| |
| |
Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1942
This is a reduced-resolution page image for fast online browsing.
EXTRACTED TEXT FROM PAGE:
696 BOARD OF TRUSTEES [November 18 Leaves of Absence for Military Service (The leave in each case is without salary.) Pete Moreci, an employee in the Chicago Physical Plant Department, one year from October n , 1941. J. A. Henderson, Associate in Animal Pathology and Hygiene, one year from October 28, 1941. C. R. Frederick, Director of Student Housing, extension of leave for military service for the period November 16, 1941, to November 16, 1942. Louis G. Coonrod, Machinist in the Physical Plant Department, one year from September 25, 1941, for service with the National Defense Council as a machinist on defense work. Kenneth E. Block, a bookkeeping machine operator in the Bursar's Division of the Business Office, one year from October 26, 1941. Kenneth Andrews, Assistant in English, one year from September 1, 1941. James L. Jackson, Assistant in English, one year from September 1, 1941. On motion of Mrs. Grigsby, these leaves were granted as recommended. AUTHORIZATION O F DIRECTOR C. M. W H I T E TO RENDER C O N S U L T I N G SERVICES (8) A recommendation that Director C. M. White of the University Library be authorized to render certain consulting services for the Tennessee Valley Authority library program, for the period beginning October 1, 1941, and expiring June 30, 1942. Director White will not be required to make more than three visits in connection with this work, each visit requiring three or four days' time. This arrangement will be advantageous not only to Director White professionally, but to the University Library and to the University. On motion of Mr. Jensen, this authority was granted as recommended. PATENTABLE DISCOVERIES (9) The Faculty Committee on Patents submits the following report and recommendations on discoveries by members of the University staff: 1. Process for the preparation of specific precipitin antisera for tissue proteins, by Dr. W. H. Welker, Professor and Head of the Department of Physiological Chemistry at the College of Medicine. The Committee recommends that Doctor Welker be authorized to apply for a patent with the understanding that the same will be assigned to the University. 2. Method for producing sodium cyanate, which appears to give a better yield than that heretofore used by industry, by Dr. L. F. Audrieth. The Head of the Department of Chemistry reports that he is unaware of any commercial use for sodium cyanate and that he foresees no immediate return from the discovery. The Committee recommends that the discovery be released to Professor Audrieth and that he be authorized to secure a patent in his own right if he so desires. 3. A new method for preparing d/-methionine, one of the essential amino acids, involving a complicated series of reactions, by Dr. H. R. Snyder. The Head of the Department of Chemistry advises that there are at least two other satisfactory methods for preparing this compound which have been followed for years at the University. Doctor Snyder considers his a better one and would like to have it protected by a patent. The market for methionine is so small that it is questionable whether the University would be justified in incurring the expense of securing a patent even if the use of methionine increases substantially in the future. The new method would have to compete with satisfactory ones already known. In view of these considerations, the Committee recommends that the discovery be released to Doctor Snyder and that he be authorized to secure a patent if he so desires. On motion of Mr. Adams, these recommendations were adopted.
| |
