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Minutes of the regular monthly meeting of the Executive
Committee of the Board of Trustees of the University of Ken-
tucky for Tuesday, July 16, 1929.
The Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees of the
University of Kentucky met in regular monthly session on
Tuesday, July 16, 1929. The following members were present:
Judge Richard C. Stoll, Mr. Joe B. Andrews, Mr. R. G. Gordon,
and Mr. James Park,
1. The Report of the Business Agent. The report of
the Business Agent of the University was presented and
ordered incorporated in the minutes. The report was as fol-
lows:
EXHIBIT "B"
State:-e.cnt of Income and Exzenditures, Month
1929
of June
Previously
Reported
General Fund Income
Fed. Appropriation 42,750.00
St. Appro. - New Ed. Bd.18,086.21
Vocational Ed. Board 10,120.87
Special Agri. Appro. 26,004.25
State Tax 927,337.74
Int. on Liberty Bonds 1,700.00
Int. on Endow. Bonds 8,644.50
Student Fees 118,169.07
Student Fees -Sum.Sch. 31,985.90
If If -U.H.S. 3,500.50
As It -U.Ext. 23,979.57
Miscellaneous Receipts 24,120.47
Gen. Ed. Bd._New Ed.Bldg.l,652.40
Rentals 2,692.50
Sum. Sch. -. St. Appro. 10,000.00
Men's Dormitory 6,880.95
St. Appro. - Dairy Blde.
1s257,624;93
Current
Month
Fiscal
Year
To Dabe
42,750.00
56,913.79. 75,000.00
13,241.31 23,362.18
3,995.75 30,000.00
97,739.33 4025.077.07
1P700.00
8,644.50
49.55 118,218.62
350.00 32,335.90
(30.00 3,470.50
3,150.00, 27,129.57
16,907.76 41,028.23
1,652.40
21K ,CO 2,907.50
10,000.00
,;.60 6,956.61
75,000.00 75,000.00
267,608.15 1_525.233.08
2.
Expenditures
Instruction
Adm. Exp. & Mainten.
Add. & Betterments
Total
741,943,60
245,469.26
282,690.21
1,270,103.07
78,544.87
38,455.62
101 ,151.53
218,152.02
820 ,498. I`
283,924. E
383,841.7
1 ,488,255.E0'
Excess of Expend. over
Income
(12.478.14) 49,456.13
Patterson Hall Income
Board 68,101.75
Miscellaneous Receipts 277.50
Room Rent-Summer School 4,303.25
Total 72,682.50
Expenditures
Expense
Additions & Betterments
Total
61,645.15
1,628,35
633273.50
Excess of Income over Ex-
penditures 9,409.00
General Fund Income 1,330,307.43
General Fund Expend. 1,333*376.57
__(7 5. 72)
269,206.11
227.055.70
2 ,103.28
1,599,513.54
1.560.432.27
Excess of General Fund
Income over Expendi-
tures - Carried For-
ward
Excess of Gen:ral Fund
Income over Expendi-
tures - Brought For-
ward
(3,069.14)
(3,069.14)
42,150.41
42,150.41
Accounts Receivable for
Current Year
Accounts Payable as at
June 30, 1929
Excess of Expenditures over
Receipt s for General Ledger
Accounts 56,864.30
(24,036.79)
45,406.78
(24,036,7'' ;
45,406.7L/ .
4(523097.91)
1,501.33
96.63
1,597.96
8,100.11
803.57
8. 03.68
69,603.0'
374.1
4,303 ?
74, N280;.46;
69,745. ,"I
2,431.?,
72,177.18
39,081.:,
39,081.2;'
40766,39
3.
Excess of Receipts over Ex-
penditures for the fiscal
year to date - General
Fund (59,933.44) 68,286.79 8,353.i,
Excess of Receipts over Ex-
penditures for the fiscal
year to date - General
Fund 8,353.3i
Cash in Bank July 1, 1928 -
General Fund 64,3957.'
Cash in Bank June 30, 1929 -
General Fund 72.311.10
2. Borrowina o Money. A motion was made, seconded, and
carried authorizing the Chairman of the Executive Committee
and the Business Agent of the University to br_-Trov! from time
to time, or at any one time, such amounts art may be necessary
to meet the current expenses of the Univcrs- ty not to exceed
the sum of $150 ,000.
3. Bids on Linoleum FloorinZ in the Library. The questic..
of bids for linoleum flooring for the library was taken up
and a motion was made, seconded, and carried to reconsider
the previous action. A statement was presented from the
architects recommending the letting of contract for linoleum
floors in the library to R. B. Hayes, Lexington, Kentucky,
the lowest bidder. A motion was made, seconded and carried
that the contract be let to Mr. Hayes in accordance with
his bid submitted to the June meeting of the Board.
4. Signing of Contracts for Buildings. A motion was
made, seconded, and carried authorizing the President of the
University, and the Chairman of the Executive Committee and
the Business Agent to execute contracts for buildings as fol-
lows:
4.
CONTRACTS
School of Education:
Ben C. Ingels Electric Co.,
Danville, Ky. ...........
R. B. Hayes, Lexington, Ky ....
F.A.Clegg & Co. ,Louisville,Ky.
John H. Scott, FrankfortKy...
J.F. Hardymon Co.,11aysville,
Ky ........................
Warner, McCornack & Mitchell,
:"Cleveland, Ohio ...........
Electrical Work .... $9,974.00
Linoleum Floors
and Base .........12,600.00
Heating & Vent. ... . 33,480.00
.Plumbing, Sewer-
age & Gas Fitting ..lS,112.91
Grading, Structu-
ral Steel, etc. ..2712500.00
Architects
6fo of Cost
Library Building:
R. B. Hayes, Lexington,Ky.
J.F. Hardymon Co., Maysvill
Ky. ....................
John H. Scott, Frankfort,Ky
J. J. Fitzgerald, Lexington
Ky. ................
Ben C. Ingels. Electric Co.
Danville, Ky.
*Snead & Co,, Jersey City,i.
Combs Lumber Co., Lexington
Ky. .....................
Warner and Mitchell, Clevel
Ohio .................
Dairy Building
R. L. Cranfill, Lexington,
Otis Elevator Co., Lcuis-
ville, Ky .............
The York Ice Mlachinery Corr
Cleveland, Ohio.
Moore-Young Electric Co.
Lexington, Ky. ..........
Armstrong Cork & Insulatior
Co., Cincinnati, Ohio....
J. T. Jackson Lumber Co.,
Lexington, Ky.
MoElhone & Maloney, Lexing-
ton, Ky . ................
... Finished Floors ....12,500.00
e,
Grading, Structu-
ral Steel, Etc. ..269,000.00
* Plumbing & Sewers . 11,165.00
; . Heat. & 7T-_.L. .... 29,000.00
Electtical Work ..... 7,74.00
J. Metal Book Stacks ..62,4-22.00
Cabinet Work ..... 20,225.00
Architects
Plumbing and Gas
Fitting ..........
6% Of Cost
23,790.00
Elevator Doors &
Overhead Steel,
etc ............1.. ,200.00
Refrigeration ..... 10,520.00
Electrical Equip. . 4,645.00
Cold Storage Insu-
lation .......... 5,610.00
Construction ...... 90,650.00
Stokers
1,516.50
AThimis ontrLct Man be fiwued four wmys, viz:
lexnate 1 - eguc 112)N7.U
Alternate 2 -- Deduct 17,285.00
Alternate 3 -- Deduct 8 500. QO or S8 400.00
Alternate 4 -- Add $31i.,06 if #3 is omitted.
34 o00
5.
5. Installation of Pipe Organ. Presid-et MdcVey reported
to the Committee that a pipe organ had been installed in the
Memorial Building and that it is now ready for use.
6. State Funds for Building Construction. President Mc-
Vcy reported to the Committee that arrangements have been made
with the State Auditor to make available all funds for the
construction of buildings made by the last Legislature and
that the appropriations will be made available from the State
Auditor's office.
7. Drinking Fountains for KcVev Hall. A co,-,1unication
was read from M1r. Crutcher, Superintendent of Buildings and
Grounds, asking for an appropriation of $616.00 to install
drinking fountains and a water pump in McVey Hall. A motion
was made, seconded and carried, authorizing the installation.
8. Settlement of J. T. Jackson Lumber Compa;,y. A set-
tlem-ent certificate of the J. T. Jackson Lumber Company as
final payment on the Memorial Building was presented and a
motion was made, seconded, and carried, authorizing the pay-
ment less 1000.00 subscribed by Mr. Jackson on the erection
of the building.
9. Settlement of J. F. Hardymen Company. A final set-
tlermeint certificate with J. F. Hardyman Company, Mrlaysville,
Kentucky, for the erection of SurVey Hall fleas also presented
a-nd approved.
10. Architects' Services. A memorandum of settlement with
Warner and Mitchell, architects, for services on McVey Hall,
as final settlement, was presented and ordered paid.
11. Tsmperature Control in New Education Building. 1A
cormnunication was read from Mr. M. J. Crutcher, Superintendent
of Buildings and Grounds, asking for an additional appropri-
ation of $370.00 for a temperature control in the new "duca-
tion Building. A motion was made, seconded, and carried
that the request be granted. This makes a total of 12370.00
for complette temperature control in that building.
12. Option on Van Meter Farm. A communication was read
from Dean Thomas P. Cooner, recommending that provisions be
made to set aside A35,000.00 from the Experiment Station in-
come to close the option to purchase of the Van Meter Farm,
now rented by the University under option to purchase. A
motion was made, seconded and carried, approving tne recommen-
dat ion,
S.
13. Purchase of Land at Robinson Si:b-Station. A conr:.un-
ication from Dean ThoEnsP_.PCooper was read, stating that
recently a cottage on the Robinson Sub-Station had been burned.
The insurance on the cottage, amounting to 'l200.00, was
paid by the insurance company. Dean Cooper recommended that
a part of this be invested in additional land at that place
band the remainder transferred to the Robinson Station account.
The matter was discussed and a motion was made, seconded and
carried approving the recommendation..
14. Purchase of Land on South Limestone. At the June
mleeting of the Board of Trustees the purchase of a, tract of
land on South Limestone, known as the Kersheimer ?roperty-,
was authorized. Judgc Stoll reported to the Board that the
title of the property was in the process of being cleared.
15. Gift of $10,000 by Percy H. Johnston. The following
commr-unication from Mr. Percy Hi Johnston President of the
Chemical Bank and Trust Company, New York City, was read and
ordered incorporated in the minutes,
New York, N. Y.
June 18, 1929
Dr. Frank L. M1cVey, President,
University of Kentucky,
Lexington, Kentucky.
Dear Dr. McVey:
I desire to give the University
of KentSucky a further sum of I'1O.,000 and enclose here-
with rny check for that purpose.
This additional gift of ten
thousand dollars to the University of Kentucky is for
uhe specific purpose of research on the effect of sun-
light on plants and animals in connection wit,! the
atmospheric comfort zone determined under the direction
of Dean F.. Paul Anderson in the Research Laboratory of
the American Society of Heating and Ventilating Engineero
at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The expenditures for this
work are to be under the direction of Dean F. Paul An-
derson, who is authorized to make requisitions on this
7.
fund. All payments out of this fund are to be made
by the University of Kentucky upon requisition of
Dean F. Paul Anderson and all vouchers are to be kept
as a permanent record. It is my purpose that Dean
F. Paul Anderson have a perfectly free hand in these
expenditures for the research stipulated. It is con-
ten.platod that the expenditures will include housing,
apparatus, animials, birds, plants, attendants, scien-
tific observers, and anything else necessary to the
furtherance of this stipulated research, as directed
by Dean F. Paul Anderson.
With best personal wishes,
Sincerely yours,
Percy H. Johnston
The matter was discussed and a motion uos made, seconded
and carried accepting the gift and directing the Secretary
of the Board to write a letter to Mr. Johnston, accepting
the gift on behalf of the Board and thanking him for his
continued good will toward the University.
16. Report on Sorority Houses. President McVey pre-
sented to the Oonmittee a report made by a faculty committee
on sorority houses at the University. The report was dis-
cussed and a motion was made, seconded, and carried, recomn-
mending that the President provide for a survey of the
sorority and fraternity houses with a definite recommendation
for future guidance.
17. Purchase of Furniture of Men's Dormitories. A motion
was irade, seconded and carried, authorizing the purchase of
furniture for the men's dormitories now being erected at ap-
proximate cost of $12,500.Q0
18. Purchase of Dictaphone. A request from tthe Super-
intendent of Buildings and Grounds to be authorized to pur-
chase a dictaphone with necessary equipment was read and dis-
cussed and a motion was made, seconded and carried author-
izing the purchase.
8.
19. PrintinFg Matters. President McVevi brought to thre
attention of the Coramittee certain matters in connection
with the printing situation. The matter was discussed,
but no action was taken.
20. ..omDintr.ent, Reacpointments, Promotions, Increases
in Salaries, and Leaves of Absence. The following list
of appointnients, renipointments, wronaotions, increases in
salary, and leaves of absence was oresented by President
McVey and on motion duly seconded wat approved.
Resignation of Miss Margaret Williams, stenographer in
the President's Office was accepted, effective July 1, 1929.
Appointment of Mrs. Eloise Galloway, stenographer in
the President's Office at $100 a month, effective August 1,
1929.
Appointment of Mrs. queenie M1. Grable, stenographer in
the RegistrarTs Office at $90 a month, effective August 1,
1929.
Resignation of Mrs. Virginia Anderson Bozeman, instruct-
or in Mechanical Drawing.
Appointment of Mr. Henry He Hill, j.r of Educa-
tional Administration in the College of ld-. tion, at a
salary of $4,000.
Temporary appointment of Miss Mary L. Didlake, acting
head of the Department of Entomology and Botany, effective
July 1, 1929.
AppoinLtment of Iliss Ronella Spickard, associate profes-
sor of Home Economics Education, at $3,000, effective Sep-
t:2lMber 1, 1929.
Appointment of Miss Blanche Tansil, assistant professcr
of Home Economics, at $2,500, on a ten months' ba.is, effect-
ive September 1, 1929.
Appointment of Mr. W. A. Price, head of the Department
of Entomology, entomologist and botanist in the Experi-
r.ent Stations and professor of Entomology in the College
of Agriculture, at a salary of $4,000, effective September
1? 1929.
9.
Appointment of Mr. W. C. Eskew, field agent in cream
grading, at $2100, effective July 1, 1929.
Temporary appointment of Miss Virginia Meacham, assist-
ant in the Department of Home Economics in the Experiment
Station, effective July 8, 1939, at $100 a month.
Temporary appointment of Mr. W. C. Boatright, assist-
ant- in soil survey, -at $140 a month, effective Juv ! 1,
1929.
Miss Genevieve Farwell, assistant in the Department of
Animal Patholoiytc nave her salary increased from $125 to
5150 a month, effective July 1, 1929.
Promotion of Dr. Wellington Pa-brick to full professor-
ship in Education, effective July 1, 10 29.
professor
AppoionsTment of MIrs. May K. Duncan, assistant./in Educa-
tion for 1929-1930.
Appointment of Mr. John Mauer, instructor in the Depart-
ment of Physical Educaticn, at 33300.
Appointment of Mr. Bernie Shively, instructor in the
Departimiient of Physical Education, at '.:Q.
Appointment of M-r. John Devereaux, instructor in the
Department of Physical Education, at $1000.
Appointment of Mr. Frank Mann, trainer of athletic teams,
in the Department of Physical Education, at $2700.
Appointment of ilsr. Claire Dees, student assistant in the
Department of Physical Education, at $300.
Leave of absence to be given to Professor A. E. Bigge
for the year 1929-1930 without Day.
Appointment of Miss Helen Connell, full-time assistant
in the Depar tment of C-erman, at *1200.
Substitute to be appointad in the Department of German
for the year 1929-1930, at I1300.
Temporary appointment of Mr. M. H. Filson, assistant
in the Department of Chemistry in the Experiment Station,
at '100 a iiontlh, effective June 5, 1929.
10.
Temporary appointment of Mr. Robert K. Calfee as as_
sistant in the DeDartment of Chemistry in the Experiment
Station, at d100 a month, effective June 4, 1929.
Promotion of Louis Clifton, assistant in the Department
of University Extension, to assistant Cl :ector of Universi-
ty Extension with rank of assistant rDrofcss!ox, effective
July 1, 1929.
Temporary appointment of Mr. Encel Dean, assistant
inspector in the creamery license section, at t125 a month,
cffective June 17, 1929.
Leavc of absence for Mr. E. J. Wilford to be extended
from June 1 to June 12, 1929, on one-half pay. (Mr. Wilford'r
leave expiresi on June 1 and it was necessary to extend it
to June 12).
Dana G. Card to be given the academic rank of assistant-*
professor of Agricultural Economics.
Leave of absence for Dean Thomas P. Cooper for fourteen
days to serve on a committee appointed by the United States
Department of Agriculture to combat the Mediterranean fruit
fly.
The changing of the date of leave of absence granted
to Mr. Dana G. Card from October 1, 192S, to September 30,
1930, to Oc'uober 1, 1930, to September 30, 1931.
Resignation of Mr. Homer G. Tully, temporary assistant
in the Department of Animal Pathology, effective June 8,
1929.
Resignation of Mr. James M. Walter, J'-., temporary as-
sistant in the Department of Agronomy, eff:Etive June 10,
1929.
Resignation of Mr. H. E. Hendricks, county agent in
Marshall County, effective June 30, 1929.
Resignation of Mr. T. D. Rhodes, effective February 1,
1930.
Resignation of Doctor Roy V. Sherman as assistant pro-
fessor in the Department of Political Science, effective
September 1929.
11.
The continuation of employment of Miss Bernice Bonar,
home demonstration agent, Oldham Cour.ty, from June 10,
to December 31, 1929, at 150 a month.
Appointment of ISr.r Gray H. Williams, assistant county
agent, Knox County, June 7 to December 31, 1929, at '100
a month.
Appointment of' Miss Eula Delillian Hester, home dem-
onstration agent, Mercer County, July 15,to June 30, 1930,
at .183 1/3 a month.
Appointment of Miss Dora IMay Duncan, assistant home
demonstration agent, Ballard County, June 17 to June 31,
1929, at '100 a month.
Apnointment of Miss Kate Barton, home demonstration
age-it, Perry County, June 15 to June 30, 1929, at .150
a month.
21. Purchase of Stokers. A motion was r..ade,
soconded and carried, authorizing the nurchase of five
etoko-rs to be placed in University bui ii-r-;r. The point
was nade tha.t Mr. Crutcher should !-msake in,, -stigation as
to the w-Neight of the iron used in the con:'ruction of hop-
P;`4s ;r such stokers.
Respectfully submitted,
Wellington Patrick, Secretary
Board of Trustees