Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1960 [PAGE 196]

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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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Illinois, that the Director of Purchases and Comptroller of this public corporation be, and they hereby are, authorized to sign any and all documents, forms, applications, and other materials necessary to secure from the United States Treasury Department Internal Revenue Service the right to procure and use alcohol, free of tax, for instruction, experimentation, the making of medicinal extracts, ether or chloroform, and in combining pharmaceutical preparations, and for sterilization of instruments, and external applications, and for any and all other allied purposes for and in behalf of this public corporation, and that the affixing by said officers of their signatures as said officers to any such documents, forms, applications, and other materials necessary, shall be and is the act of this public corporation, and that the authority herein granted shall inure to the successors in office of the said Director of Purchases and Comptroller of this public corporation. O n m o t i o n of M r . S w a i n , t h e f o r e g o i n g r e s o l u t i o n w a s a d o p t e d . JANUARY AND FEBRUARY MEETINGS

On motion of M r s . Watkins, the Board voted to hold its January, 1959, meeting in Urbana, Illinois, on Tuesday, J a n u a r y 20, 1959, at an hour and place to be determined by the President and the Secretary of the Board. On motion of M r . Swain, the Board voted to hold its F e b r u a r y , 1959, meeting in Chicago, Illinois, on Thursday, F e b r u a r y 19, 1959, at an hour and place to be determined by the President and the Secretary of the Board. EXECUTIVE SESSION At this point, on motion of Mr. Swain, an executive session was ordered for consideration of the following items of business.

ACQUISITION AND TRANSFER OF L A N D (25) Mr. Hartwell C. H o w a r d of Champaign has offered to give the University of Illinois Athletic Association approximately 154 acres of land immediately south of, and adjoining, the University of Illinois Golf Course at Savoy under the following conditions: 1. That the Athletic Association shall agree to develop within four years from the date of acquiring the land a public golf course upon not less than 120 acres of the land transferred and to operate this golf course under the conditions hereinafter set forth for a period of not less than fifty years. 2. T h e golf course shall be operated for the use and benefit of the public generally during the normal golfing season on each Saturday, Sunday, and two other days of the week. On the other three days of the week preference may be given to the use of the course by students and faculty of the University of Illinois. 3. The daily fee for the use of said golf course shall not exceed the average of the daily fees charged by public courses in the counties of Champaign, Vermilion, Coles, and McLean, Illinois. 4. W h e n the fifty-year period has expired, there shall be no further restriction on the use of the premise, providing, however, that the golf course may be abandoned during said period of fifty years and the land sold, if a golf course with comparable facilities and operated under the same terms and conditions provided is opened and operated by the Athletic Association. 5. T h e Athletic Association is authorized to sell any land in excess of the 120 acres specified for the golf course, providing that the proceeds of such sale as may be deemed necessary by the Athletic Association may be used to defray the cost of developing the golf course and the excess, if any, may be used by said Association, providing the golf course has been developed, as the Athletic Association may determine. Mr. H o w a r d desires to retain within this general area approximately eight acres of land which he will deed to an individual as a home site. In the opinion