Proceedings of the Board of Regents (1936-1939)

518

APRIL MEETING, 1938

Reserve, and an annual contribution out of the same budget of $10 a year
toward the maintenance, upkeep, and operation of such truck. The Edwin S.
George Reserve will have the same protection that other rural interests in
Unadilla Township, Livingston County, will have.
April 8, 1938
Present, Regent Beal and Regent Shields.
On recommendation by the Executive Committee of the College of Literature,
Science, and the Arts, the Committee granted leave of absence without salary
for the University year 1938-1939 to Associate Professor Lewis B. Kellum
of the Department of Geology, to permit him to accept an invitation from the
Standard Vacuum Oil Company to direct and supervise its exploration program
in New Zealand.
April 20, 1938
Present, President Ruthven, Regent Beal, and Regent Shields.
On recommendation of the Committee on the Henry Russel Award, the
committee confirmed the selection of Dr. Franklin Davis Johnston, Assistant
Professor of Internal Medicine, as the recipient of the Henry Russel Award for
the year 1937-1938. The committee further approved the suggestion that the
name of Dr. Edgar Malone Hoover, Jr., Assistant Professor of Economics, be
placed on record as second choice. The stipend of the Award, as provided by the
income of the Henry Russel endowment, is $200 (p. 422).
NOTE. The stipend of the Henry Russel Lecturer recorded on p. 422 as $250 was
also reduced, because of earnings shrinkage, to $200.
Actions of the Operating Committee were approved and ratified in
accordance with the minutes of the committee as follows (p. 485):
March 8, 1938
With the approval of the Executive Committee of the College of Literature,
Science, and the Arts and of Professor Robert C. Angell, Acting Chairman of
the Department of Sociology, the committee transferred the sum of $200 from
the Salary budget of the Department of Sociology to the Salary budget of the
Department of Psychology, to provide funds for additional assistants for the
second semester of the present University year.
March 12, 1938
At the request of Dean Wells I. Bennett, the committee added the sum of
$275 to the Salary budget of the College of Architecture to provide salary for the
second semester of the present University year for Mary Case Dell, One-thirdtime Instructor in Freehand Drawing.
March 28, 1938
Secretary Smith, acting for the committee in the absence of President Ruthven, approved the transfer of $500 from the Bureau of Business Research fund
in the budget of the School of Business Administration to the Current account of
the School of Business Administration to provide for necessary expenses for the
remainder of the present fiscal year.
April 21, 1938
At the request of Professor Waldo Abbot, the committee appropriated the
sum of $50 as an addition to the Current account of the Bureau of Radio Broadcasting to provide funds for the purchase of filing cabinets.
April 21, 1938
The committee on recommendation by the Executive Committee of the
College of Engineering approved the following transfers to provide sufficient
funds in the budget concerned for the remainder of the fiscal year:
1. From Dean's Fund, Engineering Administration, Salaries, to Aeronautical Engineering, Current, $200
2. From Engineering Administration, Apparatus and Furnishings, to Aeronautical Engineering, Current, $150
3. From Dean's Fund, Engineering Administration, Salaries, to Engineering
Administration, Travel Expense, $200.
April 21, 1938
At the request of Professor George E. Carrothers, Director of the Bureau
of Cooperation with Educational Institutions, the committee approved the transfer of the sum of $75 from the Travel account to the Current account of the
Bureau for the purchase of additional copies of A List of Selected Books for
Secondary School Libraries (p. 433).