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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

[February 19

Construction of Turner Hall Phase II, also known as Turner Hall Addition at Urhana-Champaign Campus. Now, therefore, be it Resolved, that an application for the project described above is authorized and directed to be filed with the Office of Education, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, United States of America; and be it further Resolved, that The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois designates Sidney M. Stafford, Director of Business Affairs, Urbana-Champaign Campus, as the officer authorized to file the application and act as the representative of this Board in connection with said application. Signed. Timothy W. Swain, President

T H E BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

February 19, 1969 On motion of Mr. Clement, the foregoing resolution was adopted.

A GIFT FROM T H E BENJAMIN J . GOLDBERG FOUNDATION

(27) The Board of Trustees on January 12, 1967, formally accepted the gift of a trust fund known as the Benjamin J. Goldberg Foundation and the proceeds have now been received. The Benjamin J. Goldberg Foundation contains a separate Edward and Cookie Beck Fund. The gift is to be used for the following purposes: 1. To establish professorships, scholarships, and fellowships at institutions of learning for worthy and deserving students, without regard to sex, color, or creed; 2. To foster and encourage research in the fields of medicine, science, and art and for the purchase of necessary apparatus, books, equipment, or supplies for the same; 3. For the care, hospitalization, and assistance of such aged or sick or helpless or poor or incompetent person or persons or child or children as merit and are in need of care, hospitalization, or assistance. The Chancellor at the Medical Center and the Vice President and Comptroller recommend that these funds be used at the Medical Center for the purposes specified and that the proceeds be held as temporary endowments, designated as the Edward and Cookie Beck Fund and the Benjamin J. Goldberg Foundation Fund, pending the President's final decision as to the specific application of the funds. Dr. Goldberg was a 1916 alumnus of the College of Medicine and was devoted to the improvement of medical education. A very substantial part of his personal estate was given to the University of Illinois Foundation to construct a facility for multidisciplinary medical research on the Medical Center campus. I concur. O n motion of M r . Jones, this recommendation was approved.

PURCHASES

(28) The President submitted lists of purchases recommended by the Directors of Purchases and the Vice President and Comptroller; and a list of purchases authorized by the President. Purchases Authorized On motion of Mr. Jones, the purchases authorized were approved. The Provost noted that for clarification of presentation, the purchases recommended had been divided into two categories — those to be made from funds appropriated by the state and those to be made from funds from other sources held by the University. In the case of the former, he stated that one item would be withdrawn and that a special motion regarding another item would be needed.