Proceedings of the Board of Regents (1939-1942)

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MARCH MEETING, 1941

James Hoolsema, Half-time Stenographer, Museum of Anthropology, from January 17 to January 31, 1941, without salary
Amy G. Scutt, Secretary, College of Architecture and Design, from March 11 to
March 31, 1941, without salary
The sum of $1,500 was appropriated as an addition to the budget
for Miscellaneous Printing for the present year.
The sum of $6,000 was added to the budget of the Summer Session
of 1941 to provide special programs of instruction, one in Eaton
County and one in Calhoun County. The cost will not ultimately
come out of University funds as it is guaranteed up to $6,000 by the
W. K. Kellogg Foundation, and the Director of the Summer Session will
not authorize expenditures beyond $6,000. The W. K. Kellogg Foundation was accorded a vote of thanks for this further co-operation with the
work of the University.
The Regents approved the following trust-fund budgets as recommended by Dean Yoakum (p. 547):
Name of Fund: Aaron Mendelson Memorial Research
Period: February 1 to June 30, 1941
In Charge: Assistant Professor R. L. Kahn
Source of Funds: Aaron Mendelson Memorial Trust
Accepted by Regents: May 24, 1940, p. 302
Purpose of Fund: Research in Tissue Immunity
Salaries................................................. $625.00
Expense and Equipment..................................... 300.00
$925.00
Name of Fund: Upjohn Company Fellowship in Clinical Research
Period: March 1, 1941, to March 31, 1942
In Charge: Associate Professor Henry Field, Jr.
Source of Funds: The Upjohn Company
Accepted by Regents: February 21, 1941, p. 540
Purpose of Fund: (See name of fund above)
Salaries................................................. $2,700.00
The following fees were approved as recommended by the Committee on Fees (p. 228):
A nonreturnable fee of $2.00 to be required of each applicant for admission
to the Medical School, effective for freshmen applicants in 1942-1943.
A summer session fee for the Dental School, the amount of the fee to be
$50 for residents and $75 for nonresidents.
The Regents approved space between the building of the Dental
School and North Hall as a site for the proposed building for the
School of Public Health (p. 535).
The Board received the following communication from Dean
Furstenberg of the Medical School and established a Department of
Human Heredity to be constituted and to operate in accordance with the
terms and conditions laid down in Dean Furstenberg's proposal:
Request is hereby made by the Laboratory of Vertebrate Genetics to establish a Department of Human Heredity in close association with the Medical
School. The proposed Department of Human Heredity shall remain an integral
part of the Laboratory of Vertebrate Genetics, but shall be given those rights and
privileges in University Hospital enjoyed by the other clinical departments of the
Medical School.
The purpose of this Clinic shall be to secure the data necessary for the
determination of the role which heredity plays in the production of or predisposition to malformations and disease. It is known that heredity is an important
factor in human ills, and that a better understanding of its potencies is necessary
to a more complete knowledge of the etiology, course, and treatment of many