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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

[January 20

(Chicago

YOKOYAMA, KATSUYUKI, Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences Undergraduate Division) — resignation effective March 1, 1959.

LEAVES OF ABSENCE BRADEN, BETTY J., Henderson County H o m e Adviser — sick leave of absence with full pay extended for additional two months, through November 30, 1958; thereafter she will be on leave of absence, without pay, for an indefinite period. BURGER, AMBROSE W., Associate Professor of Agronomy ( C and S ) — leave of absence on account of illness, with full pay, for three months from November 4, 1958. BURNSTOCK, M R S . NOMI, Research Assistant in Animal Science ( S ) — l e a v e of absence, without pay, from December 18, 1958, through January 7, 1959. DIETER, OTTO A., Associate Professor of Speech — sick leave of absence with full pay beginning November 24, 1958, and continuing through January 31, 1959MEAGHER, RALPH E., Research Professor of Physics and of Electrical Engineering ( C ) , and H e a d of the Digital Computer Laboratory (Graduate College) — leave of absence, without pay, for one year beginning April 1, 1959. PFLANZE, OTTO P., Assistant Professor of H i s t o r y — s i c k leave of absence with full pay from December 4, 1958, to February 1, 1959. REYNOLDS, HELEN M., Assistant Architecture Librarian, with rank of Assistant Professor — leave of absence, without pay, for five months beginning February I, 1959, so that she may accept an appointment with the University of Texas. SNADER, DANIEL W., Professor of Education (College of Education and Division of University E x t e n s i o n ) — l e a v e of absence, without pay, for three years beginning March I, 1959, so that he may serve as Specialist for Secondary School Mathematics on the staff of the United States Office of Education. YOUNG, GEORGE A., Associate Professor of Civil Engineering ( C ) — leave of absence, without pay, beginning March 1, 1959, and continuing through February 29, i960, so that he may accept an assignment with the Air Force Ballistic Missile Division in Inglewood, California. EXECUTIVE SESSION A t t h i s p o i n t a n e x e c u t i v e s e s s i o n w a s r e q u e s t e d a n d o r d e r e d f o r cons i d e r a t i o n f o r t h e f o l l o w i n g i t e m of b u s i n e s s . RECOMMENDATIONS OF T H E UNIVERSITY PATENT COMMITTEE (19) T h e University Patent Committee submits, with the concurrence of the Chairman of the University Research Board, the following recommendations relating to inventions by members of the staff. 1. Apparatus for scanning stains or images on film for automatic sizing and counting — J o h n Edwin Pearson, Professor of General Engineering, inventor. This is a mechanical scanning technique and may be compared to a simple slide projector in which the projector is revolved so that the picture on the screen is moved past a photo-multiplier tube. T h i s invention had been referred to the University of Illinois Foundation for study, and that agency Vias reported t h a t it is very doutrtiui tViat tViere is any commercial value to the device. Accordingly, the Committee recommends that the invention be released to the inventor with the stipulation that if he files for a patent, he will recognize the contractual obligations to the sponsoring agency, the Air F o r c e ; that if he does not file for a patent, he will release all his rights in the invention to the sponsoring agency; and that the University is to execute all documents necessary to accomplish this. 2. Non-planar logarithmically periodic antenna structures — Dwight E. Isbell, Antenna Technician, Department of Electrical Engineering, inventor; and unidirectional equiangular spiral antenna — John D. Dyson, Assistant Professor and Assistant Research Professor of Electrical Engineering, inventor. These inventions are advanced antenna structures which are novel because they operate over a large range of frequencies, together with other advantages over existing antenna structures.