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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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Establishment of Toxicology Consortium (Chicago Community Trust), Chicago (14) T h e University of Illinois at Chicago, Cook County Hospital, and RushPresbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center have agreed to establish a toxicology consortium, known as Toxicon. It will be devoted to reducing morbidity and mortality from poisonings in Cook County by improving the delivery of information and clinical and preventive health services to patients with accidental and intentional poisoning. Toxicon will promote and expand the sharing of clinical toxicology services among the participating institutions. By linking the Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Poison Control Center with the University of Illinois Drug Information Center and the Cook County Hospital Division of Occupational Medicine, the consortium will increase the capability of the Poison Control Center in the areas of drug information and occupational and environmental poisoning. A single telephone call will provide access to the comprehensive poison and drug information services of the three institutions. The Chicago Community Trust has agreed to support the consortium through a grant of $722,000 over three years, commencing July 1, 1988. As a condition of the grant, the trust asks that the governing bodies of each of the collaborating institutions concur in the decision to establish the toxicology consortium. The chancellor at Chicago has recommended that the Board of Trustees express its appreciation to the Chicago Community Trust for its encouragement and support of this project and its concurrence in the decision to establish the consortium. The acting vice president for academic affairs concurs in this recommendation. I recommend approval. O n motion of M r . Logan, this recommendation was approved. Establishment of Quasi-Endowment (Henry O. Koehler Estate) (15) Henry O. Koehler, an alumnus of the University of Illinois and a resident of Stuart, Florida, died on August 2, 1987, leaving a will naming the University of Illinois as beneficiary.1 The distribution to the University is estimated to be $605,000. The purpose of the bequest designated by the donor is to provide scholarships for needy students of high scholastic standing in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Urbana campus. The head of the department has proposed the establishment of a quasiendowment with all funds received from the Koehler estate. The income would be used to grant scholarships and fellowships in memory of Henry O. Kochler to needy students in electrical engineering. The chancellor at Urbana, the vice president for business and finance, and the acting vice president for academic affairs have recommended the establishment of the quasi-endowment for the purpose described. I concur. O n motion of M r . Logan, this recommendation was approved. By consensus, the board agreed that one roll and considered the vote on each agenda item clusive. T h e recommendations were individually at one time. ( T h e record of board action appears at the

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call vote would be taken nos. 16 through 22 indiscussed but acted upon end of each item.)

Mr. Koehler earned a B.S. degree in electrical engineering in 1922.