Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1950 [PAGE 168]

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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS GIFTS AND GRANTS OF FUNDS FOR RESEARCH AND OTHER PURPOSES

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Gifts

1. Asthmatic Children's Aid of Chicago, $10,000 in support of the Allergy Unit, College of Medicine. 2. Mr. Philip S. Bloom, Chicago, $2,400 for the Bloom Research Fellowship in the Allergy Unit, College of Medicine. 3. Additions to the Orthopaedic Gift Fund for Children: Ridge Service Guild, Chicago, $500; Women of the Rotary Club of Chicago, $799.50; Evanston Drama Club, Evanston, $350. 4. Mr. Roy W. Godley, Agricultural Counsel for the Kroger Company, Cincinnati, Ohio, $1,200 for scholarships in Home Economics, College of Agriculture, during the year 1948-1949. 5. Peabody Coal Company, $600 for scholarships in Mining Engineering. 6. The Chicago Farmers, $500 for a scholarship in the College of Agriculture. 7. Illinois Mining Institute, $500 for scholarships in Mining Engineering during the year 1948-1949. 8. Old Ben Coal Corporation, Chicago, $400 for scholarships during the year 1948-1949. 9. Graham-Hoeme Plow Company, Inc., of Amarillo, Texas, a "Graham Hoeme" plow for use at the Dixon Springs Experiment Station. 10. Mr. Alfred E. Pickard, President of the Central Mine Supply Company, Mt. Vernon, Illinois, $200 in support of the Alfred E. Pickard Scholarship in Engineering. 11. Mr. Joseph Worrell, Class of 1913, St. Paul, Nebraska, $200 for undergraduate scholarships. Mr. Worrell was given a scholarship for one year at the time he attended the University and he desires to pay something for the benefits he received. 12. For a traveling fund for the residents, instructors, and younger men of the staff in the Department of Pediatrics so that they may attend medical meetings: Parents of a child in South Bend, Indiana (Dr. H . G. Poncher was called into consultation regarding this case), $100; Betty W. Garnitz, South Bend, Indiana, $15. 13. William Demmler and Brothers, Kewanee, a Demmler core-blowing machine for the foundry laboratory at the Chicago Undergraduate Division. 14. Congressman Rolla C. McMillen, Decatur, clothbound sets of the Annual Reports of the American Historical Association covering the years 1934 to 1942. 15. The Berkelhamer family of Chicago, $100 in support of the Dr. Ralph C. Berkelhamer Scholarship. Grants for Research 1. Illinois Seed Producers Association, $3,167.65 for corn research in the Department of Agronomy. 2. Campbell Soup Company, $100 for research on vegetable crops in the Department of Horticulture. 3. Illinois State Horticultural Society, $1,200 for orchard nutrition studies in the Department of Horticulture. 4. Midwest Barley Improvement Association, $100 for continuation of barley variety fertilizer tests in northern Illinois. 5. For development of the Northern Illinois Experimental Field: De Kalb County Farm Bureau, $10,000; Mr. Preston Woods, Waterman, $1,000; Mr. William Wyffels, Geneseo, $100. 6. VioBin Corporation, Monticello, $1,000 for study of the nutrients other than vitamin E contained in wheat germ oil. 7- Abbott Laboratories, Eli Lilly and Company, Parke, Davis, and Company, and the Upjohn Company, $25,000 for continuation of research in the chemistry of antibiotic substances during the academic year 1948-1949.