Veritas, Vol. 03, No. 03, October 8, 1962

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COMMITTEE OF 21 AND IBM WILL HELP UM	Details of a plan whereby UM in the near future
TO CONSTRUCT AND EQUIP COMPUTER CENTER	can begin construction of a scientific computer
center to be. the nucleus of an Institute of Information Sciences, are being worked out by the Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees in cooperation with the Committee of 21 of the Miami Dade County Chamber of Commerce and International Business Machines Corporation* As outlined to the Executive Committee Friday, the plan includes a pledge from the Committee of 21 to raise $350,000 to house the Institute and a gift of an IBM 704 computer valued at $2,000,000. The computer is being made available under the IBM educational assistance program. The campaign to raise funds for construction of the UM center will be directed by Comer J. Kimball, chairman of the board of the First National Bank and vice president of the Committee of 21* In announcing the plan, William t). Singer, Chairman of the Committee of 21, emphasized its pptential to attract industry to Miami and Dade County. Said Singer: "It will mark a major advance in our fight to broaden Dade*s economic base." Discussing the plans, said Dr. Henry King Stanford, UM president: "We are grateful that IBM has made the offer of a facility of such promise for aiding a variety of research. We are further grateful to the Committee of 21 for its offer of vigorous assistance to the University of Miami in this significant project."
PLACEMENT SERVICE STARTS ANNUAL JOB INTERVIEWS;	Beginning Oct. 11 and running through
DIRECTOR MILLER WILL MAKE APPOINTMENTS FOR FACULTY the middle of April, the Placement
Service will be visited by nearly 200 representatives from business and industry who will come to the campus to interview seniors for career jobs. Director Louis Miller will be glad to arrange for any faculty member to meet a company representative with reference to summer employment or any other matter.
During the past eight years 14,524 seniors have been interviewed in the Placement Service office for career positions. 53,403 undergraduates have been referred to local jobs to enable them to help pay part of their university expenses.
DEAN CARNEY HEADS UNITED FUND DRIVE; Plans for and needs of the United Fund Drive on UM1 s STANFORD SPEAKS AT KICKOFF THURSDAY campus will be outlined by John B. Turner, Cities Service
vice president, at a meeting of campaign workers in Beaumont at 3 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 11. President Stanford will speak briefly. Campus Generalissimo will be Dr. James J. Carney, Jr., assistant dean of the faculties, who this time is not stuck in an elevator (as he was during a recent storm) but is stuck with the big job of leading UM to beat its high record of support to the United Fund during the past five years.
"THANKS AND GOODBYE," SAYS VERITAS EDITOR	With this issue, William S. Howland,
AS HE LEAVES TO TAKE POST WITH MAYOR OF ATLANTA	editor of "VERITAS" since UM resumed
publishing a weekly news letter two years
ago, must say goodbye to readers of the publication, all of whom he considers "gentle" and highly cooperative. In saying not "farewell" but "au revoir," he also wants to express hearty thanks to UM*s faculty, administration, staff and students for their invaluable cooperation in making "Veritas" newsy and, he hopes, always factual and fair, relevant if not reverent. He beseeches continued cooperation with Nedra McNamara and Charlie Jones, to whom e passes not the torch but the typewriter.
And what of the ,rVeritas" editor? After five and a half years as assistant to the President and Director of Public Information, Howland has left to become Executive Secretary of the Citizens Advisory Committee on Urban Renewal, for the Mayor of Atlanta. Before coming to UM in May, 1957, Howland had been Chief of the Southern News Bureau of the Time Inc., publications in Atlanta for 17-. 1/2 years; previously he had been a reporter for the Atlanta Journal and an Atlanta advertising writer. In leaving, said Howland,’ "It is with poignancy that I must say "see you again," to many friends on the UM campus, on the Miami newspapers and in the Greater Miami Community. It has been a privilege and an inspiration to help build our University, and to work with Dr. Pearson and Dr. Stanford. If I were 15 years younger,
I would like nothing so well as to be a member of the team of contemporaries which Dr. Stanford 111 be forming to carry our University on to new heights of achievement. However, unfortunately, wishes are not retroactive horses and I cannot call back those years. It is a fitting time for me to accept the challenging opportunity offered unexpectedly by my old friend, Ivan Allen, Jr., mayor of the city where I lived so many years and where my children reside.
Mrs. Howland and I are keeping our home near the University. We hope often to be seeing our friends and visiting our University, where she, too, worked for several years. I am certain that under Dr. Stanford*s leadership UM will continue to build new towers of excellence upon the sturdy foundations established by his predecessors, Dr. Ashe and Dr. Pearson."