Proceedings of the Board of Regents (1936-1939)

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APRIL MEETING, 1937

April 9, 1937
At the request of the Executive Committee of the Medical School, the committee approved the transfer of $200 from the Salary budget of the Department
of Roentgenology to the Current Expense account of that Department, to provide for the publication of two research projects and an exhibit of tabulating
methods to be presented at the meeting of the American Medical Association in
June of this year.
April 12, 1937
On recommendation by Professor Louis I. Bredvold and Dean Edward H.
Kraus, the committee adjusted the appointment, for the second semester of the
present University year, of Dr. Yuen Z. Chang, Visiting Lecturer in English,
Department of English Language and Literature, College of Literature, Science,
and the Arts, on the basis of $1,900 for the University year (p. 159). In
addition to the salary at present received from the Salary budget of the
Department of English Language and Literature, Dr. Chang will receive $50
from the University Extension Service for the second semester. Further, the
committee approved the transfer of $177.93 appearing as unused in the Salary
account of the Department to the Current Expense account to provide for
necessary expenditures for the remainder of the present year.
April 15, 1937
At the request of Mr. Wilfred B. Shaw, the committee approved the transfer
of $28.69 from the Current account to the Salary account of the Bureau of
Alumni Relations to provide for the increase in salary for the secretary of the
Bureau, from April 1, to June 30, 1937. This increase in salary was approved
by the Committee on Office Personnel March 25, 1937.
The Board formally named the two new dormitory units heretofore designated merely E and F (p. 137) as Allen House and Rumsey
House respectively, commemorating the two founders of the City
of Ann Arbor.
The following contracts made by the Department of Engineering
Research were placed on record (p. 195):
Contracts
With the Vanadium Corporation of America, New York City, for studies of
alloy cast irons; at an estimated cost of $5,000
With the B. F. Goodrich Company, Akron, Ohio, for study of sound-proofing
materials; at an estimated cost of $300
Supplements
With the Swenson Evaporator Company for work on development of long-tube,
natural-circulation evaporator; at an estimated cost of $1,300 (R.P. 1932 -1936, p. 358)
With The Calcium Chloride Association covering work on study of gravel losses
on untreated roads and roads treated with calcium chloride; at an estimated
cost of $2,000 (R.P. 1932-1936, p. 554)
With The Spicer Manufacturing Corporation for work on clutch development;
at an estimated cost of $350 (p. 765)
With the Creep Data Section of Joint ASME-ASTM Committee on Effect of
Temperature on the Properties of Metals for compilation of available hightemperature creep data; at an estimated cost of $1,000 (p. 47)
Purchase Orders
From the Industrial Brownhoist Corporation for consulting engineering and
metallurgical engineering work on alloy-casting problems; at an estimated
cost of $200
From the Detroit Edison Company for test at 925 degrees on 32 specimens
cut from experimental welds in carbon-molybdenum steel pipe; at an estimated cost of $400
The Secretary filed payrolls for the Department of Engineering
Research as follows (p. 141):
For the month ended December 31, 1936.......................$7,788.45
For the month ended January 31, 1937........................ 8,423.03
For the month ended February 28, 1937............................. 7,726.26
For the month ended March 31, 1937........................... 9,455.34