Miami Hurricane, July 08, 1955

              Racial Differences Often Cultural, Human Relations Workshop Hears
What are often considered racial and religious differences are sometimes cultural and economic problems, according to! Marshall Bragdon, executive director of the Mayor’s Friendly ' Relations Committee of Cincinnati.
Bragdon told the University’s Human Relations Workshop Wednesday morning that “lower income brackets often will produce problems that are attributed to complexions."
Bragdon, who is also co-founder and president-elect of the National Association of Inter-Group Relations Officials, explained the workings of the Mayor’s Committee to the stu-
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dents of the six-week Workshop now in its fourth week.
The Committee was established in Cincinnati in 194.1 by a resolution of the city council because of great concern prompted by the Detroit race riots.
It is financed by the taxpayers of Cincinnati, each of whom contributes four cents a year toward the project.
Bragdon outlined the problems that come before the committee and how they are solved. One such problem dealt with Jewish-Negro relations in a junior high school that was solved by an overnight workshop of the student council and a subsequent meeting of the PTA.
Bragdon also told about the problem that arose when private music schools did not want to admit Negroes as they were afraid they would lose Southern students. But the doors were opened with no qualifications and they found that there was no problem after all.
lie expressed the opinion that Miami has a great need for a similar type of committee dealing in inter-group relations.
Charles Livermore, director of information for the president’s committee on government contracts, will discuss his work Monday at the morning class of the Human Relations Workshop in Room 733.
Non-workshoppers who are interested in hearing the 8:30 a.m. lecture should contact Dr. Dean George Epley, director of the Workshop.
Each government contract calling for supplies or^ services requires a clause stating that equal employment opportunities shall he given to all.
The president’s committee deals with problems that arise from this clause. Livermore will outline the problems that confront the committee and how they are resolved.
The chairman of the president’s ( committee is U.S. Vice President Richard Nixon. Other members include James Mitchell, secretary of labor; George Meany, president of the AF of L, and Walter Reuther, president of the CIO.
Livermore was formerly director of the Board of Community Relations of Buffalo, N.Y., and is past president of the National Association of Inter-Group Relations Of- ] ficials.
Two more experts are scheduled to give lectures during the final two j weeks of the workshop.
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Volume XXX
University of Miami, Coral Gables, Fla., July 8.
No. 28
Hendrix Assumes Duties, Replaces Williams As New Dean Of Students
First Institute For Radio-TV Opens Monday
The first annual radio-TV-film institute will get underway Monday when approximately 30 students begin a three-week course at UM.
Designed to give students a practical understanding of live television and motion picture production, the summer session will be conducted by key members of the University staff, WTVJ television station and Reela Films, incorporated.
A feature of the course will be the kinescope production of the final live program on WTVJ, in whose studios much of the instruction will be held.
Dr. Sydney Head, radio-TV-film chairman, will be director of the institute with O. P. Kidder Jr., associate professor of television, and C. Henderson Beal, lecturer in cinematography, assisting him.
Most of the trainees at the institute will come from cities outside of Florida, according to Dr. Head. Registration shows students have come from as far Canada, the state of Washington and Michigan.
The three-week study, which counts 5 credits, is divided into two main parts.
One is devoted to lectures and dry-run rehearsals on North Campus while the other section con- I centrâtes on the praetieal application of the theories at WTVJ and Reela Films.
Many of the people attending the institute are being sent by organizations desiring to have their personnel trained in TV and film production.
State conservation agencies, advertising concerns, radio stations, the theater, public schools and hospitals are a few of the contributors.
Noble Hendrix, nationally known for his work in college student guidance, assumed his new duties this week as UM dean of students.
Hendrix, who held a similar position at the University of Alabama for the past 10 years, was appointed to the post in April.
He took over the Center for Student Services last Friday, moving into the position left by Dr. H. Franklin Williams, who now occupies the newly-created post of di-| rector of community relations.
The dean of students supervises j all affairs concerned with the stu-j dent community, including offices of [ the dean of men, dean of women,
| student activities, student publica-I tions, guidance center and all counselors.
In welcoming the new dean, Dr.
| Jay F. W. Pearson, president of the University, said, “Dean Hendrix is J broadly recognized for his outstanding success in college student guidance. For more than 10 years association with him at educational meetings, I can say with feeling that the University of Miami is most fortunate in "acquiring his enthusiasm and his wide experience.
“We welcome him warmly as a ] co-worker in a broad program of creating here a major university responsive to modem educational needs."
The new dean has been Alabama coordinator of the National Association of Secondary School Principals and a member of the executive committee of the Southern Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools.
It was in this latter position that1 he came to know Dr. Pearson and [ Dr. James M. Godard, executive vice president and dean of administration.
"Before I came here, I knew and ( believed in certain people from this ! institution,” Dean Hendrix said. “I think that Miami has the best chance of any school in the Southeast to make important advances."
Canoeing Begins Monday
Instructions in canoeing and sailing will begin Monday at 3 p.m. on the Student Club lake.
Canoes are available to all students daily. Paddles can be checked out from Room 1 in the Student Club.
There is no charge for either the instructions or the use of the canoes.
Photo by Schulke
Dean Noble Hendrix prepares for new office.
Friendly Southerner
New Dean Wishes To Accomplish Long-Lasting 'Sense Of Belonging'
Sione To Handle Fund Raising
A “sense of belonging” that will last long after the student leaves the University is what Noble Hendrix would like to accomplish in his new position as dean of students.
Born in Alabama in 1900, Dean Hendrix speaks with a slight Southern accent and has a friendly and sincere manner.
He plans not to make any immediate changes. “Every University has a way of doing things which suits it because the traditions grew naturally out of its past.”
“I did not come here with a suitcase full of ideas on how to change things," Dean Hendrix added. “My inclination is for a spell of observation—of talking with as many students and faculty meml)ers as I can."
dent's ideas of the University,” the new dean said. “Show him things worth his pride."
Hendrix has been consultant in church and higher education surveys, and Boy Remit work has been a life-time activity. His writings include studies on student personnel problems.
The dean is the son of a Methodist minister. He was graduated from Washington and Lee University, received his master’s degree at Columbia and has done advanced study at the University of Chicago.
He and his wife Celeste have two sons, William Robert, Alabama graduate in Chemistry, and James Noble, 10, who will enter West Laboratory School here at the University this fall.
Peter C. Stone, who has handled such projects as the national March of Dimes drive, has been appointed associate director of development { for the University.
He will plan and direct all fund raising activities of the UM, including the Sustaining Foundation, expanding the present operation and introducing new techniques.
“After an initial evaluation,” Stone said, “we will move ahead in every possible direction to increase the income of the University.”
Prior to his entry into the nonprofit field, Stone held administrative positions with King Features Syndicate, International News Service, International News Photos, and W. R. Hearst Newspaper Syndicates.
In the non-profit area, Stone has been assistant to the president of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, and director of the
organization’s 3,050 county chapters, the principal fund-raising and service arm of the foundation.
Another program he developed was the Mobilization for National Unity, a pre-World War II educational program sponsored by the ; National Conference of Christians and Jews.
This program alerted our people to the fact that the late dictators, Hitler and Mussolini, were conducting a propaganda campaign designed to destroy our national unity by pitting race against race and religion against religion.
Stone also has conducted fundraising and public relations programs for the Nelson-Rockefeller Inter-American Committee, the American Foundation for the Blind, the American Foundation for Overseas Blind and the National Multiple Sclerosis Society.
Peter C. Stone
He believes his job is to give continuing understanding and friendly help to students, “Everything we know how to do."
Dean Hendrix pointed out that the college years are a natural time of life for a person to be faced with der isions, switching around, and uncertainty.
“We must be very skillful in helping him base his decisions on sound judgment. We must help him have more exact information, so he can ivoid the too-quick decision in jumping from one thing to another."
Dean Hendrix' approach to student problems stresses a strong faculty counselling program.
“People in counseling must know their students,” he said. “There should be a fine and fruitful relationship between the faculty and their students.
“We want to sharpen each stu-
Anderson To Conduct Summer Pops Sunday
Leroy Anderson, noted conductor and composer, will again conduct the UM Symphony Orchestra in its fourth Summer Pops Concert Sunday evening at the Miami Beach Auditorium.
Anderson, who has frequently appeared with some of the country’s leading orchestras, will perform some of his own works including the “Scottish Suite” and “Serenata.”
One of the highlights of the concert will be Anderson’s “The Typewriter” with UM tympanist Betty Cole at the typewriter.
Anderson, known to Broadway as the “Tin Pan Alley Longhair," lists among his works such numbers as “Fiddle-Faddle,” “Sleigh Ride,” and “Blue Tango.”