Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1950 [PAGE 26]

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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS Estimated Cost $ 2 680 13 328 1 390

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The contracts to be awarded are as follows: The Square Deal Electric Co., La Porte, Indiana Kuhne-Simmons Co., Inc., Champaign Champaign Plumbing & Heating Co., Champaign

I concur in these recommendations and request authority for the Comptroller and Secretary of the Board to execute these contracts.

On motion of Mr. Livingston, these contracts were awarded and authority was given as recommended.

ADDITIONAL. QUONSET H U T FOR AIRPORT (26) The Director of the Institute of Aeronautics requests a special appropriation of $5,874.83 for the purchase of an additional quonset hut for the Airport to supplement two similar huts purchased in 1947 (Minutes, April 23, 1947, page 346). The new hut would be used as a classroom for the aircraft maintenance engineering course which has been approved and for which these facilities are needed by September. The item is not covered in the regular budget of the division. The Provost and the Comptroller endorse this recommendation. The Director of Purchases requests authority to place the order for this building with the Harshbarger Building & Supply Company, Urbana, distributor for such buildings in this area, for one 40 by 80 foot quonset hut erected at the Airport, $5,874.83. I concur and recommend a special appropriation of the amount required and approval of the proposed purchase.

On motion of Mr. McLaughlin, this purchase was authorized, and the appropriation was made as recommended, by the following vote: Aye, Mr. Fornof, Mrs. Holt, Mr. Livingston, Mr. McKelvey, Mr. McLaughlin, Mr. Nickell; no, none; absent, Mr. Davis, Mr. Green, Dr. Luken, Dr. Meyer, Mr. Williamson.

EXTENSION OF LEAVE OF ABSENCE FOR PROFESSOR EDGAR L. ERICKSON (27) At the meeting of the Board of Trustees on November 29, 1947 (Minutes, page 929), Dr. Edgar L. Erickson, Associate Professor of History, was granted a leave of absence without pay from March 1 to September I, 1948, for service to the Department of the Army in the writing of its war history. It was anticipated that the work could be completed within that period but this has been found to be impossible. The Department of the Army has urgently requested an extension of Professor Erickson's leave to September 1, 1949, because of the critical nature of the work involved. The Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and the Head of the Department of History believe that Professor Erickson should be granted the leave and permitted to complete the project. I concur and recommend that his leave without pay be extended to September 1, 1949.

On motion of Mrs. Holt, this leave was extended as recommended.

AWARD OF CONTRACT FOR REMODELING HOUSE AT AIRPORT (28) The Director of the Institute of Aeronautics recommends that the frame house acquired by the University when the Airport land was purchased and which is located close to the main hangars be remodeled into two apartments for Airport staff members. The house is now standing empty and this improvement would provide not only badly needed living accommodations for staff members but would also make it possible for a mechanic to live at the Airport and be available for night flying operations. Funds for this remodeling are available in accumulated receipts from Airport operations and the initial expenditure would be recovered through income from rentals.