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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1954
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1328 BOARD OF TRUSTEES [April 21 T h e authority herein conferred shall apply to any and all checks such as are above described, dated within one year from the date hereof. This Board of Trustees hereby ratifies and confirms all that their said attorney shall lawfully do by virtue hereof. This Power of Attorney is not given to carry into effect an assignment to the attorney or to any person, firm, or corporation, of the right of this Board of Trustees to receive the above described payments. W I T N E S S the signature and seal of this Board of Trustees this 22nd day of April, 1954. T H E BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS B y : H . O. FARBER, Comptroller A, J. JANATA, Secretary On motion of Mrs. Holt, this resolution was adopted and authority was given as recommended. GRANT FROM FORD F O U N D A T I O N FOR MID-WEST SEMINAR O N U N I T E D STATES FOREIGN POLICY (19) T h e Ford Foundation has made a grant of $15,500 to the University of Illinois for a Mid-West Seminar on United States Foreign Policy, to be held at Robert Allerton Park, June 27 to July 3, 1954. This is to be the first of what is hoped will be a four-year program of seminars on United States Foreign Policy. T h e project has had the endorsement of the .presidents of the Universities of Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Illinois and is sponsored by an all Inter-University Committee representing them. The other three seminars, if held, will be in the summers of 1955, 1956, and 1957 at the other participating universities. Professor Royden D. Dangerfield, Director of the Institute of Government and Public Affairs, is the University of Illinois representative on this Committee. I have accepted the funds for this purpose and report it for record. I have expressed to the Ford Foundation appreciation on behalf of the Board of Trustees and other University officials for this grant. On motion of Mrs. Watkins, the action of the President was confirmed. PURCHASES (20) T h e 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 Library furniture for Noyes Laboratory One electromagnet aligned with 2 inch gap, pole caps to have rosetype shims adjusted for maximum field homogeneity One power supply, regulated magnet type for use with the above electromagnet to be stable to one part in 100,000 Department Library Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Vendor Remington-Rand, Inc., Chicago Varian Associates, Palo Alto, Calif. Cost Urbana 7 555 °° f.o.b. Palo Alto, Calif. #3 296 12 f.o.b. Thirty sight master Pelton Crane dental lights, less brackets, to match existing equipment in Dental Clinics Forty-nine dental chairs and one child's dental chair, clinic model, to match existing equipment in the Dental Clinics Optical goods including services and repairs of spectacles for patients at at the Illinois Eye and Ear Infirmary, 904 West Adams Street, Chicago, as required on prescriptions and authorization of the Infirmary staff, for the period July 1, 1954, through and including June 30, 1955. (The total number of prescriptions will be approximately 7.500 based on University experience records.) Dental Administra- S. S. White tion, Chicago Profacturing fessional Colleges Dental Administra- S. S. White tion, Chicago Profacturing fessional Colleges Dental ManuCo., Chicago Dental ManuCo., Chicago 2 748 9° delivered 23 795 50 f.o.b. delivered Illinois Eye and Ear Uhlemann Optical Co., Infirmary, Chicago Chicago Professional Colleges 4 0 000 00
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