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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1946
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292 BOARD OF TRUSTEES [November 30 MATTERS PRESENTED BY PRESIDENT W1LLARD The Board considered, in executive session, the following matters presented by the President of the University. SERVICES OF PROFESSOR H. M. GRAY ON SIXTH REGIONAL WAR LABOR BOARD (1) The Board of Trustees has authorized Dr. H. M. Gray, Professor of Economics and Assistant Dean of the Graduate School, to serve as one of four public representatives on the Regional War Labor Board in Chicago. This service requires about two days a week and is performed by Professor Gray in addition to his University duties. He was also authorized to accept a per diem compensation for his services. This arrangement was authorized with the understanding that it would be reviewed July I, 1944. At that time it appeared that Professor Gray would be no longer serving in that capacity and therefore no request was made for renewal of this authorization. He has recently been asked to continue serving on the Sixth Regional War Labor Board and asks that the original authorization be extended until September I, 1945. On motion of Mr. Davis, this authorization was extended to September 1, 1945, as requested. OFFER O F PAINTINGS BY MR. A N D MRS. MERLE J . TREES (2) On November 29, 1937, Mr. and Mrs. Merle J. Trees offered the University of Illinois, through the University of Illinois Foundation, a collection of oil paintings to be known as the "Emily Nichols Trees (Class of 1905) and Merle Jay Trees (Class of 1907) Collection," which when completed would have an approximate value of $100,000. This offer and the conditions under which it was made was accepted by the Executive Committee of the Board on December 18, 1937 (Minutes, page 587), pursuant to specific authorization to that Committee to act for the Board on this matter. The plan as presented by Mr. and Mrs. Trees and approved by the Board contemplated annual gifts of one or more paintings for this collection. To date the value of the collection exceeds $123,000. Mr. and Mrs. Trees now offer as this year's contribution to the collection two additional paintings: John Singleton Copley's "Portrait of Squire Hyde of Hyde," appraised at $13,000; and Moretto da Brescia's "Portrait of Marco Foscari da Venezia," appraised at $5,500. The appraisals have been made by the Art Institute of Chicago. I present herewith the letter from Mr. and Mrs. Trees, dated October 5, 1944, to the University of Illinois Foundation making this formal offer. It has been accepted by the Foundation which now offers the pictures to the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois. • On motion of Mrs. Grigsby, this generous gift was accepted with thanks. Mr. Davis requested to be recorded as not voting, stating that he did not approve of the Foundation's attitude in earmarking general funds for specific purposes. RECOMMENDATIONS RELATING TO PATENTABLE DISCOVERIES (3) The Faculty Committee on Patents has submitted the following reports and recommendations relating to patentable discoveries by members of the University staff: 1. Smokeless Furnace Device,—Developed by Julian R. Fellows, Associate Professor, and J. C. Miles, Associate, in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. The patent (No. 2,295,781) on this has been assigned by the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois to the University of Illinois Foundation for commercial development. The patent covers the down-draft coking principle of combustion applicable to all types of hand-fired heating appliances. In the original patent it is specified that the air proportions in the furnace are to remain constant and the combustion rate is to be controlled by the control of the draft only. In actual operation it has been found, however, that in putting this principle into practice it is impossible to obtain the range of combustion
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