Veritas, Vol. 01, No. 10, November 28, 1960

              November 28, 1960
WEEKLY
Office of Public Information
Vol. 1 No. 10
ACCREDITORS HERE IN ’61 - Dr. Pearson, as he was preparing last week to leave tor Memphis where he will head UMTs delegation to the annual meeting of the Southern Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools,received word that the next annual meeting will be held in Miami early in December, 1961. The Southern Association is the regional accrediting organization by which UM is fully accredited. Dr. Pearson is a member of the Association’s Commission on Higher Education and a member of this commission’s Committee on Standards and Reports for Senior Colleges. Also representing UM will be Dr. C. Doren Tharp, vice president and dean of faculties; Dr. John R. Beery, dean of the School of Education; Dean J. Riis Owre, of the Graduate School, who is a member of the Committee on Latin American Colleges; Dr. Archie L. McNeal, director of libraries, who is a member of the Library Committee; Dr. Paul K. Vonk, dean of University College; Dr. Herbert W. Wey, professor of education. Dean Beery will report to the Southern Council on Teacher Education meeting in connection with the Southern Association, on the year long experiment conducted by UM’s School of Education in evaluation of beginning teachers in Florida. Dean Owre also will attend the conference of the Deans of Southern Graduate Schools of which he is secretary-treasurer. Dr. Carroll V. Truss, assistant dean of the Graduate School, also will attend this conference.
JOINS EDITORS - Professor Harry H. Wade, Accounting, has been appointed to the editorial board of the Florida CPA Journal, published by the Florida Institute of Certified Public Accountants.
YOURS FOR USE - Just a reminder to deans and department heads - The main purpose for which the Weekly UM Letter was re-established was to provide a regular means of internal communication among the many and diverse segments of our large and growing community of scholars and workers. For his Thanksgiving, the editor wishes to express thanks to all who have helped and cooperated so enthusiastically to get the Letter off the ground. As the year-end approaches, a time when there will be many changes in schedules and arrangements, the editor asks that notices and information be sent in as early as possible for each week’s issue. The current issue went to press early because of the holiday. The next two issues will go to press on regular schedule, with deadline for copy at 1 p.m. Thursdays. The Christmas New Year’s edition will go to press early, deadline for this holiday special will be 1 p.m. Tuesday, December 20.
AS OTHERS SEE US - The notable achievement of the University’s Demonstration String Quartet and Brass Quintet in bringing music to Dade County school children won high praise in a half page story in the Nov.2 0 Miami News. Wrote the News reporter: ’’Seven years ago, Bennett Stern promised his third grade classmates his father would come play the viola for them. The promise came as. a considerable shock to Victor Stern assistant professor of viola at the University of Miami. He tried to get out of it.
’My wife embarassed me into going,’ he said, ’they liked it.’ As a result of that apparently trivial adventure, more than 130,000 Dade school children have had the same sort of close-up introduction to musical instruments.
’’Five years ago, Stern talked to officiaTs of the Music Performance Trust Fund of the Recording Industries. The University of Miami and the Dade School system chipped Lfirr* Stern organized a string quartet which visited classrooms in 30 schools. The quartet this year is slated to visit 72 elementary schools.
’’Then Robert P. Bobo came to town. And Bobo, assistant professor of French horn at UM likes the brass horn family of instruments. Bob organized a brass ensemble. Bobo’s brass quintet visited six schools the first year. This year it’s slated to visit 58.
’’Both Stern and Bobo, Dr. Doolin (supervisor of music for Dade schools) says,
’have a tremendous feeling for children and great ingenuity in finding graphic ways to make an instrument clear.’”
STUDENTS HEAR MORSE CODE - Not in the famed dot-dash telegraphic code, but in his own articulate speech, U.S. Senator Wayne Morse told some 300 UM students last Monday that colonialism is one of the greatest menaces to world peace. The fiery Oregonian spoke in the series sponsored by the undergraduate student body government and Delta Theta Mu, arts and science honorary. Warned Morse: ”If we continue to give the peoples of Asia, Africa and Latin America the impression that we support colonialism we shall lose their support.” He urged the United States to wage a great offensive in the interest of peace, emphasizing that permanent peace must be based on a system of international justice, to be adjudicated and enforced by the United Nations.
UM AGAIN WINS AT TROPICAL - UM’s general scholarship fund again won straight across the board as Tropical Park devoted the proceeds from its opening University of Miami Scholarship Day on Thanksgiving to the fund. Last year the ’’take” for scholarships was $79,532.19. Top UM officials, headed by Dr. Pearson, were guests of Tropical President Saul Silberman to see horses run to help students read.