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U N I V E R S I T Y OF

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REPAIRS ON GREENHOUSE AT COOK COUNTY EXPERIMENT STATION (10) T h e Head of the Horticulture Department and the Dean of the College of Agriculture request an appropriation of $1,360 from accumulated unappropriated income of the Department of Horticulture for repairs on the greenhouse at the Cook County Experiment Station. T h e Comptroller concurs in the recommendation and requests authority for himself and the Secretary of the Board to conclude a contract with Thomas P. Winandy of Chicago for this work, to be done in accordance with specifications, at a price of $1,360.

O n motion of M r . McKelvey, this appropriation was made, and authority given as recommended, by the following vote: Aye, Mr. Davis, Mr. Fornof, M r . Livingston, Mr. McKelvey, Mr. McLaughlin, Dr. Meyer, Mr. Nickell; no, none; absent, Mr. Green, Mrs. Grigsby. Dr. Luken, M r . Williamson.

GIFTS AND GRANTS OF FUNDS FOR RESEARCH AND OTHER PURPOSES (11) A report of the following gifts and grants of funds for research and other purposes received by the University since the last report (June 15, 1946) :

Gifts

1. Anonymous donor, $20,000 to be added to the Visual Education Fund in the College of Medicine. 2. T h e Borden Company Foundation, Inc., New York City, $1,500 for the continuation of five Borden Agricultural Scholarships to be awarded to senior students who have included in their curricula two or more dairy subjects, and $1,500 for the continuation of five Borden Home Economics Scholarships to be awarded to any student in Home Economics who, upon entering her senior year of study, has achieved the highest average grade of all other similarly eligible students in all preceding college work, and who has included in her curriculum two or more courses in food and nutrition. 3. Mrs. Margaret Anderson, Morris, Illinois, $1,500 to be added to the scholarship fund of $2,500 for the endowment of a scholarship fund for students in the School of Music to be known as the "William Anderson Scholarship in Music" in memory of her late husband. Since the income from the $2,500 was not sufficient to finance one scholarship each year at the prevailing rate of interest earned on certain investments, Mrs. Anderson has added the $1,500 to the principal to make a total of $4,000 in the fund. 4. Mr. B. F. Hunter, Lebanon, Indiana, an additional collection of coverlets to be added to those previously presented by him as a memorial to Evangeline Gillispie Hunter, who graduated from the University in 1918. 5. McLean County Milk Producers Association, Bloomington, Illinois, $250 to cover the cost of making a study to decide whether this Association should merge with the Prairie Farms Creamery of Bloomington. 6. Illinois Congress of Parents and Teachers, $150 as a scholarship to Mr. Charles M. Allen, Principal of the University High School, for the purpose of attending a short course on "Parent-Teacher Leadership" sponsored by the National Congress of Parents and Teachers in cooperation with Northwestern University. T h e course was given during the period, August 5 to 24, 1046. 7. Ernest O. Herreid, Urbana, Illinois, $100 to be added to the Psychiatric Gift Fund in the College of Medicine. 8. T h e family of Dr. Ralph C. Berkelhamer, an alumnus of the University's College of Medicine, $100 for the establishment of the "Dr. Ralph C. Berkelhamer Scholarship" to be awarded to a deserving and needy student in the College of Medicine, without any prejudice as to race or religion, who has been registered in the College for at least one year. 9. Dr. and Mrs. Raymond B. Allen, formerly Executive Dean of the Colleges of Medicine, Dentistry, and Pharmacy, and now President of the University of Washington, Seattle, $100 as a contribution to a suitable war memorial for the Chicago Colleges.