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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1940
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1938] UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS 45 MEETING O F T H E EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE AUGUST 25, 1938 On call of Dr. Karl A. Meyer, Acting President of the Board and Chairman of the Executive Committee, a special meeting was held at the Blackstone Hotel, in Chicago, at 6:30 o'clock p.m. (Chicago Daylight Saving Time) on Thursday, August 25, 1938, to consider the following matters: 1. An offer from the United States of America of a grant of $572,728 for PWA project, 111. 1962-F. This includes a classroom building to replace University Hall and additions to the University Library and student hospital. 2. Purchase of a transmitter for the Radio Station. 3. Award of contracts for the purchase of coal for 1938-1939. 4. Recommendations from the President of the University relating to various other matters of University business requiring action by the Board of Trustees. Messrs. O. M. Karraker and James M. Cleary, and Dr. Karl A. Meyer, members of the Executive Committee, were present; also Mr. A. J. Janata, Assistant to the President, representing President Willard, Director C. S. Havens, Director J. F. Wright, Mr. A. J. Ebel, Chief Engineer of Radio Station WILL, and Mr. Joseph Guandolo, Regional Counsel of the Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works. The meeting was called to order by Dr. Meyer, Acting President of the Board and Chairman of the Executive Committee. CLERK OF EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Mr. Cleary offered the following resolution: RESOLUTION Be it resolved, that in the absence of H . E. Cunningham, Secretary of the Board of Trustees and Clerk of the Executive Committee, A. J. Janata, Assistant to the President, be and he is hereby appointed Secretary of the Board of Trustees, pro tempore, and Acting Clerk of the Executive Committee, to serve until Mr. Cunningham returns and is available for the performance of the duties of said offices; and Be it further resolved, that the said A. J. Janata is authorized to perform all acts incidental to the duties and responsibilities of the Secretary of the Board of Trustees and Clerk of the Executive Committee. T h i s resolution w a s adopted by the following vote: Aye, M r . Cleary, M r . K a r r a k e r , Dr. M e y e r ; no, n o n e ; absent, none. A M E N D M E N T OF MINUTES OF MEETING O F T H E EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE O F JULY 1 5 , 1 9 3 8 Mr. Karraker moved that the first paragraph of the minutes of the meeting of the Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois, held in Chicago on July 15, 1938 (page 2, press proof copy), be amended to read as follows: "A meeting of the Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois was held at the Blackstone Hotel, in Chicago, on Friday,
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