Veritas, Vol. 14, No. 28, April 29, 1974

              ROTC Attracts Students
Colonel Joseph R. Stauffer, professor of military science and head of UM’s Reserve Officer Training Corps program, takes a positive attitude about the recent decreases in the ROTC enrollment. “Now the quality of our cadets has improved. We just have those who really want to be in ROTC and are aspiring to become commissioned officers,” he said.
Currently the UM ROTC program has about 150 cadets, in the basic and the advanced courses. “The final criterion of our success, of course, is how many of these cadets get commissioned as officers into the U.S. Army or the Army Reserves,” Colonel Stauffer said. At commencement last June, 16 Army and 8 Air Force cadets were commissioned as second lieutenants, although others receive their commissions throughout the academic year as they complete the requirements. “For commissioning, a cadet must have completed the advanced ROTC course and earned a college degree,” Colonel Stauffer explained.
Because of the lowered enrollment,
recruiting has been stepped up. “We’ve found that the most successful method is to send a freshman cadet back to his old high school along with a senior cadet. They give a talk and answer questions about the program,” the Colonel said. He went on to explain that while he and his staff of six officers and six enlisted men do recruiting themselves, “the cadets themselves are the best recruiters we have.”
The ROTC program can attract top notch students by offering them several advantages, among them:
t Cadets in the advanced program, their junior and senior years, sign a contract with the Army and receive $100 per month during their last two academic years.
t ROTC scholarships are available. In return for incurring a four-year obligation to the Army, a limited number of eligible cadets receive full four-year scholarships, including tuition, books, fees and $100 per month. “We estimate this to be worth $3,700 to $4,000 per year at the University of Miami,” Colonel Stauffer explained.
Colonel Joseph Stauffer
Three- and two-year scholarships are also available, offering the same benefits.
Being the only ROTC unit in South Florida, the UM ROTC has crossenrollment agreements with other area schools—Miami-Dade	Community
College, Florida International University, Florida Atlantic University, Florida Memorial College, Broward Community College and Biscayne College. “Two thirds of our enrollment come from these schools,” Colonel Stauffer said.
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Fogel Named Assistant .
Recycling Center Expands Capabilities
The Recycling Center on the UM campus is expanding to take plastics, magazines and cardboard along with paper, glass and aluminum.
Ed Frankel of Environment! said that the Center now will accept plastic milk cartons, bleach containers and plastic bags, including sandwich bags, cleaner bags, lawn bags and newspapers wrappers, but not sheet plastic. Plastics should be washed in soapy water and rinsed, he said. Magazines should be wrapped together in one bundle, and cardboard tied in another bundle.
In the past year and a half, he said, some 600,000 pounds of paper, 150,000 pounds of glass, and 1,500 pounds of aluminum have been turned in by environmental supporters for recycling. The Recycling Center is located behind the Health Center Annex, Miller Drive and Levante Avenue.
Establishment of the position of assistant vice president for medical affairs at the School of Medicine was announced last week by Emanuel M. Papper, M.D., vice president for medical affairs and dean of the school.
President Henry King Stanford has appointed Dr. Bernard J. Fogel to fill the post effective May 1.
Dr. Fogel will work closely with Dean Papper on all matters of internal management of the school, and also will continue to have administrative responsibility for medical education in his capacity of associate dean for medical education.
Dr. Fogel obtained his pre-medical education at Emory University and the University of Miami, and received his M.D. degree in 1961 from the UM School of Medicine. He trained in pediatrics at Jackson Memorial Hospital, Sinai Hospital of Baltimore and was a Fellow at Johns Hopkins. He then spent two years at
the Walter Reed Institute of Research where he was a research scientist in the Division of Communicable Diseases and Immunology and was assistant chief of the Department of Pediatrics at Walter Reed General Hospital.
In 1966, he joined the faculty of pediatrics at the UM School of Medicine, and in 1967 was appointed assistant dean for curricular affairs. Dr. Fogel has served as associate dean for medical education since 1970 and for two years was acting associate dean for research administration.
He is a consultant to two regional offices of the Bureau of Health Resources Development and is on the Governor’s State Advisory Committee of Title XIX. He serves on many UM medical school and University-wide committees; is active in the Group on Medical Education, Committee on Accelerated Medical Education and the Group on Student Affairs of the Association of American Medical Colleges and in other professional organizations.
Colonel Stauffer, accorded the rank of full professor and department chairman in the College of Arts and Sciences, (“Not the pay, just the privileges,” he joked.) is a 1949 graduate of the U.S. Military Academy and holds a master’s degree in public administration from Harvard University.
He explained that the professor-student relationship in ROTC is a close one. “We try to get to know all the cadets on a personal basis. It’s important because we have to evaluate them eventually as future officers.” Extracurricular activities play a large part in this, and include a rifle team, the Rangers, an annual Military Ball, and a female auxiliary, the Kaydettes, composed of wives and girlfriends of members.
The ROTC program consists of classroom work combined with leadership laboratories. “We don’t teach as much drill as we used to,” Colonel Stauffer pointed out. “Mostly, the leadership labs concentrate on communications, athletics, familiarization with military equipment and field training exercises. Of course, most important, we teach leadership itself—something that will be useful to the cadet no matter what profession he chooses to enter.”
Alumni Giving Sets Record
Alumni have pledged $328,848 to establish a new national collegiate record for telephone campaigns.
For the fifth consecutive year UM led all the other universities and colleges in telephone campaigns. Last year UM alumni pledged $315,379; the years before, $265,317, $233,229 and $157,000.
Six hundred and sixteen volunteers obtained 4,903 pledges in calls to every state over a seven week period. One-third of the alumni reached committed themselves to gifts of $100 or more.
Jean W. Coburn, director of Alumni Relations, said volunteers included alumni from all schools and colleges at the University and members of various student service groups.
She said the average pledge was $67, and that the three largest gifts were $10,000, $5,000 and $4,000.
The gifts will be used for scholarships, student loan funds, research and other academic goals.
President of the UM Alumni Association is Thomas E. Lee, Jr., chief circuit court judge in Dade County. Chairman of the Loyalty Fund program is Stanley H. Arkin, Miami builder, who was recently elected Alumni Trustee.