Veritas, Vol. 02, No. 05, October 23, 1961

              ALUMNI HAMMER "POST" (SATEVE)	On the Letters page of the current issue, four alumni
nPillory the Post11 (to borrow a witty headline from last Tuesday’s Miami News) for its Janus-faced text and picture mishmash about UM published last month. Following are excerpts from their letters — A*Barry Kon, president, New York alumni: nI consider your article derogatory, sensationally-slanted and unworthy of print in a high-categoried American publication.” — Mrs. Carol Nelson Rackmales, ’57: ”T resent the photographs you used, for they show all that is juvenile in college life. Many readers of your magazine may never know any more about the University of Miami than what they read in Jerome Ellison’s article or what they saw in those pictures. Thus you have done a real disservice to them and the university. For the University of Miami, although young and poorly endowed, contributes much of value to the Miami area.” — Richard H. Haskin, ’50: ”Your mastery of the techniques of ’yellow journalism’ is well illustrated by the two entirely different stories told by the text and the illustrations.” — Richard V. Mucci, ’61:	”1 felt very pleased that through your
article the public is being enlightened as to just what the University of Miami is doing to bring itself up among the academically respected halls of learning throughout the United States. I am, however, sorry to see those ’posed’ pictures which hand one, not reading the article, a great misconception of both the article and the life at the University of Miami.” After reading the letters from alumni, commented Dr. Pearson, ”1 am gratified that alumni have pointed out to the Saturday Evening Post’s editors and readers that an incomplete, unfair and distorted view of the University of Miami was published in that magazine. It is difficult for me to understand how such an article could appear in a publication which for many years had enjoyed an unsurpassed reputation for clarity and for objective interpretation of American life and American institutions.”
AMA OFFICIALLY COMMENDS MED SCHOOL The executive vice president of the American
Medical Assn., Dr. F.J.L, Blasingame, has officially commended the University of Miami School of Medicine for ’’its job in postgraduate training and in placing Guban refugee physicians in hospitals.” The AMA Board of Trustees has approved the training program and has extended official recognition to the Cuban Medical Association in Exile. The post-graduate courses which were initiated in Jan. 1961 are now beginning to attract physicians from countries other than Cuba and are becoming even more international in scope.
STUDENT POLLSTERS DEAD RIGHT Almost the exact margin of Metro’s victory in last Tuesday’s election was predicted in a poll conducted by UM students under the direction of Dr. Thomas Wood, government dept, chairman. Information obtained by 68 students in 500 interviews indicated that the McLeod amendment would lose by from 52 to 55 percent. The actual ”N0” vote was 52.04 percent of more than 200,000 ballots cast. Elmo Roper had best look to his laurels if the Woodmen start interviewing nationally.
SPEAKING OF FAGULTY The Speech Department was represented by four members at the
Florida Speech Association fall meeting at Florida Southern college: Dr. William L, Shea, chmn., Dr. Harry Lyle, Allyn Thompson and Frazer White.
Dr. Shea presented a paper ’’Advancing the Speech Profession in the Areas of Speech Correction and Audiology.” Mr. Thompson edits the association News letter. Mr. White is association secretary - treasurer.,..Mrs. Ann S. Rice, Mrs. B. Bissett and Miss Mary Neville Edmonds, Home Economics, attended the Southeastern district meeting of the American-Home Economics Assn., where plans were discussed for the national convention in Miami next June. Mrs. Bissett was appointed chairman of the college club section for program planning for the convention....Dr. Faye W. Grant, Home Economics, was the only nutritionist to participate in the African Studies Assn, meeting in New York. Immediately prior to leaving for that meeting Dr. Grant discussed the effects of a high fish diet on plasma cholesterol at a heart disease seminar at Broward County hospital.... Thanks to Victor Stern, asst, professor of viola and first violinist with the Symphony, 55,000 Dade County fifth and sixth graders are being introduced to the charms of stringed instruments and their music. For the sixth year he is taking the UM string quartet to schools for half hour programs. Others performing this notable service for school children are Herman Busch, Alex Priluchi and Mervin Cummings. Guest artist demonstrating the double brass is Kenneth Conklyn.... Dr. Reinhold P. Wolff, professor of economics, on leave, has been named acting chairman of an area-wide government contract pool committee to report to Mayor High.