Proceedings of the Board of Regents (1939-1942)

DECEM3BER MEETING, 1939 157
budget to meet the University expense in a continuation during the summer of
1940 of the co-operative experimental curriculum workshop, which was inaugurated under Summer Session auspices in 1938 and continued in 1939. It is understood that this project supports itself from student fees (R.P. 1936-1939,
p. 786).
Action of the Operating Committee was approved and ratified as
follows (p. 112):
November 4, 1939
At the request of Professor Howard Y. McClusky, the committee approved
the transfer of $35 from the Travel account of the Adult Education Program to
the Current account of the University Extension Service to provide for payment in
part of a fee for a lecturer in the Dowagiac Community Schools.
The following contracts, supplemental contracts, and extensions and
purchase orders made or accepted by the Department of Engineering
Research were placed on file (p. 113):
Contracts
With the Cleveland Electric Illuminating Company, Cleveland, Ohio, for investigation of foundation soil; at an estimated cost of $200
With The Dow Chemical Company, Midland, for study of Dow Metal magnesium alloys to aircraft structures; at an estimated cost of $200 per month
With The Dow Chemical Company, Midland, for study of vacuum impregnation
of paper; at an estimated cost of $3,000
Supplements and Extensions
With The Dow Chemical Company, for extension of time on Project No. M-149
(R.P. 1936-1939, p. 411); at an estimated cost of $4,560 for the period of
one year
With The Dow Chemical Company, for extension of time on Project No. M-241
(p. 65); at an estimated cost of $500
With The Dow Chemical Company, for extension of time on Project No. M-165
(R.P. 1936-1939, p. 463); at an estimated cost of $500
With The Dow Chemical Company, for extension of time on Project No. M-151
(R.P. 1936-1939, p. 433); at an estimated cost of $1,000
With the Vanadium Corporation of America, for extension of time on Project
M-220 (R.P. 1936-1939, p. 885); at an estimated cost of $200
With the Ford Motor Company, for extension of time on Project M-145 (R.P.
1936-1939, p. 411); at an estimated cost of $4,500
Purchase Orders
From the Michigan State Highway Department for Brinell hardness determination
of sample; at an estimated cost of $25
From the Michigan State Highway Department for determination of fusing temperature on sample; at an estimated cost of $25
From the Michigan State Highway Department for Brinell hardness test of steel
snowplow blades; at an estimated cost of $25
From The Detroit Edison Company, for calibration of dust-sampling nozzle in
wind tunnel; at an estimated cost of $150
The President reported the following gifts (p. 114):
From Mrs. John H. (Ella S.) Avery, Detroit, through Mr. Wilson W. Mills, the
sum of $1,400 for the Anna Olcott Smith fund (R.P. 1936-1939, p. 875)
From Parke, Davis and Company, Detroit, $375, representing the first installment of a grant of $750 in support of a research problem in endocrinology
to be conducted under the direction of Dr. James T. Bradbury in the Laboratory of Medical Research. The remaining $375 will be paid on February 1,
1940. The fund has been designated Parke, Davis and Company Research
in Endocrinology.