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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1964
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726 BOARD OF TRUSTEES [August 1 Student Services (May 17, 1961) Purchase $ 50 000 U. S. Treasury bills 30 000 U. S. Treasury bills 7/18/63 8/15/63 $ 49 877 29 29 857 42 On motion of Mr. Swain, the actions of the Committee were confirmed. DEANSHIP OF COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING. CHICAGO UNDERGRADUATE DIVISION (22) T h e Vice-President for the Chicago Undergraduate Division recommends the appointment of Dr. Robert B. Banks, presently Director of Research and Professor of Engineering at the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization Graduate School of Engineering, Bangkok, Thailand, as Professor of Fluid Mechanics on indefinite tenure and Dean of the College of Engineering for two years, beginning September 1, 1963, at an annual salary rate of $21,000, on a twelve-month service basis. This appointment is within the new organizational framework of the University of Illinois at Congress Circle authorized by the Board of Trustees on January 18 and February 15, 1961. Associate Professor Rupert M. Price of the Department of Physics has been serving as Acting Dean and will continue to serve until September 1. This recommendation was submitted after consultation with the Academic Advisory Council at the Chicago Undergraduate Division, and with the Dean and several department heads of the College of Engineering at UrbanaChampaign. It is concurred in by the Executive Vice-President and Provost and the Dean of the Graduate College. On behalf of the President of the University, I recommend approval. On motion of Mrs. Watkins, this appointment was approved. UNIT VENTILATORS FOR CLASSROOM COMPLEX BUILDING AT CONGRESS CIRCLE M r . Pogue, for the Committee on Buildings a n d G r o u n d s , presented the following report: At the meeting of the Board of Trustees on May IS, 1963, when contracts for construction of Congress Circle were being awarded, a representative of a manufacturer of unit ventilators inquired why an alternate bid on the heating, piping, refrigeration, and automatic temperature control installations in the construction of the Classroom Complex Building at Congress Circle was not accepted since the alternate provided for a reduction in price. It is a standard practice to include alternates in bid documents as a safeguard in case base bids are in excess of engineering estimates of cost of the preferred type of equipment and construction, and the University reserves the right to accept or reject the alternates. Since bids on construction of Congress Circle in all cases were well within estimates, it was not necessary to select alternates on the basis of cost savings alone. Officials of the company whose representative had raised the question requested a hearing. T h e Committee on Buildings and Grounds held a hearing on July 1, 1963, attended by representatives of the manufacturers concerned and Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill, Architects and Engineers, all of whom addressed the meeting. Examples of the unit ventilators were available for inspection. After giving due consideration to the presentations made at this hearing, the Committee concluded that, due to the special conditions and requirements of the Classroom Complex Building, no changes should be made in the contract with respect to unit ventilators as awarded by the Board of Trustees on May 15, 1963. O n m o t i o n of M r . J o h n s t o n , t h i s r e p o r t w a s a c c e p t e d b y t h e B o a r d , without dissent. LETTER FROM T H E PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES President Clement presented a letter he received from President John F . Kennedy concerning the civil rights problem faced by this Nation -—•
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