Veritas, Vol. 02, No. 23, March 5, 1962

              E R I T A 5 The Mg
MARCH 5, 1962
Office of Public Information
FLAGS HALF MASTED, PEARSON PAYS TRIBUTE TO TRUSTEE W. ALTON JONES, CRASH VICTIM
half-masted Saturday morning. Mr. Jone Airlines jet crashed on taking off from where he was attending the national acc paid the following tribute to Mr. Jones Mr. Jones’ death. He had been a member dency. He always was extremely helpful of the University. I consider his pass Nation.”
In honor of W. Alton Jones, internatic famed industrialist and a University of Miami trustee since April 6, 1953, all UM flags were s was among the 95 persons killed when an American Idlewild for Los Angeles Friday. From Chicago, red!ting committee’s annual meeting, Dr. Pearson :	”1 was shocked and distressed by the news of
of our Board of Trustees during most of my presi-in many ways and was a fine and generous friend ing a great loss to the University and to the
LIBRARY THIS WEEK	TO	BEGIN DONNING	This week expert	workmen	of the Wilcox	Tile
FINAL FANCY DRESS	OF	BLUE GREEN TILES Company, a subcontractor	for the Otto G. Richter
Library, will begin putting the final fancy dress on the huge building. It will consist of blue-green tiles to be applied to the sides of the stacks that rear their great grey bulk above the trees of Main Campus. To cover the 32,654 net square	feet of space represented by the seven	stories	of the stacks	will
require 1,175,544	of	the 2x2 inch tiles. To hold them	together will require	97 miles
of joints. Last week the final coat of leveling stucco was put on the surface of the stacks in preparation for installing the tiles. This in itself was a task of high precision, calling for a tolerance of not more than one eighth of an inch in ten feet. The tiles, manufactured for UM by the Mosaic Tile Company of Zanesville, Ohio, will be fastened to the stucco by a skin coat of bonding cement and by white portland cement grout between the tiles. Expansion joints will be filled with white thiokol. Known as the faience type, the tiles were made specially to order for UM. They have a rough glaze to permit the clay bisque to show through the blue green surface. Arrival of the tiles was delayed by a strike at the factor}7. Consequently, as explained by the architects (Watson, Deutschman and Kruse) UM’s order became super special. When the kilns which had started making UM’s tiles were shut down by the strike, they collapsed. After the factory resumed operations new kilns had to be constructed and heated. This resulted in several weeks of testing and experimentation to achieve a glaze identical with that on the tiles made prior to the shutdown. It is estimated that from six weeks to two months will be required to complete installing tiles.
BOOKSTORE OPENS CHECK CASHING UNIT In addition to the check cashing service for faculty,
staff and students provided by Mrs. Corrine Cogan on the ground floor of Ashe Mondays through Fridays, the Bookstore has opened a unit which is in action mornings (8:15 to 11), afternoons (Noon to 3:30 p.m.), Monday through Friday and Saturday morning (8:15 a.m. to noon). The bookstore unit is manned by Mary Ann Quinn.
DR. CURTISS ACQUITTED, REINSTATED Following acquittal by a Criminal Court jury of
charges filed last Sept., Dr. John H. Curtiss was reinstated as a member of UM’s faculty. Pending trial, Dr. Curtiss had been suspended as chairman of the mathematics dept, and had been relieved of teaching assignments. During this period he carried on a research project for the U.S. Air Force which he is continuing. Upon being reinstated Dr. Curtiss requested that Dr. Emmet F. Low, Jr., who had been serving as acting chairman of the mathematics dept., continue in that capacity until the end of the present academic year.
SPEAKING OF PEOPLE Dr. Robert Johns, executive vice president, heading UM’s delegation
to the annual meeting of the Association for Higher Education at Chicago, will participate in a panel on ’’New Institutions on the Drawing Board”......
Dr. C. Doren Tharp, vice president for academic affairs and dean of faculties, has been invited by the Association to join a small group of top educators at the annual NEA Journal luncheon at which plans for improving the publication will be discussed..,. Dean Paul K. Vonk, Dr. Charles W. Philhour, Jr., humanities, and Dr. Robert Williams, chmn, natural sciences division, will represent UC at the convention. Dr. Jose Centurion, visiting professor at UM’s Medical School and formerly internationally renowned professor of medicine at the University of Havana, was pictured teaching a class of Cuban refugee physicians at the Medical School in David Brinkley’s Journal on how the Miami community is tackling the refugee problem, shown on the NBC network last Wednesday night. Dr. Centurion has been one of the leaders in the Med School’s program to assist Cuban physicians since its inception...Robert M. Kane, aviation administrator, was chief speaker at the Florida Air Pilots Association meeting March 1. His topic: ’’Man’s Earliest Efforts to Fly.”... Special guests at the graduation ceremony for the first two graduates of the School of Cytotechnology, administered by the Med School and Jackson Memorial, were three top administrators of the U.S. Public Service Cancer Control Program, Dr.Lewis C.Robbins, Dr. R.L. Smith and Dr. David A. Wood.,.