Proceedings of the Board of Regents (1939-1942)

FIRST OCTOBER MEETING, 1939

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From Mr. M. R. Bissell, Jr., Grand Rapids, $1,500 to cover the Anna Bissell
Fellowship in Thoracic Surgery for 1939-1940 (R.P. 1936-1939, p. 608)
From the late Dr. Alfred O. Lee, a bequest of $1,000 "to establish the Elizabeth
Sargent Lee Medical History Prize. The interest of the said sum of one
thousand dollars is to be awarded annually to a Junior or Senior premedical
student in the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts for writing the
best essay on some topic concerning the history of medicine."
From Mr. Fred M. Zeder, $500 for the purchase of an original antique map of
the City of Detroit for the William L. Clements Library
From the Committee on Latin-American Studies, through Mr. C. H. Haring, Chairman, $420 toward the Institute of Latin-American Studies (see p. 48)
From the Class of 1924, College of Engineering, $50- to establish the Class of
1924 Engineering Loan fund, as their participation in the Michigan Alumni
Ten-Year Program. This fund is to be administered in accordance with the
University's policy in handling similar funds.
From an anonymous donor, $250 for the Joint Committee on Health Education
From the American Wildlife Institute, Washington, D. C., $100 for the Fish Management fund in the Museum of Zoology, to be used as salary for Mr. Karl
F. Lagler, Investigator in Fisheries Management, Museum of Zoology, for the
month of August, 1939 (p. 45)
August 16, 1939
Present, President Ruthven, Regent Beal, and Regent Shields.
Colonel Thomas M. Spaulding, who established the Stephen Spaulding Scholarship in memory of his son (R.P. 1923-1926, p. 814), has requested that of the
$329.65 appearing as accumulated interest $180 be added to the original principal
of $2,820 to bring the total of the endowment up to $3,000. The committee approved his request.
August 16, 1939
Present, President Ruthven, Regent Beal, and Regent Shields.
At the request of Dr. John Sundwall and with the approval of Dr. James D.
Bruce, the committee appointed Ella Elizabeth McNeil, B.S., R.N., as Associate
Professor of Public Health Nursing in the Division of Hygiene and Public Health,
with compensation at the rate of $3,600 beginning with the University year 1939 -1940.
August 18, 1939
Present, President Ruthven, Regent Beal, and Regent Shields.
The committee appropriated and added the sum of $300 to the Salary account
of the University Extension Service as an addition to the salary of Jerome B.
Wiesner, Radio Technician and Assistant to the Director of the Broadcasting
Service. Mr. Wiesner's salary for the University year 1939-1940 will be on the
basis of $800 for the period.
Further, the committee appropriated and added the sum of $800 to the Current account of the Laboratory of Vertebrate Genetics: $400 for Fish Genetics, and
$400 for Reptile Genetics.
August 21, 1939
Present, President Ruthven, Regent Beal, and Regent Shields.
Because he had a more advantageous offer elsewhere, and because it was
desired to retain the services of Dr. Elmer G. Berry, Docent in the Division of
Visual Education, University Museums, the committee appropriated the sum of
$166.67 as an addition to the Salary account of the budget of the University
Museums for 1939-1940. This addition to the budget will permit the increase
of Dr. Berry's salary rate for 1939-1940 from $1,800 to $2,000 a year, twelvemonth basis, beginning September 1, 1939.
September 2, 1939
Present, President Ruthven, Regent Beal, and Regent Shields.
Degrees and certificates for work completed during the Summer Session of
1939 were conferred as follows in accordance with recommendations by the several
faculties:
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN CHEMISTRY
Charles Haskell Altshuler Robert Emmett McNulty
Stanley Hewett, as of the Class of Otto Karl Musall, Jr.
June, 1939