Miami Hurricane, October 08, 1943

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October 8, 1943
Fivr Cents
Graduating Cadet's Father
To Speak At 43-5 Exercises
Climaxing the eighteen weeks of rugged aviation cadet training,
the dass of 45-5 of the Army Air Forces Flying Training Detachment—Pan-American Airways Inc., will be graduated Saturday in
exercises held at the Coral theatre in Coral Gables. Starting the
day with a full corps parade at 10 a.m., the cadet corps will pass
in review before Major Jesse H. Brown, commanding officer of the
training   detachment   and   Major
Y-12s to Dance
After Exams
Postponed until Thursday, Oct.
21 the V-12 formal dance, to be
heid at the Coral Gables Country club from 9 to 12 p.m., is
shaping np into a post-exam affair.
For the past week or so, the sail-
en have been on "maneuvers"
to defeat the stag nemesis.
For this reason the "mon in
white" have established a date
bureau. Daily' in the auditorium
at 12:46 p.m. the committee, Tom
Lott, Don Mcintosh, Bob Sullivan,
and "Georgia-Boy" Branen, hold
counsel and may be consulted at
that time.
Besides arranging dates for
V-12 aad women students, the
committee is attempting te keep
tabs oa all dates. Tho "fixers"
have requested V-l2s who bave
already made their own dates to
register snch information.
Civilian male students may obtain invitations to tho dance from
any V-12. However, they are excluded from the services of the
date arrangers.
A number of problems confront
the committee. Worst of these,
say the boys, is the misguided girl
who thinks she will be disgraced
if die signs up with the date bureau. The sailors think otherwise
—they like their women fesrless.
Donald Russell, guest speaker at
the graduation an executive officer of the training detachment tke
Lorado Army Air Base Flexible
Gunnery school, Larado, Tax. Major Russell is the father of Aviation Cadet Donald B. Russell of
the graduation clan.
After the parade, the corps of
graduating cadets win march
down through Coral Gables to the
Coral theatre for the graduation
exercises.
Major Brown will be in charge
of the program and will introduce
the guest speaker. Present on the
platform will be Major Brown.
Major Russell, Captain Owen J.
Williams, director Of training,
Mr. Charles J. Lunn, director of
the Pan-American Airway's Navigation section. Captain M. M.
Swaim, commandant of cadets,
and Chaplain Dixon of the Miami
Beach Technical Training Command.
The guest speaker will have the
honor of pinning the silver wings
of the navigator on the breast of
his son. Aviation Cadet Donald B.
Russell.
A silver identification braclet
will be awarded the honor graduate whose identity remains a
secret until the ceremonies.
Tonight, the graduation elass
will receive their guests at the
Coral Gables Country club for a
graduation dance.
After graduation, the newly
commissioned lieutenants will depart for their duty stations immediately.
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Bobby CfwfHB-y  Stedent
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The San Was Never Like This
When Coeds Roam ed Hall s
Army-Navy Test
' Set Fer Nov. 9
Students who wish to take the
qua—tying test for the Army Specialized Training program and the
Navy V-12 College program Nov.
9 are requested to register with
Foster E. Alter, dean of men, aa
soon as possible so that the needed
testing supplies ean be ordered.
Eligible for the test are men
between the ages of 17 and 21 inclusive who are recent high school
grsdustes 'or who will be graduated by March 1, 1944.
The same examination, testing
the aptitude and general knowledge required for the program of
college training, will be taken by
both Army and Navy candidates.
Those taking the test will be given
j s choice of service preference,
bat taking the test does not obli-
fate the candidate to enlist in
tke service.
Pancho To Return
Fer Feb. Session
The University's number one
tennis player. Francisco "Pancho''
Setura, sands word that hall re-
tern to the U. in February after
Phiying a tournament te Mexico
City and taking a few months oft*
te visit his famfly in Ecuador.
"Pancho", Ecuadorean racquet
«amp, went to the semifinals at
me Forest Hills tournament this
summer.
The bee-hive, better known as
the San Sebastian, is really humming this week what with the
Army navigation elass of 43-5
making its last stand in Coral
Gables before shoving off for parts
unknown.
The combination cadet dormi-
tory-U. of M. Administration
building, whose balconies are usually crowded with star-shooting
navigators brushing up on tomorrow's lesson, has been converted into .e mixture of a haber
daahery and the'Yankee stadium.
From the "verboten" territory
come the strains of "Pistol
Packin' Mama" (43-5's theme
song, it seems) and Red Barber's
interpretations of Mort Cooper's
doings.
The concern over clothes at the
San is almost as bad now as it
used to be before the days of
cadets at the U. when the population of the seeond aad third
floors was strictly female and
strictly forbidden to just such
people as those who inhabit it now.
11m men of 43-5 make more fuss
over tka prided "pinks" they'll
don tomorrow than their female
predecessors did over their dinky
satins.
Next week, the San will quiet
down after 43-6 moves out, bag,
bsggage, snd seeond lieutenants'.
Except for the intermittent interruption of the loud speaker, hailing tke cadets 43-6 leaves behind them to "(it up and git,''
and the usual greetings whistled'
out to passing females, the building win be moderately still—until
the class of 48-6 ia graduated.
University Aids
Vets Rehabilitation
First vetera- to register at the
University, one of the first schools
selected for the educational rehabilitation program is Melvin
Edward Wh.tmire, native of
Greenville, S. (}., and former member of the Amy Air corps.
Under this government program, administered by the Veterans administration, enlisted soldier-, sailors, arid offleers wounded
in service will Se sent to universities, vocational schools, or will
be "trained-on-the-job.' x
The men will be treated individually, with nothing routine
about the system, say Mr. S. F.
Montague and Mr. Harry E. Simmons, directors of the Florida program.
Graduates of high schools and
former college students will enter
the universities, if they show proper promise of] benefitting by the
training. They WiU attend regular
classes of the University and wfll
not be distinguished .Tom other
students in any .way.
Soldier Pianist
To Ploy Sunday
Piano music i will make up the
Music Workshop's Sunday night
concert this we^k when Pvt. Frederick Marvin plays.. Winner of
first place in ihe Southern California Allied Arts Festival for
two successive- seasons, Marvin
has appeared uefore California's
concert andien. ss since 1938. He
has recently completed music for
the motion picture, "Voice in the
Wind," starring- Sigrid Gurie and
Frances Ledeny.
A pupil of Rpdolf Serkin at the
Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, Marvin: has appeared with
the Pasadena symphony orchestra,
the Glendale symphony orchestra,
and in the Holl-wood Bowl.
Since being stationed with the
Army Air forces on Miami Beach,
Pvt. Marvin haja given numerous
concerts for service men. The
Workshop concert, to which the
public is inv:tod, begins at 8:00
p.m. '
No Kcrppa Tau
At a recen. meeting of Nu
Kappa Tau, hipnest women's honorary fraternity, it was finally
decided that they would tep each
trimester. This .procedure will not
become effective until the third
trimester.
Postwar expansion, of the University was assured last week
when Attorney John G. Thompson, representing George A.
Brockway, presented Dr. Bowman Ashe, president of the University, with $100,000 in war bonds which will be used to construct a library building after the war.
-Mr. Brockway, an industrialist who lives in Courtland, N. V-
has a winter home at 2054 N. Bay Road, Miami Beach. The
fund for the library, which will be named after the donor, was
established last March.
Studantn Gat Ticket* Frea
Students will receive tickets
to tke football gaa.es tkis season upon presentation of their
registration cards to tke Athletic office. Those who have loat
their cards may have them
duplicated    te   tke    Registrar's
Navy V-l 2s. V-Ss, and Amy
naviration cadets wfll receive
complimentary tickets from
their   commanding   officers.
14 Sigma Chis
To Be Initiated
Initiation of fourteen Sigma
Chi pledges will be held Saturday
evening and Sunday morning at
the Law school.
Pledge-officers are Chester Eugene Allen, president; Paul Walker, vice president; George Brockway, secretary; and Ed Boucher,
treasurer.
Other members of the pledge
elass are Paul Salvatore, Harry
Steffans, Jim Leavitt, Ed Hoist,
Tom Lott, Alee Branen, Don
Single tary, Edward Thurman, Carl
Larrabee, and Don Mcintosh.
Vita Joins Debate Council
Salvatore Vita, a junior transfer from Fordham, was voted
membership to the Debate council at a meeting Tuesday. Other
members of the group are Ed
Lewis, Rashi Schorr, and Vivien
Feld.
9 Cheerleaders,
2 Twirlers Chosen
After a week of daily workouts, nine cheerleaders for the
1943 football season were chosen
last Friday night
Last year's uniforms of white
skirts lined with green, and white
sweaters decorated with Ms will
be worn by the girls. The boys
wiU wear white trousers and
"sweaters.
Cheerleaders are captain, Louis
Goodman, and Pat Mulloy, Carol
Turner, P. J. Harvey, Blanche Ci-
rillo, George Bernstein,' Louise
Maroon, Mary Louise Lewis, and
Elliott Segherman.
Janice Greenfield and Zelda Sy-
mon, both freshmen, have been
selected drum majorettes for the
marching band. Graduates of Miami Senior high school, the girls
have been acting as portrait models for convalescent soldiers at
the  Biltmore hospital  this  week.
Snarks To Honor
Member At Lunch
Honoring Renee Greenfield who
graduates in October and will
meet with the Snarks for the last
time as an undergraduate, the
creative writers' club will have a
luncheon meeting next Thursday
at noon in room 823.
Donald Justice will read a new
play to the group.
Dr. H. Franklin Williams Lived Around Corner From Mussolini
Mussolini wee no elaborately
decorated Fastest uniform when
Dr. H. Franklin Williams lived
around the corner from him in
Rome in 1922. '.Tie pompons Duce.
wearing a for.nal evening suit
nearly burst with pride when lie
was awarded tae Order of Bath
by King Georg*- of England. This
was the first f o -eign medal he received. Dr. Wiliiams relates.
Travelling ov_-r Sicily, Dr. Williams observe*} aa interesting
country with at) abundance of orange groves and thwyards. He
visited ihe town of baa (recently tke center of German resistance) whieh. is known m Cee-
trogiovanni at that time.
Dr. Williams was born in Providence, R. I., but received moat
of his sc_ooKr.„ te Cambridge,
Masa. Upon gra iuation from high
school, he traiefled to Europe
with his mother and sister. After
two years abroaj, Dr. Will iams returned to the Vnited States and
entered Harvard university to major in history. He also studied international law at Cambridge university after winning the Whewell
scholarship.
Returning to Harvand, he
received his master's degree in
1931 snd his Ph.D. degree in
1936. While studying for his doe-
tor's degree, Dr. Williams was
assistant of history in a system
somewhat similar to tbe Lancss-
terian educational policy. A class
of several hundred students wss
divided into sections taught by
sub-teachers, while a professor
was te charge of the class as a
whole.
During the summer vacation of
1938, Dr. Williams studied at tke
University of Mexico aad was required to write a theme in Spanish. -This was vy work of art,"
said the industrious history pro-
Before receiving his doctor's
degree, he gathered material in
London for his thesis. "This work
in London was research into British foreign policy," he reminisced. "I looked through government records as far back as the
time of William the Conqueror."
After receiving his Ph.D. Dr.
Williams wss offered the position
of assistant professor of history
at Amherst college, where he
taught until 1938. In that year
he came to the University of Miami as assistant professor of history.
Since he has been in Miami,
Dr. Williams has been moderator
of the radio series, "National Conference of Christians and Jews.'
He has participated in many radio talks on American history
and other educational subjects.
He is chairman of a Miami conference ■ on post-war problems,
member of the Harvard dub of
Miami, member and faculty sponsor of the local chapter of Sigma
Chi.