Miami Hurricane, July 07, 1950

              THE MIAMI
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Volume XXV
University of Miami, Coral Carles, Fla., July
Band Camp Enjoys Active First Week; Class Is Praised
By JIM WHYTE
Hurricane Staff Writer
When registration was completed for the summer band camp on Saturday, there were 118 high school musicians on the University campus, exceeding last week’s estimate of 106.
The youngest camper to be registered was a 12-year-old boy. Several “old timers,” 17-year-olds, were registered to represent the maximum
age.
The camp officially got under way with the initial Sunday afternoon concert that drew a crowd of about 300 people. Camp director Fred McCall praised the students for their work at the concert. “There had been no time for rehearsal," he said, “and the campers had to do the work at sight.”
McCall also cited his staff for the work they had done during the first week. “The group," he said, “is hand picked, and all were chosen for their teaching ability.”
The camp band consists of 133 pieces. The 15 UM band members, who are acting as counsellors, play in the concert band with the campers. The camp director reported that even though all students who applied were accepted, the camp has | a well balanced band.
The camp observed July 4th I by devoting their band time to patriotic music. In the afternoon there was the annual staff-camper softball game, and in the evening the campers attended a movie in the lecture hall.
Monday night, the campers were the guests of the Ring theater. A student recital was held in the lecture hall last night, and today the camp is at Crandon park for a picnic. Tomorrow night they will hold a dance .on the Student Club patio.
McCall reported that many of the campers have attended other nationally recognized band camps throughout the country, and they said that the UM camp is superior to anything they have seen.
Segregation In U. S. Colleges Among Controversial Issues On NSA Convention Agenda
By HENRY GRANT COMPTON
Hurricane Staff Writer
Segregation and discrimination in the nation’s colleges and universities will be one of the important discussions at the third anneal National Student Association convention to which the University will send seven delegates August 22 to Sept. 1. The convention will be held at the University of Michigan, in Ann Arbor.
Doctor Endows Medical School For University
The $3,000,000 trust fund set up by a Coral Gables couple last week is the largest endowment ever received by the University, according to Dr.
Bowman F. Ashe, U-M president.
Dr. and Mrs. Shelden I. Rainforth, the donors, residents of “the city beautiful” for 21 years, completed arrangements for the trust agree-! ment last Saturday in the office of I Attorney James A. Dixon.
According to the arrangements i made, the income from their j $3,000,000 estate will become avail-| able to the U-M after the death of the Rainforths.
The endowment is for the projected medical school here, but it was understood that it would go to the University whether or medical school is founded.
Photo by Rudoff
THE LOWDOWN on the art of tuba playing is explained to Gary Carnes, left, 14-year-old from Haines City, Fla., by S. L. Tope, Daytona. both of whom are attending the U-M band camp which began July 1. Kneeling in front of the tuba disciples are Michael Manning. Shelby, N. C., and Glenn Dickson, also of Shelby. These boys are also in Miami for the five-week camp. More than 118 students have enrolled so far this year, exceeding last year’s total of 91.
Workshop In Human Relations To Be Held Tuesday, Wednesday
The delegates who will leave August 20 for the 10-day meeting are H. Stewart MacDonald, Student Association president; Aram Gosh-garian, former SA president; Tom Jordan, SA vice-president; Robert Hgnchell, former Interfraternity council president; Robert Abel, soph senator; Arnold Grevior, future NSA campus representative; and Sam Polur, Hurricane editor.
This is the second convention attended by Goshgarian and Hon-chell. Dr. Thurston Adams said that they will provide the new delegates with an added advantage.
A deadlock resulted last year in the discussion of fraternities eliminating discrimination and segregation bans. Postponement till this I year’s convention resulted; all members were instructed to consider the problem during the past year. All schools agreed that it should be eliminated, said Goshgarian, but they could not decide the means.
Miami To Offer Plan
Miami’s plan will place the re-
not a sponsibility with the national fraternity organizations working in Dr.	Ashe	and	Wilbur E.	Jones, ' conjunction with the NSA. Gosh-
estate	analyst	for	the Rainforths, j garian, who will be attending the
v/ere also present at the signing. {educational affairs committee, will
present some of the problems faced ,	. by the Southern schools.
The estate consists of extensive '
Approximately 400 colleges and universities will be attending the NSA meeting.
Extensive Real Estate
income property in Coral Gables and | throughout the area, including several blocks on Miracle Mile.
“We are enormously pleased and extremely grateful for this generous gift.” Dr. Ashe told the University’s benefactors.
Dr. Ashe said that a medical school was one of the fondest dreams of the University’s founders for the past 25 years.
An M.I). For 20 Years Dr. and Mrs. Rainforth, the former
Another important discussion will occur in the committee on human affairs which will be attended by Honrhell and MacDonald. They will discuss federal aid to education and the establishment of a federal scholarship fund.
The organizational affairs committee meetings will be attended by Jordan and Grevior, who will learn the workings of local and national
Visiting Band To Play Here
The first college band to play at the New York World’s Fair and the first to record a complete album of phonograph records will present a concert at the University Monday.
The Franklin and Marshall college j band of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, will offer a program of varied se- j lections Monday, at 11:30 in the Lecture Hall. The concert will be sponsored by the newly formed Square and Compass society of the University. The society hopes to obtain other top musical groups throughout the year.
The visiting aggregation is also the only band in the East which has played for every football game at home or away since 1936.
Band Director John H. Peifer, Jr. is an alumnus of Franklin and Marshall and has held his position of director of bands since 1936. During the war, Peifer directed the music program for the college’s Navy group.
He will direct a group of some 45 musicians here.
An audio-visual aid workshop in Human Relations will be held at the U-M Tuesday and Wednesday, in the Beaumont lecture hall.
The workshop meetings will be sponsored by the University in conjunction with the Florida regional office of the anti-Defamation league of B’nai B’rith.
The theme of the two-day session will be “The Role of the Teacher in Human Relations." Speeches by experts in the field, panel discussions, and various films on Human Relations are on the agenda.
Not only U-M faculty will be participating, but also teachers from the University of Florida, representatives from B’nai B’rith, and local clergymen.
Chairman for the meeting will be Donald Sprague, associate professor of human relations. Dr. H. Franklin Williams, U-M vice-president and dean of the faculty, will give the opening address.
The Tuesday sessions will be held at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m.; Wednesday, 10:30 a.m., 2 p.m., and 8 p.m.
'As You Like It' Tryouts To Be Held Next Week
Tryouts for "As You Like It” will be held Monday and Tuesday, July 10 and 11 at 3 p.m. in the Box theater. Auditions will be under the direction of Sam Hirsch.
Anyone interested in trying out for this play may piefc up a copy of the script in the Drama office.
Edith Becker of New York City, live NSA organizations. at 4200 Granada blvd. After prac- Abe, wi„ attend the international ticing medicine in New York for 20 affajrs committee which will engage years, specializing in deimatology, jn studying the relation of work! he came to Coral Gables in 1929 to events to the university student, improve his health.	, Sam p0lur, managing editor <Jf the
“This has ln*en a pleasant place in fa„ Hurricane, will attend the con-which to live and has been good for ventjon as a press representative, us. During the years, we have made I He wi„ takt> part ¡n a conference a number of business investments (|evote<l to the exchange of ideas and here. It has been pleasant and stimulating to see the community grow and develop, and we have been especially pleased with the growth and development of the Uni-of Miami," Dr. -
principles as related to college journalism.
Commission Sought
A further project of the Univer-
versity of Miami," Dr. Rainforth sity delegation will be to obtain the said.	j Datin American commission now
“The University, we expect, will ! held by the University of Southern live for hundreds of years. It has California. The commission would great work to do for humanity. We I enable the U-M to establish educa-want to help in that work. That is | tional tours to “below the border” the reason for our decision,” he j nations and act as a clearing house
further stated.
U-M Publishes Volpe Biography
The first book announced by the University of Miami Press for fall publication is “Arnold Volpe —Bridge Between Two Musical Worlds” by Marie M. Volpe. The story of the founder of the University of Miami Symphony Orchestra has a foreword by 01 in Downes, music critic of the New York Times. Farrar, Straus and Co., New York publishers, will act as national distributors for the book.
Mrs. Volpe picks up the story of her late husband’s career at the time of his student days at the Imperial Conservatory in Russia, where he studied under Leopold Auer, and carries it through the 40 years of Volpe’s life in the United States.
The book’s sub-title — “Bridge Between Two Musical Worlds”— refers to Volpe’s use of his superb European training to found symphony orchestras in this country and to train American players at
a time when Europeans had a monopoly on the places in symphonic orchestras.
Douglas,Barker On Staff
Members of the University Press committee, with the exception of Marjory Stoneman Douglas and Virgil Barker, arc University faculty members. They are: E. E. Cohen, Dr. J. I). Corrington, John Galbraith, W. G. Harkins, W. J. Hester, S. B. Maynard, Dr. Grover A. J. Noctzel, Dr. J. Riis Owre, Dr. Jay F. W. Pearson, Dr. Russell A. Rasco, Mrs. Melanie R. Rosborough. Dr. A. L. Stahl. Dr. C. W. Tebeau, Dr. C. I). Tharp, and Dr. II. Franklin Williams. Malcolm Ross. University Editor, is chairman of the University Press committee.
Volpe established two such orchestras in New York in the
early years of this century and founded the Lewisohn Stadium Concerts in 1918 and the University of Miami Symphony in 1926. The book will be illustrated with rare photographs of great personalities in music and of the earliest outdoor symphony concerts through which Volpe stimulated the present vogue for open-air symphonic listening.
The University Symphony Orchestra, which is managed by Mrs. Volpe, gives students opportunity for practical orchestral training and the chance to participate in large ensemble groups. The authoress also manages the University concert series.
The University Press, now in its second year, has plans for a series of books on South Florida subjects, in addition to its planned publication of scholarly and scientific material produced among the faculty.
for Latin American educational information.
The formation of a Florida region of the NSA is another hope of this year’s representatives. The U-M now is in the Florida, Georgia, Alabama district.
"We need 10 Florida colleges or a total of 55,000 students to form our own region,” Goshgarian said. “At present only Barry College and the University of Miami are members of NSA.” Other Florida schools, however, are sending observers to the convention,” he explained, “and further expansion in this state may be possible.”
Miami’s delegation will also present the convention with a number of graphic representations of the University. Chief among these will be two motion pictures on the campus life and facilities available to students here.
M-Book Deadline Near
The M-Book, freshman orientation booklet, will be ready for publication within the next few weeks, announced Verne O. Williams, editor.
The pamphlet js distributed at the beginning of each semester to all new and transfer students.