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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1958
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3i8 BOARD OF TRUSTEES [March i 2 pended by the University of Illinois Press to stimulate scholarly publications in the humanities and social sciences. The funds shall be used for t h e publication of new works of importance to scholarship in t h e humanities and the social sciences, broadly defined, under the discretion of the University Press Editorial Board. This initial grant is hieing made by the Ford Foundation for the current fiscal year, 1956-57, with the expectation that grants in a like sum will be made, subject to the ability of t h e University Press to conform to the terms of the grant, in each of four subsequent fiscal years. The Rockefeller Foundation has made a grant of £34,000 to the University for a study of polyploidy in maize under the direction of Dr. D. E. Alexander of the Department of Agronomy. This fund is for use during the five-year period beginning June 1, 1957, and provides that up to $7,000 may be used in any one year. The University has accepted these offers from the Ford Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation for the purposes indicated, and this action is reported for record. This report was received for record. GERALD S. C O H E N STUDENT LOAN F U N D (26) The University has accepted a fund of $1,025, contributed by friends and relatives of t h e late Gerald S. Cohen of the Class of 1957, to establish a student loan fund in his memory. The fund will be administered in accordance with the University's standard policy governing short-term loan funds and under conditions specified by t h e donors, namely, that worthy and needy students, regardless of race, color, or creed, shall be eligible for loans from this fund and that no interest shall be charged if the loan is repaid when due. Mr. Cohen, a senior in the University, died in November, 1956. His parents are Mr. and Mrs. Ben Cohen, 910 West Ainslie Street, Chicago, Illinois. The fund was collected and presented to the University by Mrs. Estelle Haberman, 7327 South Chappel Avenue, Chicago 49, Illinois. T h i s r e p o r t w a s r e c e i v e d for r e c o r d . PURCHASES P u r c h a s e s Authorized (27) The following purchase was authorized by the President's Office on the recommendation of the Director of Purchases and the Vice-President and Comptroller. Item One Varian model V-1200A regulated magnet power supply, modified to operate stably and with a.c. ripple equal to or les9 than 0.1 per cent of output d.c. voltage when driving a load of 510 ohms resistance with inductance of two henries Department Physics Vendor Varian Associates, Palo Alto, Calif. Cost $4. 095 00 f.o.b, Palo Alto, Calif. T h e following purchases were approved by the Vice-President and Provost, acting for the President, pursuant to authorization by the Board of Trusteeto act on recommendations for purchases under International Cooperation Administration contracts. All of these purchases will be from funds supplied by the I.C.A. under its contract with the University for educational services to institutions of higher education in India. Item Vendor Department Cost One set electronic test apparatus for the complete study of electronic pulses One signal generator, high frequency, universal One frequency measuring apparatus One inductance bridge One distortion and noise meter One interpolation oscillator One transfer oscillator and accessories One Belliss & Morcom special instructional steam turbine One Belliss & Morcom condensing plant India Contracts India Contracts Burroughs Corp., Philadelphia, Pa. General Radio Co., Cambridge, Mass. Hewlett Packard Co., Palo Alto, Calif. Total 3 821 38 f.a.s. _ New York, NA2 272 >° India Contracts 4 643 75 (6 916 2;! f.a.s. U.S. Ports Belliss & Morcom, Ltd., £4 84* Birmingham, England (¥13 S"8 8o' cost, freight, and insurance to Calcutta
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