Miami Hurricane, November 04, 1960

              SPECIAL
HOMECOMING
EDITION
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Vol. XXXVI, No. 7
University of Miami
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Coral Gables, Fla.
November 4,1960
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Alumni: Here’s Our New Library!
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\\ li«‘ii This Rendering NX ¡is Made In 1956. Plan Was Still A Dream; Now $2.5-Million Otto G. Richter Library Draws Closer To Reality As The Months Go By
Three weeks ago, when the Hurricane editors first began contemplating this special Homecoming edition, we puzzled for quite some time over what color picture to run on the front page.
What we wanted was something that symbolized the University of Miami. We thought . . . and thought . . . and thought.
WHAT ABOUT the football team, someone suggested, or the cheerleaders, or the Homecoming Queen? Don’t they typify the spirit of the University?
Someone else suggested a shot of President Jay F. W. Pearson.
Surely, the football team and cheerleaders and Homecoming Queen are vital aspects of University life, and they deserve our full support. But are they really the spirit of the University of Miami?
And undoubtedly, if any one man is the University of Miami, it is Dr. Pearson.
Owe* au) Coart Photos By lorry S. Liottqoist HOMECOMING QUEEN, SENIOR SARA LYNN THOMPSON
For Her Story, And Attendants, See Page 2
But these persons mentioned are, after all, ephemeral entities; they, too, shall pass away. Something much deeper, much more eternal in spirit symbolizes our campus:
The library. Books The infinite search for knowledge This is UM's strength.
Both President Pearson and Director of Libraries Dr. Archie McNeal have termed the announcement of the planned completion of the $2.5-million library “the most significant step in the 35-year history of the University of Miami.”
And such it is. Since the time when President Dr. Bowman Ashe pleaded for financial support for our baby school, UM has been in need of a strong, central library system.
AND NOW, at last, we are on our way to realizing this goal. Completion of the other two units of the structure is set for February, 1962.
No amount of thanks will ever repay the student body, which in 1958 voted overwhelmingly to assess itself to get the first unit of the library started.
When the Otto G. Richter Library is dedicated in 1962, there will be a special plaque in one of the study rooms. It will be in honor of the students of the University of Miami—who wanted a
library, set out to get it . . . and got it.
We can think of no better way of welcoming our alumni to UM’s 34th Homecoming than to publicize the long-awaited dream of all: we have a library, and it’s beautiful . . . and it, above all others, is THE symbol of the University of Miami—a symbol of a fast-growing institution, dedicated to the search for knowledge.
—BERNIE WEINER, Editor
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to raise funds with which to start construction.
And it was our future alumni, the present undergraduate student body, which voted its financial support to make that start possible.
The Alumni of the Fabulous Forties who are receiving a special salute this year should take particular joy in this somewhat belated achievement of providing a home for books that in their day, and through the next decade as well, were scattered over three campuses, for they particularly understand why it took so long to build. They were here that last half of a decade when year after year the race was to find funds to complete classroom and housing facilities in time for each new year with its additional two thousand or so students — from under 2,000 in 1945 to more than 11,000 by the end of that decade.
THE FORTIES were indeed Fabulous, as were the Fifties— tremendous in progress as in expansion, and the Sixties hold promise of even more for future alumni.
We welcome you warmly, proud of you all as we hope you will ever be of the University you honor by coming Home.
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By l)K. JAY F. W. PEARSON President, Utiversify it Miemi
Homecoming is a happy combination of festivity and nostalgia.
To those of us for whom the University is our academic home throughout ensuing years, Homecoming brings the pleasure of welcoming Alumni back to our ever-changing campus.
The graduate of even a year ago will observe multiple changes: a new Univer-
PEARSON sity College, new professors, some buildings completed, others under construction. Probably the most heartening development for all Old Grads was the completion this summer of the first unit of the permanent library and the knowledge that construction will soon be under way to complete it in its $2.5 million entirety.
ALUMNI CAN share in deep measure the pride we shall all have in this edifice which will be the “heart” of the campus as it serves our minds and our spirits, for it was Alumni as a group, more than any other, which supported the first drive