Veritas, Vol. 25, No. 08, May 1985

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For the Faculty, Staff and Friends of the University of Miami
May 1985
At their annual two-day meeting April 26 and 27, the University’s Board of Trustees elected five new trustees, two new members of the executive committee, and a new Secretary of the University
New trustees elected include Charles I. Babcock Jr., David C. Clapp, Eli S. Jacobs, Robert Paul and George E. Williamson II.
Trustees Marta S. Weeks and Leonard Miller were appointed to one-year terms on the board’s executive committee.
Named Secretary of the University was Cyrus M. Jollivette, who is also vice president for University Relations. Former head of the development division and a graduate of the UM School of Law, Jollivette joined UM in 1977. He succeeds Paul T. Dee, whdT remains the University’s general counsel.
Babcock is chairman of the board of the Babcock Co., a subsidiary of Weyerhauser Real Estate Inc. A 1949 graduate of the Georgia Institute of Technology, Babcock is chairman of the Business Assistance Center Inc., which is active in the economic revitalization of Liberty City.
An expert in tax-exempt financing, Clapp is vice president and partner of Goldman Sachs & Co. Formerly, he served as a special consultant to the Department of Housing and Urban
Development and the Department of Health and Human Services. He is on the boards of the Buckley Country Day School and the Museum of the City of New York, and is a member of the National Committee for Quality Health Care. He holds an A.B. degree from Yale University.
A partner in Peterson, Jacobs and Co. in New Tork, Jacobs earned bachelor’s and law degrees at Yale University. He is chairman of Digital Recording Corp., of Salt Lake City; chairman of
Bio-Response Inc., of Hayward, Ca.; and a member of the board of the Times-Mirror Company.
Paul is a senior partner in the Miami law firm of Paul, Landry, Beiley & Harper. A graduate of New York University and Columbia University School of Law, he is a past-president of the Citizens Board and of the Florida Philharmonic, Inc. where he continues to serve as a director and member of the executive committee.
Well-known throughout South
Florida, Williamson is President of Williamson Cadillac Co. and a past-president of the Citizens Board. He is a member of the Orange Bowl Committee and a past-president of the Rotary Club of South Miami. He earned a B.S. degree in aerospace engineering from Auburn University.
Attaining trustee emeriti status are 20-year board members Lon Worth Crow, Jr., and W. Sloan McCrea. Crow was elected to the board in 1964 and McCrea in 1965.
Strategic Plan:
Paramount in the discussion at the Board of Trustees annual retreat was the recently released University of Miami Strategic Plan Progress Report. The report, the first assessment of the University’s progress under the Strategic Plan, reflects a year of important growth in the life of this institution.
Introduced a year ago, the Strategic Plan redefines the University’s priorities and calls for the University “to reshape itself into a highly selective private university which offers programs of the highest caliber to discerning students seeking a quality education.”
Of the progress the University has made thus far, President Foote wrote in a Foreword to the progress report: “From announcement of the second largest fund-raising campaign in the history
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of American higher education to creation of the third school in as many years, from welcoming a freshman class of quality unmatched in 60 years to adoption of an incentive budgeting system, these pages show a university moving rapidly toward a ‘Rendezvous with Greatness.’ ”
For the University to achieve its destiny in joining the ranks of the most prestigious private universities in the United States, even more goals must be attained. Hence, the report establishes new objectives for the University. Further planning will culminate in a revised Strategic Plan for 1985-90, which will be presented to the Board of Trustees this fall.
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President Foote to deliver commencement address
Like many undergraduates who will receive degrees from the University May lO, President Edward T. Foote is completing his fourth year at the UM and will mark the occasion by giving the commencement address to the graduating class.
All told, 2,135 students will receive bachelor’s, master’s, doctorate or law degrees during the ceremony at 8:30 a.m. on the green in front of the Ashe Building on the Coral Gables campus.
“In the past four years, our University has made many important strides,” President Foote said. “We have created three new schools, launched the second largest capital campaign in the history of higher education, and been recognized by Phi Beta Kappa and other organizations for our ever-strengthening academic reputation.”
The University will present four honorary doctorates. The recipients are W. Graham Claytor, Jr., president of the National Rail Passenger Corporation, Doctor of Laws; Joan Ganz Cooney, co-founder of the Children’s Television Workshop which created “Sesame Street,” Doctor of Letters; William Edwards Deming, international business consultant largely responsible for statistical systems that revolutionized Japanese industry after World War II, Doctor of Engineering; and Wilbur E. Garrett, editor of The National Geographic, Doctor of Letters.
Approximately 1,220 students will receive undergraduate degrees from
UM. About 450 are earning degrees through the College of Arts and Sciences; 350 through the School of Business Administration; 150 through the College of Engineering; 80 through the School of Nursing; 80
From the more than 3,500 applications submitted nationwide, UM professors Robert Zaller and Ron Fondaw have been chosen'as Guggenheim Fellowship recipients for 1985. They are two of only 270 recipients nationwide, and the first faculty to receive Guggenheims while teaching at the University.
“In the academic community, a Guggenheim Fellowship represents one of the most prestigious awards a faculty member can receive,” said Arthur Brown, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. “The reception of two such awards in one year is a tribute to the quality and growing reputations of the faculty of the College of Arts and Sciences.”
Zaller, a history professor at the UM since 1972, was awarded a two-year fellowship to research “The Quest for Legitimacy in Revolutionary England, 1642-1660.” He will spend a year doing research in England and will
through the School of Education and Allied Professions; 70 through the School of Music; 40 through the School of Architecture; and two through the School of Continuing Studies.
The University will award approxi-
compile findings during the second year of the fellowship.
A prolific author, Zaller wrote Europe in Transition, 1660-1815 (Harper & Row, 1984); The Cliffs ofSoli-
Ron Fondale'
mately 310 master’s degrees including about 140 MBAs. Nearly 380 students will receive* law degrees and 190 will earn M.D. degrees. Ph.D. and other
tude; A Reading of Robinson feffers ( Cambridge University Press, 1983); Lives of the Poet (Barlenmir House,
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Robert Zaller
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Two professors receive Gnggenlieims