Minutes of the Meeting of the Executive Comirittee of the Board
of Trustees, Uni-fversity of Kentuchy, November 21, 1947.


     The Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees of the
University of Kentucky met in the President's Office at 10:30 a.m.,
Friday, November 21, 1947,  The following members were present:
Judge Richard C. Stoll, Chairman; J. C. Everett, F. D. Palmore,
and Thomas Cutler. Absent: R. P. Hobson. President H. L. Donovan
and Comotroller Frank D. Peterson, Secretary of the Board of
Trustees, were also present,


A.  Minutes Approved With Correction.

     The Secretary reflorted an error In the minutes of the Executive
Committee of the Board of Trustees under date of October 21, 1947.
Under Item G., Exchange of Kentucky Utilities Stock Authorized, the
minutes failed to show that the motion was carried without the vote
of Judge Stoll, he having declined to participate in the action of
the Committee because his firm represents the Kentucky Utilities
Company,

     Upon motion duly made, seconded and carried, the minutes of
the Executive Committee of October 21, 1947 were apr.roved as
published with the correction above noted.


B. Progress Report on Construction of Auditorium-Fieldhouuse.

     President Donovan stated that contract for excavation and
foundation work on the Auditorium-Fieldhouse was awarded to Grayson
Jones Construction Company under date of March 21, 1947 and contract
for the fabrication and erection of structural steel was awarded to
MIidland Structural Steel Coa poration March 21, 1947. He reported
that recently some news items had appeared in papers auestioning the
progress of the work of the contractors on this building and he had
requested one of the architects, Mr, John T. Gillig, Mir. Grayson
Jones, contractor, and Mr. William Nemec of the Allied Structural
Steel Com.pany, representing Midland Structural Steel Corporation, to
be present at this meeting of the Committee. Mr. Gillig, Mr. Jones,
and Mr. Nemec were invited in to the meeting.

     Mr. Gillig, one of the Architects Associated, submitted a
progress report on the excavation and foundation contract. He stated
that the progress made by the Grayson Jones Construction Company was,
in his judgment, satisfactory, all conditions being considered.

     Mr. Jones submitted a table showing the weather conditions for
each week day since receipt of the contract and called attention of
the Committee to the fact that an unusual number of rains had oc-
curred during the period of construction which prevented work on the
excavation and foundation. He submitted facts to show that he had
employed on the job a crew of workmen ranging from thirty to forty-
five men daily during recent months and stated that he was more