Veritas, Vol. 15, No. 16, January 13, 1975

              Committee to Study
Senate Improvement
In order to improve the present Faculty
Senate governance system, Senate
Chairman Gary Salzman has appointed an
ad hoc Committee on Improvement.
Among the committee's first assignments
is to consider increasing the Senate
membership from 45 to 65 and to review
the method of election of Senators so that
each major department will have
representation in the Faculty Senate.
Chairman of the committee is M.
Minnette Massey, law. Other members
are Robert Adt, mechanical engineering;
Bernard Black, education; Sidney
Besvinick, academic affairs; James S.
Clegg, biology; Linda Donelson, nursing;
Charles Eyre, finance; Shepard Faber,
physics; James Fitzpatrick,music; David
Longbrake, geography; William Pardo,
physics; Felipe Prestamo, architectural
engineering; and Robert Zuckerman,
politics and public affairs.
When possible, advance notice of
committee meetings will be published in
Veritas. Faculty members are invited to
Immunology Is
Topic of Symposia
Scientists from Europe, the United
States and Israel, including two Nobel
Laureates, Drs. G. M. Edelman and R. W.
Holley, will be addressing participants of
the Miami Winter Symposia January 13
through 17 at the Sheraton-Four Ambassadors Hotel.
The Symposia, jointly sponsored by
the UM School of Medicine's department
of biochemistry and the Papanicolaou
Cancer Research Institute, will be
"Molecular Approaches to Immunology"
and "Critical Factors in Cancer Immunology."
Papers to be presented will relate to the
structure, function and genetic control of
the immunoglobulins, the proteins involved in the destruction of bacteria and
viruses as well as the causation of allergic
reactions, and to the field of cellular immunology, which describes how foreign
cells, such as tumor cells, are destroyed
by white blood cells.
Included in the Symposia on January 13
will be the annual Feodor Lynen Lecture,
a scientific autobiography by a
distinguished biochemist. The lecture is
named in honor of Professor Lynen,
permanent visiting professor of the UM's
department of biochemistry and 1964
Nobel Laureate. Dr. G. M. Edelman of the
Rockefeller University, Nobel Laureate in
1972, will present the 1975 lecture, titled
"The Shock of Molecular Recognition."
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Volume 15, Number 16
January 13, 1975
Gusman Hall Nears Completion
by Sanford Schnier
News
The University will unveil its new $2.5
million Maurice Gusman Concert Hall
with three dedicatory concerts on January
31, February 1 and 2.
The first concert hall in the Greater
Miami area to be designed specifically for
the presentation of musical programs, it is
the latest gift to music of Miami financier
Maurice Gusman.
Concert highlight will be the world
premiere of "Eight Vignettes for a Festive
Occasion—a simul-sensory experience,"
by Dr. William F. Lee HI, dean of the
School of Music and noted composer. The
hour-long work was commissioned by
President Stanford, the American Society
of Composers, Authors & Publishers, and
the Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation.
Lee's work is scored for a full symphony orchestra, a chorus, a narrator,
synthesizer, various soloists, percussionists, jazz instrumentalists and a
spoken chorus. The vignettes-
Consciousness, Being, Freedom, Consideration, Understanding, Happiness,
Joy, and Love—are accompanied by
improvisationai projected liquid light.
To assure excellent acoustics, the
University engaged Cyril M. Harris,
Ph.D., of New York City as consultant.
Hailed as "an acoustics virtuoso" by Time
magazine, Dr. Harris has previously done
the Minneapolis Orchestra Hall, the
Metropolitan Opera House in New York
City and the Kennedy Center in
Washington, D.C. On the Gusman Concert
Hall he worked with the architect, Morris
Lapidus Associates of Miami Beach.
Contractor is Frank J. Rooney, Inc. of
Miami.
The hall seats 600 and is equipped with
quadraphonic sound throughout. The stage
area has a 40-microphone capacity.
Sophisticated recording equipment, movie
and slide projectors and five video screens
are other features. In addition to the 600-
seat sound chamber, the building has nine
administrative offices, library and instrument storage rooms, warm-up areas,
a green room and dressing room, a con
ference room, score desks and a music
reproduction center.
Maurice Gusman, donor of the hall, has
been a friend of the University for more
than two decades. Through the Maurice
Gusman Foundation, Inc., he has contributed to the construction of the Ashe
Building, Ungar Computing Center, the
Lowe Art Museum and to UM's Golden
Anniversary Development Program. He
has been active for many years in banking
and financial investments in South Florida
and has long been a supporter of the
Miami Philharmonic Orchestra and
numerous other civic organizations. He is
one of the original members of UM's
Society of University Founders.
Said Dean Lee: "Mr. Gusman's
magnificent gift is momentous not only for
the University but for our music-loving
friends in the community. It is wonderful
to know that our performing artists and
ensembles will at last be able to appear in
appropriate surroundings and the
audiences will enjoy music presented in
the finest concert hall in this area or on
any campus in this country."
Artist scheduled to appear in early 1975
at Maurice Gusman Concert Hall include
pianist Lorin Hollander with the Miami
String Quartet, the Temple Trio,
American Brass Quintet, and Yale
University Band. All performances by UM
music faculty and student artists, student
choral, and band and symphonic ensembles will be in the new hall.
Also scheduled for the new hall will be
the First Frederic Chopin National Piano
Competition, February 28-March 1, 1975,
sponsored jointly by the School of Music
and the American Institute of Polish
Culture. First three winners in the all-
Chopin repertoire competition will go to
Warsaw, Poland, for the Ninth International Chopin competition in October,
1975.
Dean Lee said the hall will also be
available to non-University performing
artists. "It can be safely predicted that it
will be in use almost nightly when made
available to prominent civic groups-
chamber music, operatic and ballet and to
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