Veritas, Vol. 16, No. 01, August 1, 1975

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Medical School Gets $3.7 Million Grant
Stanford to Speak At Senate Meeting
President Henry King Stanford will address the first meeting of the Faculty Senate September 2 at 3 p.m. in Brockway Lecture Hall. His talk will Be on the state of the University. All faculty members are invited to attend.
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Timers Installed On Classroom A/C
The School of Medicine has received a grant of $3,756,700 from the Department of Health, Education and Welfare toward construction costs for a new Primary Care-Family Medicine Health Care Center to »be built in the immediate vicinity of Jackson Memorial Hospital.
Congressman Dante Fascell notified President Stanford and Dr. E. M. Papper, dean of the School, of the grant.
The federal grant provides 70 percent of the construction cost of the $5 million center. The balance of $1,633,800 will come from the General Obligation Bond funds approved in March by the Public Health Trust.
The new center will enable the consolidation of numerous ambulatory services in the medical center, will relieve the severly overcrowded Jackson Memorial Emergency Room, and will provide for the
expansion of required training programs,
Dr. Bernard J. Fogel, assistant vice president for medical affairs, who coordinated the grant proposal, said the need to develop a model primary care training program is especially critical to Dade County because the Decade of Progress Bond Issue and the plans of the Health Planning Council call for the establishment of a minimum of four primary care centers in Dade County.
As an additional energy-saving measure, all manual air conditioning switches in the Memorial and Merrick Building classrooms have been replaced with one-hour timers, according to Matt Borek, director, Physical Plant.
Installed during the summer, the timers will not permit the units to operate longer than one hom* without the timers being reset. The reason for the installation of the timers, explained Mr. Borek, is that during the semester, many classrooms are empty at 2:30 or 3 p.m. and are not used again until evening. The new system will help to reduce the kilowatt usage.
McKenry Accepts New Post
When the air conditioning units were re-activated last April, notices were put up next to each switch asking that the unit be turned off if no class was to follow according to a posted schedule. A two-week survey by Physical Plant personnel showed that approximately 80 percent of the units in empty rooms were not turned off. The use of timers, according to Mr. Borek, will accomplish this part of the campus-wide energy saving program.
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Dr. Carl E. B. McKenry
Dr. Sidney Besvinick
Haskins & Sells to Review Budgets; Report to President, Board of Trustees
President Stanford announced that the Board of Trustees had retained Haskins and Sells, University auditors, to carry out an assignment in addition to the two-phase study they were commissioned to conduct last fall.
In the process of implementation of the new budgeting and monthly reporting system, developed in Phase I of the Haskins and Sells study,the firm will now review all budget operations on a continuing basis and make periodic reports to
the President of the University and the Board of Trustees.
George Dorr is the Haskins and Sells representative on campus. It will be his responsibility to make timely reports to the President and the Board of Trustees on the status of budgetary control.
Phase II of the study is concentrating on the development of a longer range financial planning system for the University.
Dr. Carl E. B. McKenry, vice president for academic affairs since 1972, will become special assistant to the president for external affairs with other educational institutions, effective Sept. 2, when Dr. Sidney Besvinick, associate dean of the faculties, will become acting vice president for academic affairs and acting dean of the faculties.
In making the announcement, President Stanford noted that Dr. McKenry, who last April requested a return to full-time teaching, will also teach courses in management during the fall semester and in law during the spring, and will continue to serve as director of the National Drug Training Program.
In his new post, Dr. McKenry will explore the possibilities offered by the new legislation passed last spring to contract with private universities for services to the state system.
He will serve as the private higher education representative on the Florida Post Secondary Education Commission and will continue to serve on the State Universities System Commission on Educational Outreach and Service. He will also represent the University in its relationships with the State Board of Regents, the Commissioner of Education, the Chancellor of the State University System and with other colleges and universities of Florida. Dr. Stanford said that in these areas, Dr. McKenry will work closely with Lynn B. Clarke, director of governmental relations, who has similar responsibilities with the. state legislature and „congress.