Veritas, Vol. 13, No. 16, April 23, 1973

              University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida
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volume 13, number 16	April 23, 1973
Discussing various aspects of the training program with Maj. Robert Savage, Jr. (left) and Capt. Bart Friebolin is Edwin Weissinger, coordinator of the U.S.M.C. programs, Center for Urban and Regional Studies.
Grant Sends Marines to Drug Center
Committee Formed On Status of Blacks
A 25-member Committee on the Status of Blacks has been appointed by UM President Henry King Stanford to review and evaluate the quality of the experiences of black students, faculty members and administrators and to make appropriate recommendations.
Elected chairman at the initial meeting of the committee was Dr. Robert Waters, professor of law.
The committee includes six administrators, ten faculty members, three graduate and six undergraduate students, as follows:
Administrators: Joyce Knox, associate director of student activities; David McCalla, supervisor of housekeeping; Thomas Papino, assistant dean, College of Arts and Sciences and director of general studies; Ronald Hammond, associate director, student financial planning; Nancy Young, assistant director of international admissions, and R. Paul Young, special assistant to the vice president for academic affairs.
Faculty members: Dr. George Counts, assistant professor of pathology; Rose Foster, associate professor of nursing; Carolyn Howard, lecturer in business law; Dorothy Love, associate professor and readers’ advisor, undergraduate library; Joseph Middlebrooks, associate professor of architecture and director for community development, Center for Urban Studies; Dr. Hollis Price, assistant professor of economics; Dr. Alvin Rose, professor of sociology; Dr. Bernyce Smith, assistant professor of education; Dr. Waters; Dr. Vincent Ziboh, assistant professor of dermatology.
Graduate students: Ray Bellamy,Clarence Ewell and Flora Mitchell.
Undergraduate students: Gertrude Clytus, Jim Lacey, Vaughcille Molden, Alec Stephens, Willie Waters and Joan Williams.
In his memorandum of appointment to committee members, Dr. Stanford said: “The committee is charged with the responsibility of presenting a written document of its findings and recommendations to me as soon as feasible. It is the intention of the University administration to address directly those needs and problems identified and to respond to each on a priority and time-designated basis.”
John Koubek Awarded UM Order of Merit
John J. Koubek, charter member of the UM Society of University Founders, was awarded the University’s distinguished Order of Merit during a dinner honoring new founders April 13 at the Fontainebleau Hotel.
Mr. Koubek’s most recent major gift to the University was one million dollars in cash, which he presented in 1971, when he was 95 years young, as “a gift to America,” through the University.
His first major gift was made in 1942 when he gave the Koubek Center as a memorial to his wife, Rose Garibaldi Koubek, who died in 1939.
He is being cited for the Order of Merit “in recognition of distinguished leadership in promoting and contributing to the past, present and future education of the citizens of our community and our country with love and confidence.” In addition to the citation, Mr. Koubek received the gold cross of the Order, symbolizing membership. The University honored him with a Doctor of Laws degree in 1955.
The U.S. Marines will be landing on the University campus this spring, as groups enter UM’s National Drug Abuse Training Center.
Under National Institute of Mental Health funding of $55,000, 110 Marines will attend classes in six-day intensive training cycles over a period of four months.
Forty-nine faculty promotions were approved by the Board of Trustees at its April 11 meeting:
To Professor:
Eugene C. Corcoran, functional biology Ivan Davis, applied music Eleanor M. Dillinger, elementary education Adele K. Emery, library William J. Fogarty, civil engineering Mario P. Goderich, law Thomas T. C. Hsu, civil engineering Theona V. McQueen, elementary education Samuel P. Messer, health, physical education and recreation
Frank J. Millero, chemical oceanography Helen K. Smith, educational psychology Harold Strauss, business management and organization
Hazel Weidman, social anthropology (effective 6/1/72)
Mary P. Wise, library
Kamal Yacoub, electrical engineering
To Associate Professor:
George C. Alexandrakis, physics Robert E. Ankrom, drama Julien Balogh, applied music Rose Beck, library
Joseph F. Brownholtz, health, physical education and recreation John M. Burnham, management science John H. Croghan, education Harry A. DeFerrari, ocean engineering James W. Foley, economics Blase Gambino, psychology Evelyn T. Helmick, English Jan Hochstim*, architecture and architectural engineering
Josephine A. Johnson, speech Don J. Latham, atmospheric science Charles T. Mangrum, educational psychology Donald R. Moore, marine geology and geophysics
Aurelia D. Nagel, nursing
John A. Ritter, law
Rosalina Sackstein, applied music
Emphasis of classes will be on drug awareness—especially the dynamics of drug involvement—rather than on the aspects of treatment The Marines will be a cross-section of the Corps, from the legendary training camp drill instructors to privates and on up to the rank of lieutenant-general.
Bernard Schechterman, politics and public affairs
Bernyce S. Smith, elementary education Leda M. Udell, nursing Judith B. Wallace, mass communications Fred A. Wickstrom, Jr., applied music Won-Tack Yang, descriptive biology
*	Contingent upon award of M.A. in June 1973.
To Assistant Professor:
Edward L. Berkell, foreign languages Helen S. Biebel, library Robert S. Cahn, mathematics Laurence L. Donovan, English Marianne Horovitz, nursing Irwin Kruger*, management science Celita L. Morris, foreign languages Judith N. Tkach, nursing David Weisman, mathematics
*	Contingent upon completion of Ph.D. by 9/1/73.
Dr. Clingan Named To UN Committee
Dr. Thomas A. Clingan, Jr., professor of law and oceanography, has been appointed a member of the U.S. delegation to the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of the Seabed and Ocean Floor Beyond the Limits of National Jurisdiction.
He participated in the March-April meetings of the 40-member committee in New York City and will attend the eight-week summer session in July and August in Geneva, Switzerland, in which more than 300 delegates from 93 nations will take part.
Dr. Clingan for the past year has been a member of the Inter-Agency Task Force Advisory Committee on the Law of the Sea which advises the U.S. government.
The committee’s work will lead to the Law of the Sea Conference called by the UN for Santiago, Chile, for the spring of 1974.
Faculty Promotions Announced
Campaign Aims For H.S. Juniors
The admissions department is launching a direct-mail recruiting campaign this spring which it believes no college or university has ever done before.
The campaign is directed toward select high school juniors, with the objective of their obtaining early admission to UM and skipping their senior year of high school.
George Giampetro, director of admissions, said, “We’ve had an early admissions program of this type at UM for a number of years, and other universities offer such programs, but no one has tried recruiting early admissions on a large scale.”
About 25 to 50 students have been admitted early each year, but the goal for this year’s campaign is 150.
Mailings will be sent this month to about
35.000	high school juniors around the country who have achieved scores of 60 on both the verbal and math sections of the Preliminary Scholastic Aptitude Test/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test. This is equivalent to approximately 1200 on the SAT. The early admission candidate must also have an A to A-minus average in high school and receive a strong recommendation from his high school principal or guidance counselor based on academic and personal maturity.
These requirements are about the same as for previous early admission students.
“We see this campaign as an opportunity to attract outstanding students to the University. We can offer them something special-early admission,” Mr. Giampetro said. “Most of the early admission students are placed in the Honors and Privileged Studies Program.”
Dr. Robert Hively, director of the program, reports he’s never had an early-admitted student who has failed.
The filing deadline for the applicants is July 1; admission notices will be sent out July 15.
Those students who don’t apply for the early admission program will have their names added to a second mailing slated for this May and June, part of the regular recruiting effort for September 1974.
The students on the regular mailing list-
290.000	in all—scored more than 1000 on the SAT and have B averages or better. Sent to students in 20 states last year, the mailing is being expanded to cover the country.
“We’re going to make the University of Miami a household name in every home in the United States,” said Mr. Giampetro.
The mail campaigns have proven to be successful. Over 1,050 applicants for admission next September have been directly attributable to last year’s mail campaign.
It appears that admissions will be on target next fall, according to Mr. Giampetro. Freshmen admissions so far are a little ahead of last year’s figures, while the transfer admissions are about even. The graduate admissions remain slightly behind last year’s figures.
Office, Phone Changed
Edward Coll, vice president for development affairs and secretary of the University, moved to his new office at 103 Ponce Building last week.
His new phone numbers are 284-4025 and 284-4251.