Veritas, Vol. 21, No. 13, April 13, 1981

              For the Faculty, Staff and Friends of the
Voi. 2% No. 13, April 13, 1981
Edward Thaddeus Foote, H
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Foote elected fourth president of FM
Edward Thaddeus '"lad” Foote II, former Dean of the School of Law at Washington University and special advisor to the chancellor and Board of Trustees there, has been named president of the University of Miami.
His appointment, effective July 1, was announced March 23 by James W. Mc-Lamore, chairman of the UM Board of Trustees and chairman of the Presidental Search and Selection Committee. McLa-more said, "The University of Miami is indeed fortunate to attract "Tad” Foote to the presidency. He brings a rare combination of youth, enthusiasm, experience, intelligence and decisiveness. This man is a real charismatic leader. He will be quick to make an impressive imprint not only on our University, but on the entire South Florida community.”
Dean Foote, who is 43, is the fourth person to hold the office of president at the University of Miami. He succeeds Dr Henry King Stanford who is retiring 19 years after he assumed the presidency on July 1, 196Z
"I rejoice with the Board of Trustees and the campus community that the long search for a successor has been completed so auspiciously,” said Dr. Stanford. ”1 am confident that Mr. Foote has the personal qualities and experience to enable him to guide our University farther along the pathways to excellence
"I will be conferring with him soon as to how the transition at the University can be carried out smoothly.”
A native of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the new president holds a Bachelor of Arts
degree from Yale University and a law degree from Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, D.C From 1963-64 he worked as a police and general assignment reporter for both The Washington Star and The Washington Daily News. Following graduation from law school, he joined the firm of Bryan, Cave, McPheeters and McRoberts in St. Louis. At Washington University he held the position of vice chancellor general counsel and secretary to the Board of Trustees from 1970-73 when he was named dean of the School of Law. He assumed his present responsibilities in 1980.
President-elect Foote is a member of the Advisory Council, St. Louis Leadership Program and Seminar on Education and Courts, Danforth Foundation; the advisory committee of the Naval War College, the Conference on Education, a member of the Board of Trustees, Saint Louis Art Museum, the peer performance subcommittee of the Missouri Bar Professional Responsibility Committee, and chairman of the citizens committee appointed by the Federal District of Missouri to assist in preparing plans for school desegregation in the City of St. Louis. He holds professional memberships in the Missouri Bar, the American Bar Association and the American Law Institute as well as Order of the Coif honor society.
He is married to the former Roberta E Fulbright. They are the parents of three children.
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Everyone is seriously affected by skyrocketing power bills, and the University of Miami with its three campuses is no exception.
For the calendar year of 1980 the University paid some $4,378,578 to Florida Power and Light Company, ranking the institution among Florida’s twenty largest purchasers of electric energy, excluding governmental agencies.
A look at UM’s energy consumption and conservation efforts is one of those "good news, bad news” stories. First the good news: For the first nine months of this fiscal year, energy consumption is down three percent. Now the bad news: For the same nine months energy costs are up nine percent.
According to Rafael Ross, director of energy and equipment operations, rate increases and fuel adjustment charges have made actual costs increase faster than savings through conservation efforts. "What’s worse," he says, "is that there are two more rate increases which, if approved, will probably be effective in May and September and two more fuel adjustment increases coming up. This will result in an approximate increase of 30 percent for the fiscal year.”
The University now has an extensive energy conservation program which includes planning for new buildings, retrofitting existing structures and a complex computer monitoring system.
"The first conservation efforts were begun in 1973 after the fuel shortage,”
Don Hayman, automation technician, William Preston, assistant director of energy and equipment operations, Emiliano Saumell, computer monitor and Rafael Ross, director of energy and equipment operations. Energy consumption is monitored on the campus maps which are part of the computer system.
says Clarence Lefler, director of physical plant. "Since that time energy consumption has decreased by 22 percent, (this in spite of a 14 percent increase in square footage) while costs have risen 186 percent.” (See table on page 3.)
Without the conservation program, Lefler estimates some $1.5 million more would have been spent this year.
Energy consumption has been cut by reducing lighting levels in buildings, installing timers to shut off hot water heat-Continued on page 3-
A recommendation for Edward Thaddeus Foote II from the Consultative Committee, composed of UM deans and 12 members of the faculty senate, was given to James W. McLamore, chairman of the Board of Trustees and chairman of the Presidential Search and Selection Committee, at 5:30 a.m., Monday, March 23-
The Consultative Committee had met 12 hours with both Dean Foote and Dr Thomas Hearn prior to submitting the recommendation for Dean Foote.
According to Mr McLamore, the Consultative Committee report from Law Dean Soia Mentschikoff, committee
chairperson, stated "The committee asked me to convey to you that as a result of the examination of the record and writing, appraisals of each candidate received from outside parties, and the performance of each in small and large groups of both a business and social nature, it is concluded that each should be classified as excellent.”
With the report in hand, Mr McLamore convened the Presidential Search and Selection Committee for a 7 a.m. meeting followed by the special meeting of the full Board of Trustees at 8:30 a.m. in the Omni International Hotel.