Veritas, Vol. 01, No. 25, March 20, 1961

              PRESIDENT PEARSON ON AAUP REPORT - With the publication March 14 of the AAUP report on Faculty-Administration Relationships at the UM School of Medicine, President Pearson was asked by the press for his comment, little of which was quoted. FYI, this is what he said: MWe appreciate the interest of the AAUP and their sincere desire to be helpful. My personal feeling is that everyone concerned at the Medical School and in general University Administration has been guided consistently in his actions by what he sincerely believed was in the best interests of the University. We believe that we have an excellent medical school and that any of our problems, present or future, can be satisfactorily solved.” For the Newsletter, he added: "We are appreciative of the fact that the future of the Medical School -- as of all divisions of the University — depends in great measure on teamwork between the administration and the faculty, based on mutual understanding and confidence and common aspirations for the development of the entire University in whose continuing progress we share both faith and pride."
DEADLINE CHANGED - Dr. Alfred C. Andrews, chairman for the UM AAUP committee directed to draft a plan for faculty participation in university government, reports that‘deadline for comment and suggestions on the first draft, now in the hands of faculty members, has been postponed from March 20 to March 30.
SUPERIOR PERFORMANCE - Accounting majors scored a new high in last semester's American Institute of Certified Public Accounting achievement tests given all graduating seniors. Scores just released reveal those of UM's 26 February graduates ranked nine points above the national average according to department chairman Conley Addington.
NEW LAW PROGRAM - The Law School has announced a program to provide advanced legal education for practicing attorneys. To be administered by a Board of Governors of 16 prominent local legal authorities including Dean Burnes as Director and Dr. John C. Chommie, the UM Law Center Program of Continuing Legal Education will offer courses requested by members of the Bar starting mid-June.
HOLIDAY - All University offices will be closed on Good Friday, March 31. In cases where it is necessary to maintain services, those required to work will be given equivalent time off at some other time convenient to the department. EXCEPTION: As previously agreed, those employees at the medical school granted a holiday on Veterans' Day Nov. 11 will not be entitled to Good Friday.
ELECTRONIC KITCHEN - Thanks to an anonymous $5,000 donation, the Speech Research Laboratory in a former apartment at 5606 Merrick will have its kitchen converted into a control room for electronic recorders and other apparatus used in an experimental program of speech training developed by professors E. Allyn Thompson and Frazer D. White.
TYPEWRITER NOT SERVICED? SAY SOI - Property Control Office asks that all departments give location and identification of any typewriters not serviced this academic year. Same office reminds that annual verifications of inventories were due March 15.
SPEAKING OF FACULTY - Edward Sofen, associate professor of government, is author of "Problems of Metropolitan Leadership: The Miami Experience” in the February Midwest Journal of Political Science. Dr. Berthold Ce Friedl, professor of romance languages and Russian, will conduct a seminar in language methodology and linguistic research at the University of Maine, starting July 10. Dr. Charlton W. Tebeau, chairman, history, delivered the main address at the dedication of a Key West memorial plaque honoring Dr. Samuel Mudd. Dr. James J. Carney, Jr. will attend the national installment credit conference this month as guest of the Banking Education Committee of the American Bankers Association. Dr. Murray Ic Mantell, chairman of the civil engineering department, has been named "Engineer of The Year” by the Miami chapter of the Florida Engineering Society. Dr. James H. Ferguson, chairman, Ob/Gyn department, is the authority in Medical Tribune's March 13 issue for its regular feature, "In Consultation,” in which he supplies answers to questions in his field from doctors around the country. Julia Morton of the Morton Collectanea will present her study of "The Drug Aspects of the White Sapotes” before the annual meeting of the American Society for Horticultural Science March 19-25 in Miami. Dr. Frank D. Popp, chemistry, will present a paper on "Use of Benzaldehyde Mustard and Related Aldehydes in the Synthesis of Potential Anti-Cancer Agents," before the division of medicinal chemistry at the national meeting of the American Chemical Society in St. Louis March 21-30.
Dr. T.C. Collins, chairman, music education department, recently elected to the Research Council of the Music Educators National Conference, has been appointed editorial associate of the Journal of Research in Music Education.
SIX AWARDED WILSON FELLOWSHIPS - UM seniors comprised the second largest university group in the Southeast receiving Woodrow Wilson fellowships this year. Recipients are Steven Guiner, Althea Ketchum, philosophy; John T. Granrose and Marvin Schiller, psychology; Eleanor R. Friedl, French; Richard E. Laughlin, English.