Veritas, Vol. 27, No. 02, November 1986

              University receives record gift from Sylvester Foundation
some made in our own distinguished cancer center; lead toward tomorrow’s treatments for those who are suffering.”
The main thrust erf the Sylvester Foundation, headquartered in Boca Raton, is to advance the fight against cancer and heart disease, in accordance with the wishes of the late Harcourt M. Sylvester; Sr and his wife, Virginia. The foundation was created in the early 1980s with proceeds from the senior Sylvesters’ estates.
At the Oct, 23 announcement ceremony were (standing) Harcourt M. Sylvester, Jr., and (seated from left) UM Board of Trustees Chairman James W McLamore, President Edward T. Foote, Papanicolaou Comprehensive Cancer Center Director C. Gordon Zubrod, Public Health Brust Chairman Joseph Robbie, and medical school Dean Bernard Fogel.
foundation. “I have tremendous faith in the UM doctors and staff who have contributed greatly in the past and who will make even greater things happen in the future.” “With this single magnificent gift,” said James W. McLamore, chairman of the UM Board of Trustees, “the University of Miami School of Medicine has been given the resources and opportunity to create one of the finest outpatient cancer care clinics in the nation.”
“This gift is extraordinarily’ generous.“ said President Ecftvard T Foote. “The need is great. Every day’ discoveries.
To be named the “Sylvester Cancer Clinic,” the new’ 30,000-square-fbot facility will be located near the Papanicolaou Comprehensive Cancer Center It will contain a new’ radiation therapy’ center with CAT scanning, radiology* equipment, computer rooms, laboratories, waiting rooms and offices.
Of the gift. S12.5 million will fund construction and maintenance of the clinic, $5 million will provide immediate support for faculty; and SIO million will be placed in an endowment which should generate $45 million for
faculty support over the next 30 years.
The gift will endow chairs for the dean of the School of Medicine, the chief erf Surgical Oncology and the director of the Papanicolaou Comprehensiv e Cancer Center “What will make this clinic different (from other cancer centers in Florida and the Southeast) is its close tie between laboratory research and benefits to patients,” said C. Gordon Zubrod, M.D., director of the Papanicolaou Comprehensive Cancer Center and chairman erf the Department erf Oncology’ at the School erf Medicine. The new clinic will focus on screening activities, early diagne>sis, and, where possible, prevention.
“The Sylvester Cancer Clinic will be an integral part of our Papanicolaou Comprehensive Cancer Center; one of 20 such centers in the country so designated by the federal government, and the only one in Florida,” said Bernard J. Fogel, M.D., dean of the School of Medicine.
Along with the University’s affiliated hospitals. The Best in Medicine identified UM’s Papanicolaou Comprehensive Cancer Center as among the nation’s “institutions of outstanding reputation for the diagnosis and treatment of patients with a wide variety of tumor-related diseases.”
Fall enrollment data for freshmen released
Recently released benchmark enroll
ment data shows that the mean combined SAT score for entering freshmen at the Univ ersity erf Miami has reached 1106, a 26 point increase ov er last year’s figure and more than 120 points in the last five years.
The number of freshmen increased by more than 200 students, from 1,482 to 1,691 this year and the number of students seeking undergraduate degrees was up slightly’ from 8,485 to 8,501.
According to James Ash, associate provost for undergraduate studies, “UM’s innovative programs... the Honors program and the residential colleges” are some of the factors responsible for increasing interest among high school students in the University7 of Miami. “Perception is catching up with reality;” he said.
“Geographically’, we saw an increase of 33 percent in the number of new’ freshmen from states other than Florida.” Ash said. Among entering freshmen, the numbers from Dade and Broward Counties increased as did the number erf black students. The number of freshmen from other counties in Florida was also up slightly:
Approximately’ 40 percent (679) of UM’s freshmen come from Dade and Broward Counties; 10 percent (166), from other counties in Florida; 44 percent (738), from states other than Florida; and six percent (108), from other countries.
Graduate, law’ and medical enrollments remained essentially steady; and the number of non-degree students declined slightly:
Total enrollment at UM this fall is 13,383. compared to 13,398 a year ago.