Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1956 [PAGE 908]

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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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Funds Received from Individuals 226. Anonymous donors: a. $1,800 to the Haffa Cardiovascular Surgery Fund, under the direction of Dr. Ormand C. Julian, Department of Surgery. b . $200 for the Patrick and Bertha Mooney Scholarship Fund. c. $400 for research in the Department of Anatomy. d. $1,000 to the Pediatric Gift Fund. e. $110 to the Psychiatry Gift Fund. f. $1,165 to the Neurology Gift Fund. g. $5 to the Clinical Science Gift Fund. h. $975 to the Surgery Travel Fund ($375) and Miscellaneous Fund, Department of Surgery ($600). i. $50 for prizes for excellence in clinical dentistry. 227. Mr. August L. Bormann, Chicago, $200 to the Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Gift Fund. 228. Mrs. Robert Carr, $250 to the Pediatric Gift Fund, under the direction of Dr. H . N. Sanford. 229. From the following donors for the Fremont A. Chandler Memorial Fund (the purpose of this fund is to provide equipment and maintenance for the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery Library and to assist in that Department's educational program. The fund was established in memory of the late Dr. Fremont A. Chandler who was Professor and Head of the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, and who died on December 24, 1954. The fund is under the direction of Dr. Claude N. Lambert) : Doctors J. J. Fahey, J. D. Farrington, C. V. Heck, and J. C. Plagge, $475; Doctors W . A. Marshall, W . H . Schwingel, Jr., Fred Shapiro, and H. E. Turner, $1,075; Doctors P . H . Dickinson and L. S. Varzino, $35; Doctors W. H . Bruck, R. M. Cronin, T. A. Fox, D. A. Hinojosa, R. T. Lidge, and W . H . Love, $330; Dr. Lyle Russell, $100; Dr. Robert C. Bechtol, $50. 230. Mrs. Sheila Dietz, $100 to the Miscellaneous Gifts Cancer Research. 231. Dr. Francis L. Lederer, $2,500 to the Audiology Fund, Department of Otolaryngology. 232. From the following donors to the Miscellaneous Donors — Surgery Fund, under the direction of Dr. W a r r e n H . Cole: Miss Isabel Hiley, $100; Miss Netta Haine, $100; Miss Henrietta Robb, $25. 2 33- From the following donors to the Miscellaneous Otolaryngology Fund, to be used to buy photographic film for use by Dr. Maurice F . Snitman, Department of Otolaryngology: J. Earl Lewis, $50; Saul Spencer, $10. 234. Dr. T. Weclew, $100 to the Gallie-Dittmar Loan Fund for dental students. Total, Funds Received from Individuals $ 11,205.00 Total, Chicago Professional Colleges $ 591,353.23 Grand Total $1,246,172.97 Gifts a n d G r a n t s Previously R e p o r t e d During the calendar year 1955, the following gifts and grants have been previously reported to the Board: 1. Miss Laura M. Weber, six hundred and forty acres of farm land in L a Salle County. (Reported to the Board March 30, 1955, Minutes pages 257 and 258.) 2. General Motors Corporation Scholarships. The University of Illinois has received five undergraduate General Motors College Scholarships. (Reported to the Board March 30, 1955, Minutes pages 270 and 271.) The stipends of these scholarships have been listed in the general report of gifts and grants. 3. Rockefeller Foundation, $10,000 for general support of the International Conference of Agricultural Economists held at Helsinki, Finland, August, 1955. (Reported to the Board March 30, 1955, Minutes page 271.) 4. Ford Foundation, $146,327 to the University and for the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Turkey for the benefit of secondary school education in that country. (Reported to the Board March 30, 1955, Minutes page 271.) 5. Estate of Dan S. Crego, DeKalb, a bequest of $5,000 for medical research. (Reported to the Board September 23, 1955, Minutes page 799) Summary of 1954 Achievement Fund The income of the Illini Achievement Fund of the University for the calendar year 1954 amounted to $86,410.80. Of this total $64,911.16 was received in sums designated for specific projects, and $21,409.64 was received in undesignated gifts.