Veritas, Vol. 14, No. 09, October 29, 1973

              President’s Report Lists Sunbursts, Shadows
President Henry King Stanford’s 1972-73 Annual Report, “In Sunshine and in Shadow ...” was presented to the Board of Trustees at its October 17 meeting.
Divided into three sections, the report first examines a painting, “Hempstead Heath,” by John Constable, which hangs in the President’s office. It is a dramatic portrayal of an English countryside, alternatingly bathed in sunshine and cloaked in shadow. Dr. Stanford said, “As I turn from the Constable canvas to ponder the figurative landscape of the University of Miami, I see here, too, in my mind’s eye, a pattern of mixed meteorology. The weather is radiant and genial in many places across the canvas of our campus. Rays beam from solid successes and accomplishments in many areas; but, in the manner of Constable, there broods above a financial cloud that we cannot ignore, for it holds within itself the possibility of stormy weather.”
Dr. Stanford continued, enumerating a number of accomplishments in the UM community during the past academic year, referring to them as “sunbursts.” Among them:
The Residential Academic Program, for bringing professors to the students in their residence halls, enriching undergraduate education;
The student affairs staff, for conducting a successful summer orientation program for new students and their parents;
The arrival of two Nobel Laureates to join the full time faculties of the University—Dr. Lars Onsager to the Center for Theoretical Studies and Dr. Earl W.
Sutherland, Jr., to the School of Medicine;
The economic status of the faculty, evidenced by the AAUP statistics showing that for 1972-73, total faculty compensation at UM (exclusive of Medicine) in all professional ranks is higher than any other college or university in Florida and is among the highest in the South;
The intercollegiate athletic program and Athletic Director Ernie McCoy, for bringing the University national renown;
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Volume 14, Number 9
October 29, 1973
UF Campaign
M.S. Program in Planning Gets Nod
From UM Board of Trustees
Alumni, for earning top honors in the U.S. Steel Alumni Giving Incentive Competition because of their increased giving during 1972-73 and preceeding years;
The School of Medicine, for being designated by the National Cancer Institute as one of eight medical institutions in the nation to be a site for a comprehensive cancer center; also for receiving a substantial grant from the National Heart and Lung Institute to expand the sickle cell anemia program;
The University of Miami Press, for its national recognition by the American Library Association in their list of “outstanding academic books” for 1972-73;
The School of Law, for its emergence into the “radiance of ... academic maturity”;
The School of Continuing Studies, for its prospects for the expansion and enrichment of adult and community-oriented programs;
The School of Education, for directing new programs toward meeting the needs of professional individuals;
The Center for Advanced International Studies, for their major research program designed to shed light on the role of the Soviet Union in the area of Middle Eastern politics;
Dr. Sidney W. Fox, Director of the Institute for Molecular and Cellular Evolution, for being honored by a Festschrift, with scientists, including four Nobel Laureates, from around the world contributing to the book;
Seeks Support
Here is the University’s first United Fund report (October 15), showing that more effort is still needed if the final goal is to be reached. UF Chairman Robert Fuerst asked that those who marked their cards “no donation” reconsider and pitch in to show the community that the University of Miami cares.
Division	Percent of Goal
President	68.85
Academic Affairs	33.00
Development Affairs	24.36
Financial Affairs	17.90
Medical Affairs	.29
Student Affairs	16.34
The University has reached 19.35 percent of its goal for this year’s campaign, with total contributions to date, $18,366. The total goal is $94,876.
by Sanford Schnier News Bureau
A new graduate program leading to the degree of Master of Science in Urban and Regional Planning has been announced by President Stanford following its approval by the Board of Trustees.
Primary objective of the program is to prepare students for a wide variety of complex professional work in urban planning by developing intellectual capacity to deal effectively with the physical, social, economic, and political processes that generate growth and change in contemporary human settlements.
Given in the School of Engineering and Environmental Design, the new program is consistent with the educational accreditation guidelines of the American Institute of Planners, and responds to the need nationwide and in Florida for more qualified urban and regional planners.
The four units of the program—Urban Structure, Urban Growth and Change, Programming and Specialization— comprise of 60 credits. The major opportunities for specialization during the second year of study include community planning and management, environmental planning, urban design, urban planning in Latin America, and urban transportation. Emphasis will be placed on acquisition of the ability to comprehensively analyze, evaluate and synthesize the fundamental determinants of the planning process through program development and implementation.
Faculty professionals in urban and regional planning at the UM include Professor Ralph Warburton, chairman of architecture and architectural engineering and associate dean for architecture and planning; Dr. Anthony J. Catanese, pprofessor of transportation and planning and director of the Ryder Program in Transportation; Dr. Richard Langendorf, professor of architecture and planning and director of the Center for Urban Studies; and professors Ronald Frazier, Tomas L. Lopez-Gottardi, Harold Lewis Malt, Joseph A. Middlebrooks, Felipe J. Prestamo and Philip Steel.
Their experience includes professional planning work for local, state, and national governmental agencies and practice as community planning consultants.
Ryder Funds Awarded
Six graduate students and one undergraduate, seeking careers in transportation, are recipients of more than $20,000 in fellowships from the UM Ryder Program in Transportation.
Funds were made available through support of Ryder Systems, Inc., James A. Ryder, chairman of the board.
Dr. A. J. Catanese, Jr., director of the Ryder Program in Transportation, and professor of transportation and planning, will direct the fellowship program.