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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1954
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1953] UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AARON WISHNOFF, B.S., Roosevelt College, 1949 JOHN WOROBEV, JR. MILES JAMES ZAHRADNIK FRANK JOSEPH ZIELINSKI 731 GILBERT WALTER WARNER SEVMON WILLIAM WEINSTEIN HVMEN WEINTRAUB JOSEPH ANDREW WIJAS, B.S., Loyola University, 1950 HOWARD PETERS WILLMS G R A N T FOR TELEVISION FACILITIES (See page 674) The F u n d for Adult Education of the F o r d Foundation has offered the University $100,000 to aid in the construction of t h e station. T h e principal conditions of this grant are: 1. That, within ninety days after an agreement with t h e F u n d for Adult Education has been executed, the University file an application with the Federal Communications Commission for permission to construct such a station. ( T h i s has been done.) 2. T h a t after receiving a permit the University will proceed "with reasonable expedition" to construct an educational television station and to operate it for at least eight years; provided that if the University fails to do so, it shall turn over to t h e donor the equipment purchased under the grant and the unexpended balance of t h e grant. 3. T h a t t h e University provide from other sources a minimum of 8200,000 for building and equipping a television station. ( T h r o u g h t h e assignment of funds already made by the Board of Trustees for t h e purchase of equipment, a n d through the acceptance of a gift from die General Electric Company of a television transmitter, valued at $90,000, this condition has been met.) 4. T h a t the University show evidence of resources available to operate a television station for at least two consecutive years after its construction. ( T h i s will be a matter of budgetary allocation.) 5. T h a t the grant be expended only for the purchase of equipment including approximately $30,000 for television recording equipment and related facilities. 6. T h a t the University participate in the Educational Television and Radio Center. In accordance with t h e authorization of the Board of Trustees at its meeting on April 20, 1953 (Minutes, page 610), the Comptroller and Secretary of the Board have executed an agreement with the Fund for Adult Education covering this grant. JULY MEETING Several members having requested t h e same, M r . Livingston announced that the Board of Trustees would meet as a Committee of the Whole on Friday, July 24, 1953, beginning at 6:30 p.m. (C.D.S.T.) at Urbana, Illinois, for a study of the University's internal budget for I 953"i954-
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