Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1956
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924 BOARD OF TRUSTEES Leases [January 28 With Whom Vernon C. Blue Ernest Gingerich Cyril Moroni Purpose Livestock-share farm lease Laura M. Weber Farm No. 4 Livestock-share farm lease Laura M. Weber Farms Nos. 1 and 3 Livestock-share farm lease Laura M. Weber Farm No. 2 Purpose Farm eQuipment for use by College of Agriculture Farm equipment for use by College of Agriculture Contract Changes Purpose Suitability of aluminum for equipment, devices, and structural parts for use under the conditions found in and around farm buildings Vitamins in swine nutrition Effect of slenderness on strength of eccentrically loaded reinforced concrete columns Free individual amino acids of animal tissues as influenced by virus infection and other factors Development of a proficiency test for aircraft radio repairman Automatic controls and computer systems Fatigue strength of welded flexural members Instruction and treatment in hearing rehabilitation and correction of speech defects Fatigue strength of welded structural joints technical report With Whom International Harvester Company M assey- HarrisFerguson, Inc. (three agreements) With Whom Aluminum Company of America Amount to be Paid to the University Rates per contract Rates per contract Rates per contract Amount to be Paid by the University $ 225 48 364 50 Effective Date February 1, 1956 February 1, 1956 February r, 1956 Effective Date December 6, 1955 January 1, 1956 Amount to be Paid to the University $10 000 00 Effective Date November 18, 1955 McMillen Feed Mills Division, Central Soya Company, Inc. Reinforced Concrete Research Council United States Air Force AF i8(6oo)-6i5 United States Air Force AF i8(6oo)-i35o United States Army DA-11-022-ORD-174 United States Bureau of Public Roads, Department of Commerce Veterans Administration V1001M-2357 Welding Research Council of the Engineering Foundation 1 500 00 3 s°° °° 8 852 46 2 242 00 12 3+o 39 10 000 00 December 1, 1955 December I, 1955 September 30, 1955 October 27, 1955 November 16, 1955 July 1, 1955 Rates per contract S 000 00 July 1, 1955 December 1, 1955 Adjustment Made in 1955-56 C o s t - P i u s Contract Amount Date With Whom Purpose Forty-two items: 3137.13 deduct $ 4 411 31 December, 195 s E. T. Drewitch to $ 1800.00 (Plastering) T h i s report w a s received for record. CARL S A N D B U R G LIBRARY (14) T h e University of Illinois Foundation has purchased for the University the personal library of Carl Sandburg including his collection of books and manuscripts for the sum of $30,000, to be paid for in annual installments of $6,000 from unrestricted gifts to the Illini Achievement Fund. T h e negotiations with Mr. Sandburg were conducted, on behalf of the University and the Foundation, by Dr. Bruce Weirick, Associate Professor of English, Emeritus, and a close personal friend of the distinguished poet and author, and Dr. Leslie W . Dunlap, Professor of Library Science and Associate Director of the Library. T h e Sandburg collection consists of manuscripts and first editions of Sandburg's own work, plus handsomely bound first editions of others; his correspondence with contemporaries; his collection Lincolniana; and volumes of his poetical works.
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