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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1950
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242 BOARD OF TRUSTEES [February 17 5. Authorization to pay real estate taxes on certain University properties or to make payments to municipalities in lieu of taxes. 6. Amendment of Civil Service Act to eliminate wartime provisions relating to certification. 7. Change in name of the "Research and Educational Hospitals" to "University of Illinois Hospitals." 8. Transfer of the Illinois Neuropsychiatric Institute from the Department of Public Welfare to the University. At present the Illinois Neuropsychiatric Institute is operated jointly by the University and the Department of Public Welfare. A single administration is desirable. 9. Transfer of title to Institution for Tuberculosis Research in Chicago to the University of Illinois. President Stoddard and Mr. Morey commented on these proposals. On motion of Mr. Livingston, authority was given as requested. PURCHASE OF FARM LAND (4) I recommend that in accordance 'with the recommendation of Dean Rusk, referred by the Board on January 13, 1949, to the Committee on Buildings and Grounds with power to purchase an option (Minutes, page 196), approved by the Committee on Buildings and Grounds and the Executive Committee on January 18, 1949 (Minutes, page 226), the purchase of 320 acres of land at a price not to exceed $600 an acre be authorized. On motion of Mr. McLaughlin, this purchase was authorized as recommended, and the President and the Legal Counsel were authorized to deal directly with the owners and their counsel to secure an option after March 7, 1949, and an appropriation of not to exceed $100,000 from this year's funds was made, by the following vote: Aye, Mr. Davis, Mr. Fornof, Mrs. Holt, Mr. Livingston, Mr. McKelvey, Mr. McLaughlin, Dr. Meyer, Mr. Williamson; no, none; absent, Dr. Luken, Mr. Nickell, Mr. Stevenson. REPORTS OF ACTIONS OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE On motion of Mr. Williamson, the Secretary was instructed to notify the members of the Board promptly of all actions of the Executive Committee on matters specially referred to the Executive Committee by the Board. APPOINTMENTS TO THE FACULTY MADE BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNIVERSITY The Secretary reported that the President has approved the following new appointments to the faculty of the rank of Assistant Professor and above since the previous meeting of the Board of Trustees: 1. LAWBENCE IVAN O'KELLY, Professor of Psychology, beginning September I, 1949, at an annual salary of $6,000. 2. DETLEV WALTHEK SCHUMANN, Professor of German, beginning September I, 1949, at an annual salary of $7,500. 3. LEONARD MARTIN ZUBKO, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, beginning February 1, 1949, at an annual salary of $4,600. On motion of Mr. Davis, these appointments were confirmed. OPEN SESSION MATTERS PRESENTED BY PRESIDENT STODDARD The Board considered, in open session, the following matters presented by the President of the University.
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