Miami Hurricane, January 26, 1954

              J. Riley Staats Remains Critically III Following Stroke
The Miami
Hurricane
Volume XXVIII
University of Miami, Coral Gables, Fla., February 26, 1954
No. 14
Spring Registration Drops
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School
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EXAMINING PLANS of the new UM Music school at Wednesday’s groundbreaking ceremony, are left to right, Mrs. Albert Pick, Robert Law Weed, Albert Pick, Mrs. Marie Volpe, Dean John Bitter and UM President Jay F. W. Pearson. Early fall will see the completion of the two buildings which will house
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11 classrooms and administrative offices. An auditorium with a seating capacity for 550 persons, a book and music library will be included in the school. Plans for the school were drawn up by architect Robert Little who also designed the Lowe gallery, Ring theater and the Merrick building.
LOWE ART GALLERY'S current art exhibit features a collection of interpretive paintings of American scenes by 20 young Italian artists who have never been to the United States. Admiring one such painting is Joaa Jewell, UM coed. These panels, both realistic and abstract, are expected to achieve popu-
larity with a great many uses. Among the paintings causing the most comment are: “America at Work,” by Mucicund. “New England," by Canevari, “Jazz” by Bum, and “New Mexico,” by Borromea. Another interesting display is a three dimensional glass mural by Ruth Kilby. The present exhibit ends Sunday.
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What They Are Saying . . .
“My greatest ambition has been realized. I am sure the Music school will be of great benefit to the students, faculty and community alike,” said Mrs. Marie Volpe, symphony manager, at Wednesday’s groundbreaking for the new, $100,000 building. See story Page 3.
“It’s sort of a back room hillbilly style, and real crazy at that,” said musical postman Charlie Balee. about the tunes he composes and plays on his early morning radio program. See story Page 9.
“It is not enough to say Stalin’s picture and statue are everywhere. You must see his portrait in every room of a school, factory or home—you must see his statue in every public square or auditorium to get the impact,” said Dean Schoelkopf in the second article of a series on Russia. See this ACP feature Page 11.
“The safety in numbers in the jungle is the number one," said Dr. Donald A. Butts, professor of tropical diseases, who traveled 2,000 miles into the South American jungles on a one-man safari to prove a scientific theory. See story Page 12.
American youth “have a very sincere and serious attitude . . . Their sense of humor is very quick and clever, but their seriousness is more heavy than Japanese youth,” said BAM speaker Rev. Hikaru Yanaglhara of Usaka, Japan. See story on Page 5.
Dr. J. Riley Staats’ condition is “as good as can be expected, but nothing can be predicted,” according to Dr. Thomas L. Hartman. Washington, D. C., where the Geography department chairman is in Emergency hospital after suffering a stroke. See story Page 4.
DRIVING ’EM CRAZY is blue-eyed Jeanne Roberts, a brown-haired, 115-pound sophomore from Dayton, Ohio. When she’s not behind the wheel of the merry Oldsmobile. she stands 53" tall. A drama major, she likes sports and music. If she will park somewhere near the Hurricane office Friday afternoon at 3:30, John Softness, Hurricane editor, will pin her with an orchid.