Miami Hurricane, November 20, 1931

              The Miami © Hurricane
the	f 1 C IAL STUDENT PUBLICATION OF THE U N I V	T Y OF MIAMI
Coral Gables, Miami, Florida, November 20. 1931
No. 8
SCHOOL MOURNS PASSING OF RASCO
“U. of M. To Be Focal U. International Roint For Spanish Relations Ctnh To American Students’’ Hear Booth Speak
Bar alt Say. Our Proximity ^ou. English Traveler To To Cuba Will Be	Vw,t Scho°I For Ba,kan
Great Factor	Ucture
“Through its position and its: spirit, the University of Miami is | the focal point of South American education,” says Professor Luis A. Baralt, Jr., of the Latin American Institutions Department. “For instance my own country, Cuba; there the University and institu-1 tions of higher learning have been closed on account of the political situation. Many Cuban families have sent their sons, and in some cases daughters, to the United States to complete their education. Much to the advantage of Miami is its climate, its proximity to Cuba, and the subjects taught in this University. If the present educational conditions continue, more and more students will come here. There seems to be a very unusual spirit of Pan Americanism existing in Miami. It seems to me that the youth of America is awakening to the fact that Latin America is very important.
“The University of Miami must grow with the years. It satisfies a demand long unfulfilled, and one may count upon the future development of it. I like it very much here and, in fact, almost as much as my own beloved Havana.”
Professor Baralt was at the University of Miami for the summer session. He is now taking the place of Dr. Victor Andres Belaunde, who is now in Peru, and will return for the next semester.
Mr. C. Douglas Booth, traveler, publicist, lecturer, authority on Balkan affairs will address the members of the International Relations Club sometime during the second week of December. He is visiting all the International Relations Clubs this fall on a lecture 1 tour.
Mr. Booth has spent a number of years in thé Near East and the Bakans collecting material for a new book. He is a member of the Royal Institute of International Affairs in England, to whom he submits fortnightly reports on his findings. He has had varied experiences in lecturing, which includes political work for the British National Liberal party, work for the U S. Liberty Loan drive, and Red Cross drives while with the English forces during the war.
The club here at the university this week will receive several books on subjects of interest .to students of international politics and economics. They are being sent out by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Titles are:
Test of the Draft Convention, Preparatory Commission for the Disarmament Conference.
“Disarmament” by Salvatore de Madariaga; “Scientific Disarma*-ment” by Benjamin H. Williams; “That Next War” by K. A. Bratt; “Ten Years of World Cooperation” —Secretariat of the League of Nations.
DEAN RASCO
Student Conference Is Given Support Of National Federation
Invitations To Pan American Congress To Carry Word Of 160 U. S. Schools
Was Founder of Law School Here;
Became Dean of Department In ’28
LATE LAW DEAN WAS University Suffers Great Low A GREAT EDUCATOR	B* The	01 Th“
Noted Educator
Ruco Studied and Taught At In All ParU of U. S. A.
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ALUMNI SPONSOR BY WING AND WIG HOMECOMING HOP Fre,h,n*0 Gi” Excellent
The University of Miami Alumni Association, in harmony with the many celebrations planned for the first Home-coming of the University of Miami, will stake a Homecoming Dance in the Shrine Temple, on Biscayne Boulevard at N. E. 14th Street. The dance will commence immediately following the University of Miami-Erskine College football clash on Nov. 27th, next Friday evening.
On this occasion of the leading social event of the Thansgiving season, the general chairman, Louis J. Jepeway, has announced that the dancer will witness many novel entertainments, such as a Spanish dance exhibition and short numbers by Miami radio artists. Another feature will be the more than 50 prizes awarded persons holding lucky stubs, the price being $1.00 a couple.
Before the close of the dance a big dance contest will take place, the winners to receive a 22 inch loving cup. The cup is now on display at Burdine’s. The committee on social arrangements for this special dance is composed of F. X. James O’Brien, Leonard W. W. " ood and Louis J. Jepeway, chairman. The committee on entertainment: Hayes Wood, chairman; Richard Pomeroy and Clifton Lar-The committee on publicity: Alfred Franklin, chairman; Mary Holgate and Clara Nelle DuPuis.
Performance in Firit Presentation»
Four splendid one act plays, given last Wedriesday night in the University auditorium before a large and appreciative audience, constituted the initial performance of the dramatics department of the University of Miami.
The comedy “When Love Is Young” was directed by Miss Nina McAllister. Henry Kate Gardner as the lead gave an outstanding characterization as Polly. Others taking part were Harold Patricoff las Dick, the beau; Helen Johns as Mrs. Starr; and Charlotte Duey as Mrs. Martin. The players got their j lines in but the action moved a I little too slowly.
Eleanor Miksitz as the Mistress of “Playgoers” added zest to the play and showed to good advantage. The other lead, Walter Berg, was very promising in his first attempt. The character parts were well cast and proved very humor-j ous. Bea Silver was the cook; Reba Brown, the parlor maid; Eileen : Dorman, the useful maid; Lorraine Wilkinson, the very prim house maid; Mildred Greenberg, the j kitchen maid; Charles Oglesby, the odd man.
“Station W H Y” included in its cast Earl Howard, Constance Klink, Frankie Lou Haigler, Mil-ton Friedman, Faith Forbeck, Jimmy Mool, Olga Minor, John
The Pan American Student Conference to be held here next spring has been given national scope. In a letter to Mel Thomson from E. R. Murrow, president of the Student Federation of America, the plan was given full approval and tentative support of that organization. This means that invitations sent out to foreifpi universities to send delegates to .he congress here will carry the go4d»-u and interest of not one, but 160 schools in the United States.
Mr. Murrow invited the Pan American Student Conference committee - of - the-whole to send delegates to the congress of the National Student Federation of America in Toledo from Dec. 27 to Jan. 1. Between three and four hundred colleges and universities are expected to send representatives.
The N. S. F. A. will be of great assistance to the student committee, especially in the matter of minor local and important national arrangements, in which it has had much experience.
Y. W.C.A Vocational Group Holds Discussion Meeting
' The vocational discussion grqup, led by Eleanor Mool, held its first monthly meeting Tuesday, Nov. 10, in the Y.W.C.A. room at 12:30. The speaker of the day, Miss Barrett. spoke on the “Psychology of Vocational Training”.
This group is one of the most popular in school and has as its aim a discussion of various vocational fields open to women.
Luncheon was served by the hostesses, Barbara Abernathy, Byrl Wheeler. Marjorie Macfarland, Reba Brown, Daisy Wetmore, Faith Forbeck, Esther Avery, Dorothy Witters.
I Slocum. Miss Klink was quite dignified and reserved as the Mother. The part of Caroline was well done by Faith Forbeck, and mention should be made of Jimmy Mool. As Herbert, the adolescent youth, he gave a true Tarkington portrayal, and Mr. Slocum's Italian dialect was especially good.
The two old maid characters in “Rozberry Shrub” can never be forgotten. This play, done by mem-' bers of the Wing and Wig Club,
Dean Richmond A. Rasco’s work work at the University of Miami was indispensable and praiseworthy. He came here in 1926 from the University of Arizona, and organized the law school. He was made dean in 1928. In the five years that he occupied the chair he built his school up to be the largest and probably the best in the state.
He occupied the last months of his office in building up a law library which would make the-law school recognized by all the leading universities and colleges in the country. He had . collected about 5,000 of the 10,000 volumes required for a fully accredited law school, and had secured through his wife’s influence the services of experts to instruct law students.
Dean Rasco was bom in Newton, Miss., July 5, 1871, son of James LaFayette and Mary Louise Rasco. He took advantage of the educational opportunities at several important institutions. He received his bachelor of science degree from Dickson Normal College in Tennessee in 1895; his LL.B. from Southern Normal University, at Huntington, Tenn., in 1898; his M.A. from Arkansas Normal College in 1904; and his LL.D. from Stetson in 1918.
The dean distinguished himself in the field of education early in life. He was principal of Chapel Institute at Thorsby, Ala., from 1898 to 1900, and founded Thorsby Normal College two years later. He was superintendent of schools from 1904 to 1908 in Jennison, Ala., and in 1909 was made dean of the law college at Stetson University.
He became a law professor at the University of Florida in 1921, and gave that position up in 1923 to take the same place in the University of Arizona. He came to the University of Miami in 1926. Dean Rasco taught law in Vanderbilt University’s summer session during the past eight years.
Dean Rasco obtained the cooperation of well-known Miami attorneys in the development of the university’s law school. It’s graduates are admitted to the Florida State bar without examination.
Dean Rasco was a member of the American, Florida and Dade county Bar Associations, and of the Phi Kappa Delta, Pi Gamma Mu, and the Phi Alpha Delta fraternities. He was a Mason, member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and of the Kiwanis Club, as well as a Knight Templar. He was a deacon and beloved member of the congregation of the First Baptist Church.
Dean Richmond Austin Rasco, Dean of the Law school at the University of Miami, died Monday night at his home, 330 Sarto Ave., Coral Gables. He was sixty years old. The funeral was held yesterday afternoon at 3 p. m., being postponed from Wednesday afternoon to await the arrival of a son from New York City.
Dean Rasco was taken seriously ill several weeks ago. He had an attack of heart disease, and his recovery' was not expected, though he had apparently rallied. A relapse caused his death.
Funeral services were conducted at the First Baptist church by the Rev. J. L. White, pastor. The interment followed at the Miami City Cemetery, under the direction of the J. H. Combs Funeral home. The body rested in state in the home from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m.
The six active pallbearers were all members of the bar, and four were members of the faculty of the university law school. They were Walter H. Beckham, Earl Curry, Leland Hyzer and C. W. Peters of the University of Miami, and Ralph Ferrell and W. R. Evans.
The thirty honorary pallbearers included close friends of Dean Rasco, members of the university faculty, and of the Dade County Bar association. They were:
Judge Mitchell D. Price, Dr. Robert T. English, Dr. Alfred H. Gilbert, Judge E. C. Collins, Judge A. J. Rose, Judge A. F. Atkinson, Dr. B. F. Ashe, Dr. Louis B. Cov-itt, Herbert Sawyer, Vance W., Helm, Julian Eaton, James A. Wil-lock, E. F. P. Brigham, John P. Stokes, Charles Morehead, Don Peabody, Hamilton Michelson, James Helm, Francis Miller, Robert L. Thompson, James M. Car-son, John Murrell, Samuel J. Barco, Fred Botts, John Cleveland, Worth W. Trammell, J. P. Simmons, Harvey Payne, J. P. Simms, J. G. Payne, and deacons of the First Baptist church.
Dean Rasco is survived by his wife, Mrs. Annie McGhehee Rasco, Dean Rasco’s funeral was attended by a large number of his /Continued on Page Five)
RECITAL GIVEN BY MISS GREENBERG
was exceedingly amusing. Marjorie Shewmaker and Catherine Yeats as the old maids who accidently got drunk on what they thought was grape juice, gave very fine characterizations. Viola Burnett, as the neice, and Charles Smith, as Bob Taylor, also gave good performances.
The evening culminated with a reception for those who took part in the plays.
,A large group of music-lovers gathered Sunday afternoon at the Henry Salem Hubbell home on Miami Beach to hear a concert given by a talented young musician.
Mildred Greenberg, pianist, assisted by Lewis Eley, violinist, and Leonard Rose, cellist, gave a very satisfying program of classical music. Her first three numbers showed a clear understanding and interpretation of Chopin, Brahms, and Liszt. Miss Greenberg also played the accompaniments during the afternoon. Her Ravel number, played with light, dripping tones, delighted the large audience.
Lewis Eley and Leonard Rose played with an artistry and comprehension beyond their years.
A trio by Foote was rendered by the three young artists in a vivid, lively manner, indicating hours of hard and concentrated study.