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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1940
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554 BOARD OF TRUSTEES [September 30 MEETINGS OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE The Secretary presented for record the minutes of meetings of the Executive Committee August 23 and 29, 1939. MEETING OF T H E EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, AUGUST 2 3 , 1 9 3 9 A meeting of the Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois was held at the University Club, in Chicago, at 2:15 p.m. (Chicago Daylight Saving T i m e ) on Wednesday, August 23, 1939. Mr. Oscar G. Mayer, Chairman, and Mr. Louis C. Moschel and Mrs. Glenn E. Plumb, members of the Committee, were present. Director C. S. Havens of the Physical Plant Department was present and acted as Clerk. The Executive Committee considered the following matters. NATURAL RESOURCES BUILDING T h e requests of the State Architect and of Director M. M. Leighton for the approval of changes in the Natural Resources Building to provide for the construction of the Industrial Research Laboratory adjacent to the Natural Resources Building were presented. In view of the previous action of the Board on this matter (Minutes, April 27, 1939, page 294), the Executive Committee refused to take action, and therefore postponed consideration of all questions with respect to the site and to changes in the Natural Resources Building to provide for the Industrial Research Laboratory until the full Board could act. T h e Executive Committee was not favorably inclined toward the proposal to construct the building on the site adjacent to the Natural Resources Building, based on information received to date from the State Geological Survey. CINDER CATCHERS FOR POWER PLANT T h e bid of the Buell Engineering Company in the amount of $13,000 for cinder catchers for the new Power and Heating Plant was accepted, and the contract was awarded to this firm. PROGRESS O N ILL1NI U N I O N BUILDING Recent correspondence from the Public W o r k s Administration expressing dissatisfaction with the progress on the Illini Union Building was presented, and the action of the Physical Plant Department in calling in the bonding company of the general contractor was approved. T h e Executive Committee adjourned. C. S. HAVENS, Acting Clerk OSCAR G. MAYER, Chairman Louis C. MOSCHEL Mrs. GLENN E. P L U M B MEETING OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, AUGUST 2 9 , 1 9 3 9 A meeting of the Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois was held at the University Club, in Chicago, at 2:15 o'clock p.m. (Chicago Daylight Saving T i m e ) on Tuesday, August 29, 1939. Messrs. Oscar G. Mayer and Louis C. Moschel and M r s . Glenn E. Plumb, members of the Executive Committee, were present; also Judge Sveinbjorn Johnson, University Counsel. T h e meeting was called to order by Mr. Mayer, President of the Board and Chairman of the Executive Committee. Mrs. Plumb offered the following resolution: Be it resolved, that in the absence of H . E. Cunningham, Secretary of the Board of Trustees and Clerk of the Executive Committee, Sveinbjorn Johnson, University Counsel, be and he is hereby appointed Secretary of the Board of
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