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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1938
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1936] UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS 25 On motion of Mr. Barrett, the contract for the elevator w a s awarded to the Otis Elevator Company at their base bid of $3,360 less $605 under their alternate bid for introducing an internal gear between the worm gear and rope traction drum. T h e r e being no further business, the meeting adjourned. O. M. KARRAKER, EDWARD E. BARRETT Chairman EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEETING. S E P T E M B E R 1 , 1 9 3 6 A meeting of the Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois was held at the University Club, Chicago, on the first day of September, 1936, for the purpose of considering the acquisition of property in Urbana adjoining one of the cooperative houses for women on Springfield Avenue, which was being offered for sale by the investment company holding the mortgage on the property. Those present w e r e : O. M. Karraker, Chairman, and E d w a r d E . Barrett. Absent: Dr. Karl A. Meyer. Mr. Oscar G. Mayer, member of the Board, Mr. Charles S. Havens, Director of the Physical Plant Department, and Mr. H . M. Edwards, Purchasing Agent, were also present. Inasmuch as the growth of the University requires additional facilities for housing the women students, and inasmuch as the property offered for sale adjoins one of our cooperative houses for women and has a good house on the property suitable for housing purposes, it was deemed advisable to secure an option for its purchase. Therefore, on motion of Mr. Barrett, which was carried, an option was secured on this property (1206 West Springfield Avenue, Urbana, Illinois) for forty-five (45) days at a purchase price of $5,500, by payment at this time of $500 for the option, and an appropriation of $500 was made from the General Reserve Fund for that purpose, the final purchase to be subject to the approval of the Board of Trustees of the University at the next regular meeting of the Board. T h e r e being no other business, the meeting was adjourned. O. M. KARRAKER, Chairman EDWARD E. BARRETT On motion of Mr. Barr, the purchase of the property at 1206 West Springfield Avenue, Urbana, was authorized, and the appropriation of $5,000 was made from the General Reserve Fund, by the following vote: Aye, Mr. Barr, Mr. Barrett, Mr. Karraker, Mr. Mayer, Mrs. Plumb, Mr. Williams; no, none; absent, Mrs. Freeman, Mr. Horner, Dr. Meyer, Mr. Pogue, Mr. Wieland. T R I B U T E TO G O V E R N O R L E N SMALL Mr. Barr presented the following resolution, which, on his motion, was unanimously adopted. T h e Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois records with profound sorrow the death on May 17, 1936, of the Honorable Len Small, former Governor of Illinois and a former member of the Board. Governor Small served as a member of the Board of Trustees for ten years, first from 1915 to 1017 when, as President of the State Board of Agriculture, he was by virtue of that office also a member of the Board of Trustees of the University, and later, from 1921 to 1929, when he was Governor of the State. T h e Board wishes to record its deep appreciation of the services of its former colleague, to the State as Governor, and to the University as a member of its governing body. H e always manifested a deep interest in the University not only in his official capacity but as a private citizen and particularly as one interested in the agriculture of Illinois.
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