Proceedings of the Board of Regents (1936-1939)

Special May Meeting, 1938
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN,
ANN ARBOR, MAY 11, 1938
The Board met, pursuant to call of the President, at the Detroit
Club, in Detroit, at 12:50 P.M.
Present, the President, Regent Cram, Regent Cook, Regent Beal.
Regent Shields, Regent Crowley, and Regent Lynch. Absent, Regent
Hemans, Regent Stone, and Superintendent Elliott.
An additional honorary degree was voted to be conferred at Commencement, 1938, under the usual conditions (p. 529).
The Board received and accepted with regret the resignation of Dr.
Mehmet Aga-Oglu as Associate Professor of the History of Islamic
Art in the Institute of Fine Arts. The resignation is to become effective
at the close of the present University year.
The Board accepted with thanks the gift of $750 which the donor
desired to be recorded as anonymous. In accordance with the donor's
wishes, the sum was allotted to the work in mental hygiene in the
Health Service to be used at the discretion of Dr. Theophile Raphael,
Psychiatrist.
The Board received from the Earhart Foundation a contribution
of $2,400 to be used in support of the program of creative art during
the year 1938-1939. The gift was accepted in accordance with its terms
and with the thanks of the Regents.
The following preamble and resolutions were adopted (p. 276):
WHEREAS, The Horace H. Rackham and Mary A. Rackham Fund, a Michigan nonstock Trustee corporation, has submitted a Third Supplemental Agreement dated May 1, 1938, between it, as Donor, and The Regents of the
University of Michigan, a body corporate, as Donee, which said Third Supplemental Agreement has been signed and acknowledged on behalf of said Donee
by Alexander G. Ruthven as President, and Shirley W. Smith as Secretary, and
a copy of which Third Supplemental Agreement is set forth in the Minutes of this
meeting immediately following this Preamble and Resolution; and
WHEREAS, The said Third Supplemental Agreement has been carefully
considered by the Board of Regents of said Donee and is acceptable to it and
to each and all of the members of the Board:
Now, therefore, be it Resolved, That The Regents of the University of
Michigan, a body corporate, does hereby assent to and accept said Third Supplemental Agreement and the gift and grant embodied therein and agrees to perform
and be bound by all the terms, provisions, and conditions thereof; and
Further, be it Resolved, That The Regents of the University of Michigan, a
body corporate, does hereby authorize and empower said Alexander G. Ruthven
as President, and Shirley W. Smith as Secretary, to deliver said Third Supplemental Agreement on its behalf to said Donor, and does hereby ratify and approve all acts and things heretofore performed and undertaken by said officials
on its behalf in connection with said Third Supplemental Agreement.
The Third Supplemental Agreement above referred to is as follows:
This Third Supplemental Agreement Made this first day of May, 1938, between Horace H. Rackham and Mary A. Rackham Fund, a nonstock Trustee
Corporation, organized, and existing under Act No. 327 of the Public Acts of