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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

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5. Mr. John W . RtteStinger, $500 for the John C. Ruettinger Memorial Scholarship for the academic year 1944-1945. 6. United Air Lines, $450 for scholarships for students studying the teaching of aeronautics in the summer session of 1944. 7. American Foundation for Pharmaceutical Education, $400 for two scholarships of $200 each in the College of Pharmacy, to be awarded to superior and needy high-school graduates w h o desire to study pharmacy as a profession. 8. Illinois Congress of P a r e n t s and Teachers, $400 for scholarships for .undergraduate students. 9. Mrs. Kittie B. Pierce, $300 for the continuation of the Phyllis Pierce Ruettinger Scholarship for women students. 10. Professor A. R. Crathorne, Emeritus, a collection of 50 volumes on the calculus of variations to the Mathematics Library. 11. Mr. Carl Joseffy, a collection of musical literature and memorabilia which belonged to his father, the late Rafael Joseffy of New York City. 12. Dr. H . Ries of Ithaca, New York, a collection of foreign pottery to the Department of Ceramic Engineering. 13. Dr. A r t h u r E. Hertzler, of Halstead, Kansas, a number of books to students and residents in the Chicago Colleges. 14. Mr. John Needels Chester, an alumnus of the Class of 1891, an Arabian dagger, once the property of the Emir of Yumbum, Arabia, with the photograph of the Emir wearing a similar dagger, and a certificate attesting to its authenticity, for the Oriental Collection of the College of Fine and Applied Arts. Grants for Research 1. T h e Nutrition Foundation, Incorporated, $12,000 for the continued support of research on the amino acid requirements of man being carried on by Professor W . C. Rose of the Department of Chemistry, for the year 1044-1945. 2. T h e Nutrition Foundation, Incorporated, $2,400 for the further support of research on factors which may alter calcium utilization by the adult man being carried on by Dr. F . R. Steggerda of the Department of Zoology and Physiology and Dr. H . H . Mitchell of the Department of Animal Husbandry, for the year 1944-1945. 3. Rockefeller Foundation, $9,000 for research on the biochemistry of amino acids under the direction of Professor W . C. Rose, for the year beginning September I, 1943. 4. John and M a r y R. Markle Foundation, $5400 annually for two years from May 1, 1944, for the continuation of research on experimental renal hypertension in the Department of Physiology of the College of Medicine. 5. National Dairy Council, $4,685 for research on the calcium, phosphorus, and nitrogen metabolism of adolescent children and of the utilization of the calcium of food, for the period of fourteen months beginning May 1, 1944. 6. Koppers Company, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, $3,000 in support of research on the insecticidal properties of coal tar chemicals, to be carried on in the Department of Entomology under the supervision of Professor C. W . Kearns, for the period of one year from J u n e 1, 1943. 7. Koppers Company, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, $4,000 in further support of research on the insecticidal properties of coal tar chemicals being carried on in the Department of Entomology under the supervision of Professor C. W. Kearns, for the period of one year beginning J u n e 1, 1944. 8. Nutrition Research Laboratories, $2,800, or $400 a month from July 1, 1943, through January, 1944, and $3,600, or $600 a month from February 1 through July 31, 1944, for the continuation of studies of the physiological and therapeutic action of E r t r o n in certain scientific and clinical investigations on arthritis, being carried on by Dr. C. I. Reed of the Department of Physiology in the College of Medicine. 9. Sharp & Dohme, Glenolden, Pennsylvania, $3,000 for research on "Sulfathalidine" phthalylsulfathiazole under the direction of Dr. M. H. Streicher of the College of Medicine.