Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1924 [PAGE 579]

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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

[June 9,

work in the new hospitals and our research laboratories is fully established, i will t be necessary to relieve Professor Davis of his present duties. In the meantime, the suggestion is that he will take charge of the division and begin to organize it. Dean Eycleshymer recommends various positions, including that of Professor Petersen. now on our staff, several associate and assistant professors, and people of other grades, whose salaries will aggregate approximately $54,000. I therefore recommend: 1. That appropriations for the three great divisions indicated above, namely. preventive medicine, surgery, and obstetrics and gynecology, be made respectively as follows: $60,000, $50,000, and $20,000. 2. That Dr. D. J. Davis be made head of the division of preventive medicine. as Professor and Director of Research, so that he may go on to organize the divisions andfinalnominees for the necessary positions, he to continue for the present at the head of the Department of Pathology and Bacteriology in the College of Medicine until the organization is completed, and that his salary continue what i t is now—$7500. •••$* 3. That Professor W . F. Petersen be appointed Professor (General Medicine) in the division of Preventive Medicine at a salary of $5500 a year. O n motion of M r s . E v a n s , these recommendations were adopted. APPOINTMENT OF PROFESSOR J. E. SCHAEFER (5) A recommendation that Dr. J. E. Schacfer be appointed Associate Professor of Oral Surgery, in the College of Dentistry, for one year, beginning September 1. 1924, at a salary of five thousand dollars. O n motion of M r s . E v a n s , this appointment w a s m a d e . REAPPROPRIATION OF BALANCES (6) A recommendation that the following balances of various appropriations be reappropriated in accordance with the request of the Comptroller. Printing of University Statutes and Regulations $ 1,000 Color Reproduction of Portraits 600 Injuries to Employees (Crosby Case) 600 Crockerland Expedition Report 1.500 Agricultural Inquiry (Estimate) 1,00c H o m e Economics Cafeteria (Estimate) 2,000 Smith-Lever Revolving Fund (Estimate) 1.000 Summer Session 1924 (Estimate) 4,000 Graduate School Research Funds—Various assignments for summer research (Estimate) 1,000 Stadium Grading (Estimate) 10,000 X-Ray Equipment, College of Medicine 25,000 Agronomy Caretaker's Cottage 6,003 Moving Medical Research Equipment and Library 2,500 McKinley Hospital Plans (Estimate) 1.500 Boiler House Addition 10.000 Land Appropriations Mitchell Property (balance payable February, 1925) $ 1,800 Stedman Lot (162) (pending perfection of title) 2,250 'Not including last ilem. Ensign Lot (151) (balance) 12,500 Englis Lot (152) (balance) 12,725 Purchases which may be authorized at meeting of June 14. and which are not concluded by June 30 29,275 $96,975