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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1956
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1955] UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS Department Physical Plant 457 Item Z25 (approximate) wet storage batteries of various sizes to be furnished during the period August i, 19SS, to June 30, 1956 One 750-gallon liquid nitrogen storage vessel One 50-gallon liquid nitrogen transfer vessel 600 cartons paper hand towels 202 cartons toilet tissue 2+8 study lamps for Men's Residence Halls 10,000 gallons No. 2 road oil to be spread at Robert Allerton Park One Cessna 170B airplane, 1955 model, and accessories, less trade-in allowance of one Cessna 170A airplane Ten sedans, four-door six-cylinder, complete with heaters and defrosters, less trade-in allowance for ten vehicles Vendor Cost Montgomery Ward & Co.. 3 2 698 25 Urbana f.o.b. delivered Herrick L. Johnston, Inc., Columbus, Ohio Illini Chemical Co., Champaign Mutual Sunset Lamp Manufacturing Co., Chicago Illiana Construction Co., Urbana Mid-States Aviation Corp. , Northbrook 13 300 00 Physical Plant f.o.b. delivered Physical Plant Housing Division Extension Service in Agriculture and Home Economics Institute of Aviation Physical Plant 4 537 70 f.o.b. delivered 3 162 00 f.o.b. Urbana 4 000 00 5 750 00 1,000 copies of 1954-55 manuals for the Postgraduate Extension course entitled "Current Advances in Dentistry" (these are reprints) Binding for the Libraries in the Chicago Professional Colleges and Undergraduate Division during the two-year period beginning July x, 1955 Dentistry, Chicago Colleges Chicago Colleges and Division Libraries Chevrolet Motor Division, Chicago (eight vehicles) 2 837 80 Lloyd Eichhorst, Inc. (Plymouth) Champaign, (one vehicle) 749 OO Tom Purvis, Inc. (Ford), Mattoon 2F7 OO (one vehicle) Total (3 803 80) 2 648 OO Neely Printing Co., Inc., Chicago Burgmeier Book Bindery, Inc., Chicago 20 000 00 (twoyear period) On motion of Mr. Swain, these purchases were authorized. APPLICATION TO FORD FOUNDATION FOR GRANT OF FUNDS FOR RESEARCH PROJECT OF DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY AND ANTHROPOLOGY (25) The Department of Sociology and Anthropology has submitted an application to the Ford Foundation for a grant of $225,000 for "A Project for Research on Cross-Cultural Regularities of Change among Native Populations" covering a three-year period. The objective is to determine the comparative effects of "westernization" on different groups of peoples in underdeveloped areas. The research would involve field trips to Mexico, Peru, West Africa, British East Africa, Uganda, Tanganyika, and Java or Sumatra. Most of the personnel for the field research would be recruited from outside the University. For some time, the Department has been doing research on "cross-cultural regularities" which has produced the necessary background information, a research design, and a set of experimental models for a larger project. These findings serve as a basis for an application to the Ford Foundation. The research has produced highly significant theoretical and methodological developments which are valuable in themselves, but should be tested and verified by actual field investigation. Outside financial support is needed in view of the costs involved. Included in the $225,000 proposal to the Ford Foundation would be a provision for an allowance for indirect costs comparable to provisions of this kind in other grants. The University would assume no commitments other than a continuation of support of the Department's research in this field for which funds have already been budgeted and to provide space for the analytical phase of the project. The proposal has been submitted to the Ford Foundation after receiving approval of the Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, the Chairman of the University Research Board, and the Dean of the Graduate College.
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