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Geography Student, Professor Find It's A Small World
By PEG SAVAGE
Hurricane Managing Editor
You don’t need a course in geography to discover it’s a small worlds according to Robert N. Ford, assistant professor of geography, and John Heider, 27-year-old industrial management major.
The two have again assumed the teacher-student role in geography this summer session after a 15-year separation. Ford and his student first met during the 1941-42 school year in a small Iowa town.
Ford taught at a little consolidated school in Troy Mills, a rural village in the eastern part of the state.
As teacher and student recall, the town was isolated. There was no bus, rail or air service and the nearest paved road was five miles
away from the town.
The Wapsiepinicon River runs nearby, but it is inadequate for water transportation.
“If the railroad had come through in the pioneering days, it might have been something,” said Ford. “It was sort of the end of the road when you got to Troy Mills.”
The population, if Ford recalls correctly, was 150 people at that time. Children from kindergarten age to high school senior level attended the town’s only school. Buses brought students to town from the outlying districts.
The Miami professor taught the fifth and sixth grades. However, he frequently supervised study halls for other classes and helped
the seventh grade instructor mark geography papers.
One of the seventh grade students with whom Ford had a "nodding” acquaintance was John Heider, currently a UM student
Ford’s memory of Heider is from correcting his geography papers, seeing him in Christmas programs and at ball games and in the school halls.
“I remember John as a good-looking, well-mannered kid,” Ford reminisced. Heider admitted Ford remembered him more than the UM student remembered the instructor.
“It was a rough and tumble school,” said Ford, “with the kids having no way to work off their energy.” However, both he and
Heider said it was a “good, little school.”
Although Heider has been attending the University since the fall of 1954, he did not meet the geography Vrofessor until last semester.
Heider’s father was visiting him from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, (the Heiders lived in Troy Mills from 1939-45) and the two came to Ford’s office to meet him.
The senior Heider owns property on which Ford’s two brothers have b business in Cedar Rapids. Heider promised to “look up” the geography instructor when visiting Miami.
Since 1942 the steps of both teacher and student have been away from the Iowa country town.
After a “stretch” in the Air Force, Ford finished at Iowa State Teachers College. He had only two college years when he taught at Troy Mills.
Iowa laws don’t require a college degree for elementary school teaching, according to Ford.
The geography professor was awarded his master's degree from the University of Chicago and came to UM in 1948.
Heider was graduated from Roosevelt High School, Cedar Rapids, in 1947. He had a variety of jobs before he joined the Air Force in 1950.
' The Korean veteran is an upper junior and is completing his four-year course in three years. He expects to be graduated next July.
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Vol. XXXI University of Miami, Coral Gables, Fla., Aucust 10, 1956	No. 30
102 New Professors Added To Faculty; More Sought To Meet Enrollment Demand
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1956-57 M Book Published; Ready For Fall Distribution
The 1956-57 edition of M Book, the University’s oldest publication, was published this week. It will be distributed to all freshman students during the fall orientation program.
The 128-page freshman handbook contains information about campus organizations, student government, fine arts, pubications and main departments at UM.
The 31st edition of M Book also explains the functions of the deans and other administrators.
An innovation in the handbook is an outline map of the campus which appears in the center of the book.
The sports section contains basketball and football schedules; and a church directory lists pastors’ names
Students Get Symphony Cuf
Students and faculty members will receive a 50 per cent discount on subscriptions to the 30th season of the UM Symphony Orchestra if they are purchased before the first concert Oct. 28 and 29.
Season subscriptions range in price from J27 for lower floor seating to 39 for balcony seating.
Andre Kostelanetz will open the season when he appears as guest conductor at a concert in the Miami Beach Auditorium.
Included among the 10 top artists booked for the symphony season are Beverly Sills, young American soprano; Isaac Stem, American violinist; Jorge Bolet, pianist; and Raya Garbousova, violincellist.
John Bitter, dean of the Music School, is conductor of the symphony and Mrs. Marie Volpe is manager.
and times of services.
Bob Berry, a senior, is editor of this year’s M Book. He is 1956 Homecoming Chairman, editor of the 1957 Ibis, president of Alpha Sigma Epsilon, co-educational leadership honorary, and a member of Iron Arrow, men’s leadership honorary.
Assisting Berry were staff members Sharon Forthman, Fred Porter, Nancy Starkstein and Elmer Storm.
Norman D. Christensen, director of student publications, is ¡faculty adviser.
By FRED PORTER
Hurrkam Ntw, Editor
University administrators have hired 102 new faculty members since January and more will be signed this month in an effort to provide an adequate number of instructors to meet --------------------------------♦the anticipated record-breaking in-
Rise Marks 2nd Term
Preliminary registration figures for the second summer session show an increase in enrollment over die same period last year and a total 1956 summer registration greater than any since 1951, the peak year in UM history.
Unofficial registration tallies released this month by W. H. Stein-bach, summer sessions director, show 2,041 students attending second session classes.
This is an increase of 167 students over last summer’s second session enrollment.
Steinbach’s report revealed that approximately 643 more students enrolled in both summer sessions this year than did in 1955.
The total figure for both the 1956 summer sessions is 5,581. This summer’s enrollment came within 2,616 of reaching the 1951 high of 8,197.
A breakdown of enrollment figures will be available Monday.
Law Professor Diagrams Success; 'Use Full Potential Of Your Mind'
“THIMK!” and THINK—or thwim” signs adorn desks and offices everywhere. But one man who takes the “THINK" legend seriously is Joseph L. Frascone, visiting business law professor from the University of Colorado.
Intelligibility is one of his hallmarks, and he demands it from his classes. “It forces you to use your mind to its fullest potential," he explains, “and makes you a more successful person, one who can do the best with what he has."
During the war be row from second lieutenant to lieutenant colonel in the Army while serving as Legal and Staff Officer at Eisenhower’s SHAEF headquarters. When he returned from Europe he noticed an apathy prevalent in the United States.
“It is appalling to me that there is such a lack of interest by citizens in the essential things," he said. Frascona believes there is an ele-business ment in our society which operates on the theory of getting as much as
flux of students in the fall.
UM officials had to replace
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possible for as little energy as it can expend.
“It is in a situation such as this that mediocrity can creep into the 4 school system,” says the professor.
“It is possible for this situation to be avoided," said Frascona, “if society will underwrite the necessary funds, both state and federal, for education improvement, and if institutions of learning are willing to accept only the best qualified instructors.”
Frascona received a BSS from City College of New York in 1932, and a LLB from Harvard Law School in 1935. After going into private law practice in New York, he became an associate attorney with the Attorney General in Washington.
While in England during the war Frascona married an English Barrister, a woman who at one time worked for one of Winston Churchill’s cabinet ministers. He brought her to this country where she is now a citizen. They have three children.
instructors who resigned or transferred last Spring and six professors who took a leave of absence to pursue further study.
Several of the 102 new instructors are already teaching at UM, and 43 are scheduled to arrive in September.
“We expect a loss of faculty each year through transfers, resignations or temporary leaves,” said Dr. Charles D. Tharp, vice president and dean of faculties.
“The anticipated record enrollment in the fall made it necessary for the University to add 50 members to its teaching staff not counting the faculty replacements," he said.
Latest official figures on faculty additions show the College of Arts and Sciences getting the largest increase in its teaching staff, 37 new instructors. However, most of these are replacements.
The recently accredited Medical School runs a close second with 28 additions—10 are replacements and 18 are new instructors.
The Business School faculty staff will be swelled by 15 members, and Engineering School is earmarked for seven new instructors.
Six new members will join the library staff; School of Education will receive five; Music School, 2; and Law School, 2.
‘These figures are subject to change as new faculty members are hired this month," Dr. Tharp said.
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Dr. Charles D. Tharp
Among the new staff additions will be Dr. Delmar Solem of Knox College, Galesburg, 111. He will replace Fred Koch as drama chairman and director of the Ring Theater.
Df. Solem was chairman of the speech and theater arts department at Knox College.
Other additons include W. E Zimmerman, instructor in engineering drawing, and John C. Chommice, professor of law.
Two professors returning to UM are Dr. Robert Beyer, associate professor of Hispanic American history, and Dr. George Mouley, professor of education.
Spencer Makes Florida Bar
Tom Spencer, Student Body Government president, was recently sworn into the Florida Bar by Judge Robert A. Floyd of Miami.
Spencer is one of the last law students in the state to be admitted to the bar by means of “diploma privil-ege.
Hie privilege was withdrawn in 1952, but students enrolled in Florida law schools at that time were not required to take the bar examination upon graduation.
They were automatically admitted to the bar upon receiving a bachelor of law degree from a Florida law school.
Spencer comes under the “diploma privilege” since he was enrolled in the Law School at UM during 1952. However, he did not receive his bachelor degree until June of this year, since he served in the Navy for three years.