Veritas, Vol. 18, No. 09, January 16, 1978

              Volume 18, Number 9
For Faculty, Staff and Friends of the University of Miami
January 16, 1978
New/ Briefs
■	Joseph W. Palmer, Ph.D., has been appointed deputy director of the Louis Calder Memorial Library of the School of Medicine.
Formerly associate professor in the division of library science at California State University, Fullerton, he replaces Cyril Feng, now associated with the health sciences library at the University of Maryland at Baltimore.
■	The Italian Workshop. A new course designed to help participants become better acquainted with Italian geography, history, art and the language will be offered at the UM for the first time this summer.
Anna R. Ceci-Knabb, associate professor of foreign languages, will teach the class on Tuesdays and Thursdays, 6:30 to 10:15 p.m., May 16 through June 20.
For more details, call her at 284-2351.
■	Check Distribution Hours. Hours for check distribution at 140 Ashe are from 8:45 to 12:30 p.m. and 1:30 to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday. For more information call 284-2284.
Proposed George W. Jenkins Building of School of Business Administration
■	Comprehensive Cancer Center. A policy on smoking regulations in the administrative offices at the center was recently adopted. There will be no smoking in reception areas, conference rooms, hallways or offices with more than one occupant.
■	Dietician Wanted. The UM Health Service is seeking a qualified dietician to work four hours weekly at his or her convenience at the Health Center Hospital.
Applicants should contact Dr. Eugene Flipse, director, at 284-5921.
■	CIMAS. The UM has been awarded $117,000 in supplemental contract funds by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to
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Cancer Prevention Program Starts
By Jack Oswald School of Medicine
The Comprehensive Cancer Center for the State of Florida at the University’s medical school has launched a program to evaluate a drug which shows promise of preventing lung cancer in heavy smokers and other high risk individuals.
Experimental data indicate that analogs of Vitamin A delay development of lung cancer, explained Dr. Oleg S. Selawry, chief of the division of pulmonary oncology at the Center. Dr. Selawry and Dr. Lawrence E. Broder, associate chief, and co-principal investigators in the project.
Specifically, they will investigate the effectiveness of 13-CIS retonoic acid which is similar to Vitamin A except for one of its components, to determine how effective it is in halting the formation of lung cancer. The drug is taken orally in tablet form.
To enlist participants, the investigators have asked some 50 physicians to canvass their patients and families in the high risk category—those 40-years-old-and-up who smoke one or more packs of cigarets a day—to see if they will submit to an evaluation of their sputum. The evaluation is made from phlegm collected by the patient on three consecutive mornings and costs the patient about $20 for the analysis.
If the tests reveal abnormal cells in the sputum, the physician refers his patient to the Center which prescribes, supervises and keeps records on the anticarcinogenic treatment.
The investigation is part of a multifaceted approach to the problems of prevention, diagnosis and treatment of cancer being developed at the Cancer Center in cooperation with the UM medical school’s division of pulmonary medicine (Drs. Donald Massaro and Ralph Redding); the department of Continued to Page 2
The Citizens Board is spearheading a drive for the business school building as a special project and, with the University’s development division, is contacting businesses in South Florida, throughout the state and the nation to help make the building a reality.
Plans designed by Coral Gables architects Severud-Knight-Boerema-Buff call for a five-story structure with more than 70,000 square feet of space. The George W. Jenkins Building will house 13 classrooms, nine conference rooms, 90 faculty offices, nine offices for department chairmen, administrative offices, and lounges to be shared by students and faculty. It will be constructed to take special advantage of prevailing winds and sunlight.
Dr. Edward J. Fox, dean of the School of Business Administration, said: “1 speak for our students and our alumni as well as for myself in expressing profound appreciation to Mr. Jenkins for his magnificent gift, which assures the construction of this building which is so essential to our progress.
Jenkins Gives UM $2,500,000 For Business School Building
By Sanford Schnier News Bureau
A gift of $2.5 million from George W. Jenkins, chairman of the executive committee and founder of Publix Super Markets, Inc., and a member of the UM Board of Trustees, was announced Dec. 13, 1977, by President Henry King Stanford.
Dr. Stanford said the gift is restricted for construction of the proposed $5 million building to house the School of Business Administration. The building will be named in honor of the donor.
“Since joining the Board of Trustees in 1969, Mr. Jenkins has been a substantial donor to the University, primarily with unrestricted contributions. This latest major gift for construction of the long needed building for our School of Business Administration is further proof of Mr. Jenkins’ faith in the continuing progress of the University,” Dr. Stanford said.
“His gift is also a challenge to other trustees to assist our Citizens Board in raising the balance needed to start construction,” Stanford added.
“We are currently operating at maximum capacity in terms of classroom space, faculty and
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administrative offices, now scattered over the main campus in five locations,” Continued to Page 5
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