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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1952
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1332 BOARD OF TRUSTEES JANUARY MEETING [December 17 On motion of Mr. Herrick, the Board voted to hold the January meeting on Monday, January 21, 1952, at the Chicago Undergraduate Division, Chicago, Illinois, the hour to be determined by the President and Secretary of the Board. APPRECIATION TO T H E OFFICERS O F THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK O F CHICAGO On motion of Mr. Johnston, the Secretary was instructed to write to the President of the First National Bank of Chicago expressing the appreciation of the Board for the hospitality of the officers of the Bank. LETTERS FROM LABOR ORGANIZATIONS President Livingston announced that he had received letters from the Second Vice-President of the International Union of Operating Engineers concerning the status of a former employee at the Chicago Undergraduate Division, and from the Representative of the University of Illinois Employees Union 698, American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees on the subject of merit increases for the nonacademic staff. Mr. Livingston stated that these letters were being referred to the Committee on Nonacademic Personnel. E X E C U T I V E SESSION At the request of Mr. Fornof, the Board considered the following matters of business in Executive Session. REPORT O F T H E FINANCE COMMITTEE O N REQUEST OF MRS. SARAH GRIMM Mr. Fornof, for the Finance Committee, presented the following report. At the meeting of the Board of Trustees on September 19, 1951, Mr. Herrick reported that Mr. Marshall Miller, Attorney, Champaign, representing Mrs. Sarah Grimm, sister of the late Professor George A. Miller, had called on him to ask that the Board of Trustees make some financial provision for Mrs. Grimm from the funds it will receive under his will. This request was referred to the Finance Committee for consideration. The Committee has had two meetings. On October 18, 1951, the Committee heard Mr. Miller who appeared with an associate to present the request personally. On December 17, 1951, the Committee met again to discuss this matter. The Committee recommends to the Board that the request be denied. On motion of Mr. Fornof, this report was adopted and the recommendation of the Committee was approved. GIFT OF MR. A N D MRS. HARLAN H. HORNER The President presented the following recommendation. Harlan H. Horner and Henrietta Calhoun Horner of Albany, New York, both alumni of the University, Class of 1901, offer the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois and the University of Illinois Foundation a valuable and important collection of books, manuscripts, portraits, photographs, busts, and other materials pertaining to Abraham Lincoln and his times for the purpose of establishing a "Lincoln Collection" at the University of Illinois. In return they ask the University to arrange for the transfer of the collection from Albany to the University and to provide adequate quarters for the housing of this collection in the University Library in a room to be known as the "Lincoln Room." The donors plan to encourage their classmates of the University of Illinois Class of 1901 to contribute materials to- this collection through the University of Illinois Foundation, arid also to a permanent fund to be raised and established by the Foundation for maintaining and expanding the collection. In this way, the collection will also be a Class of 1901 memorial. Mr. and Mrs. Horner request the Board of Trustees of the University of
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