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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1962
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472 BOARD OF TRUSTEES [May I? palate, and severe hearing loss. They are eligible for treatment under the pro. gram of the Division and are in need of speech treatment as an integral part of the complete medical care program. Cooperating institutions contribute their facilities and staff. It is recommended that during the summer of 1961, speech clinics be authorized in the following institutions on a reimbursable cost basis, estimated as follows: Augustana College, Rock Island $ 9 722 00 Northern Illinois University, DeKaJb 10 246 SS Southern Illinois University, Carbondale 8 820 00 Illinois State Normal University, Normal 12 233 33 . $+1 021 8 8 A similar clinic will be conducted at the University of Illinois at Urbana at an estimated cost of IS 148/5 Funds are available in the budget of the Division of Services for Crippled Children. The Director of the Division of Services for Crippled Children, the VicePresident in charge of the Chicago Professional Colleges, and the Vice-President and Comptroller join in this recommendation. I concur. On motion of Mr. Swain, this recommendation was approved. FEDERAL GRANT FOR REHABILITATION CENTER BUILDING (7) The Vice-President and Provost and the Vice-President and Comptroller recommend that an application be submitted to the federal government for a grant of $300,000 under the Hill-Burton Act, to provide for one-third of the cost of a new building for the Rehabilitation Center, and that the _ University of Illinois Foundation be requested to solicit gifts of $300,000 to assist in financing the project. The remaining one-third would be provided from the capital appropriations to the University for the 1961-63 biennium. I concur and recommend the adoption of the following resolution, which is necessary in connection with submitting the application: Resolution Resolved that H. O. Farber, Comptroller, and A, J. Janata, Secretary of the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois, be and hereby are authorized w sign applications for grants-in-aid under the Illinois Hospital Construction pregrant and Public Law 725 (The Hill-Burton Act) in connection with a grant for the building of a rehabilitation facility at the University of Illinois in UrbanaChampaign. On motion of Mr. Hughes, this resolution was adopted. GRANTS FOR CONSTRUCTION O F LABORATORY FOR DEPARTMENT OF FOOD TECHNOLOGY (8) The University has received official notice from the Health Research Facilities Branch of the National Institutes of Health, United States Public Health Service, of approval of an application for a grant of $400,000 to be used for the construction of the Burnsides Research Laboratory at Urbana to be used for fundamental research programs related to lipid metabolism and nutrition in degenerative diseases. The grant is made on condition that it will be matched by a n equal amount by the University to provide a total of $800,000 for construction and equipment of the laboratory. One-half of the University's contribution will be available in state appropriations from the proceeds of the Universities Bond Issue. The other half will be a private gift to the University for this project from Miss Ethel Burnsides w Paris. Miss Burnsides' attorney, Mr. Raymond I. Massey of the firm of Mas^!'Anderson and Gibson, Paris, and an alumnus of the University of Illinois, "# handled the legal arrangements for Miss Burnsides' gift. Operational programs aimed at the control and eradication of degenerati* diseases have< been hampered by earlier neglect in the area of basic res /*J, ,2 lipid metabolism. In recognition of this need, the National Institutes of Heain have supported research, and more recently training grants, in this general ar» A training program in lipid metabolism and nutrition is presently active at a
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