Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1940 [PAGE 580]

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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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12. Sears, Roebuck, and Company, $3,675 for scholarships. 13. Estate of L a Verne Noyes, $2,57849 for scholarship endowment. 14. Nutrition Research Laboratories, $600 for Vitamin D research. 15. American Society of Heating and Ventilating Engineers, $525 for air conditioning research. 16. Federal Cartridge Company, $500 for 4-H Club conservation work. 17. Illinois Federation of Women's Clubs, $331 for gynecological cancer research. 18. American Society for Testing Materials, $300 for research on the effect of speed of testing on the properties of metals. 19. T h e National Auxiliary of the United Spanish W a r Veterans, Department of Illinois, $50 for a scholarship. 20. An unknown donor, $500 as a private grant for research work by Dr. H e n r y B. W a r d , Professor, Emeritus. T h i s report w a s received for record.

PURCHASE OF COAL FOR THE URBANA DEPARTMENTS

(31) T h e accompanying schedule of bids (page 576) received and opened on August 4, 1939, covering most of the University's coal requirements for the Power Plant at Urbana for the period October 1, 1939, to June 30, 1940. T h e Purchasing Agent and the Comptroller recommend, and the Director of the Physical Plant Department concurs, that contracts be awarded as follows: Price f.o.b. Delivered Tons Mine Cost Globe Coal Company 25 000 $1 03 $1 63 Crawford Coal Company 2 000 (Trucked) 1 50 T h e Globe Coal Company was the low bidder for rail delivery and the Crawford Coal Company was the low bidder for trucked coal. Based on the percentage of fines, the Globe Coal Company bid was also lower than that of John E. Godsell for trucked coal. T h e State Constitution requires the Governor's approval after bids have been accepted by the Board. O n m o t i o n of M r s . P l u m b , t h e s e c o n t r a c t s w e r e a w a r d e d a s r e c o m m e n d e d , subject to t h e conditions stated. AFFILIATION OF ILLINOIS EYE A N D EAR INFIRMARY W I T H THE RESEARCH AND EDUCATIONAL HOSPITALS M r s . P l u m b r e p o r t e d as follows: T h e Committee on the Chicago Departments recommends that the Board concur in a request from the Chief of Staff of the Illinois Eye and Ear Infirmary for the affiliation of that institution with the College of Medicine as a unit of the Research and Educational Hospitals. It is contemplated that when the Infirmary is rehoused in a new building in the hospital group it will provide quarters for the Eye Department and the Ear, Nose, and Throat Departments of the College of Medicine. The Committee also recommends that the name of the Infirmary be changed to Illinois Institute for Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology. T h e present agreement between the Board of Trustees and the State Department of Public Welfare relating to the operation of the Research and Educational Hospitals was entered into pursuant to an act of the General Assembly approved July 3, 1931, authorizing such an agreement. However, this act excludes the Illinois Eye and E a r Infirmary from this agreement and amendatory legislation will be necessary to provide a legal basis for its affiliation with the University. Since there is likely to be a special session of the General Assembly this fall, your Committee recommends that the Board formally request the Governor to include in his proclamation calling a special session