Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1952
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1952] UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS I42I Exchange: 920,000 U.S.A. ipi% certificates of indebtedness series A, due April I, 1952, for 920,000 U.S.A. ipi% certificates of indebtedness due February 15, 1953. P . Student Loan Investments $40,000 U.S.A. i £ $ % certificates of indebtedness series A, due April 1, 1952, for 940,000 U.S.A. i}4% certificates of indebtedness due February 15, 1953. This report was received for record. MESSAGE TO MR. GRANGE Mr. Megran offered a resolution expressing to Mr. Grange appreciation of his services as a Trustee of the University during the past year and the sympathy of the Board with him in his illness. President Stoddard, other University officials present at the meeting, and the officers of the Board asked that they be permitted to join the Trustees in this resolution. The resolution was adopted and the Secretary of the Board was instructed to send an appropriate message to Mr. Grange. CONFERENCE WITH REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ILLINOIS ASSOCIATION OF BROADCASTERS Mr. Livingston stated that at the conclusion of the Board meeting the Committee on Television will have another conference with representatives of the Illinois Broadcasters Association to continue the discussion,1 requested by the latter, of the University's plans for the development of educational television facilities. He asked that all of the other Trustees who can do so stay and take part in this conference. CONFERENCE WITH REPRESENTATIVES OF THE CITY OF CHICAGO The Secretary announced that representatives of the city of Chicago who desire to discuss with the Board a request that the University vacate the Drill Hall at Navy Pier so that it may be used by the Municipal Court of Chicago for a traffic court have now asked that this conference be postponed until the next meeting of the Board. By unanimous consent this request was granted. EXECUTIVE SESSION At this point the Board went into executive session to consider reports from the President of the University and the Legal Counsel relating to bequests made to the University. SETTLEMENT OF CLAIMS OF MRS. SARAH A. GRIMM AGAINST ESTATE OF PROFESSOR GEORGE A. MILLER. DECEASED In accordance with the authority granted them by the Board at its meeting held on January 21, 1952 (Minutes, page 1337), the Comptroller and the Legal Counsel, with the assistance of counsel for the Executor of the Last Will and the Estate of the late Professor George A. Miller, negotiated a settlement with Mrs.. Sarah A . Grimm, his surviving sister, under which she agreed to accept the sum of $5,000 in full settlement and satisfaction of her claims against his estate and 'The first conference with the Illinois Broadcasters Association was held on January 16, »nd was reported to the Board on January 21, 1952. minutes page 1347.
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