Proceedings of the Board of Regents (1936-1939)

SECOND MARCH MEETING, 1939

895

The sum of $850 was added to the Extra Help account of the
Dictaphone Station.
The Regents approved and recorded the following research-fund
budget voted by the Board of Governors of the Horace H. Rackham
School of Graduate Studies:
Name of Fund: Research Project R No. 58
In Charge: Dr. C. S. Yoakum
Title of Project: Grant to Barro Colorado Island Biological
Laboratory in the Panama Canal Zone
Appropriation: $300.00
Expense...................................................300.00
Trust-fund budgets were approved as follows (p. 835):
Name of Fund: Mendelson Research in Endocrinology
Period: January 1. 1939, to December 31, 1939
In Charge: Dr. J. T. Bradbury
Source of Funds: Aaron Mendelson Jewish Charities Fund
Accepted by Regents: January 31, 1939 (p. 827)
Purpose of Fund: See name of fund above
Salaries................................................. $1,000.00
Name of Fund: Fish Management Fund in the Museum of Zoology
Period: January 1, 1939. to May 31, 1939
In Charge: Professor F. M. Gaige
Source of Funds: American Wildlife Institute
Accepted by Regents: February 8, 1939 (p. 844)
Purpose of Fund: Investigation of predatory enemies of fish in
Michigan lakes
Salaries................................................. 500.00
Name of Fund: Maya Botanical Exploration
Period: Indefinite
In Charge: Professor E. B. Mains
Source of Funds: Carnegie Institution of Washington
Accepted by Regents: February 24, 1939 (p. 854)
Purpose of Fund: Toward the cost of botanical exploration in the Maya
area in 1939. Dr. Eizi Matuda will make the trip
during April and May, under the direction of Dr. C. L.
Lundell, Assistant Curator, University Herbarium
Expense................................................ $ 100.00
The Board directed that student loans as follows, to a total of
$1.807, be charged to the Reserve for Uncollectible Student Loans
(p. 369). Reasons for the action in each case (six of the eleven being
death of debtor and one a case of chronic illness) were stated in the
accompanying recommendation of the Secretary:
Noble H. Brown, Morris Alumni and Samuel Feinberg................ $405
James L. Barron, Horace H. Rackham............................. 31
Stuart E. Chipman, Brosseau Foundation........................... 49
Margaret Dorman, Eliza M. Mosher................................ 200
George F. Drasin, Brosseau Foundation.............................. 40
Jack Lichtenstein, Brosseau Foundation.............................. 195
Harold Ryan, Class of 1881 Literary............................... 117
James F. Sheahan, Brosseau Foundation............................. 135
Karl Loewenberg, Class of 1914 Literary........................... 10
H1. Tracy Goodenow, Brosseau Foundation........................... 425
James L. O'Rourke, Class of 1914 Literary, Class of 1881 Literary..... 200
The Regents approved the issue to persons graduating from the
College of Pharmacy after December 31, 1938, of the wall diploma
rather than the book form of diploma (p. 804).
The following designations were given to units of the Men's