Miami Hurricane, August 11, 1967

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University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida, Aucust 11, 1967
Volume 42, No. 33
In Whitten Union
UM Makes A Mural-cle
By BOB CONNELLY HURRICANE Reporter
The mural now being painted in the Student Union, on the main stairwell wall, was created and donated by Dr. Raphael Garcia.
Dr. Garcia has obtained two bachelors and two masters degrees, one set in education and art and the other set in painting and art history, from the University of Puerto Rico, where he

A NEW TOUCH OF ART . . . Union’s Stairway Mural Nearing Completion
Development Picks Jones To Boost Deferred Gifts
Freddie T. Jones, trust officer at City National Bank of Miami Beach, joined the University of Miami development staff July 3 as Director of Deferred Giving.
Jones, 41, a native of Savannah, Ga., came to Miami in 1944. He received a Bachelor of Business Administration degree in accounting at the University of Miami in 1954.
Jones succeeds Daniel L Uffner, Jr., director of develop-ment/deferred gift program. Uffner is resigning to become the chief development officer at Presbyterian-University of Pennsylvania Medical Center in Philadelphia. Uffner's resignation is effective August 28. Jones and Uffner will work together during the transition period.
Under Mr. Uffner’s direction, an endowment committee was established headed by UM Trustee Baron de Hirsch Meyer. This voluntary committee consists of about 80 attorneys, trust officers and accountants. At the present time the UM has received in current and deferred gifts in excess of $22 million.
Jones served with the U. S. Army from 1944-1947, was group service representative for Connecticut General Life Insurance Co., store controller for Sears, Roebuck and Company, and manager, Trust Accounting, First National Bank of Miami Beach. He is married and has three daughters, and is a Baptist Sunday School teacher.
Uffner, 42, came to UM in 1964 from Cleveland’s Western Reis serve University where he was ■*«iatant to the vice president for
development. He earned his baccalaureate degree at Oglethorpe University, Atlanta, Ga. He holds a Master’s degree from George Peabody College for Teachers and has done advanced work at Emory University. He began his education career in 1952 in Clayton County, Ga., and became elementary school principal in 1954. Two years later he became assistant to the president of Oglethorpe, serving in that capacity until 1962 when he moved to Western Reserve. He is a World War II Navy veteran and married.
IMS Appoints Jack Jackson For News Post
C. W. (Jack) Jackson, former member of the staff of the University of Miami News Bureau, has joined the UM Institute of Marine Science as public information officer, according to Dr. F. G. Walton Smith, director of IMS.
Jackson resigned from the UM News Bureau staff last October to take the post of associate managing editor of The Ledger in Lakeland.
He has been assistant city editor of The Miami Herald, with which he was associated from 1959 to 1966. and before that was assistant sports editor of The Atlanta Journal.
Jackson holds his bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Georgia, and for one year was director of sports publicity for Georgia Tech.
is now the chairman of the fine arts.
He has also received his first doctoral degree, in education and art, at Columbia University. His second doctor’s degree, in painting and art history, is now being worked on at the University of Miami.
Dr. Garica has murals located in New York, Miami, Mexico, and several in Puerto Rico.
He is a native of Puerto Rico, and has a family.
The theme of the mural is “Flight and Knowledge”. It is based on a Greek myth about a
father and son held in captivity on an island. In order to escape the father constructs wings made of feathers and wax to inable them to fly to freedom.
The father warns his son not to fly close to the sun for the heat will melt the wax. Ignoring his father’s warning, the son flys to near, and as his wings desintégrate he plunges to his death in the sea.
Thanks to Mr. Mason Niblack, assistant director of the Union, and Mr. Marc West, assistant director of the Lowe Art Gallery, the mural will be formally dedicated in September.
Pops Music Festival Bangs Open Tuesday
The Whitten Union Program Council is sponsoring a “Happening” Tuesday night, August 15, at 8:30 p.m. in the Flamingo Ballroom.
What is a "Happening”? It is a mild one-night event resembling the West Coast’s “Flower Power Festival.”
UM’s Pop Musical Festival will include Ron Kickasola, a folk-singer, and Mike Smith, a satirist, both from the Flick; “the Abor-
iginal Missionary,” a psychedelic band complete with pulsating strobe lights, from the Place; T. Constance Coyne and Dan Barber in a satiric vein called “500 Pounds of Fun”; Dorothy Betz, a petite sophomore folksinger singing about the mountain country balladers; and the Modem Folk Trio from the Singing Hurricanes.
The show will be followed by a dance with music by “The Aboriginal Missionary.”
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“ . . . HOW TO MAKE A HAPPENING: Mix folk singers, new and old; An Aboriginal Missionary; 500 Pounds of Fun; and your own blanket.. .**
The Happenings sponsors indicate the evening can be enjoyed to the fullest if UM par-ticapants bring with them proper equipment such as “a warm heart, a warm blanket and a warm friend.”
Gov. Kirk 4 On’ Scene As Safety Bid Grows
Florida Governor Claude Kirk got into the act on safety for UM pedestrians this week in a letter released today by University Safety Committee Chairman Orville Briscoe.
Kirk’s letter indicated the statehouse is firmly behind the UM in the interest of student pedestrians, particularly in the area directly across from the University Shopping Center. Kirk answered a Briscoe letter of April 19, two weeks after a Miami coed was killed crossing the dangerous strip of South Dixie Highway.
The other area of traffic danger, South Dixie and Miller, will hopefully get the same level of interest when Briscoe contacts local authorities this week.
Kirk’s letter stated he was asking the state road department to make steps to correct the hazards at the University Shopping Center cross over and Briscoe hopes a study can be made and action taken at South Dixie and Miller too.
“It is difficult to control the heavy flow of traffic on Dixie Highway as it is, but the University will use its influence to see that the best measures are taken.”
The release of Briscoe’s letter from Kirk came about after the Hurricane brought the dangerous situation to light in a front page editorial July 14.
Briscoe pointed out that while concessions, probably in the form of pedestrian traffic control buttons, can be requested, more student caution and care must be expressed in using the Miller and South Dixie crossover.
Kirk’s letter reads in part:
“The delay in making this reply has been prompted by a rather extensive investigation made by the State Road Department. The Road Department’s study indicates that a considerable degree of hazard which exists at this location is occasioned by the fact that marked cross walks are not used by pedestrian traffic, but instead pedestrians cross indiscriminately without regard to cross walks or street intersections. The fatality which prompted your letter occurred well outside the limits of any cross walk and involved a vehicle traveling within the posted speed limit The Road Department’s study included the taking of a number of
pedestrians are failing to use the marked cross walks at street intersections.
In an effort to reduce the hazard by encouraging the use of properly marked pedestrian cross walks, I am by copy of this letter asking the Road Department to contact appropriate local authorities to initiate the installation of a pedestrian activated traffc signal at the cross walk which exists at Mariposa Avenue. Such signal controlled cross walk should adequately serve all pedestrian traffic destined either for the business establishments south of Mariposa Avenue or the restaurant at Turin Avenue. It is suggested that the University make every effort to obtain full student utilization of such cross walk after it has been signalized.
If the above described actions do not leiminate the pedestrian hazard, then I suggest that consideration be given to installation of fences along the east side of U.S. 1 wherever possible to forcibly effect use of the signalized pedestrian cross walk.
Thank you for bringing this matter to my attention. The Road Department assures its full cooperation in the alleviation of the hazardous condition.”
Share Is Target For 2,000 IBMers
Some 2,000 persons will attend the 29th meeting of SHARE, a voluntary organization of users of larger IBM computing machines, at the Deauville and Carillon Hotels, Miami Beach, August 14-18. Host institution is the University of Miami.
Object of SHARE is to advance effectiveness of utilization of the machine systems by promoting the free interchange of information in the best scientific tradition. Registration fee is $20.
General session speakers include Dr. E. G. Fubini, vice president and group executive, IBM Corporation, whose topic will be “The Present Status of Software Design Automation,” W. S. Humphrey, Jr., director of programming, on “IBM Language Policy,” and J. M. Hewitt, manager of large systems, System Development Division, IBM Corporation, on “Systems Reliability.” Some 70 highly technical ses-
sions will be held during the con-photographs which showed thatvention.
UM Press Added to Top List
The University of Miami Press has been accepted for membership in the Association of American University Presses, top national organization whose members represent 69 leading universities and colleges.
The UM Press was approved at the association’s annual meeting in Toronto, attended by 360 director and staff members of university presses and their families.
Accepted for membership at the same time as the UM were the University of Pennsylvania Press and the University Press of Kansas.
Highly selective, the national association admits to membership only adequately staffed university presses which produce quality publications with no less than five titles published each year. Miodrag Muntyan of the University of Illinois Press is incoming association president
Now in its 20th year, the University of Miami Press, member of the American Book Publishers Council, has published more than 100 titles of a scholarly and regional nature by both faculty and outside authors. Director of the UM Press is Ernest A. Seemann who came here recently from a similar post with the University of Alabama Press. Before that he was with Louisiana State an Indiana University Presses.
Coming out this fall are “The Enlightened: The Writings of Luis de Carvajal, el Mozo,” translated, edited and with introduction and epilogue by historian Seymour B. IJebman, with a preface by historian Allan Nevins, a story of Jews in Mexico during the Spanish Inquisition; “Bolivar” and “Her-nan Cortes” by Salvador de Madariaga; “Man in the Everglades, “a revision of the popular “They Lived in the Park” by Professor Chariton Tebeac of the UM history department, “Style in Mexican Architecture” by Richard Aldrich, and “Literature and Society, 1961-1965,” a selective bibliography, edited by Professor George K. Smart, UM English department and Professor Paul Carter, University of Denver English department.
In May the UM Press published “The Court Theatre” by Desmond MacCarthy, edited by Stanley Weintraub, editor of the l Shaw Review.
. . . Flower and Child
The floor space directly in front of the stage area will be cleared for the blanket tossers who want to have the thrill of being at the feet of the shows lineup of amateur and professional talent.
Other than providing a night of entertainment and enjoyment for the summer student body, the evening will also serve as an experiment for the creative minds of the Program Council and may be a forerunner of similar events this fall.
The Flamingo Ballroom is located on the second floor of the Whitten Union. There will be no admission charge.
Course List Is Growing For Honors
Six new courses will be added to the honors program for gifted students at the University of Miami this fall, according to Dr. Robert W. Hively, director of honors and privileged studies programs.
Last year some 250 students were enrolled in the 50 courses then offered in the honors program which is aimed at allowing superior students to plan studies more consistent with their backgrounds and abilities. Entrance to the program is based on high school records, College Board scores and letters of recommendation.
“Small groups of superior students, meeting with excellent teachers, replace the regimen and usual recitation or lecture of the college classroom with the discussion and heated exchange of a seminar,” Dr. Hively said in describing the honors program.
He will conduct one of the courses, The Aesthetics of Romanticism.
The other new courses to be ocered are:
Sensory Limitation on Art and Human Communication, taught by Dr. Thome Shipley, associate professor of ophthalmology;
Science, engineering and Society, taught by Dr. Murray L Man tell, professor of civil engineering;