Proceedings of the Board of Regents (1939-1942)

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FIRST OCTOBER MEETING, 1939

Actions of the Executive Committee were approved and ratified
as follows (R.P. 1936-1939, p. 958):
June 30, 1939
Present, the President, Regent Beal, and Regent Shields.
The committee appropriated the sum of $1,080 to be added to the Salary
budget of the Museum of Zoology, University Museums, covering salary of Katherine P. Delos as stenographer and clerk. This position was included in the tentative budget for the Museum of Zoology but was withheld pending action by the
Committee on Office Personnel, which committee after investigation approved this
full-time appointment. Miss Delos's appointment is' for the period from July 1,
1939, to June 30, 1940.
July 5, 1939
Present, the President, Regent Beal, and Regent Shields.
The committee appropriated the sum of $1,800 as salary for Mrs. Anne IM.
Withrow for the fiscal year 1939-1940, of the Editorial Division of the Registrar's
Office. This sum is to come from the Walter Crane fund and the Eliot Street Lease
fund in the amounts of $1,200 and $600 respectively.
July 12, 1939
Present, the President, Regent Beal, and Regent Shields.
The committee approved the budget of the Lydia Mendelssohn Theater for
1939-1940 as follows (R.P. 1936-1939, p. 605):
Herbert A. Kenyon, Director.................................. $1,000
E. G. Pascoe, Stage M anager................................... 1,680
C. L. Schmid, Assistant Janitor................................. 720
Check Room Attendants, hourly.......................... 200
Extra Labor, hourly.......................................... 165
Total.......................................... $3,765
Current Expense and Equipment.......................... 1,772
Total................................................... $5,537
Receipts from the rental of the Theater to student and other organizations,
out of which all expenses are paid, will exceed the total of the budget.
July 12, 1939
Present, the President, Regent Beal, and Regent Shields.
The committee approved change in the proposed date of retirement of Dean
Herbert C. Sadler from June 30, 1939, to September 30, 1939. This action necessitates the addition of $2,200 to the Salary account of the budget of the College
of Engineering for 1939-1940, which sum was appropriated by the committee.
(R. P. 1936-1939, p. 391).
July 12, 1939
Present, the President, Regent Beal, and Regent Shields.
The committee accepted with thanks and in accordance with the terms and
conditions specified, gifts as follows (R.P. 1936-1939, p. 999):
From The Upjohn Company, Kalamazoo, $4,800 to renew The Upjohn Company
Fellowships in Clinical Research (R.P. 1936-1939, p. 554). Doctor William
Dodd Robinson is to be assigned $2,400 for the period from July 1, 1939,
to June 30, 1940, and Dr. Daniel Melnick, $2,400 for the period from September 1, 1939, to August 31, 1940, succeeding themselves to the positions.
From The Upjohn Company, Kalamazoo, a grant of $1,500 for a clinical study of
the barbiturates, during the period from July 1, 1939, to June 30, 1940. The
investigation is to be conducted under the direction of Dr. Arthur C. Curtis
of the Department of Internal Medicine. The money has been received and
deposited with the Business Office. The fund has been designated Upjohn
Clinical Research of Barbiturates.
From the University of Michigan Club of Ann Arbor, through Mr. William Walz,
Treasurer, $220 for tuition scholarships for the University year 1939-1940,
for Russell H. Auten and Jack M. Saunders (R.P. 1936-1939, p. 686)
From the American Council of Learned Societies, Washington, D. C., $300 for
Oriental Languages Fellowships during the Summer Session of 1939, to be
awarded as follows: $75 each to James Donald Hare, Arthur Redpath Menzies, and John DeFrancis, and $75 as yet unassigned (R.P. 1936-1939, p.
568)