Veritas, Vol. 04, No. 06, December 2, 1963

              December 2,1963
' MAHONEY HALL'
CEREMONY SET
Vol.4,  No.6
Formal ceremonies renaming the 720 Women's
Residence Hall, "Daniel J. Mahoney Hall," are
scheduled Dec. 11 at 4 p.m. in the Great Lounge
of the Hallo Miami News publisher and longtime UM trustee, Mr. Ma-
oney died April 1. Oscar E. Dooly, chairman of the Board of Trustees, will pay tribute to Mahoney in his address. Dr. Stanford will
respond and dedicate the Hall in the name of Mahoney. Invocation and
benediction will be given by Dr. W. Ivan Hoy, religion. The UM Men's
Chorus, Glenn Draper conducting, will sing. The Hall is located at
1101 Miller Drive.
' BIGGEST'  IBM
FOR INSTITUTE
The largest, fastest transistorized digital computer on a Florida campus -- the IBM 7040 —
will be part of UM's computer center soon to
rise west of the Engineering Building. The upper three floors of the
5-story structure will house the U.S. Weather Bureau and Navy hurricane research centers, under a General Services Administration
contract awarding UM $169,599 annually for space and use of the
computer for joint UM and WB research analysis. A special Committee of 21 of the Miami-Dade Chamber of Commerce is completing a $350,000 drive begun when plans for the center were announced
last year. Estimated construction cost exceeds $1.15 milliQn. Coir
pletion is timetabled before the end of 1964. Architects are Watson,
Deutschman and Kruse. Prime contractor will be M. R. Harrison
Construction.   Both are Miami firms.
BOARD APPROVES Selection of names of buildings, laboratories,
NEW COMMITTEE lecture halls and other facilities of the University will henceforth be the responsibility of the
"Committee for Naming Facilities." As approved by the Executive
Committee of the Board of Trustees upon recommendation of President Stanford, the permanent committee will be composed of two
Trustees to be named by the Board chairman; one faculty member,
to be selected by the President from three nominated by the Factuly
Senate; the Vice President for Academic Affairs, committee chairman, and the Vice President for Development. Representatives of
departments or schools may be invited to serve on the committee.
All suggestions for names of any UM facilities must be cleared by
this permanent committee for recommendation and approval of the
Executive Committee or, if the magnitude of the decision dictates,
from the Board of Trustees.
SPEAKING OF PEOPLE
Dt. jMelanie Rosborough, mod-
ern "languages, *h£k 'Wm elected
first| womftfv-p^esj^ient of the South
Atlantic "iibderif rtiilfeuag^ Association (See: Faculty in the
News)...      Ug&jt&Y
Julia Morton, Morton Collectanea, was host to Dr. Rune Fager-
strom, Swedish toxicologist...
"The South Could Have Won the
Civil War, If..." was historian Dr.
Charlton Tebeau's subject before
the Confederate Round Table at
Dade City...
Dr. Marvin J. Taves, sociology,
will be an invited lecturer at the
Regional Conference on Inservice
Training in Mental Health at Baltimore ...
In his capacity as secretary-
treasurer, Dean J. Riis Owre attended the Council of Deans of
Southern Graduate Schools' conclave in Memphis...
Participants in the Southeastern Regional Business Law
Association sessions at Miami
Beach included: Gary Salzman,
organization vice president;
Hugh L. Sowards and Dr. Stojan
Bayitch, law,
economics...
Dr.   Shasta
and   John Wilcox,
M.   Bryant,   mod
ern languages, has been elected
chairman of the "Spanish I" program for next year's SAMLA
meeting...
Simon Hochberger, journalism,
has been appointed to the editorial board of The Journalism
Educator for the sixth term...
"The Five Year Economic
Forecast for Dade and Broward"
was outlined for the American Marketing Association, Miami chapter,
by Dr. Edward J. Fox...
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