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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1958
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1056 BOARD OF TRUSTEES [December 17 TYNEE, EDWARD H., Professor of Soil Fertility (Agronomy) (C, S, E ) —leave of absence, without pay, one year from February 15, 1958, so that he may represent the Department of Agronomy at Cornell University as a Visiting Professor at the University of the Philippines under an International Cooperation Administration contract. JANUARY, FEBRUARY, AND MARCH MEETINGS The Board had previously voted to hold its January meeting in Chicago, on Thursday, January 16, 1958, at a time and place to be determined by the President and Secretary of the Board. President Livingston announced that the meeting, including meetings of Board committees, will be held in the offices of the Executive Dean of the Chicago Undergraduate Division at Navy Pier, beginning at 10:30 a.m. On motion of Mr. Bissell, the Board voted to hold its February meeting in Chicago, on Tuesday, February 18, 1958, at an hour and place to be determined by the President and Secretary of the Board. The By-Laws of the Board provide that it shall hold an annual meeting on the second Tuesday of March, unless the date of such meeting be changed by the Board. It was the consensus of the Board that no action be taken changing the date of this meeting which will, therefore, be held on March 11, 1958. MEETINGS OF BOARD COMMITTEES President Livingston announced that, with the concurrence of the chairmen concerned, meetings of Board committees will be held on Thursday, January 16, 1958, and Tuesday, February 18, 1958, preceding the Board meetings scheduled for those dates. EXECUTIVE SESSION At this point an executive session was requested and ordered for the consideration of the following item of business and for a meeting of the Executive Committee. RECOMMENDATIONS OF T H E UNIVERSITY PATENT COMMITTEE (21) The University Patent Committee submits, with the concurrence of the Chairman of the University Research Board, the following recommendations relating to inventions by members of the staff. 1. A new method of introducing carbonyl functions into certain organic molecules — Bruno M. Vittimberga, former Research Assistant in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, and Reynold C. Fuson, Professor of Organic Chemistry, inventors. This method offers a means of introducing carbonyl groups into hydrocarbons and substituted aromatic systems, transforming them in many cases to more useful compounds. The Head of the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering states that in view of the doubtful commercial value and the need for extensive development work, it seems unwise for the University of Illinois to invest further money in this invention; and accordingly recommends that this invention be released to the inventors. The Patent Committee concurs in this recommendation. 2. Production of anaerobic (bacterial) spores — Robert E. Collier, Instructor in Bacteriology, and H . Orin Halvorson, Professor and Head of the Department of Bacteriology, inventors. The purpose of the invention is the development of a process for the production of bacterial spores free from vegetative cells and germinated spores and to do this in a relatively short period of time (twenty-four hours or less). The procedure consists of inoculating a suitable growth and sporulation medium with a small quantity of the desired organism and then allowing the culture to grow and develop at a suitable temperature. Normally, this culture takes from forty-eight hours to two weeks or more to
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