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synthesis but is an expensive process and could not compete commercially with other methods now used. Accordingly, the Head of the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, the University Patent Committee, and the University Research Board recommend that this discovery be released to the inventor. E. I. Radzimovsky, Research Associate in Mechanical Engineering, has invented an equalizing reducer, a mechanical device for installation in various types of conveyors, which operate on sprockets, to provide a more uniform velocity. In some types of such conveyors, there is a rhythmic variation in the velocity due to a difference between the momentum of the conveyor and the speed of the sprocket at the points of contact. The equalizing reducer will eliminate this jerking motion of the conveyor. The Patent Committee is of the opinion that the University's rights to the discovery are very limited because Mr. Radzimovsky did so much of the work on his own time and made very little use of University facilities. However, to facilitate securing a patent, the Committee recommends that any rights the University may have be assigned to the University of Illinois Foundation with the suggestion that if a patent is secured and is commercially exploited a liberal share of the royalties be granted the inventor. The Head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering concurs in the judgment of the Committee, and its recommendation is acceptable to the inventor. Fred A. Kummerow, Assistant Professor in the Department of Food Technology, and Szu Shiang Chang, Research Associate in Food Technology, have developed what they call the depolymerization of oxidative dimers and trimers, which has to do with the chemistry of soybean oil. This discovery has already been disclosed in a thesis, and it is, therefore, unlikely that a patent can be secured. The Committee recommends that the discovery be released to the inventors for dedication to the public by publication and they agree to this. I concur in the above recommendations. O n m o t i o n of M r . J o h n s t o n , t h e s e r e c o m m e n d a t i o n s w e r e a p p r o v e d . RESPIRATOR C E N T E R AT CHICAGO P R O F E S S I O N A L C O L L E G E S (26) At its January, 1953, meeting, the Board of Trustees authorized the establishment of a respirator center for poliomyelitis patients at the Chicago Professional Colleges with funds to be paid the University by the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis and authorized the execution of an agreement with that Foundation. The National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis has requested that its Chicago Chapter be made a party to the proposed agreement, with the understanding that grants of $12,500 and $13,500 to be paid the University for certain structural alterations needed for the center and for the purchase and maintenance of required special equipment shall be made by that Chapter instead of by the National Foundation. The Comptroller and the Legal Counsel recommend that these changes in the proposed agreement be authorized. I concur. O n m o t i o n of M r s . W a t k i n s , t h e a b o v e c h a n g e s in t h e p r o p o s e d agreement were authorized. R E P O R T O F THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

The Secretary of the Board presented the following report of actions taken by the Executive Committee:

A p p o i n t m e n t of B. L . D o d d s as D e a n of t h e College of E d u c a t i o n On June 3, 1953, the Executive Committee approved the following recommendation from the President of the University: I recommend the appointment of Dr. B. L. Dodds, now Director of the Division of Education and Applied Psychology at Purdue University, as Dean of the College of Education beginning November 1, 1953, and continuing to September 1, 1955, and as Professor of Education on indefinite tenure, at a salary of $14,000 per year on "Y" basis. The appointment as dean on limited tenure is in conformity with the standard statutory provision that the dean of