Proceedings of the Board of Regents (1936-1939)

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JANUARY MEETING, 1938

The Regents received the following proposal for the organization of
a chamber-music unit affiliated with the University of Michigan:
1. By subscribing to this document, we express our interest in a limited
program of chamber music for Ann Arbor for the year 1938 and our desire to
see such a program continued in the future on the basis of an endowment.
2. There will be created by the Board of Regents a Governing Board, to
have charge of the concerts; this Board to consist of the Director of the School
of Music and from three to five persons nominated by the President of the University.
3. For the present year a minimum of three concerts will be arranged, the
cost to be underwritten by Mrs. R. Bishop Canfield, Mrs. Harry B. Earhart, and
Mrs. James Inglis, to the extent of $150.
4. The contributed funds shall be deposited with the University and the
office of the School of Music.
5. The artists shall be members of the Faculty of the School of MiIusic, or
visiting guests.
6. The artists shall be selected by the Governing Board and the programs
shall be arranged by the Governing Board in conference with the artist or artists
concerned.
7. For the present year at least attendance at the concerts shall be by
invitation.
8. The Governing Board is expected to experiment with the project with
the aim of determining the permanent basis on which the concerts, if successful,
will be established.
The Regents accepted the proffered gift with a vote of thanks to
the donors, and directed that the President, with President Sink and
Director Moore of the School of Music, should initiate the program
under conditions upon which the three could mutually agree. Further,
the fund was temporarily called "The Chamber Music Project."
A gift of $300 from Mr. Charles Baird of Kansas City through Librarian Bishop was accepted with a vote of, thanks and was entitled
"The Charles Baird Rare Book fund," for use in purchasing Shakespeareana.
The Regents accepted with regret the resignation of Professor Paul
A. Leidy as Financial Secretary of the Michigan Union.
The title of Dr. Arthur P. Grigg, Dr. Frank H. Power, and Dr. Edmund P. Vary of the Surgery staff of the University Hospital was
changed in each case from Assistant in Surgery to Resident in Surgery.
The title of Stephen Stanley Attwood was changed from Associate
Professor of Electrical Engineering to Professor of Electrical Engineering, effective with the beginning of the second semester of the
present University year. No change in salary is involved.
The salary of Professor Charles F. Remer of the Department of
Economics was increased from $6,000 to $6,500 a year, to date from
the beginning of the second semester of the present University year.
The amount of $250 required to take care of this increase is to be
taken for the present year only from the New York University of
Michigan Club Faculty Salary Endowment fund. After the present year
the total salary of Professor Remer is to be provided for within the
budget of the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts.
Sabbatical leave of absence for the second semester of the present
University year was granted to Associate Professor Walter J. Gores of
the College of Architecture.
The President notified the Regents that an expenditure from the
sum of $75,000 provided by the Horace H. Rackham and Mary A.
Rackham fund in June, 1936, had been approved by Messrs. Wilcox,
Rolland, and Horton in an amount not to exceed $25,000, for the pur