Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1946 [PAGE 522]

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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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CONTRACT FOR PRINTING JOURNAL AND STUDIES (38) T h e Director of the University Press, the Purchasing Agent, and the Comptroller join in the following recommendation: W e have been obtaining the printing of the Journal of English and Germanic Philology and the Illinois Studies in Language and Literature from the George Banta Publishing Company, Menasha, Wisconsin, for about thirty years. W e are at present operating under a contract entered into under date of September 18, 1940, which was approved by the Board of Trustees in December 1940. This contract provides that either party may terminate the contract by 90-days notice to the other party. We have received notice from the George Banta Publishing Company of their intention to terminate this agreement effective 90 days from May 31, 1945At the same time they have presented to us a new schedule of prices for this work which, if accepted, will result in approximately fifteen per cent increase over the old schedule. Total expenditures under the contract during the past year were $4,413.96. We recommend that their new schedule of prices be accepted and that a new contract be entered into for one year and an indeterminate period thereafter for the following reasons: 1. This Company specializes in this particular type of printing, and they have been supplying us with first-class service and high-grade printing for a great many years and they are thoroughly familiar with our requirements. 2. At the present time conditions are such in the printing industry that we do not feel that it would be advisable to attempt to change to another source through competitive bidding. 3. W e have found by comparison and through competition in the past that the prices at which Banta has done this work are low. O n m o t i o n of M r . W i l l i a m s o n , t h i s c o n t r a c t w a s a u t h o r i z e d a s recommended. GRAND PIANO FOR GREGORY HALL AUDITORIUM (39) The Director of the Radio Station has requested an appropriation for the purchase of a grand piano for Gregory Hall Auditorium. This room is used continuously for broadcasting and is also used for many kinds of meetings. At present only an upright piano of rather poor quality is available. Grand pianos are difficult to secure but several Steinway grand pianos are now available at Lyon & Healy, Chicago. T h e purchase of such a piano is recommended by Director Stiven. The Committee on Nonrecurring Expenditures recommends an appropriation of $1,600 or so much thereof as is necessary for the purchase of a grand piano for Gregory Hall, to be selected on personal inspection by the Music Director of the Radio Station.

On motion of Mr. Nickell, this purchase was authorized, and the appropriation was made, by the following vote: Aye, Mr. Davis, Mrs. Grigsby, Mr. Livingston, Mr. McKelvey, Mr. McLaughlin, Mr. Nickell, Mr. Williamson; no, none; absent, Mr. Fornof, Mr. Green, Dr. Luken, Dr. Meyer.

ASSIGNMENT OF PARR PATENTS TO T H E UNIVERSITY

The Secretary reported for record that he had received from the Urbana Coke Corporation an assignment of all its letters patent (covering the Parr process) to the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois. The Urbana Coke Corporation has no funds to meet the expense of keeping the Corporation alive, and is therefore about to terminate its corporate existence.