Miami Hurricane, August 11, 1950

              The Miami
Hurricane
Volume XXV
University of Miami, Coral Gables, Fla., August 11, 1950
No. 7
Ritchie Given
Love joy's Job;
Chair Endowed
Appointment of Professor Miller A. F. Ritchie as new chairman of the department of human relations was announced Thursday by Dr. Bowman F. Ashe, University president.
Along with Ritchie’s appointment Dr. Ashe also announced the first gift for the permanent endowment of the Bronston Chair of Human Relations.
The chair was established as an experiment in 1947 by Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin E. Bronston of Miami Beach. This was the first time a ^hair of human relations had appeared in oollege ^training. Its purpose is to provide courses which will give authentic knowledge of intergroup problems and activities and to prepare students for any occupation involving intergroup Relationships. Results of the experiment have proved so successful that other universities are now including human relations studies in their curricula.
Terms of the agreement, which were decided last month, deeded to the University income-bearing property in Miami to provide funds for the continuance of the work. Mr. and Mrs. Bronston gave the endowment as a memorial to their son, Benjamin Joel Bronston.
Ritchie, associate professor of education, succeeds Dr. Gordon W. Lovejoy as chairman of the department. Lovejoy resigned in July to accept a post in North Carolina as statewide coordinator of a human relations program in five North Carolina colleges.
Ritchie was graduated from Roanoke in 1932 and in 1942 received his master’s degree from William and Mary College. Later he took advanced study at Columbia University and New York University. He joined the faculty of the University of Miami in 1946.
In order to broaden the effectiveness of these studies, Dr. Ashe revealed, the University will eventually establish a Center of Human Relations. The center will do research in intergroup relations and train teachers, lecturers and students in new techniques. It will also provide counsel on intergroup problems for communities, social agencies and private corporations or organizations.
FacultyMember At Oak Ridge
Dr. Alfred P. Mills, instructor of physical chemistry here, is one of 32 scientists now in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. taking a one-month course in the techniques of using radioisotopes in research.
This course is seventeenth in a series concerning radioisotope techniques offered by the Oak Ridge Institute of Nuclear Studies. It brings the total number of research workers who have attended the school to 560.
The Institute itself is composed of 26 Southern universities conducting a broad research, training, and education program in nuclear science uirough a contract with the Atomic Energy Commission.
Oak Ridge, the center of radioisotope production in this country, possesses some of the finest laboratories and facilities for this work in the world.
Law School Starts Move To New Merrick Quarters
CAMPUS
^CALENDAR
Friday, Aug. 11, 8 to 10 pjn.-Coral Gables Rotary Club Meeting, Upper Den, Student Club 9 to 12 mid. Square Dance for all students, Student Club Patio.
Saturday, Aug. 12,—Entries due for Table Tennis tournament.
Friday, Aug. 18, 9 to 12 mid. -
Orchestra Dance for all students, Student Club Patio.
By JOHN BAIAR
Hiirrimnr Staff Writer
Photo by Baiar
DEAN RUSSELL A. RASCO of the Law School unpacks the first hooks to Ik* moved to the new law library in the Merrick building. The library is the largest of its kind in Florida.
'As You Like It' Scores Hit
Audience Likes Modernization Of Famed Shakespeare Farce
By HAL BERG1DA
Hurricane Drama Critic
Tampering with the works of Shakespeare has, in the past, resulted in some swell box office flops. With the success of Margaret Webster’s productions and Laurence Oliver’s movie “Hamlet,” which followed the originals closely, other directors have hesitated to change any of the Bard’s lines on their own. Sam lirsch, the director of “As You Like It,”
has taken some liberties with the4—————————-
original, none of which seemed to upset the first night audience.
Hirsch’s basic changes follow the
pattern set by Sir Ben Greet, famous Shakespearean circles for his interpretive adaptations of the Bard’s works. This version has much to commend it. It starts just a bit slowly, then the tempo increases until the audience forgets the time element completely in enjoyment of the rapidly paced comedy. Most of the credit for this should go to Hirsch for the way he has modernized much of the Elizabethan dialogue.
It is extremely hard to analyze
individually the work of the cast and technicians. Not only are the lead roles handled in an outstanding way but the technical excellence is such that it sometimes steals the show. Particularly in the case of the costumes designed and made by Becky Ybanez. Her costumes rival anything ever seen in a local production. The small, bare Ring stage would have been a dull setting without her colorful costuming.
While we are on the technical side Sidney Gilman should get a hand for his clever lighting of the shields which tell the viewers of scene (Continued on page 2)
Plans for the movement of the Law School from the present quarters at Alhambra Circle and Le Jeune Road to the Merrick building were revealed this week by Russell A. Rasco, Dean of the School of Law.
Transfer of Florida’s largest law library is now underway, and will be ready for fall classes in the new building.
According to Dean Rasco, six+ ~
Positions Open For Fall Grads At Job Bureau
The placement service bureau has several openings for students graduating at the end of the second summer term, Wallace Coburn, assistant director, announced this week.
There are openings for two teachers in a small town in south central Florida. One is to teach elementary music and the other, the second grade. Salary is $2250 to $2400 annually.
A hospital in Elmira, N.Y., has openings for a surgical instrument instructor and a clinical instructor. Salary is $225 a month and full maintenance.
A Miami department store needs a man or woman Spanish interpreter. Applicant must not he of Spanish background or descent.
There is an opening for a girl nurses aid to a pediatrician. This job pays $1 an hour.
A man to assist the manager of an amusement park is needed on Sundays. The salary is 80c an hour. I^niis A. Miller, director of the placement service bureau, is in the north contacting business firms he hopes will send employment recruiters to interview February and June graduates, Mr. Cobum said.
He urges all prospective graduates to file graduate application forms with the placement office as soon as possible. Students who register early will usually have a choice of the more attractive positions, Mr. Coburn added.
Student Stadium Location Shifted
rooms on the third floor have been assigned to the future attorneys as lecture rooms. One will be set up as a courtroom.
The east end of the library reading room on the second floor will house part of the 35,000-volume law library, and also serve the barristers' as a reading room and study hall. Two neighboring rooms will serve as stack rooms for the books which cannot be accommodated in the reading room.
It will require 7,000 linear feet of shelf space to store the books. If these volumes could be placed side by side in one continuous row, they would occupy approximately one and one-quarter mile of shelving.
fiasco's Office In Merrick
Dean Rasco’s office will also be located in the Merrick building. Offices of the Miami Law Quarterly, Miami Lawyer and the Barrister, publications of the Law School, will be located in the shacks.
This will be the fourth building occupied by the Ia»w School. It was founded in September 1926 in "cardboard college'* with Richmond Austin Rasco serving as dean. The register of the first class listed between 20 and 30 students. Russell Rasco succeeded his father as dean in 1935, and under his guidance the school continued its growth, averaging 75 students a semester up until the war.
Move To Anastasia
Demands for more space necessitated the move into the Anastasia school and, with more expansion, a later move into the present location.
Degrees were conferred on the 14 members of the first graduating class in 1929. Enrollment since has jumped to a record high of 1,142 in 1950.
A fall enrollment approaching 1,100 is anticipated by Dean Rasco.
Construction of a new student stadium has been started on the lot adjoining the south end of the student club.
The stadium, which was previously iocated in front of the Memorial building, is being moved to relieve the classes from the noise. It is also believed that more students will attend the activities in the new location.
The new structure will consist of three sets of bleachers, surrounding a 22 by 22 foot boxing ring. Seating capacity is estimated at approximately 2300
The office of the director of student activities stated that it will l>e ready for orientation, pep rallies, boxing and wrestling when the Fall
semester begins.
Photo by Bunt
GEORGE BOURKE. Miami Herald amusement editor, seems to like the cast of “As You like It,” latest drama department hit. Bourke, left, is getting the inside story on the U-M modernization of Shakespeare’s comedy as he talks to featured players between scenes. Furnishing the lowdown are Evelyn King, with hat, Stella Grey, and Eddie Cohen. As Rosalind, Evelyn portrays a girl of the Elizabethan period who assumes the disguise of a man. Stella portrays the young and likeable Celia. Cohen, back In the drama department after 18 years, portrays the amiable lover.