Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1942 [PAGE 232]

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REPORT OF DEATH BENEFIT PAID (18) A report that the Comptroller has been authorized to pay the death benefit to the beneficiary of the following member of the staff in accordance with the University Statutes and the terms of his employment: Corum Ogles, Laborer in the Department of Horticulture—$350. Mr. Ogles was in the active service of the University from April 28, 1925, until the date of his death, December 28, 1940. T h i s r e p o r t w a s received for record. OFFER OF FARM IN KNOX COUNTY (19) Mr. Charles Booth, a farmer in Knox County, wishes to bequeath his farm to the University of Illinois, to be maintained and operated as a model or demonstration livestock farm and the net income used for scholarships or other forms of financial aid to worthy and needy students. T h e farm consists of 240 acres (described as the SWJ4 of sec. 25 and the Syi N E ^ of sec. 26 all in T11N, R l E (Galesburg T o w n s h i p ) , Knox County, Illinois). It has level, rolling, and rough land and seems better suited to livestock than to grain farming. It is in good condition, and the owner expects to keep on improving it. It is probably worth from $125 to $135 an acre at present prices, and Mr. Booth has been offered $40,000 for it. T h e Dean of the College of Agriculture recommends that the University arrange with Mr. Booth to accept his offer of this farm under certain conditions which are stated in the Dean's letter of March 3, a copy of which is hereby given to the Secretary of the Board for record. O n m o t i o n o f M r . K a r r a k e r , t h e a c c e p t a n c e of t h i s g i f t w a s a u t h o r ized u n d e r t h e c o n d i t i o n s p r e s c r i b e d b y D e a n R u s k . GIFTS T O THE UNIVERSITY (20) T h e following report of gifts received by the University since the last report: 1. Carnegie Corporation, New York, $2,000 for a study of the Library School. 2. Dow Chemical Company, Midland, Michigan, $150 for continuing a study of the effect of different grain fumigants on the germinating quality of various strains of hybrid corn. 3. Department of Physiology (College of Medicine), $3467, accruing from the sale of laboratory outlines by that Department, as an addition to the Emergency Loan Fund of the College. 4. Mr. Percy H. Sloan, Class of 1892, two paintings executed by him of old University Hall, for the Illini Union Building. 5. Dean Charles M. Thompson of the College of Commerce and Business Administration, a plaque in the Commerce Building on which will be engraved annually the names of three seniors, three alumni, and two faculty members in recognition of outstanding services to the College of Commerce and to the University. 6. Mr. G. A. Morison, Vice President, the Bucyrus Erie Company, South Milwaukee, Wisconsin, ten folio volumes on bridges constructed under the direction of George S. Morison, to the Engineering Library. 7. Mr. Robert Allerton of Monticello, $800 for the continuation of the Allerton American Traveling Scholarships in Architecture during the summer of 1941. 8. T h e Hillel Foundation of Champaign, a bronze finished plaster bust of Mendelssohn, to the School of Music. 9. Monsanto Chemical Company, an additional grant of $40 for the completion of the investigation on the toxicity of pentachlorophenol to fish. 10. Illinois Clay P r o d u c t s Company, $900 (supplementing funds previously offered during the current y e a r ) for the investigation of the properties of certain clay products by the Engineering Experiment Station and the Illinois State Geological Survey. T h e original agreement provided for a payment of $3,700 for the year. 11. H i r a m Walker & Sons, Inc., $600 for a study of "the nutritive properties of dried distillers' solubles in swine nutrition," by the Agricultural Experiment Station.