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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1946
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362 BOARD OF TRUSTEES [February 24 the proposed Health and Physical Education Building from the requests for the first biennium of the Post-War Building Program, and to restore the four buildings eliminated by the Post-War Planning Commission (Animal Husbandry Laboratories, Chemistry Laboratories, Mechanical Engineering Laboratories, and Dairy Husbandry Laboratories) for the following reasons: While the Board of Trustees recognizes the need and wide-spread public demand for the proposed Health and Physical Education Building at the University of Illinois, it now appears that recommendations have been made which will not allocate sufficient monies to permit its erection during the biennium 1945-1947 unless we postpone erecting four urgently needed educational buildings. The Board of Trustees therefore reaffirms the position previously stated, to wit: It is the sense of the Board of Trustees that such Health and Physical Education Building shall not be requested if, by such appropriation either by separate bill or through the Post-War Planning Commission, there is interference with or diminution of the necessary total budgetary requirements for the educational purposes of the University of Illinois. RECOMMENDATIONS RELATING TO PATENTABLE DISCOVERIES (3) T h e Faculty Committee on Patents submits the following recommendations: 1. That Associate Professor J. R. Fellows and Associate J. C. Miles of the Department of Mechanical Engineering be authorized to consult with Chritton, Wiles, Schroeder, Merriam, and Hofgren, the University's patent attorneys, concerning certain discoveries made by them in the development of coal-burning devices and that the Board of Trustees authorize applications for patents if in the opinion of patent counsel there is sufficient novelty in these discoveries to w a r r a n t their patenting. T h e discoveries are improvements in previous devices developed by Messrs. Fellows and Miles. 2. T h a t the firm of Brown, Jackson, Boettcher, and Dienner, patent attorneys in Chicago, be consulted about the discoveries for improvements in the betatron, and that the Board authorize applications for patents on these discoveries if in the opinion of the attorneys that is advisable. These discoveries have resulted from the researches of Professor D. W. Kerst, Dr. Gail D. Adams, Research Physicist, and others of the Department of Physics, and have been made in large part in connection with research work on contracts with the Office of Scientific Research and Development. Because of the confidential nature of this work, information on the subject is restricted and details cannot be given. I concur in these recommendations. On motion of Mr. Davis, authority was granted for consultation with Chritton, Wiles, Schroeder, Merriam, and Hofgren on these discoveries, since it is desirable for the same firm to represent the University and the Foundation in these matters. UNIVERSITY LOTS IN ROSELAWN CEMETERY, CHAMPAIGN (4) In 1930 the University purchased the unsold lots in Roselawn Cemetery for the purpose of ultimately removing all burials in this cemetery and in adjacent Mt. Hope Cemetery, thus providing for future expansion of the campus in these areas. On May 27, 1936, the Board reversed this policy by approving a recommendation from its Committee on Buildings and Grounds that the University sell its holdings and use the proceeds for the purchase of other desirable property. Accordingly, the University has disposed of a part of its holdings, gradually selling lots as buyers could be found. Mr. J. W . Thrasher of Champaign made the following offer to purchase the University's unsold lots in Roselawn Cemetery:
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