Veritas, Vol. 14, No. 08, October 22, 1973

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Drug Abuse Center Grant Renewed
The University’s National Drug Abuse Training Center will expand again in its third year, under a renewal grant of $620,000 from the National Institute of Mental Health of the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare.
Fifteen fulltime staff members will be added, as well as an audio-visual training component and a separate evaluation unit, said Dr. Carl E. B. McKenry, vice president for academic affairs and project director for the program.
The main campus training center became the fourth such installation in the U.S. in 1971 for professional and para-professional persons working in drug abuse programs under the direction of Thomas J. Cahill. Trainees also participate in the clinical programs directed by Dr. Thomas Carroll at the School of Medicine’s Division of Addiction Sciences in the department of psychiatry.
Last year, the center was expanded because the UM’s was unique among the four national centers, in having academic and clinical sites adjacent so that trainees have the full range of educational, treatment/rehabilitation, and research facilities easily available.
Trainees, from throughout the U.S. and abroad, totalled 3,000 in the first two years, including representatives of the NATO countries, several Indochina nations, the U.S. Marine Corps, and from Central and South America.
Thanks to you,
Dade’s handicapped are turned into taxpayers instead of tax users.
Carmen Ross Fills New Nursing Post
The position of associate dean at the UM School of Nursing has been created and Carmen F. Ross, R.N., M.A., named as the first to fill it.
Dean Barbara Buchanan said the appointment was effective September 1. Mrs. Ross’ duties will include developing continuing education programs for registered nurses, implementing a consortium for nursing education in the Greater Miami area and coordinating activities within the undergraduate program. Additionally, she will serve as chairman of the Nursing Library Committee and participate in the administrative responsibilities of the School of Nursing.
Mrs. Ross has devoted her entire career to nursing education and nursing service administration. She obtained her
M.	A. degree at Columbia University Teacher’s College after getting a B.S. in nursing at Adelphi College, Garden City,
N.	Y., and has taken advanced postgraduate work in education, administration, and public health. She came to Miami from New York in 1953 and was an instructor in nursing at the University of Miami. She was affiliated with Mount Sinai Hospital of Greater Miami for 17 years where she held positions of director of education, director of nursing and nursing education and director of the School of Practical Nursing. She has also taught at Barry College and Miami-Dade Community College. She became an associate professor at the University of Miami School of Nursing in 1970.
Law Dean Appointed
by Sanford Schnier News Bureau
Soia Mentschikoff, University of Chicago law professor and first woman president of the Association of American Law Schools, has been named Dean of the School of Law, effective June 1, 1974. A distinguished member of the academic legal community in the United States, she was elected president of the AALS last December in New York.
Announcement of the appointment was made by President Stanford who said: “The University of Miami is indeed proud to obtain a law dean of the stature of Soia Mentschikoff, who has made numerous contributions to the fields of commercial law, legal education, consumer protection and private international law.”
A visiting distinguished professor of law at the UM since 1967, Prof. Mentschikoff will be on the campus January through May as a consultant on law programs. During this period, Thomas A. Qingan, Jr., will continue to serve as Interim Dean.
In 1971, Miss Mentschikoff was one of 10 women suggested by the National Women’s Political Caucus as possible nominees to the U.S. Supreme Court.
In 1947 she was the first woman appointed to the faculty of the Harvard Law School. She became the first woman to teach at the University of Chicago Law School four years later and was a professorial lecturer there for 11 years before being named professor of law in 1962.
Professor Mentschikoff is the widow of Karl N. Llewellyn, a noted commercial law scholar and professor at both Columbia University and University of Chicago Law Schools. She uses her maiden name professionally.
Miss Mentschikoff was graduated from Hunter College in 1934 with an A. B. degree and the Columbia Law School in 1937 with her LL.B degree, studying with Professor Llewellyn before their marriage. She practiced law in New York City from 1937 to 1947. She received an LL.D degree in 1956 from Smith College.
She was one of the principal draftsmen of the Uniform Commercial Code (UCC),
one of the most important pieces of civil legislation in this century enacted by the states. The Code covers much more than a modernization of the law of contracts of sales of goods. Its impact is felt throughout the commercial world in the fields of bulk sales, documents of title, commercial paper, bank collections, foreign banking, investment securities and secured transactions, and has been adopted by 49 states, the District of Columbia and the Virgin Islands. She is consultant and permanent editor of the board of the UCC.
Apply Now for Sabbatical Leave
Applications for sabbatical leave for the academic year 1974-75 are now being accepted for review by the Sabbatical Leave Committee. Appropriate forms and an information sheet containing full directions are available in the Office of the Dean of Faculties, 252 Ashe Building, Main Campus.
To be eligible for leave, faculty members must have tenure, at least six years of full time service at the University of Miami, and a current role of teaching and/or research. Timing of the leave must be such that on return, three academic years remain prior to retirement at age 65.
Applications must be submitted to the chairman of the applicant’s department in time for transmittal through the school or college dean, to the Chairman of the Sabbatical Leave Committee, Dr. Ralph E. Boyer, by no later than November 15, 1973.