Proceedings of the Board of Regents (1936-1939)

SECOND MAY MEETING, 1939

939

May 4, 1939
With the approval of Professor Robert S. Ford, Director, and at the request
of Dean C. S. Yoakum, the committee approved the transfer of the sum of $300
from the Research and Publications account of the budget of the Bureau of
Government to the Current account of the budget of the Institute of Public and
Social Administration (Social Work Curriculum), to provide for expenses for the
remainder of the present fiscal year.
May 9, 1939
The committee approved leave of absence, with pay, for Mrs. Lou Ransom,
Diploma Clerk, for sixty days or approximately that period, due to necessity for
emergency operation for appendicitis with resulting complications. It is expected
that Mrs. Ransom will be able to return to work within that period. She went
to the hospital April 26.
May 12, 1939
To meet the office necessities of Dr. Karl Litzenberg, Director of Residence
Halls, the committee appropriated the sum of $314.51 to cover the purchase of the
following equipment:
1 typewriter...............$ 97.81
1 file.................... 32.20
1 dictaphone transcriber..... 184.50
$314.51
The following supplemental contracts and purchase orders made or
accepted by the Department of Engineering Research were placed on
file (p. 909):
Supplements
With The City of Toledo, for continuation of work on subsoil investigation for
Lake Erie water supply, Project M-205; at an estimated cost of $500 (p. 909)
With The Timken Roller Bearing Company, for continuation of work on determination of properties of steels for high-temperature applications, Project No.
842; at an estimated cost of $2,500 (p. 607)
With The Dow Chemical Company, for continuation of work on the theory of
evaporator design, Project M-151; at an estimated cost of $2,400 (p. 433)
With The Dow Chemical Company, for continuation of work on the development
of a nonaqueous heating medium to replace high-pressure steam, Project
M-165; at an estimated cost of $1,000 (p. 463)
With the Windcharger Company, for continuation of work on propellers, Project
M-119-2; at an estimated cost of $2,000 (p. 236)
With the Ferry-Morse Seed Company, for continuation of work on seed byproducts, Project No. 976; at an estimated cost of $1,500 (R. P. 1932-1936,
p. 666)
Purchase Orders
From the Michigan State Highway Department, for a gasoline analysis of sample
39B-274 Misc.; at an estimated cost of $25
From the W. M. Chace Company, for six temperature-tensile tests on samples of
thermostatic bimetals; at an estimated cost of $50
From the Ethyl Gasoline Corporation, for calibrating one road test, Friez anemometer assembly, and furnishing necessary equipment and assistance to install apparatus in Aeronautical Department wind tunnel; at an estimated cost
of $25
From the Pennsylvania Salt Manufacturing Company, for examination of a failed
pipe; at an estimated cost of $100
From the Department of Chemical and Metallurgical Engineering, Campus, for
qualitative spectrographic analysis of copper sample; at an estimated cost
of less than $5
The following gifts were accepted in accordance with their terms
and conditions and with a vote of thanks by the Board in each case:
From the Earhart Foundation, $2,400 for the Architecture Creative Art fund for
the University year 1939-1940 (p. 533)
From Monsanto Chemical Company, St. Louis, Missouri, renewal of the Monsanto
Chemical Works Research Fellowship, for 1939-1940, in the amount of $750,
same to be assigned to the College of Pharmacy to be administered under the
direction of Dr. Frederick F. Blicke (pp. 684 and 685)