Finding Aid for Subject File, 1944-82 | University of Illinois Archives

Title: Subject File, 1944-82

ID: 32/1/1

Primary Creator: University of Illinois Foundation

Extent: 18.6 cubic feet

Arrangement: Alphabetical by subject

Subjects: Athletic Association, Classes, Endowments, Foundation, University of Illinois, Fund Raising, Gifts, Grants in Aid, Hull House, Krannert Art Museum, Medical Center, Patents, President's Club, Rehabilitation Education, Scholarships, Varsity Room

Formats/Genres: Papers

Languages: English

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.

Established in 1935,¹ the University of Illinois Foundation is a separate, non-profit corporation established to handle trusts, receive gifts and bequests, license patents and render other services to the University. It is managed by a Board of Directors. It acts as financial agent of the University in borrowing money for buildings and other major improvements.² It has a service agreement with University Patents, Incorporated, which works out licensing arrangements with industrial firms for marketing faculty inventions which have been patented. The Foundation then invests the income in basic research.³

1. Board of Trustees Transactions, 38th Report, October 23, 1936, p. 442.

2. Ibid., pp. 442-43.

3. Gene Vance, University of Illinois Foundation, Director, Champaign-Urbana Campus.

Athletic Association
Classes
Endowments
Foundation, University of Illinois
Fund Raising
Gifts
Grants in Aid
Hull House
Krannert Art Museum
Medical Center
Patents
President's Club
Rehabilitation Education
Scholarships
Varsity Room

Repository: University of Illinois Archives

Other Note: 13 Pages

URL: https://files.archon.library.illinois.edu/uasfa/3201001.pdf

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