Miami Hurricane, February 08, 1949

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VOLUME XXIII
UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI, CORAL GABLES, FLA, FEBRUARY 8, 1949
No. IS
Students Aid Skeleton Drive
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New Structure To Replace Temporary Classrooms
Help Yourself
The University of Miami is fast becoming one of the greater institutions of higher learning in the United States. If it is to achieve this goal it will need support and as an unendowed university this support must come from those who should be most interested in its growth—the
students and alumni.
Our university has never had an endowment, yet it has continued to grow. When, in the early life of the school, support was needed, the students were among the first to offer aid. The university has continued to be a student supported institution.
Once again our school is asking for help, help in bettering its facilities for the students. The old “skeleton” which for over twenty years has remained both an eyesore and a U-M trademark could, if completed, handle all the classes which are at present held in the shacks. The University is asking the help of the students in the drive to complete this building.
Interest and support shown by
THE TOWER of the proposed new building.
students are the seeds from which outside interest grows. Many people, interested in the growth of the University of Miami have pledged donations; many more are willing—if the students themselves prove their interest in the skeleton project It is up to all of us to give our support to the university; if we don’t, no one else can be expected to do so.
If our university is to mean anything and is to be of material value to us in later life, each of us must do his part
We urge every student to contribute that support so necessary to make the University of Miami truly great
Dr. Ashe Lauds Student Spirit
I am delighted to hear that the student body is about to initiate a campaign to raise $50,000 toward the completion of the Skeleton. Sfnae this long-abandoned structure Was ta have been the first Univerrfty building, I am naturally intensely eager to see it completed and brought to usefulness.
There can be no finer demonstration to those outside our University of the gzeapnfradi—rt value of the Skeleton completion than the financial support for the project by the student body. Your gifts will have a value far beyond the dollars you raise, for they will give great encouragement to each of the other groups now helping us to “finish the job."
Perhaps most important of all is the manifestation of fine school spirit which your desire to help represents. When this job is done, you will have set a standard for the students who follow you which will be difficult to surpass.
Bowman F. Ashe President
Campus On Display
Room N-206, headquarters for the student drive, will have a scale model of the campus, as it will appear when all building is completed, on display. Members of the board of governors will be on hand with complete Information concerning the drive.
Donations Reach $100,000 Mark In Skeleton Fund
Gifts totaling $100,000 have been received toward the completion of the skeleton it was announced recently. This is enough to pay for two large lecture hells, or ten classrooms in the building.
Julian S. Eaton, chairman of the board of trustees, made a personal gift of $10,000, with an additional $5,000 pledged bg die Coconut Grove Exchange Bank, of which Eaton is president. $10,000 was also donated by Margaret Ann Super Markets, Inc. Robert Marshman, president of the firm, is a member of the Citizens Board of Greater Miami.
In addition, the receipt of a gift of $10,000 from George Farkas was announced by the University. Owner of valuable real estate on Flagler St., and a major stockholder in Hartley’s, Inc., Farkas stated In making his gift that he counted ft a great privilege to have a part In tbe important growth of the school.
The largest gift, to date, is $3M00 from a local business firm, which has asked to remain anonymous for the present
Henry O. Shaw and Max Orovitz, chairman and co-chairman of the Citizens Board, announced that their board members have already contributed $40,000 toward the objective.
The 26 members who have made this gift with an average contribi-tion of more than $1,000, are Henry O. Shaw, Max Orovitz, J. N McArthur, Harold Landfield, T. B. Shelley, Thomas OH. DuPree, Ray M. Earnest Dr. J. Holden Beckwith, E. L. Cotton, Alfred J. Lewallen, C. Limmiatis, Frank N Holley, George J. Bertman, Clark R. Parker, Benjamin Meyers, Byron A. Sparrow, D. Earl Wilson, A. L. Reynolds, Dr. A. H. Welland, Dr. F. E Kitchens, Jacob Cher, David B Alter, Jr., C. J. Bryson, Harry Hood Bassett Plato Cox, and A. Goodman.
University of Miami students are going to have an opportunity Unique in college life—the privilege of helping to hulld their University.
This will not be in an abstract sense, such as keeping academic standings high or building the reputation of the school, but active participation in the campaign to construct another part of the most modern and Streamlined university in the world. / \
A .spontaneous student-sponsored campaign was announced today for funds to complete the 22-yeer old skeleton building into a Structure larger and even more beautiful than the Memorial Classroom building.
Headed by six volunteers dubbed the student board of governors, the drive answers a long-awaited chance for the students to show outside Contributors that they are wholeheart-
edly behind any project which means so much to the school, and to'thqftt personally.
Classrooms Seating mo 2,000 student*, sufficient to reidsca] the temporary wooden shacks erected two years ago to meet the G.I. emergency, will occupy most of the building, ft Will oontain two lecture
THE MIAMI HURRICANE SPECIAL EDITION
EDITOR ...	Tom Bottomley
LAYOUT .	Bob Gelberg
NEWS      Joyce Cortland
George Monahan
EDITORIAL .... John Christy
PHOTOGRAPHY MacDonald Ores* Fred Fleming
halls and ten offices. There will be rooms equipped for visual education and with air conditioning. His-panic-American Institute offices, reception rooms, and a small library will provide a focal point for the School's inter-American activities. Thia will be the Main classroom building of the University, and will be approached via a wide street to be completed afterwards.
Students Will participate actively rfiU far funds by contribut-
li) the drill ing « minimum hi $3.00 each. U enthusiastic cooperation is received, the 10,000 students should shortly rook up $30,000. This is enough Tnboky/ Jfo btiikl si* classrooms or one largo lecture hall.
Onus Unction will begin immediately upon collection of the complete amount set as i Since the general dri^ than a month ago, has received $100,000 in gifts from several individuals and concerns in
Greater Miami-
The skeleton could be finished within three months, construction experts state, and the hot, uncomfortable temporary shacks would ba torn down to nuke room for more campus expansion. One of the mast important steps in the building of the cuwpus will then be completed.
Is |his worth $3.00?
THE ONLY WAY the drab, barren skeleton building can be made to look good is to perch a pretty girl on it. Valerie Henszey serves the purpose here.