Subject File, 1944-82 | University of Illinois Archives

Description: Subject file including correpsondence, vouchers and invoices, blueprints, contracts and agreements, programs, alumni address and committee lists, annual business and investment reports, budgets proposals, financial reports and audits relating to the business of the Foundation, solicitations of funds from alumni for class memorials and securing funds from corporations, foundations, alumni and friends for the Jane Addams Hull House Memorial in Chicago, the Medical Center Union, the Rehabilitation Education Fund, faculty conferences, other campus building and fund projects and letters of appreciation to alumni and friends of the University for their support.  The file also covers short and long term fund-raising activities; telephone campaigns and special mailings; patent infringement suits; the U. S. Corps of Engineers Research Laboratory Project; personal and corporate endowments for memorial scholarships and awards; grats-in-aid; endowment farms and board allocations.  Correspondents include executive directors William H. Butterfield (1950-58), James C. Colvin (1958-68) and Joseph W. Skehen (1968-74); George D. Stoddard (1946-53); Lloyd Morey (1953-55); David D. Henry (1955-72); Herbert O. Farber (1953-73) and other university officials.