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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1944
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1942] U N I V E R S I T Y OF I L L I N O I S 39 of the present allotment of funds, and that it was not considered necessary to ask for more funds or to use the additional funds allotted last year. A detailed budget was in preparation and would be reported later. M r . W a t s o n introduced M r . Charles E . Bowen and M r . W a l t e r J. Wessman, and stated that the reorganization included the following details: 1. The appointment of Charles E. Bowen as Executive Director of Alumni Activities, on full time, effective January I, 1043. 2. The appointment of Walter J. Wessman as Secretary in charge of relations with high schools. 3. The retention of Carl Stephens as Secretary of the Alumni Association. 4. The retention of James E. Colvin as Editor of the Alumni News. 5. The appointment of Mildred Fisher on full time in charge of alumni activities in Chicago, with Frances Wiseheart as her assistant, and the opening of a downtown Chicago office as the headquarters of the alumni and of the University in Chicago. The details of this arrangement are to be worked out. President Willard expressed his approval of these arrangements. T h e Board went into executive session. On motion of M r . Cleary, the plan for the reorganization of the Alumni Association was approved. On motion of M r . Fornof, the action of the Board assigning $9,000 for the work of the Alumni Association for 1941-1942 (reappropriated for the current year) and $15,000 for the year 1942-1943 (Minutes, October 2 1 , 1941, page 681) was reconsidered and rescinded, and the funds were lapsed into the General Reserve Fund, by the following vote: Aye, M r . Adams, Mr. Cleary, M r . Fornof, M r s . Grigsby, Mr. Jensen, M r . K a r r a k e r , M r . Livingston, D r . M e y e r ; no, n o n e ; absent, Mr. Davis, M r . Green, M r . Wieland. SECRETARY'S REPORT OF CONTRACTS T h e Secretary presented for record t h e following documents signed by the President and the Secretary of the Board and deposited with the Secretary since the last report. Name Carl T. Peterson Otis Elevator Company Date June 22, 1942 May 11,1942 Amount #S90 £2,740 Purpose Remodeling suite for blood bank. 808 S. Wood Street Repair of elevators in Research and Educational Hospital GRADUATE SCHOLARSHIPS A N D FELLOWSHIPS T h e Secretary presented also for record the following supplementary lists of graduate scholars and fellows appointed by the President of the University on July 8 and 2 1 , 1942. July 8, 1942 Agricultural Economics. . .WILLIAM E. MCDANIEL Agronomy Chemistry English German Sociology BENJAMIN L. MATZEK WILLIAM K. SCHWARZBURG MARY RUTH SHELTON RUTH E. WEISS MARJORIE M. HEDRICK Scholarship Fellowship Scholarship Scholarship Scholarship Scholarship $300 500 300 300 300 300 July 21, 1942 Henry Strong Fellowship Chemistry ALFRED L. OPPEGARD Fellowship 600
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