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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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H . E. KENNEY, Wrestling Coach 4 800 G. C. LAW, Assistant Wrestling Coach and Acting Personnel Director. .. 4 500 E. J. MANXEY, Head Swimming Coach 4 000 H. J. BRAUN, Assistant Basketball Coach and Tennis Coach 3 500 JOHN TABWAIN, Assistant Football Coach and Assistant Basketball Coach 3 800 C. E. FLYNN, Director of Publicity and Advertising 5 800 C. W. LYON, Business Manager 5 800 GEORGE A. LEGG, Assistant to the Business Manager 4 000 In the cases of joint appointments, that is, of staff members whose salaries are paid partly by the Athletic Association, the Board of Directors has also voted the assumption of whatever amounts are necessary to provide in full the increases recommended above. In other words, the Association assumes all the increases to be given until such time as the University makes changes in the salaries of staff members holding joint appointments.

On motion of Dr. Meyer, these salaries were approved as recommended.

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION (3) At the meeting of the Board of Trustees on December 28, 1946, the Legal Counsel raised the question whether the Board of Trustees, in acting on Civil Service matters, should not sit as a Civil Service Commission and have minutes of such meetings separately recorded. The Board directed that this be referred to the President of the University for consideration with the Legal Counsel and for report to the Board. This question has been studied by the Legal Counsel, the Secretary of the Board of Trustees, and several other University officers. Memoranda from the Legal Counsel and the Director of Nonacademic Personnel are submitted herewith. Having considered their report, I recommend: 1. That the minutes of actions of the Board of Trustees on Civil Service matters be published from time to time separately from other minutes of the Board of Trustees and that copies be supplied for distribution to persons who have legitimate reason for receiving them. 2. That following any meeting of the Board of Trustees at which action on Civil Service matters has been taken, the Secretary of the Board shall supply a report of such action for the information of persons who have a legitimate interest therein. O n m o t i o n of D r . M e y e r , t h e s e r e c o m m e n d a t i o n s w e r e a d o p t e d . REPORTS OF PATENTABLE DISCOVERIES (4) The Faculty Committee on Patents submits the following report and recommendations relating to patentable discoveries made by members of the staff: 1. A chemical process for making a culture medium used in growing a fungus from which streptomycin is made. This is a discovery by Professor H. H. Thornberry of the Department of Horticulture as a result of research work by himself and Professor H. W. Anderson on a project sponsored and financed by Eli Lilly and Company, Parke, Davis, and Company, the Upjohn Company, and the Abbott Laboratories. The sponsors have expressed a desire to have this discovery patented by the University and a willingness to pay the cost of securing patents in the United States and in certain foreign countries, in return for which the sponsors shall be given the use of the patent under a nonexclusive license. Such an arrangement is specifically permitted in the policy and regulations of the Board of Trustees relating to research sponsored by outside agencies. The Committee recommends that applications for patents be filed and that the officers of the Board of Trustees be authorized to sign all necessary documents relating thereto. 2. Certain antimalarial compounds by Mr. Peter Kovacic, employed in the Department of Chemistry on research work under a restricted contract (No. OEMcmr-321) with the Office of Scientific Research and Development of the United States Government. Under this contract the Government has the right