Veritas, Vol. 01, No. 30, April 24, 1961

              CAPITAL GIVES PRESIDENT BIG HAND - Dr. Pearson returned from speaking to an alumni breakfast at Tallahassee last week all smiles over the recognition shown him and UM by legislative bodies, state agencies and officials. Arriving at the capital airport, he was met by three assistants to the state attorney general and the head of the Florida merit system, all UM alumni. A number of state officials attended the alumni breakfast at which Dr. Pearson spoke of UM's past achievements, present activities and future plans and potentials. Taken by alumni to the capitol, he was recognized as "a distinguished visitor" at the Senate and House sessions, received hearty applause, then he was presented to the Cabinet, asked to speak briefly, again given a warm hand. The Supreme Court interrupted consideration of a case to greet UM’s president. Last but far from least he had a short talk on educational matters with Governor Bryant, was given a State of Florida tie clasp by the chief executive. Said Dr. Pearson back on the campus, "I was glad to see that there are some 60 alumni in Tallahassee, many of them working for the state and doing well."
BUSINESS SCHOOL DEAN APPOINTED - Following the precedent of the national administration,
UM has "raided" Harvard for its new dean of the School of Business Administration. Dr.
Clark E. Myers, presently on the faculty of the Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration, will join UM as dean July 1. After working with Dean Noetzel July and August, he will take charge Sept. 1, the date previously announced for Dean Noetzel's return to full-time teaching. Dean Myers, who also will be Professor of Management, is a native Kansan, has his BA and MBA degrees from the University of Kansas, his doctorate from Harvard (D.S.C.). He has done advanced work at the U.S. Naval Academy and Penn State. He began his teaching career at the University of Kansas, served four years as a Naval officer in WW 2, then joined the University of Texas faculty, became chairman of the department of management. After a stint on the Harvard faculty, he was Dean of the College of Commerce and professor of business administration at Ohio State. He then went abroad for three years as the first director of the Institut pour L'Etude des Methodes de Direction de L'Enterprise at Lausanne, Switzerland. In 1960 he returned to the Harvard faculty. He has been a consultant for the U.S. Air Force, the National Association of Homebuilders, the Associated Plumbing Contractors, the Kroger Company and the Nestle Company, He is married, father of two teen-age sons. Announcing his appointment, said Dr. Pearson, "We are delighted to welcome Dr. Myers, a scholar of high stature and an administrator of wide experience. I am glad that Dean Noetzel is to be with us to continue his outstanding teaching."
AUDIO-VISUAL TEACHERS ON CAMPUS - UM will be host April 24 and 28 to delegates attending the convention of the Department of Audio-Visual Instruction of the NEA. With Dr. Sam F. Harby acting as host, the delegates will tour the campus in small groups, lunch at the student union, then will inspect the new University College building.
LAB BECOMES INSTITUTE - Greatly expanded in plant, staff and scope since it was established as a one-room operation in 1942, UM’s Marine Laboratory now has changed its name to one more befitting its stature and status. It is now officially known as the "Institute of Marine Science." Dr. F.G. Walton Smith, founder of the lab, continues as skipper of the Institute, which now has a staff of some 200 scientists and assistants, operates five modern buildings and a fleet of boats from its 7^ acre campus on Virginia Key.
TO CAMPUS COMES LUCE - Out from wide-seated, first class interior of National Airlines DC 8 jet Tuesday evening will step tall, lean, bush-browed, information-hungry Henry R. (for Robinson) Luce, editor-in-chief of TIME publications. No tourist he, Luce will make his first visit to Miami to deliver the keynote address to the Fifth Annual Photojournalism Conference co-sponsored by UM and the American Society of Magazine Photographers at Joe and Emily Lowe Art Gallery. For Luce’s talk subject will be "Sight and Insight." Talk deliv*-ered, Luce will sit through morning and afternoon sessions, taking time out for lunch with Dr. Pearson and top UMen at swank, golf-conscious Riviera Country Club, later take ibis-eye -view tour of UM campus under guidance of TIME-LIFE alumni Wilson Hicks and Bill Howland.
UM TAKES LEADING PART IN CONVENTION - Top men of UM will take top parts in the 28th annual meeting of the Florida Association of Colleges and Universities at the Roney Plaza April 27-28. Dr. Pearson will deliver one of the main addresses, his subject "The Private Colleges and Universities." Dr. Tharp, vice president of the association, will preside over the second general session, and will participate on panel to discuss UM’s visual-aids center. Dr. Hoy will give the invocation at the annual banquet. Dr. Tharp, who will appear on another panel, is slated to move up to the presidency of the association at the final business session.
SPEAKING OF FACULTY - Jack F. Benson, assistant professor, speech, is new editor of the FLASHA Bulletin of the Florida Speech and Hearing Association — UM will be host April 28-29 to the Southeastern Conference on Latin American Studies at the Lucerne Hotel, Miami Beach. Chairman is Dr, lone S. Wright, History. Dr. Robert Carlyle Beyer is co-chairman of program. Speakers include Dr. Clarence P. Idyll, Marine Biology; Vice President H. Franklin Williams and Dr. S.A, Bayitch, Law School; Dr. Dean George Epley, chairman,
Human Relations, will conduct the second annual human relations workshop abroad this summer. Limited to 16, the workshop participants will leave New York June 11, return August 1. Six credits are offered. Dean Weyher represented UM at the 45th annual convention of the Florida Engineering Society, participated in a panel on engineering education. Associate Professor Walter P. Allen attended the annual NAFSA conference at Columbus, Ohio. Dr. Samuel F. Harby, president, represented the UM chapter at the national AAUP convention at Boston. John Galbraith, bookstore manager, will have a busy weekend as veep of the National Association of College Stores, Inc. convening at the Deauville.
NO CHECKS OVER $150, PLEASE - The Office of the Chief Accountant asks faculty and staff to cooperate in not presenting personal checks for cashing over $150, except in emergency situations.