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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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10. T h e Cutter Laboratories, Berkeley, California, $1,980 in support of a clinical investigation of the use of amino acids in parenteral administration to surgical patients, under the direction of Professor W . H . Cole of the Department of Surgery, for one year from July I, 1944; and $1,850 for the continuation of this research for nine months, or until March 31, 1946. 11. Armour Research Laboratories, $1,200 for research on protein solutions under the direction of Professor W . H . Welker of the Department of Physiological Chemistry in the College of Medicine. 12. Illinois Farm Supply Company, Chicago, $1,500 for research in swine, poultry, and dairy husbandry, for one year from October 1, 1945. 13. Lederle Laboratories, Incorporated, Pearl River, New York, $1,200 for a study by the College of Pharmacy, under the direction of Professor G. L. Webster, of the synthesis of the amidines of the type of holocaine which may possess vaso-constrictor and local anesthetic activity. 14. Canadian Radium and Uranium Corporation, Chicago, $1,000 for research in the Department of Dermatology on the use of Alphatron radon ointment. 15. Middle West Soil Improvement Committee, Chicago, $400 for fertilizer investigations by the Department of Agronomy; Producers' Crop Improvement Asociation, Piper City, Illinois, $750, and Messrs. H . L. Stiegelmeier, Normal, Illinois, $300, and L. K. Wyckoff, Valparaiso, Indiana, $300, for corn breeding work by the Department of Agronomy. 16. Grants for research on allergy antigens (research program of Dr. B. Z. Rappaport, Assistant Professor of Medicine, College of Medicine, and Dr. William H. Welker, H e a d of the Department of Biological Chemistry, College of Medicine) from: Messrs. Philip S. Bloom, $1,000, K. H . Kraft, $500, Alfred D. Hornstein, $500, William Semco of the Mayo-Reese Company, $250, Byron C. Sharpe, $100, and Mrs. B. M. Sharpe, $100, all in Chicago. 17. T h e December, 1944, graduating class of the College of Medicine, $150 to be invested in United States W a r Savings Bonds and on maturity of the bonds the money to be used in maintaining student and faculty entertainment and recreation facilities in the Chicago Illini Union. T h e University has purchased " E " U. S. W a r Bonds with this money, the maturity value of which will be $200. 18. T h e Burdick Corporation, Milton, Wisconsin, $500, Onarga Military School, Onarga, Illinois, $25, for research on physical fitness by Professor T. K. Cureton of the Department of Physical Education for Men.

This report was received for record.

EXEMPTION FROM FEES FOR UNIVERSITY STAFF MEMBERS AND EMPLOYEES

At this point, M r . Nickell, for the special committee appointed M a y 12 to consider the exemption of staff members and employees from the payment of fees ( M i n u t e s , M a y 12, 1945, page 4 5 6 ) , reported a recommendation that such employees be exempted as recommended, provided that nonacademic employees shall secure the approval of the head of their department or division. On motion of M r . Nickell, this recommendation was adopted.

EXECUTIVE SESSION

The Board, in executive session, continued its consideration of matters presented by the President of the University.

RETIREMENT OF DEAN MARIA LEONARD (11) Miss Maria Leonard, Dean of Women, has requested that she be retired from active service on September 1, 1945, under the provision in the law creating the University Retirement System of Illinois which permits retirement "on or after the attainment of age sixty-five (65) in exceptional cases and for substantial cause at the request of the Employee and upon certification of the E m ployer." Dean Leonard has reached the age of 65 and will have been in the service of the University for twenty-two years. I recommend that Dean Leonard be retired September I, 1945, with the rank of Dean of Women, Emerita.