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BOARD OF TRUSTEES ACTIONS OF EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

[August 5

The Secretary reported for record that the Executive Committee had taken action approving the following recommendations of the President of the University.

1. Award of contract for reroofing cattle feeding plant barn and feeding shed. Bids have been received on reroofing the cattle feeding plant barn and feeding shed, one of the projects on the University's remodeling and rehabilitation schedule: The Raymond Development Company, Inc., bid $7,612.50 for reroofing with wood shingles, with an alternate of $100 for installation of new metal valleys. They also bid $7,SOO for reroofing with asphalt shingles. The Industrial Roofing Company bid $14,497 for reroofing with asphalt shingles. The Director of the Physical Plant Department and the Comptroller recommend the award of the contract to the lowest bidder, the Raymond Development Company, Inc., at a total cost of $7,712.50. The President concurs. 2. Addition to contract for construction of piping in steam distribution tunnels to Temporary Cafeteria Building and new Fine Arts Building. The Physical Plant Department has recommended an increase of $16,291 in the contract with W. A. Pope Company for construction of piping in the steam distribution tunnels to the Temporary Cafeteria Building which is being set up west and north of the College of Fine and Applied Arts Building. Of this amount $3,291 is to be charged to the Illini Union Building operation budget and $13,000 to the State appropriation for 1945-1947 for the Fine Arts Building which will be available until September 30, 1947. A part of this cost is a proper charge against this State appropriation because the tunnel is being constructed large enough to accommodate the new Fine Arts Building when the latter is built. The original contract was for the main distribution tunnels and was approved by the Board on January 25, 1947. The addition to the contract now proposed is for the branch line to the buildings. This work can be completed by September I, and funds are available. 3. Award of a contract, in the amount of $14,020, to the Cannery Construction Company, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the lowest bidder, for flues, ducts, coal valves, and spreaders for the Addition to the Power Plant. MATTERS PRESENTED BY PRESIDENT STODDARD

The Board discussed in executive session several matters included in the agenda, and took action on the following matters presented by the President of the University.

APPOINTMENT OF DR. FRANCIS CORNELL AS PROFESSOR AND DIRECTOR OF THE BUREAU OF RESEARCH AND SERVICE (1) I recommend the appointment of Dr. Francis Cornell, formerly a member of the staff of the United States Office of Education and more recently Education Expert for the United States Senate Committee on Labor and Public Welfare, as Professor of Education and Director of the Bureau of Research and Service in the College of Education, on indefinite tenure, beginning September 1, 1947, at an annual salary of $10,500. This Bureau is the reorganization of the former Bureau of Educational Research. O n m o t i o n of M r . N i c k e l l , t h e P r e s i d e n t of t h e U n i v e r s i t y w a s authorized to conclude negotiations a n d m a k e this a p p o i n t m e n t . APPOINTMENT OF DR. ALLAN G. BRODIE AS DEAN OF THE COLLEGE OF DENTISTRY (2) The Vice-President in charge of the Chicago Professional Colleges recommends the appointment of Dr. Allan G. Brodie as Dean of the College of Dentistry and as Professor and Head of the Department of Orthodontia, on part time, at an annual salary of $10,000 beginning September I, 1947. The appointment as Professor and Head of the Department of Orthodontia is on indefinite tenure. The appointment as Dean is for two years from September 1, 1947, conforming to the statutory provision relating to the tenure of deans.