Proceedings of the Board of Regents (1936-1939)

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MARCH MEETING, 1937

Regent Murfin further notified the Regents of the resignations
embodied in the following communication, and on motion these resignations were accepted by the Regents:
The Regents of the University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Gentlemen:
Under Paragraph Eleventh of Mr. Clements' Will dated April 16th, 1931,
provision is made for a board of three supervisors whose duties are therein provided and which relate to the supervision of the administration of the William L.
Clements Library under the Deed of Gift of December 14th, 1922.
Confirming to you the confidence of Mr. Clements' family in the perpetual
maintenance of the Library by the University, there appears to us no further
occasion for our functioning in the capacity designated in the Will. We, therefore,
respectfully submit our resignations as supervisors with the intention that this
resignation will be made effective without the appointment by us of any successors and that the trust created in Paragraph Eleventh of the Will be abandoned.
We will take such further action in this matter in the Probate or Circuit
Court as may be necessary to make this resignation fully effective and so as to
provide that the trust fund created in this paragraph of the Will shall lapse into
the residue of the Estate.
Respectfully submitted,
Eliza M. Clements Finkenstaedt
Harry S. Finkenstaedt
Renville Wheat
March 23rd, 1937
Actions of the Operating Committee were approved and ratified by
the Board in accordance with minutes of the committee as follows
(p. 158):
February 18, 1937
The committee gave approval to the recommendation of Dr. John Sundwall,
Director of the Division of Hygiene and Public Health, to transfer from the
Salary account to the Current Expense account of that division the total sum of
$400. This is made up of $100 originally allocated to the salary of John V.
Fopeano, Instructor, and $300 for special lecturers. The increased registration
necessitates this action to provide funds for expenses of the second semester.
February 24, 1937
On recommendation by Dr. John Sundwall, the committee granted leave of
absence for February, with full salary, on account of illness, to Christa E. Landgraf, Bacteriologist in the Health Service, Division of Hygiene and Public Health.
March 1, 1937
The committee added the sum of $150 to the Current account of the Committee on Office Personnel to provide for necessary expenses for the remainder
of the present fiscal year.
March 6, 1937
The committee appropriated the sum of $262.50 as an addition to the Salary
budget of the Department of Botany, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts,
for compensation for an additional assistant for the second semester of the
University year 1936-1937. This action is necessitated because of increased
enrollment in a certain section of that Department, which could not be foreseen
at the time the Regents had previously acted to provide assistance for the various
departments in the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts for the second
semester (p. 178).
March 6, 1937
The committee authorized expenditure of $90 a month from March 1, or a
total of $360, for the rest of the present fiscal year, in order to provide an
additional operator in the Dictaphone Station. This additional operator is
necessary if the Dictaphone Station is to keep up with the work brought to it.
March 9, 1937
At the request of Dean Herbert C. Sadler, the committee approved the
transfer of the sum of $420 from the Salary budget of the Department of Engi