Miami Hurricane, July 03, 1959

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The Mia
Vol. XXXIV, No. 29
University of Miami
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Coral Gables, Florida
Spprts On Page 4 Mq/vies, Editorials On Page 2
Three Coeds Seeking Miss Florida 59 Title
Three UM coeds will travel I The winner of the Miss Florida to Sarasota on July 18th for the Contest will be the Sunshine finals of the Miss Florida contest. State’s representative to the Miss
America Pageant to be held later this year in Atlantic City.
The winner will also receive
Ellen Severson
They arc: Lynn Vinocur, Miss Hialeah; Rosemary Morris, Miss Miami; and Ellen Seversen, Miss Miami Beach.
I a $2.500 scholarship to be used at the school of her choice.
UM has twice provided the Miss Florida winner. Sally Fisher in 1957 and Sandy Wirth in 1956 both copped the title.
In addition, Miss Wirth was a semi-finalist in the Miss America contest.
All Miss America preliminary contests are judged with emphasis being equally divided between beauty and talent.
All participants will go to Sarasota four days prior to the pageant where they will rehearse.
Awards Send Profs Around The World
Awards, fellowships and honors given to ten faculty members and four members of the Marine Laboratory staff will send 11 of the 14 to various parts of the world.
Dr. Lloyd S. Shuttleworth, professor of botany, will he in Indiana altending summer institutes and conferences. Dr. Shuttleworth is one of fifty professors who has been awarded a fellowship to attend the Summer Institute for College Teachers of Botany at Indiana University.
Dr. Fraser D. White, speech instructor, is spending the summer at Chicago at Northwestern Medical School on a research grant from the Gould Foundation.
Working with physicians, he will study the physiology of the larynx in relation to the acoustical effects it produces, to develop techniques for coordinating the study of voice vibrations with the physical mechanics of producing them. Results will be filmed for speech students.
F.NJOYING EUROPEAN ART
A summer in Europe—the faded glories of Rome and Athens, the romance of Paris, Istanbul and Cairo along with the tea and crumpets of London. Dr. Robert Wilson, art professor, has been viewing the artistic sights offered by these cities since the first of June.
Awarded a scholarship by the Vergilian Society, he will go to the society’s summer school for classical studies in art and literature near Naples. Following his studies in Italy, he will supplement his materials by visiting museums of other countries.
Wilson, a specialist in ceramic art, painter and sculptor, will resume his teaching in September.
Eugene Dubois, concertmaster of the UM Symphony, will be in Santa Fe, New Mexico, until August 20 He is concertmaster of the Santa Fe Opera Festival, one of the leading U. S. summer music events.
Dubois was a professional violinist at 14, and has been concert-master of the Chicago Opera Company and worked with the Metropolitan Opera, the National Broadcasting Company and the Columbia Broadcasting System.
Fritz Koczy, Cesare Emiliani, Gene Corcoran and Johannes Geiss, members of the staff of the Marine Laboratory, will participate as officers of the International Oceanographic Congress from August 30 to Sept. 12 at the United Nations building in New York.
Purpose of the Congress is to
provide a common meeting ground for all sciences concerned with the oceans and the organisms contained in them.
RECEIVING AWARDS
Awards were given from marine lab members to aeronautical engineers.
John I). Gill, associate professor of mechanical engineering, has received a special award from the Institute of the Aeronautical Science.
Chairman of the IAS South Florida section. Gill was cited for his “distinctive service and contributions to the objectives of the Institute."
The Institute has 15,000 members, all engineers and specialists in sciences related to aeronautics. Gill previously served as rocket research engineer for Bell Air-Craft Corp. and was testing supervisor of M. W. Kellogg Co. before he joined the UM staff in 1951.
Dr. Jose A. Balseiro will be honored by the Mexican Academy of Letters on July 31 with a public reception in Mexico City.
Internationally known authority on Hispanic-American letters, Dr. Balseiro will be in the Mexican capital at the National University of Mexico, where he will be delivering a two-week series of lectures on Spanish-American literature, beginning the last week in July.
At the Academy reception he will present an invitational address on “Mexico and Puerto Rico — Their Cultural Relations Since the 17th Century.”
Dr. Balseiro is a correspondent member of Spain’s Royal Academy of Letters, the highest authority on the Spanish language. The Mexican Academy will confer a diploma, in recognition of his accomplishments in fostering cultural understanding in Latin America.
Another professor of languages, IK. Lee E. Butterfield, was honored last month by his alma mater, Hillsdale College, Michigan, with the honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters.
A. F. Helps Physics
The Physics Department has received $47,674 of Air Force money to conduct research on the magnetic properties of solids.
The contract was awarded UM by the scientific research office of the Air Research and Development Command.
Dr. Harry A. Brown, assistant professor of physics, will be the chief investigator this summer.
VIM Flyers Nassau Bound Become Object Of Search
Trio Off To Africa
For ‘Bit Of Hunting’
Three adventuresome UM students departed for Africa this week for a bit of elephant hunting.
Hemingway Schoenfeld
The trio are Bob Kyle, pre-med student, Eugene Schoenfeld, a second year medical student, and Greg Hemingway, a senior zoology major and son of author Ernest Hemingway.
This junior-sized safari left the
United States June 17, and will return September 1.
Schoenfeld explained the purpose of the jaunt by saying: “We plan to hunt elephants, and take movies, which we hope to sell to ‘Bold Journey,’ or some other program.
“The trip should cost each of us $1500, but we hope to earn that much by selling the ivory and pictures we take.
“Greg lived in Africa for a few years. He has an elephant gun, and we just bought another one.”
Said Mrs. Schoenfeld in Miami, “I worry, you know. I understand that the part of Africa they will be in has not yet been opened for hunting.”
The three big game hunters’ destination is Launda Angola, Africa.
Initial Meetings Completed In First Réévaluation Study
Dr. James M. Godard, executive vice president, announced this week that all 41 committees participating in UM's first re-evaluation survey have completed their initial meetings.
The University-wide self study was organized two months ago under Dr. Godard's supervision.
“Each committee will try to state its objectives, make judg-
'59 Grad Students Do Well In Exams
Graduates in law, medicine and nursing ranked high on recent state and national examinations.
Of 24 members of the full-time February Law School class taking the Florida Bar examination 21 passed.
Of 59 seniors in the June class taking Part II of the April National Boards in medicine, 55 passed, 29 made honors.
ments on how we are meeting them now and make suggestions on how to reach them during the next five to ten years.”
“Every committee is ready to implement its major works,” he said.
The preliminary reports are ex pected to be ready by Christmas time, and the final reports will be finished March of next year, said Dr. Godard.
When the self-study got underway during the first week of May, almost 200 members of the faculty and administration were appointed by Dr. Godard who is chairman of the studys' steering committee.
Dr. Godard noted at the time the committees were appointed, that those working in are as related to student life “have been advised that student participation in their committee work is highly desirable.”
Fair Over-Shoot Landing, Grounded On Andros Beach
Two Nassau bound students touched off an air-sea hunt by the Coast Guard and set a slow burn going in an airport manager from whom they rented the plane.
It began last Saturday, when Bob Golden and Richard Doyle Bee decided to take a little trip down Nassau way. At 1:05 they arrived at the Aero'
Country Club, and stated that they would take off at about 1:10. Destination: Nassau.
At 1:25 they were on their way with Bee at the controls. At 3,000 feet altitude and 50 minutes later they crossed the Gulf ■ Stream. Thirty minutes later at 2:45 they passed the Grand Bahama Banks and noted in their log that there were “obscure signs of life at the east end of the Andros Islands."
LOST IN FOG
This was the account of the normal part of their flight. Then the fun began.
“About 20 minutes off Andros we flew into soup, and with fuel
0kie$ Win Out In H. S. Debate
High school debaters from Seminole, Oklahoma, walked off with top honors in the National Forensic League Championship in Beaumont Hall.
Four hundred spectators listened as the Oklahomans upheld the negative of the question. “Resolved: Should the United adopt the James Bryant Conant Report on Education.”
Representatives on the affirmative side from Lamar High School of Houston, Texas, were the runners-up.
The activities climaxed a week long competition among 300 youngsters. More than 500 were on campus including parents and officials.
Bellair High School of Houston claimed special honors for participating in the most events of the tourney -35.
In addition to team honors, individual national champions were crowned in dramatic reading, girls’ and boys’ extemporaneous reading, and oratory on freedom.
To Be Ready Next Month
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August 15th is the new completion date for the $1,000,000 Engineering School building which has been rising rapidly since ground was broken last November.
The August date will allow only one month for moving the laboratories and class rooms from the Anastasia bldg, at North Campus.
The five story building will house 13 laboratories, classrooms, administrative offices, library, faculty lounge, an office for student government, and an office for the “Miami Engineer,” student magazine.
With the opening of classes this September, almost 1,000 engineering students will be on the main
campus.
The building was made possible by a gift of one million dollars— the largest single contribution ever made to UM—from J. Neville McArthur, UM trustee and owner of McArthur Jersey Farm Dairy, Inc.
The building was designed by Wahl Snyder and Associates.
low we set up a point of reference,” the flight log reads.
The duo tried to locate Nassau by spotting an inhabited island with luxury hotels, but the only island that they saw had neither.
With gas running low, Bee turned the Cessna toward a strip of beach, and made a landing.
Getting out of the plane, the pair saw a man running to them.
HOSTILE NATIVE?
At this point their only concern was: Is he a hostile native? The native was friendly. In fact he turned out to be an Englishman. named Sam, a teacher who took the students to his house for a much-needed cold drink.
Having had a slight change in their flight plans, Bee and Golden had to radio flight control in Nassau. The nearest radio station was three miles away, across h sand spit and a 500 yard “creek.”
To cross the “creek” they enlisted the aid of a native and his pole boat, which Bee tried his hand at poling. The result was that they nearly became shipwrecked as well as missing.
RADIO REPORT
After radioing a report to Nassau, which never was received, the adventurers set out to procure a needed 25 gallons of gasoline.
They got two five gallon cans of marine gas, which they were forced to carry on two long poles jungle style through the swamps.
SEARCH BEGINS
While this sequence was going on. the Coast Guard in Miami was notified that the plane was missing, and began a search, presuming the pair had crashed.
Meanwhile back at the swamp the plane was gassed up and they hoped ready to go.
Since the sand that they had landed in \ as too soft to take off on, Bob and Dick enlisted the aid of almost the entire village to help them shove the plane to firmer ground.
With the gas gauge registering nearly nothing, they took off about 7 p.m. and coughed into
Nassau.
Officials at Nassau had meanwhile been alerted that they were on Andros Island earlier.
ON TO NASSAU
After spending what was left of the weekend in tropical surroundings, the airmen flew back to Miami where an irate airport manager waited.
Airport Manager Frank Campbell charged that the two were endangering people's lives.
Anyway, Monday morning came and Bob Golden and Richard Doyle Bee were safely back at their classes.
Civil Aeronautics officials were given a report of the incident, and indicated that no action would be taken.
Stay Alive
The National Safety Council predicts that there will be 350 traffic fatalities over this fourth of July weekend.
Since classes will not be held on the fourth, many UM students will be going places in cars. Let’s not add to the 350 who will not live another week.