Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1940 [PAGE 65]

EXTRACTED TEXT FROM PAGE:

62

BOARD OF TRUSTEES

[September 24

of it. The present proposal differs somewhat from that of three years ago, but it provides that the Infirmary would be a training agency of the College of Medicine and the Graduate School of the University of Illinois for specialists in one field. The American Medical Association proposes to set up new Boards of Specialty Training in 12 fields to examine and license specialists in the future. The proposal involves certain questions of University policy, viz.: 1. Is it a proper University function to provide training at public expense for specialists? 2. Is it a Graduate School function? There are to be no new degrees, just certificates. 3. Who will do this very important work if the Medical Colleges do not? 4. How can it be set up? If this arrangement is authorized by the Board, how should the work be organized and administered? As a preliminary step this proposal will be studied by Dean Davis of the College of Medicine and Dr. Gradle of the Infirmary, and they will confer with Dean R. D. Carmichael of the Graduate School for further consideration of policies and details involved. T h i s r e p o r t w a s r e c e i v e d for r e c o r d . GIFTS TO T H E UNIVERSITY (23) The following report of gifts received by the University since the last report: 1. Charities Foundation, $5,000, a contribution to the University of Illinois for the William E. Levis Loan Fund. 2. Monsanto Chemical Company, St. Louis, $4,500 for the continuation of the investigation of insecticides by the Agricultural Experiment Station. 3. Sears, Roebuck and Company, $3,575 to be added to the Sears, Roebuck Agricultural Foundation Scholarship Fund, this being the third year the Company has made such contributions. T h e funds are used to provide scholarships for students in the College of Agriculture on recommendation of the Dean of that division. 4. E. I. duPont de Nemours & Company, $2,750 for the continuation of the duPont post-doctorate ($2,000) and post-graduate ($750) fellowships for the year I938-I9395. Electric Auto-Lite Company, $2,500 for the continuation of a fellowship formerly offered by the Prest-O-Lite Battery Corporation for the year beginning September 1, 1938. 6. State of Illinois, Division of Highways, an additional $2,000 for the investigation of expansion joints. 7. Aluminum Company of America, an additional $1,000 for Alorco Cryolite Industrial Investigation. 8. Illinois Bankers Association, $500 for a graduate fellowship in Economics and $350 to be awarded to the winner of the high school essay contest, Miss Mary Ellen Weiss, as an undergraduate scholarship in the University. 9. Continental Oil Company, $750 for the continuation of a graduate fellowship in Chemistry under Professor George L. Clark for the academic year beginning September 1, 1938. 10. The Baldwin Bird Research Laboratory, through Mr. S. Prentiss Baldwin, $600 for a research assistantship in the Department of Zoology. This is a continuation (with an increase of $100 in the stipend) of an assistantship previously established and accepted by the University. 11. American Dry Milk Institute, $600 for the support of research on the problem of calcium requirements in the adult man by Assistant Professor Steggerda, of the Department of Physiology. 12. American Otological Society, an additional $500 for otological research. 13. An anonymous donor, $500 for employment of a research assistant in Zoology. 14. Federal Cartridge Corporation, $500 for Four-H Club Conservation Work. 15. E. A. Culler, $350 for otological research. 16. Oldsmobile Division of the General Motors Sales Corporation, a 1938 Oldsmobile chassis cut open to show the assembly of the working parts, for the use of the Department of Mechanical Engineering. 17. The George Davis Bivin Foundation, $300 to the Department of Psychology to assist Professor H. H. Anderson in his research work.