Proceedings of the Board of Regents (1936-1939)

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AUGUST MEETING, 1936

to allow her to accept an invitation to study and catalog a large, privately
owned collection in Denver, Colorado.
July 15, 1936
Present, President Ruthven, Regent Beal, and Regent Stone.
The committee approved the budget of the Lydia Mendelssohn Theater
Operation covering the fiscal year 1936-1937, totaling $4,841. The budget
includes an increase in the salary of Professor Herbert A. Kenyon, Director,
from $424 to $500, which brings his total salary, including $3,500 from the
Department of Romance Languages, to $4,000.
July 15, 1936
Present, President Ruthven, Regent Beal, and Regent Stone.
The committee appointed Mrs. John A. Bryant of Grosse Pointe, Michigan,
to membership in the Board of Governors of Betsy Barbour House, to fill the
vacancy created by the retirement of Miss Mercy Hayes. Mrs. Ernest Kanzler
of Detroit was originally appointed to this membership but was unable to serve.
July 23, 1936
Present, President Ruthven, Regent Beal, and Regent Stone.
On recommendation by Dr. Louis H. Newburgh, and with the approval
of Dean Furstenberg and of the Faculty Personnel Committee, the salary of
Jerome W. Conn, M.D., Department of Internal Medicine, was increased from
$1,600 a year, twelve-month basis, paid from Research Project R No. 12, to
$1,800 a year, twelve-month basis, paid $1,600 from the Research Project
R No. 12, and $200 from the trust fund, Rackham Research in Rickets. Dr.
Conn's title was fixed as Instructor and Assistant in Research.
July 23, 1936
Present, President Ruthven, Regent Beal, and Regent Stone.
Upon recommendation by Dean Clare E. Griffin of the School of Business
Administration and with the approval of Dean Edward H. Kraus of the College
of Literature, Science, and the Arts, the committee granted sabbatical leave of
absence to Professor William A. Paton for the University year 1936-1937,
with half salary, and appointed George Lafayette Hull as Lecturer in the School
of Business Administration for the University year 1936-1937, vice Professor
Paton, at a salary of $3,800 for the University year. This amount is within the
sum released from Professor Paton's salary. Professor Paton has conducted
courses of accounting in the Department of Economics in the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, and Professor Hull will also carry on this work,
as substitute for Professor Paton.
Actions of the Operating Committee were approved and ratified by
the Board in accordance with the minutes of the committee, as follows (page 855):June 24, 1936
The committee approved the reallocation of the sum of $450 designated for
the Sociology Fellowships in the Graduate School budget for 1935-1936 as
follows:
Salary of E. D. Beynon during the summer of 1936............ $200
Tabulation of data....................................... 150
D rafting, etc............................................ 100
Total...............................................$450
The work contemplated under the expenditure of the above sum is closely
allied with the Department of Sociology.
The committee further approved of the transfer of the items designated
above for tabulation and drafting from the Salaries account to the Current
Expense account of the Graduate School and also carrying over the item for the
salary of E. D. Beynon in the Graduate School Salaries account for 1935-1936
to the budget for 1936-1937.
June 25, 1936
The committee recognized the sponsorship by the University of an expedition to Alaska this summer being conducted by Dr. Dow V. Baxter, Associate Professor of Silvics and Forest Pathology, for the purpose of collecting
forest fungi with the designation of the expedition as "The University of Michigan Expedition of 1936 for Collecting Alaskan Forest Fungi."