Veritas, Vol. 10, No. 11, February 16, 1970

              SPEAKING OF PEOPLE
THE BI-WEEKLY NEWS LETTER
President Stanford was the guest of the American Ditchley Foundation at a conference sponsored jointly by the British Ditchley Foundation at Oxford February 5-9 exploring the governance of universities,..
For Faculty and Staff
Voi. 10, No. 11	February 16, 1970
EVERGLADES CONFERENCE TO SET	Several hundred public and
CONSERVATION/POLLUTION GOALS	private officials and scien-
tists will take part in The Everglades Conference February 26-28, sponsored by the UM Center for Urban Studies and the Central and Southern Florida Flood Control District.
Object of the Conference will be to come up with a book of basic information to be used for the edification of public officials and the public as a whole, and to provide base text from which governmental and private researchers can proceed to advance research.
“We hope the Conference and the information to be assembled will help in enactment of rational policies for the future of South Florida/' said Dr. Leonard J. Greenfield, associate dean of UM's Graduate School, and one of the Conference planners.
Among those to attend are Florida’s Commissioner of Agriculture, Doyle Conner; J. W. Penfold, conservation director of the Izaak Walton League, Washington, D.C., and Gary A. Soucie, executive director, Friends of the Earth, New York City.
The Conference will be held at the Sheraton Four Ambassadors Hotel.
DR. SIDNEY BLUMENTHAL	An eminent New York medical edu-
NAMED ASSOCIATE DEAN	cator and clinician — Dr. Sidney
Blumenthal — has been appointed professor of pediatrics and associate dean for post-graduate education at the UM School of Medicine.
Dr. Emanuel M. Papper, vice president for medical affairs and dean of the School of Medicine, announced the appointment, effective March 1.
Dr. Blumenthal comes to Miami from the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University, where he was professor of clinical pediatrics.
One of the nation’s most distinguished specialists in children’s heart diseases, Dr. Blumenthal is frequently called upon to serve as a director or consultant in scientific programs, both as pediatrician and as a cardiologist.
As Associate Dean for Postgraduate Education, he will arrange and coordinate postgraduate seminars, symposia and courses sponsored by the school.
He obtained both his pre-medical Bachelor of Science degree and his M.D. at the University of Iowa, the latter in 1933. He served in the Army in the European theater from 1942 to 1945, rising from captain to lieutenant colonel. He joined the faculty at Columbia’s College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1950.
Ingus Naruns. music, will be cello soloist with the Greater Miami Philharmonic Orchestra at Dade County Auditorium 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 4 and 2:30p.m. Sunday, March 8. He will perform Boccherini’s Cello Concerto, Debussy’s La Mer, Tchaikovsky’s Rococo Variations for Cello and Orchestra, and Stravinsky’s Firebird Suite. Conductor is Alain Lombard...
Burton J. Goldstein. M.D., psychiatry, and chief, division of psychiatric research, gave a paper, “Comparison of Thiothixene in Concentrate and Capsule Form in Acutely Psychotic Patients” at the 3rd International Congress of Psychosomatic Medicine in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and chaired a psychopharmacology section. He was the only participant from the U.S. in an International Symposium on a new minor tranquilizer at St. Moritz, Switzerland Jan. 16-18 and was visiting professor of psychiatry at the Psychiatric Research Institute in Prague, Jan. 19-22...
Milton S. Saslaw, M.D., senior research scientist in medicine, was recently named director of Dade County Health Department, succeeding William R. Stinger, acting director...
Dr. Calaway Dodson and Dr. Earl Rich, biology, will lead 26 UM teachers and students on a spring break scientific research trip to Guyana, South America. Their destination is relatively undisturbed jungle near Dawa...
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