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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1958
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214 BOARD OF TRUSTEES [January 16 Technology in Pittsburgh June 17-July 26, 1957, one month with pay and two weeks as part of his vacation. LONHART, DONALD E., Registered Pharmacist in Hospital Pharmacy, in the Re- search and Educational Hospitals and in the College of Pharmacy — leave of absence for military service, without salary, December I, 1956-August 31, 1957. WINTER, EDWARD H., Assistant Professor of Anthropology — leave of absence, without pay, one year from September 1, 1957, so that he may do research work under the Ford Foundation grant for studies in Cross-Cultural Regularities of Change Among Native Populations, including East Africa. CANCELLATION OF SABBATICAL LEAVE FRAENKEL, GOTTFRIED S., Professor of Entomology — sabbatical leave of absence granted him for the second semester of 1956-57 cancelled, without prejudice. M I N U T E S APPROVED T h e Secretary presented the minutes of the meeting of the Board of T r u s t e e s of October 22, 1956, press proof copies of which have previously been sent to the members of the Board in advance. On motion of M r . Swain, these minutes were approved as printed on pages 105 to 145, inclusive. E X E C U T I V E SESSION At this point, an executive session was requested a n d ordered for consideration of the following item of business. RECOMMENDATIONS OF T H E UNIVERSITY PATENT COMMITTEE (19) 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. Linear bearing converter and bearing average computer — Donald L. Bitzer, Research Assistant, Control Systems Laboratory, inventor. This is a device which can be attached to existing radio direction finding systems to facilitate in accurately observing, averaging, and recording radio bearings. 2. Panoramic radio direction finder — Harold D. Webb, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering, and Donald L. Bitzer, Research Assistant, Control Systems Laboratory, inventors. The purpose of this invention is to provide a panoramic display of radio frequency bearings versus frequency on the face of a cathode ray tube. 3. Equiangular spiral antenna — Victor H. Rumsey, Professor of Electrical Engineering, inventor. This was developed under an investigation that is classified by the U. S. Government for security reasons. 4. Radio direction finder system bearing computer — pulse delay analog by Albert D. Bailey, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering, inventor. This invention is to accomplish the transformation of data of a radio direction finder for immediate integration and processing by a computer. 5. Radio direction finder bearing computer — Albert D. Bailey, inventor. This invention relates to a radio direction finder bearing indication and determination which is intended to replace the indicator and the human observer. The Head of the Department of Electrical Engineering and the University Patent Committee recommend the release of the above inventions to the Office of Naval Research, the sponsoring agency. I concur in this recommendation. O n motion of M r . Williamson, this recommendation was approved. O n motion of M r . Johnston, the Board adjourned. A. J. JANATA H. B. MEGRAN Secretary President
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