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Volume XXVI University of Miami, Coral Gables, Fla., July 20,1951
No. 35
REEMELIN PREPARES FOR DAY’S LESSON IN U-M SAILING CLASS
62-Year-Old Navy Vet Of Both Wars Learns Sailing After Coming To U-M
By HERMAN CONNELLY
Hurricane Staff Writer
Clarence B. Reemelin did two long hitches with the Navy during both wars but finally had to go back to college to learn how to sail.
“In all my time in the Navy, I had'f never had any experience with sail boats,” said the lieutenant commander, retired, who enrolled at the U-M last month, “so now I’m learning how to handle the canvas in a sailing class.”
The 62-year-old student, who is majoring in journalism, left Xavier university at Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1905 and took a job as manager of the classified department of The Cincinnati Post. In his spare time, he wrote want ad promotion copy for other newspapers in the Scripps-Howard chain.
When the U. S. entered World War I in 1917, Reemelin joined the Naval Flying corps and, after attending flight training school at Pensacola, was commissioned an ensign. He was assigned to the Bureau of Navigation in Washington, D. C., as aviation aide to the director of naval training.
“I knew Admiral Byrd well while at Pensacola,” said Reemelin. “He was also taking flight training there and was a lieutenant commander at the time.”
After the war, Reemelin became a securities salesman with the National City co. on Wall Street and later moved to Cleveland, Ohio, where he continued in the same business.
“In late 1923 when I came to Coral Gables, it was just a fledgling city,” he said. He saw the arrival of the first street railway car and the arrival of the first Seaboard Airline railway train in the area.
Reemelin became one of the vice presidents of the Bank of Coral
250 To Graduate July 30 In First Campus Ceremony
Olivers Twisted,
Believe It Or Not
The U-M appeared in “Believe It or Not” in the Miami Daily News last week.
Several semesters ago, C. Oliver James, now studying for his master’s degree in business administration, was enrolled here as a journalism major.
One of his classes was instructed by James C. Oliver.
The coincidence of names was picked up by the Miami Herald and the Associated Press at that time, and now has gravitated to the Ripley feature.
Student To Give Recital
Robert Dante, piano pupil of Jeffrey Stoll, U-M piano instructor, will give his senior recital Monday in Beaumont lecture hall at 8:30 p.m, according to Music school officials.
Bach's Italian Concerto will open the program, followed by selections from Chopin, Ravel, and Liszt.
Gables, and organized the corporation that built the Gables theatre.
“I travelled with a group from Key West as far north as Melbourne making appeals for funds to build a stadium for the University,” said Reemelin, “but the boom had ended and we were unsuccessful in accomplishing our mission.”
At the outbreak of World War II, Reemelin went back to active duty with the Navy and was assigned to the U. S. Training school, Cornell university, as officer in charge of the V-12 unit He was promoted to lieutenant commander soon after.
Reemelin, who is interested in seeing a naval training unit at the University, is a past commander of Coral Gables Post 98 of The American Legion.
	
rinai Exam Schedule	
Class	Exam
8 or 8:30	8-9:50 Sat., July 28
9:30 or 10	8-9:50 Fri., July 27
11 or 11:30	10-11:50 Fri., July 27
12:30 ori	10-11:50 Sat., July 28
$200,000 Gift Of Marine Lab Offered U-M
A $200,000 marine laboratory for the University was part of a $2,000,-000 package that included an aquarium and botanical garden offered the city of Miami Wednesday by an anonymous group of six persons represented by Henry K. Gibson, Miami attorney.
The proposed installation would be located on Bend island, MacArthur causeway, and would cover the island’s entire 60 acre area.
Dr. F. G. Walton Smith, director of the U-M marine laboratory, said he had heard of the proposal earlier, but that the University has not yet entered into any agreement with the group represented by Gibson.
He explained that U-M now has an agreement with Dade county to construct an aquarium and marine laboratory on Virginia key sometime in the future. This agreement has met with the approval of the Florida internal improvement board on condition that the land used is only leased to the University, remaining under county ownership.
Both the MacArthur causeway and the Virginia key sites are subjected to restrictions that require they remain under public ownership. The Miami city commission has passed a resolution, at Gibson’s request, asking the state board to lift the restrictions. If the board complies, part of the exhibit could be ready for the winter season, Gibson said.
By JIM WinTESHlELD
Hurricane Stall Writer
The first graduation exercises ever held on Main campus will take place at 8 p.m., July 30, on the lawn west of the south wing of the Memorial building, Dr. H. Franklin Williams, dean of faculty, reported late” this week.
More than 250 students have applied for degrees that will be conferred at the exercises. Folding chairs for the audience, expected to reach 500-600 persons, will be set up on the grass. In the event of rain, plans have been made to have the ceremonies in Beaumont lecture hall.
Graduates will not wear caps and gowns, nor will there be a formal commencement speaker. President Bowman F. Ashe will address a few words to the graduates, however, before he presents degrees.
Students from the regular summer session, the Law school summer session and the teacher training session will make up the graduates.
Law school summer session will end Aug. 11 and teacher training Aug. 15. Degrees from these divisions will be conferred conditionally upon the student fulfilling his requirements.
Because graduating seniors will not be allowed to take examinations in advance, final marks will not be available at the time of graduation.
As a result, regular summer session degrees also will be conditional upon the student having successfully completed the required courses.
The program for the commencement exercises will begin with the invocation by a local clergyman who has not yet been named.
Following the invocation, degrees will be conferred by President Ashe, announcements made and the Alma Mater sang.
Music by a small band ensemble,
-Expert Charm* 'Em For Research-
Brings 500 Snakes From Orient
By HELGA FRANK
Human* Stiff Wriur
Approximately 32,000 snakes have been handled by William Haast, owner of the Miami Serpentarium, during the past three years in his experiments gathering snake venom for use by the University research department
He has just returned from a four-month expedition in India, China, Thailand and parts of Africa. On this trip he caught 500 reptiles, 200 of which he brought with him, while the remainder will be shipped over. The trip was very successful and occurred without mishaps, he said.
During his stay in Tanganyika, East Africa, he did some research on supposed "cure” herbs that witch doctors use in treating bites.
“These herbs are really worthless,” Haast said, “because if a patient dies, the witch doctor mournfully explains that the evil spirits were against the deceased person.”
“The King Cobra is the most dangerous reptile, and four drops of its
poison can kill a man in 30 minutes, ’ Haast explained as he walked into the cage and began unwinding a 12-foot cobra to show its length.
The majority of serpents will not strike unless attacked, he said. They never get accustomed to one particular person.
A snake sheds its skin, fangs and tips of the tongue about three times a year, which makes it look continually young. The greatest age of a reptile in captivity is about 35 years, Haast revealed.
Once a month the venom is extracted from the snakes. To do this, the snake is picked up gingerly behind the neck and forced to strike a piece of rubber which is stretched over a test tube.
The snake has to be in the best of health, or it might die of shock. For that reason, Haast regularly weighs and force feeds those reptiles that are underweight.
This dangerous hobby got its start 27 years ago at a Boy Scout camp j After his parents got over the shock
of his keeping serpents, Haast said,
they encouraged him.
He has now turned his hobby into a profitable enterprise.
WILLIAM HAAST
also not yet named, will follow the benediction.
Invitations to the exercises are expected to be available at the Bookstore today. Each candidate is entitled to five free invitations. Additional bids are 10 cents each.
Dr. William Scott Mason, English professor, is acting chairman of the Commencement committee.
A reception will be held in the Student Club after the exercises. University officials and deans will form the reception line, and other faculty members will officiate at the buffet-style luncheon.
Dancing to the music of Art Giles orchestra is scheduled from 8:30 to 11:30 p.m.
The reception committee is headed by Professor Melanie R. Roshorough of the German department.
The greatest number of applications for degrees came from the School of Business Administration, 62 for B.BA. and four M.BA.’s.
Applications for 65 arts degrees followed closely with 54 for A.B. and 11 for MA.
The only other division to request a comparable number of degrees was Law school with 63 for L.LB.
Other applications for degrees were B.S., 14; M.S. 21; B.S. (engineering), 7; B.Ed., 16; and B.Mus., 2.
Ten students working for master of education degrees in the teacher training session will be invited to the exercises, but they will not participate. They will receive their degrees and diplomas at the end of the teacher training session.
1951 'M' Book
Ready Soon
The 1951 “M Book,” a freshman
handbook published annually by the University of Miami and used as a textbook for orientation classes, will be completed within the next two weeks, according to Editor Bob Collins.
It contains tips and information for new students, a listing of all organizations on campas writh information on how to join them, U-M songs and cheers, a map of the Main campus, and 12 full-page illustrations.
“In content, it’s a combination University Bulletin and Ibis,” said Collins.
The 128-page miniature book, which is given free to all freshmen and transfer students, is printed in four colors, measures 4 by 5V4 inches, and is spiral bound in a plastic cover.
In addition to Collins, the staff consists of Neil Gilbride, copy editor; Walter Machos, production manager; Eleanor Starkstein, research editor; Jerry Simons, sports editor; John Baiar, photographer; and Prof. Norman D. Christensen, advisor.