Miami Hurricane, August 03, 1956

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AUG 3 1956
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Vol. XXXI
University of Miami, Coral Gables, Fla., August 3, 1956
No. 29
Record Enrollment Expected
New Lots To Add 150 Spaces, Ease Parking Problem
By PEG SAVAGE
Hunica» Co-Editor
Two new parking lots will be constructed on San Amaro Drive to relieve the influx of student cars expected next fall.
Part of a long range plan for peri-pheral parking, the lots will allow approximately 150 more spaces than last year’s total. Space will be provided for four rows of cars in each lot
One lot will extend from the Baron de Hirsch Meyer Law Building to Memorial drive. The second will run north from Memorial drive to a dirt road leading to the science buildings.
“We hope to eventually have parking lots almost circling the campus,” said Dr. James M. Godard, execu tive vice president and dean of ad' ministration. “This is a step in filling in that empty area.”
With law faculty members and stu dents moving to the new Baron de Hirsch Meyer Building, more parking space was expected in back of the Merrick Building on University drive.
However, construction of the new Panhellenic Building in the near fu ture will take up some of the parking area.
"We’ll pick up more spaces on San Amaro drive,” Dr. Godard promised.
Other plans to relieve the situation call for oiling the area beyond the Ring Theater to encourage student parking. Oiling the unpaved area will prevent kicking up dust
No changes will be made in the dormitory parking area. Dr. Godard hopes more students will find it possible to keep cars in this area.
The Law School lot will include spaces for student cars and marked spaces for faculty parking. Other lots on campus wUl be handled in a similar way, with a minimum of restricted spaces.
“The more restricted areas you create, the more empty spaces you have,” said Dr. Godard.
“The situation is tight,” he added, “but if students are willing to walk a bit, there’s space.“
Formal action on a recently pro-poeed traffic court will be deferred , until the student Senate makes ar request this fall and the administration approves the plan.
Photo by Gmvm
Sally Fisher, new Mlu Florida, fills autograph requests.
Our Cal Sal Keeps Crown At UM With Mi» Florida Contest Coup
Sally is currently 'spending two weeks at the Biltmore Terrace Hotel, Miami Beach, as one of the prizes. “This was supposed to be a sort of a vacation,” she said, “but I’ve really been too busy to stop and think about it.”
As well as performing on several television programs, the 5-foot 4-inch Delta Gamma pledge has been making personal appearances, doing guest modeling and continuing her voice studies at the University.
Sally began her climb to the title last year when she was selected by Tempo, UM photo magazine, as its November "Girl of the Month.” Later the same publication named her “Miss Tempo” for 1956.
By JOE VECCHIONE
HimiIcmm Copr UW
For the second consecutive year a University coed has traveled north to take part in the Miss Florida contest and returned with the title.
Sally Fisher, brown-haired 19-year-old sophomore speech major, was selected over 17 other contestants in a recent Sunday afternoon climax to the week-long activities at Sunshine Springs and Gardens, near Sarasota.
Sally, Miss Coral Gables, placed first in the bathing suit competition and scored high in the other phases of the contest.
For the talent portion of the pageant she donned a red and white checked gingham costume to sing and dance “Life on The Wicked Stage” from the orizinal score of Jerome Kern’s “Show-
Special Planes Set By UAL
Some 200 UM students will come to Miami Sept 15 and 16 on four special National Air Lines flights from New York.
Two morning flights will leave Idlewild Airport on both days. The first one will take off at 8:30 am. arriving in Miami at 12:15 p.m. The second one will leave at 10 am. and arrive in Miami at 1 pm.
The students will be greeted in Miami by representatives of Pep Club and Student Body Government.
Anne Sweeney and Nancy Healy, former UM coeds, will serve as stewardesses on the flights.
A gala get together for all UM freshmen in the New York and New Jersey area will be held Sept. 11 at 8 pm. at the Martinique Hotel. Dr. James M. Godard, executive vice president and dean of administration, will speak.
The new queen of Florida beauties
was crowned before 5,000 spectators by Sandy Wirth, 1955 title holder.
The retiring queen, also a UM coed, placed among the top 10 finalists at the Miss America pageant last year, and later went into a television career.
The Penn Township Pa. coed will travel to Atlantic City, N. J., to represent Florida in the Miss America contest the first week in September.
Cane Prints 13,000 For Special Edition
This is the fourth annual eight-page special issue of The Miami Hurricane. The press run is 13,000.
In addition to campus distribution, the newspaper will be mailed to some 3,000 freshmen and to regularly enrolled students who are not attending the second summer session.
Purpose of the paper is to acquaint new students with UM and to inform upperclassmen as to what has been happening since they left
University Officials Planning New For Greatest Fai Semester Influx
University officials are meeting daily to plan for the influx of students this fall when UM’s enrollment is expected to shoot to an all-time high. *-------------------------------------
Some 3,000 new students are expected to arrive on campus in September. With returning day students estimated at more than 5,000, enrollment, including Evening Division, will probably exceed last September's record-breaking 12,145.
3 Special Trains To Serve In Fai
Apartments in the residence halls and rooms in the Julian S. Eaton Hall for freshman women are being redecorated. Don Carlos Apartments and San Sebastian Residence Hall are both getting a facelifting before the fall term.
Housing accommodations on campus are almost filled, according to Noble Hendrix, dean of students.
“The University cannot guarantee that students who wait too long to request housing reservations will have a place to stay on campus,” Hendrix said.
While out-of-town women students must live in the University dormitories, off-campus living quarters will be arranged for men students when housing accommodations run out.
A special office adjacent to the dean of men’s office will be set up to help men students find housing in the community, according to Hen.
drix.
Student religious organizations have agreed to solicit off-campus accommodations from their church members.
Working with them are leaders in Student Body Government engaged in planning transportation aids for those who do not have a way of getting to the campus.
Academic deans of the eight University divisions are conferring on orientation plans for the new students who will be seeking knowledge and training in their respective fields.
As enrollments soar at colleges and universities around the country, UM officials and student leaders are combining resources to welcome the increased number of new students and to help them in their adjustment to college life.
Three railroad companies are offering special train service Sept. 16 and 17 to students coming to UM in the fall.
They are the Atlantic Coast Line, Florida East Coast and Seaboard Air Line Railroad.
Seaboard's “Silver Star” will leave New York at 9:30 am. EST arid arrive in Miami at 10:45 am. the next day. The “Silver Meteor” will depart at 2:50 pm. and arrive at 4:25 the following afternoon.
Both trains will stop at Newark, Trenton, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, Richmond, Raleigh and Columbia, and will carry a registered nurse and passenger service agent.
Seaboard will arrange with two local taxi companies to transport students from the depot to campus for 50 cents a person, according to W. J. Ficht, general passenger agent Each cab will seat four students.
The “East Coast Champion” of the Atlantic Coast Line and the Florida East Coast Railway will leave New York Sept. 16 and 17 at 2:25 pm. and will arrive at 3:45 the next day. The train will stop in Washington, D.C. at 6:40 p.m.
An FEC train will leave Chicago at 9 am. and arrive at 5:15 pm. on both the 16th and 17th.
Fiedler To Conduct Sunday Pops Concert
Arthur Fiedler, director of the Boston Pops Orchestra, will be guest conductor at the seventh UM Pops Concert Sunday at 8:30 pm. in the Miami Beach Auditorium. Eugene Dubois will be violin soloist.
The program will consist of such numbers as Knightsbridge March, Pavane, Love is a Many-Splendored Thing and Bugler’s Holiday. Dubois will play the Largo from Xerxes.
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UM To Build Panhellenic House
Construction is expected to begin this year on the University’s Panhellenic House, according to UM officials.
The building, which has been in the discussion stage for two years, will bring together under one roof the 12 national sororities on campus.
It will be named “Mary B. Merritt Panhellenic House” in honor of UM’s first dean of women, and will be located just north of the Merrick Building facing University Dr.
Panhellenic House will include 14 units in the two-story structure. Each unit will have a large meeting room, a smaller room, two closets, a kitchenette and bathroom.
There will also be an open terrace at one section on the ground floor. Two of the units are for sororities which will begin chapters on campus in the future.
The sororities will draw lots for their unit and can decorate the rooms in any style they wish.
The campus home for sorority members will house a “sorority row”
under one roof. Each group will keep its scrapbooks, trophies and awards in the sorority room, and hold meetings there—thus marking the end of the use of “shacks” for these activities.
“It is a tribute to the devotion and interest of the sorority leaders that they found it possible to reach agreement on the many matters that enter into such a cooperative enterprise,” said Noble Hendrix,
dean of students.
When Panhellenic House came into discussion in 1954, sorority members and their alumni and advisers held numerous conferences.
John Skinner of Steward 8c Skinner Architects drew up preliminary plans and each group involved made suggestions and revisions. Extensive reports on the success of Panhellenic houses on other campuses were studied.
Architect's drawing of proposed Panhellenic Building.