Veritas, Vol. 19, No. 09, January 15, 1978

              Voi. 19 No. 9 January 15, 1979
For Faculty, Staff and Friends of the University of Miami
Thomas is named personnel executive director
Dr. Roosevelt Thomas, Jr. has been named executive director of personnel affairs at the University, effective Jan. IS. Announcement was made by Dr. John L. Green, Jr., executive vice
Roosevelt Thomas
president for administration and finance.
Dr. Thomas succeeds Peter M. Kayne, who resigned to become a personnel consultant in the health care Held.
As executive director, Dr. Thomas will administer the various components of the personnel division on three campuses—Coral Gables, medical and Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, including employee benefits and wage and salary administration.
Dr. Thomas has been assistant to the executive vice president for administration and finance since last summer. Prior to that appointment, he was a staff associate with the Florida School Desegregation Consulting Center at the UM.
Earlier, he served as training director and acting program director of the U.S. Office of Education, Southeast Regional Drug Education Training and
Schnellenberger chosen UM head football coach
Howard Schnellenberger, offensive strategist of the Miami Dolphins for seven of the past nine seasons, was named UM head football coach Jan. 8, 1979.
Schnellenberger, 44, replaces Lou Saban, who resigned Jan. 4 to become head football coach at the United States Military Academy, West Point, N.Y.
In making the announcement. Dr. John L. Green, Jr., executive vice
president for administration and finance, said, “The University is very fortunate to have Howard Schnellenberger as head football coach. He exemplifies all the attributes we look for in a head coach—good character, someone associated with winning programs, outstanding recruiting abilities and good with young men. He has the determination to make the UM a national football power."
Einstein's 100th birthday commemorated
Resources Center at the UM. He is a former administrative team leader and teacher at North Miami Beach Senior High School, and was a Peace Corps volunteer in Kenya, East Africa.
He received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Texas College, his Master of Education degree from the University of Massachusetts and his
Doctor of Education degree from the University of Miami.
Dr. Thomas has served as a consultant to educational institutions and social service agencies throughout the southeastern United States in areas of program development, implementation, and evaluation.
Howard Schnellenberger and his wife, Beverlee Ann, appear at the UM press conference when his appointment was announced.
The University’s Board of Trustees has reaffirmed its continuing commitment to excellence in academics
and intercollegiate athletics. “This is only the beginning,” Green said. “We Continued on page 3
Studies sponsors Orbis Scientiae
Theoretical
by Sharon Clark
The four-day Orbis Scientiae. a meeting of scientists in the fields of physics, mathematics and allied areas, will open at the UM on Monday, Jan. 15, with a symposium on the further impact in physics of Einstein’s theory of relativity.
Sponsored by the University’s Center for Theoretical Studies, it is one of many world-wide celebrations that will commemorate the 100th birthday of Albert Einstein (1879-1955), generally acknowledged as the greatest and most famous physicist ever.
Among those presenting papers the first day will be P.A.M. Dirac, Nobel laureate from Florida State University; Feza Gursey and Martin Klein of Yale University; Stanley Deser, Brandeis University; Dieter Brill, University of Maryland and Behram Kursunoglu, director of the Center at Miami.
Sessions will be held at the Holiday Inn South in Coral Gables from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily.
The scientists will discuss the future of Einstein’s general theory of relativity
in the evolution of physics and/ or the future of physics in the evolution of the general theory of relativity. Dr. .Kursunoglu says proceedings from the first day will be published as a separate volume in view of their significance to the world of science.
Alan Kirsch of the University of Michigan will moderate the sessions on
Appointment of John Ames Steffian as chairman of the department of architecture and planning in the School of Engineering and Architecture has been announced by Dr. Norman G. Einspruch, dean of the School.
He succeeds Dr. Basil Honikman, who was instrumental in the development and implementation of major academic innovations in both the graduate and undergraduate architectural curricula. These programs have contributed significantly to a recent decision on the part of the National Architectural Accreditation Board to
the second day when there will be discussions of his experiments at the Argonne National Laboratory in Chicago. These experiments, which are focused on the scattering of very high energy polarized protons from polarized targets, have been performed over the past five years and are considered fundamental in understand-
continue its three-year accreditation to the UM undergraduate architecture program.
Professor Honikman will return to teaching and research.
Steffian, professor of architecture and planning at the UM since 1977, assumed the post Jan. 1, 1979.
He is a Fellow of the Institute for the Study of Aging and a faculty advisor to the Ryder Program in Transportation at the UM, and a former member of the architecture faculty at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is also a
ing the basic structure of matter.
According to Kursunoglu the experiments are expected to test the theories describing possible constitutents of the units of matter consisting either of quarks (subscribed to by the majority of physicists), or of stratified layers of magnetic charges of Continued on page 3
guest lecturer at the Harvard School of Public Health in the area of urbanization in developing countries.
Professor Steffian holds a Bachelor of Architecture degree from the University of Pennsylvania and a Master of Architecture degree in Urban Design from Harvard University. In addition to his extensive experience in private practice, he is a former director of the Boston Architectural Center and was chief project designer for the Government Center at the Boston Redevelopment Authority.
Steffian to chair architecture and planning