general University fund. He raised the question whether the Board might not well take steps to reinvest the money. On motion of Mr. Abbott, the Comptroller was instructed to credit all income from the McKinley securities and funds to the McKinley Hospital fund, and the President of the Board was authorized to invest the money in this fund in approved securities. TEN-YEAR (16) BUILDING PROGRAM The following statement: Last December the Honorable Omar H. Wright, Director of the State Department of Finance, wrote me saying that he was preparing a ten-year building program for the different state institutions, and asked me to send the University's contribution to this program. In response I sent him the following list of building projects, which have, at one time or another, been approved by the Board of Trustees, with the exception of the Veterinary College which is new. List No. 1 New Buildings Which are Necessary in the Next Ten Years (Subject to Change of Order) 1. Horticultural Field Laboratory, needed immediately. 2. Library, first unit ($800,000) needed immediately. 3. Main Agricultural Building, first unit ($800,000) needed immediately. 4. Service Group for Operation and Maintenance, needed immediately.
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