Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1946 [PAGE 505]

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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

[June 30

13. Mr. J. E. Schaefer, Vice-President of Boeing Airplane Company, Wichita Division, and member of the Advisory Board on Aeronautics, $350 for aeronautical purposes. T h e University may use this money as it sees fit in this field. 14. F r o m the W a r Department, three buildings and equipment (formerly used by the Civilian Conservation Corps) for housing prisoners of war at the Illinois Canning Company, Hoopeston, Illinois, and the Hoopeston Canning Company at Hoopeston, who will be employed in harvesting canning crops under the Emergency F a r m Labor P r o g r a m administered by the Extension Service in Agriculture for the Federal Government. T h e buildings and equipment have been deeded to the University without restriction, and the University is free to dispose of them by sale, gift, or demolition when they are no longer needed or usable. 15. Mr. L. A. Boice, Recorder, Emeritus, a reed parlor organ to the School of Music. 16. T h e late Miss Mary Abegail Mann, formerly Serial Cataloger in the University Library, a bequest of a collection of books and magazines for the University Library. 17. Professor H a r r y J. Fuller of the Department of Botany (now on leave for war service with the Rubber Reserve Company, a Federal agency) anthropological specimens to the Museum of Natural History. 18. Mrs. H e n r y C. Pillsbury, Nashville, Tennessee, a gold-plated sword which belonged to her father, the late General William T Wood, Professor of Military Science and Tactics, 1880 t o 1883. Grants for Research 1. Josiah Macy, Jr., Foundation, $7,000 for research on the process of schizophrenia and allied conditions, and $4,000 for research on the physiology of fatigue, both projects in the College of Medicine, for the periods ending September 30 and December 31, 1045, respectively. 2. National Committee for Mental Hygiene, New York City (funds supplied by the Scottish Rite M a s o n s ) , $1,000 for research on schizophrenia by Dr. Frederic Gibbs. The funds are being transferred from H a r v a r d University where Doctor Gibbs was previously carrying on this work. 3. Monsanto Chemical Company, St. Louis, Missouri, $4,500 for continuation of research on insecticides in the Agricultural Experiment Station. This is a research project sponsored jointly by the Experiment Station and the State Natural History Survey Division, and this grant was made for a fellowship for one year beginning July 15, 1943; also, $5,000 for the continuation of this research fellowship for the year beginning July 15, 1044. 4. General Education Board of the Rockefeller Foundation, through P u r d u e University, $6,000 for " F a r m W o r k Simplification Studies" by the Department of Agricultural Economics. 5. Upjohn Company, Kalamazoo, Michigan, $5,000 for research on the production of antibacterial substances, other than penicillin, with special reference to the biological aspects of the fungi concerned, by the Agricultural Experiment Station, for a period of one year from December 1, 1943; Upjohn Company, Kalamazoo, Michigan; Abbott Laboratories, N o r t h Chicago, Illinois; Eli Lilly and Company, Indianapolis', Indiana; and P a r k e Davis and Company, Detroit, Michigan, $1,500 each for continuation of this research for one year from December 1, 1044. 6. Upjohn Company, Kalamazoo, Michigan; P a r k e Davis and Company, Detroit, Michigan; Eli Lilly and Company, Indianapolis, I n d i a n a ; and Abbott Laboratories, North Chicago, Illinois, $6,000 for research work on antibiotics for the period August I, 1944, to August 1, 1945. This is to supplement a grant of $25,000 a year for three years from August I, 1043, made by these companies. 7. Abbott Laboratories, North Chicago, Illinois, $5,000 for a fellowship in Pharmacology, in support of research work under Professor Carl Pfeiffer, Head of the Department of Pharmacology. 8. State Department of Public Health, $3,000 for the T u m o r Clinic at the College of Medicine. 9. A r m o u r and Company, Chicago, $2,500 for continuation of research in the College of Medicine on treatment of pernicious anemia by liver extracts, for one year from November 1, 1044.