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BOARD OF TRUSTEES R E P O R T S O F THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

[April 21

The Secretary presented for record the following actions of the Executive Committee since the March meeting of the Board.

Closing of G a l e s b u r g Division The Executive Committee on March 15, 1949, approved a recommendation of President Stoddard that the Galesburg Undergraduate Division be closed as of June 30, 1949. P u r c h a s e of F a r m L a n d The Executive Committee on March 16, 1949, accepted an offer of Gordon F . Kamerer and Charles M. Webber, of Urbana, to sell the 320-acre McCullough farm to the University at $500 an acre, plus $3,000 legal expenses already incurred. Messers. Kamerer and Webber executed a contract of sale and the University issued a formal acceptance of the contract, and made a payment of $8,000. The Executive Committee also approved the purchase from the Sullivan heirs of two tracts of forty acres each, described as follows: T h e SEJ4 of the S E ^ of Section 19, and the N W 1 ^ of the N E 1 ^ of Section 30, both in Township 19 North, Range 9 East of the

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at a price not to exceed $800 an assignment of $7,000, and made thereof as may be necessary, McCullough farm and the two

acre. The Executive Committee made an additional the combined appropriation of $107,000, or so much available for payments on the purchase of the Sullivan tracts. 1

C o n t r a c t s for S t e a m D i s t r i b u t i o n S y s t e m The Executive Committee on April 9, 1949, approved the award of contracts to the lowest bidders for construction of concrete tunnel and installation of piping from the Dairy Manufacturers Building east to the site of the College of Veterinary Medicine Science Building, as follows: Construction of tunnel: Kuhne-Simmons Company, Inc., $84,775 Installation of piping: William A. Pope Company, $16,970 (plus escalation not to exceed 18%)

On motion of Mr. Livingston, the President of the University was requested to send to Mr. Gordon F. Kamerer and Mr. Charles M. Webber an expression of the Board's appreciation of their public service in this transaction. On motion of Mr. McLaughlin, the Board made record of it appreciation of the services of President Stoddard and Dean Rusk in negotiating these purchases of land at such favorable terms.

E x e c u t i v e C o m m i t t e e M e e t i n g , M a r c h 29, 1949 The Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois met at the University Club, 76 East Monroe Street, Chicago, Illinois at 6:30 p.m., Tuesday, March 29, 1949. Present: Mr. K. E. Williamson, Chairman, Mr. John R. Fornof, and Mr. P a r k Livingston, members of the Committee; also Dr. George D. Stoddard, President, Dr. A. C. Ivy, Vice-President in charge of the Chicago P r o fessional Colleges, Mr. Lloyd Morey, Comptroller, Mr. William E. Britton, Legal Counsel, and Mr. H . A. Hazleton, Business Manager, Chicago, who acted as Clerk.

1 The Comptroller reported on April 21, that the appropriation of $7,000 was not necessary, and that the total payments on these lands for the current fiscal year would be $64,000, and that the balance had been lapsed into the General Reserve.