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Volume 16, Number 14 November 24, 1975
Grouping Elderly Improves Morale
by Jack Oswald Public Information Officer School of Medicine
The mental health and emotional outlook of the elderly in a community can be improved by organizing them into a Neighborhood Family, members of the Gerontological Society were told in Louisville recently by Hilda K. Ross, of the UM School of Medicine.
She described to the society a program she developed among trailer park residents who had been subsisting on small pensions and living isolated, indrawn existences in a high crime rate area.
Ms. Ross’ theory was that a feeling of kinship could be cultivated among these people, so that they could provide mutual emotional support and work together in solving their problems and improving the community.
A member of the UM department of psychiatry and director of Community Health Services, Ms. Ross established Neighborhood Family Services, Inc., and went to work surveying and interviewing more than 100 elderly to determine their needs and problems.
Then, with the aid of merchants in a nearby shopping center, she obtained space and furnishings to set up a meeting place for socializing and holding educational and health programs.
The “family” concept is working out, Ms. Ross said. “The people are looking at their problems as a family would, evaluating them, seeing them in their own context and becoming active in their own behalf.”
“A number of agencies have always been available to these people, but now the people reach out to the agencies, rather than having the agencies impose services on them as in the past.”
In this issue...
December calendar of University events
The final production for the Ring Theatre’s fall season will be “Salad Days,” an outlandish musical comedy. It will run from November 26 through 30 and again December 3 through 6. Curtain times will be at 8 p.m.
Dr. Hank Diers, drama department chairman, will direct the play, and Jerry Ross will be the choreographer.
“Salad Days,” is a zany chronicle of a
by Valerie Rubin News Bureau
Minority group members seldom are seen in the purse-string-wielding budget and finance offices of an educational system, even where the minority is the majority in a given system.
The Rockefeller Foundation, consequently, has funded a $72,000 fellowship program at the University of Miami designed to move minority group professionals already working in a school system or college into the finance offices of their own institutions.
Dade County teacher John Williams is one of four black educator ^administrators awarded UM fellowships this year under the Rockefeller program.
Other participants are Marian Elbert, an administrator from Clark College in Atlanta, and Arman Green and Clarence Proctor, both school principals from New Orleans.
summer in the lives of two recent university graduates in London. Boy meets girl and they get married and start looking for jobs. They meet a tramp and a magical piano. When they lose the piano, they get involved with the boy’s uncle, who uses his flying saucer to help track it down. You’ll have to see it to believe it.
For reservations or ticket information, call the Ring Theatre at 284-3355.
As the program expands, the University of Miami will continue to draw participants from the southeast, with Columbia and Stanford universities and the University of Chicago serving their respective regions.
Program fellows are awarded $18,000 tax-free stipends from which they are to pay tuition and the year’s living expenses. The program is administered by the office of the UM vice president for academic affairs through the School of Business Administration.
R. Paul Young, assistant to the vice-president for academic affairs and program coordinator, sees great potential for a program of this type. “The budget office is one of the critical elements in any operation. This program will expose minority group members to a facet of their school systems they are not familiar with at all,” said Young.
Experts Discuss Federal Economic Planning Office
Focusing the light of economic reality on an imminent public policy decision, the Center for the Study of Law and Economics will administer a conference Dec. 12-14 on the proposed creation of a federal office of economic planning.
Some 25 prominent economists, lawyers and law professors will convene to discuss the economics of central planning, its feasibility and limits under the U.S. Constitution, the role of state and local authorities under central planning and the politics underlying planning proposals.
Dr. Henry Manne, distinguished professor of law and director of the Center, notes these issues rarely are addressed jointly from the perspectives of specialists in economics, constitutional law and political science.
The conference addresses itself specifically to the Balanced Growth and Economic Planning Act of 1975, legislation authored by Senators Hubert Humphrey, D-Minn., and Jacob Javits, R-N.Y. The bill would establish an office for national economic planning, a concept generally credited to Wassily Leontief, Harvard economics professor.
The conference will be held at the Royal Biscayne Beach Hotel & Racquet Club and is sponsored by the Liberty Fund, Inc., Indianapolis.
Trucking Study Begun
The University has been awarded a major research project by the American Trucking Industry Foundation for an in-depth analysis of the current national debate on economic regulation of the trucking industry.
Dr. Nicholas A. Glaskowsky, Jr., professor of management and logistics and director of executive and special programs of the School of Business Administration, is the principal investigator.
Also associated with the project are Dr. Brian F. O’Neil and Dr. Donald R. Hudson of the business management and organization department.
The scheduled completion date for the project is December.
Rockefeller Fellowship Program Gives Minority Professionals Financial Training
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