Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1950 [PAGE 196]

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1949]

U N I V E R S I T Y OF

ILLINOIS

193

CONTRACT FOR ELECTRIC CRANE IN NEW CHEMISTRY BUILDING (9) Bids have been received for an electric crane to be furnished and installed in the new Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Building. The Director of the Physical Plant Department and the Comptroller recommend an award of contract to the Abell-Howe Company, Chicago, on the basis of their lowest bid of $5,505. Funds are available in the State appropriation for the construction of the Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Building. I concur and request that the Comptroller and the Secretary of the Board be authorized to execute the contract.

On motion of Mr. Livingston, authority was given as requested.

INCREASE IN CONTRACT FOR PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT ADDITION IN CHICAGO (ro) The Director of the Physical Plant Department and the Comptroller recommend an addition to the contract with the E. H . Marhoefer, Jr., Company of Chicago, for the general work in connection with the construction of the Physical Environment Addition in the amount of $6,681, to provide for the installation of pressure chambers. The design for the pressure chamber installation was not completed when the contract was awarded. Funds are available for this addition in the appropriation for this project. I concur and recommend that the Comptroller and Secretary of the Board he authorized to execute this change in the general contract for the Physical Environment Addition. O n m o t i o n of M r . D a v i s , t h i s c h a n g e in c o n t r a c t w a s a u t h o r i z e d as r e c o m m e n d e d . PATENT ON SYNTHESIS OF SPARTEINE (11) Dr. Nelson J. Leonard, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, and one of his students, Mr. Roger E. Beyler, have discovered a method for synthesis of the drug sparteine which is believed to be patentable. This is the first total synthesis of sparteine developed and the drug has some practical value. In the judgment of the experts in the Department of Chemistry, this discovery is of substantial value but is not of the type which the University itself should develop. The Dean of the Graduate College and the University Research Board therefore recommend that Doctor Leonard's discovery of a method for the synthesis of sparteine be released to him as an agent of the University of Illinois Foundation. I concur.

On motion of Mr. Livingston, this release was authorized as recommended.

PURCHASES (12) There are submitted recommendations for purchases for approval by the Board (see Appendix, page 232) and a report of purchases authorized by the President of the University (see Appendix, page 235).

On motion of Mr. Davis, purchases were authorized as requested, and the action of the President of the University in authorizing emergency purchases was approved and confirmed.

PURCHASE OF DENTAL EQUIPMENT (13) The Dean of the College of Dentistry and the Director of Purchases recommend the purchase of fourteen clinical adult dental chairs from the Ritter Company, Inc., Rochester, New York, at a total price of $6,510. This will require a special appropriation. This purchase is part of a program, to extend over a period of time, for the replacement of chairs and other dental equipment, which will be presented to the Board of Trustees for consideration later. There are approximately 115 dental chairs for the use of students and staff members. Ninety of them should be replaced. Most of these are more than thirty years old (the latest purchase was in 1914) and the condition of the chairs is such that they are not worth the expense of extensive repairs necessary to put them in first-class condition. In the meantime, it has been found that effective January 1, 1949, there will be a 10 per cent increase in price. The Ritter Company has fourteen chairs of the type