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1957] UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS IO49
345. Western Electric Company: to the Department of Physical
Medicine and Rehabilitation, a stationary bicycle (valued at
$79.50).
346. Will County Pharmaceutical Association Women's Auxiliary:
to the College of Pharmacy, a Webster's international dictionary
and stand.
347. From the following donors, various items of equipment for use
of staff and patients in the Respiratory Center, Research and
Educational Hospitals: Dorothy Stern Polio Foundation; Elaine
Settler Polio Foundation; March of Dimes, Cook County Chapter
; National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, Cook County
Chapter; Sabath's Department Store; Unistrut Products Company;
Kappa Group; Mr. Irving Lerner.
Total, Chicago Professional Colleges (1 703 049 17)
Total of This Report 3 278 672 28
Gifts and grants received during the period July 1, 1956, through
June 30, 1957, and previously reported to the Board (Supplement
No. 1 to this report) 398 975 00
Funds from the University of Illinois Foundation during the
calendar year ending December 31, 1956 (Supplement No. 2 to
this report) 144 958 37
Grand Total $3 822 605 65
Report of Gifts and Grants Received by the University
Supplement No. 1
During the period July I, 1956, through June 30, 1957, the following gifts and
grants have been previously reported to the Board:
1. Anonymous donor: to start a fund for the construction of a
faculty club (reported to the Board September 18, 1956, minutes
page 71) $ 10 000 00
2. Mr. Cushman B. Bissell: oil paintings for the Chicago Professional
Colleges (reported to the Board November 28, 1956, minutes
page 158).
3. Friends and relatives of the late Gerald S. Cohen, Class of 1957:
to establish a student loan fund (reported to the Board March
12, 1957, minutes page 318) 1 025 00
4. Estate of Myra Jones Davis (Mrs. David J. Davis): for the
David J. Davis Fellowship in Pathological Sciences. This provision
was made in the will of the late Myra Jones Davis under a
trust agreement with the State Bank and Trust Company of
Evanston (reported to the Board January 16, 1957, minutes
page 186) 25 000 00
5. Ford Foundation: to the University of Illinois Press to stimulate
scholarly publications in the humanities and social sciences
(reported to the Board March 12, 1957, minutes page 317) 5 600 00
6. The Forest Park Foundation, Peoria: for a study by the Institute
of Labor and Industrial Relations of economic problems of
older workers in the Peoria area (reported to the Board January
16, 1957, minutes page 186) 25 000 00
7. Mr. Felix Gehrmann, $30,000 par value State of Illinois Service
Recognition bonds Series A, bearing an interest rate of I-S4 P er
cent and maturing May 1, 1972, with undipped coupons valued
at $3,150 attached: to add to the Gehrmann Lectureship Fund
in the College of Medicine which was established in 1924 in
honor of the late Dr. Adolph Gehrmann, Professor of Bacteriology
and Hygiene in the College of Medicine (reported to the
Board January 16, 1957, minutes page 186) 33 150 00
8. Haskins and Sells Foundation, Inc., New York, New York 5 500 00
A $500 award to be made annually to outstanding senior
students in accounting $ 500
To assist qualified instructors in accounting while they
are pursuing higher academic degrees for careers in