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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1952
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374 BOARD OF TRUSTEES [September 29 DECISION OF THE CIRCUIT" COURT OF COOK COUNTY IN THE CASE OF IDA B. BLACKBURN, ET A L . , VS. THE BOARD O F TRUSTEES (24) When the Research and Educational Hospitals were operated jointly by the University and the State Department of Public Welfare, the Department provided elementary school instruction for crippled children who were patients in the Illinois Surgical Institute. The teaching positions were under State Civil Service. When the University took over the complete management and operation of the Hospitals, it also took over all the employees formerly in the Department of Public Welfare, including three teachers. In 1948 the University decided to discontinue the function of providing instruction for children patients in the Hospitals on the ground that this is a responsibility of the Board of Education of Chicago. The three teaching positions were discontinued and the teachers were given "layoff" notices on July I, 1948. These teachers instituted mandamus proceedings in the Circuit Court of Cook County challenging the right of the University to discontinue the teaching function. Subsequently, the Board of Education of Chicago became a defendant in this case. In a decision handed down on September 8, 1950, Judge Harry M. Fisher of the Circuit Court of Cook County sustained motions of counsel for the University and the Board of Education of Chicago to dismiss the complaint and thereby in effect held (a) that the University has a right to abolish and discontinue the teaching of children patients of the Illinois Surgical Institute for Children and (b) that the University may permit and the Chicago Board of Education may undertake a teaching program for such children. The plaintiffs were given twenty days within which to file an amended complaint. If they do not file an amended complaint within that time, the case will finally be dismissed. However, the plaintiffs could appeal the decision to the Appellate and to the Supreme Courts. This report was received for record. PURCHASES (25) The Director of Purchases has proposed and the Comptroller recommends the following purchases. Unless otherwise specified, the purchase in each case is recommended on the basis of lowest bid. I concur. Item One precision surface grinder, hand feed type, capacity 6"xr8", grinding wheel S" x X" maximum 10* vertical feed; one yi h.p., 220volt, 60-cycle, three-phase motor in base equipped with magnetic chuck as per University specifications 20 microscopes, stereoscopic, widefield, inclined eyepiece body, detachable base, ioXwidefield eyepieces, 1.0X, 4.0X, 6.0X paired objectives in dustproof sliding nosepiece, engraved (less allowance for 20 obsolete microscopes, stereoscopic, Greenough) 30 Spencer 35 mh, or equivalent, Bausch and Lomb medical microscopes with 10X ocular, triple nosepiece, 16 mm.-4mm., 1.8 oil immersion objectives, Abbe N. A. r.25 condenser rack and pinion, focusing plane, concave mirror mechanical stage complete, less carrying cases, less allowance for 16 obsolete microscopes to be traded in Deportment Radiology Betatron Vendor Brown & Sharpe Co., Providence, R.I. Cost $1 809 80 f.o.b. Providence, R.I. Entomology Lukas Microscope Service, Skokie 5 534 40 f.o.b. Urbana College of Medicine Arthur S. LaPine and Co., Chicago Engraving Total 5 734 50 27 00 (5 76i 50) f.o.b. delivered
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