Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1940 [PAGE 724]

EXTRACTED TEXT FROM PAGE:

1940]

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

721

GIFTS TO THE UNIVERSITY (33) A report of the following gifts received by the University since the last report: 1. Mrs. Ada B. Taft, a number of casts, plaques, sculptors' models, photographs, and other objects of art to be added to the Lorado Taft Collection. A complete list of these objects is being given to the Secretary of the Board for record. 2. Hynsou, Westcott, and Dunning, Incorporated, Baltimore, Maryland, $1,600 for certain drugs and biological products for use in research by the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology. 3. American Institute of Architects, $200 for a lecture or a series of lectures in the general field of fine arts, to be known as "The Waid Lectures." 4. State of Illinois, Department of Public W o r k s and Buildings, Division of Highways, for tests of expansion joints, $500. This supplements previous grants to cover expenses of an investigation of expansion joints on concrete highways, a project undertaken by members of the faculty of the College of Engineering at the request of the Governor. 5. Nutrition Research Laboratories, for Vitamin D research work in the College of Medicine, $300. This is supplementary to previous grants for this investigation. O n m o t i o n of M r . C l e a r y , t h e s e g i f t s w e r e a c c e p t e d w i t h t h a n k s . CORRECTION OF BOARD MINUTES REPORTING GIFTS (34) T h e following memorandum of duplication in reports of gifts, of grants from outside agencies to members of the staff for research, and of payments to the University for expenses of cooperative investigations erroneously reported as gifts, is submitted to correct previous minutes of the Board recording these cases. Heretofore it has been customary to report offers of gifts in advance of receipt of the funds. In some cases, for example of fellowships which have been received from year to year, several months may elapse between the receipt of the offer and the receipt of payment. In the future, gifts will not be reported to the Board for record until the funds or the objects donated have been received, except in cases requiring advance authorization by the Board to accept offers. Illinois Bankers Association Minutes of February 11, 1939, page 231: "Illinois Bankers Association, two scholarships as prizes in an essay contest among high school students, on the subject of bank loans. The first prize is a scholarship of $350 and the second a scholarship of $100. The funds are payable to the winners through the University." Minutes of July 14, 1939, page 377: "Illinois Bankers Association, $500 for the renewal of a graduate fellowship in banking for the year 1939-1940." Minutes of September 30, 1939, page 575: "Illinois Bankers Association, $950; $450 to be used for two undergraduate scholarships and $500 for a graduate fellowship in Economics during the year 1939-1940." T h e last is a superseding report and is a duplication of the first two reports. Chicago Tuberculosis Institute Minutes of February 23, 1935, page 132: "The Chicago Tuberculosis Institute, the sum of $424.97, to supplement the balance of $1,375.03 in the Theodore B. Sachs Memorial Fund for research work in tuberculosis. On March 11, 1930, the Board accepted an offer from the Institute of $2,500 a year for five years in support of a 'Theodore B. Sachs Residency' in the field of tuberculosis. Because of a shortage of funds in 1933