Veritas, Vol. 22, No. 09, Feburary 1, 1982

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as next law dean
Claude R. Sowle, former president of Ohio University and a distinguished scholar and'professor of law at Ohio State University, has been named to the dean-ship of the University of Miami’s School of Law.
Announcement of the appointment was made Wednesday, Jan. 27, by President Edward T Foote II who said, "Claude Sowle is one of the most respected and experienced legal educators in the coun-
Dr. Claude R. Sowie
try. Not only is he an accomplished scholar and fine teacher, he has served for years as dean of a law school and president of a university. Rarely have I heard such praise about an individual. He will be an outstanding dean.
"Following Dean Mentschikoffs leadership is not an easy assignment. I have every confidence that Professor Sowle will be equal to the task. He will be an outstanding dean, and University of Miami is fortunate indeed that he is willing to join our institution. Professor Sowle would be a fine addition to any law faculty. We are doubly fortunate that both Sowles are coming.”
Sowle’s wife, Kathryn Sharp Dix, graduated first in her classfrom Northwestern School of Law and will also join the UM law faculty. She’s now a tenured professor of law at Ohio State and has served as a member of the Ohio Constitutional Revision Commission from 1971 to 1977 when the job w as completed.
The dean-elect, 53, will succeed Soia Mentschikoff who is retiring from that post. During her eight years as dean, Dt Mentschikoff developed the UM School of Law into one recognized nationally as "excellent.” An expert in commercial law, Dean Mentschikoff came to the UM from the University of Chicago. She became
Mortgage program adopted as a recruitment tool
A new program of direct mortgage assistance has been adopted by the Board of Trustees to keep the University competitive in its quest to hire quality faculty and key administrators. The new program provides a $5 million pool for swing loans, down payment loans and
Alumiti's Annual Fund campaign begun
The Alumni Association began its Annual Fund drive Jan. 20 announcing a goal of $850,000 and a target date of May 21. One of the main projects in the fund raising drive will be a massive telephone campaign to alumni to be conducted between January 25 and March 18
According to Director of the Annual Fund Dan Thomas, individual goals have been set up for each school and the College of Arts and Sciences. Funds raised by and through the alumni of each school and the college will be turned over to those deans for a variety of uses.
Some of the schools, Thomas said, have already earmarked whatever funds may be raised for capital improvements such as the School of Music’s plan to use the funds for the Albert Pick Music Library. Others such as the School of Law and the School of Medicine have decided to use the funds for scholarships and student loans.
"The alumni are our living endowment,” Thomas said. "We look at the annual fund as being the interest from that endowment.
In addition to increasing the amount of dollars alumni contribute to the continuing development of the University, Thomas hopes to increase the number of alumni actively participating in the campaign by 18 percent.
dean and distinguished professor of law on June 1, 1974. She had been named to the position in October 1973 and had served as consultant from Jan. 1.
An expert of criminal law and torts, Sowle earned both his Bachelor of Science (1950) and Juris Doctor (1956) from Northwestern University. Admitted to the Illinois Bar; he worked for a Chicago law firm for two years before he began his teaching career at Northwestern in 1958. While there, Dr. Sowle was associate director of the criminal law program, 1958-62, assistant dean and then associate dean.
He left Northwestern in 1965 to accept the position as Dean of the College of Law at the University of Cincinnati where he briefly held a dual appointment as acting vice president for academic affairs.
In 1969 he was named President of Ohio University in Athens, Ohio, and held that post until he resigned in 1974 to join the law faculty at Ohio State.
While at Northwestern, Dr. Sowle served as chairman of the drafting subcommittee of the Mayor’s Committee on Organized Crime Legislation; was a legal
consultant to the Governor of Illinois, a member of the Board of Directors of the Chicago Crime Commission, and was named one of Chicago’s 10 Outstanding \bung Men.
He later served as chairman of the Ohio Legislative Service Commission Technical Committee to Redraft Ohio Criminal Code.
His publications include Cases and Comments on Criminal Justice (with EE. Inbau and J.R. Thompson), A Concise Explanation of the Illinois Criminal Code of 1961, and Times of Trouble, Times of Hope (1968), as well as articles in various legal and other publications.
As a student, Sowle served as business manager of the Daily North western newspaper, was elected to Deru, senior men’s honorary', and to the Order of Coif. He received an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from Loyola University in 1970.
The Sowles are the parents of two children, Leslie Ann, a graduate student at the University of Chicago, and Stephen Dix, a senior at Williams College, Williamstown, Mass.
cash flow' loans to certain personnel hired after Dec. 15, 1981.
The move to provide some assistance to new faculty and key administrators resulted from requests from the Academic Affairs division which had identified the expensive housing situation in Miami as a critical problem in faculty recruitment. A recent survey by Peat, Marwick, Mitchell and Co., revealed that many corporations were also facing the same problem, according to UM Treasurer Diane Cook.
While some universities have moved to provide living quarters for faculty through the construction of on-campus apartments, Cook said UM decided on the mortgage fund approach similar to programs in existence at Stanford, Carnegie-Mellon and the University of California at Los Angeles because "it was something that the University could afford to do at this time.”
"This won’t meet everyone’s needs but we hope it will allow new faculty members or key administrators to get involved in some sort of creative financing,” Ms. Cook said.
The average price of used homes in the Greater Miami area is currently $86,800. Following traditional practices, in a 12 percent mortgage market, a combined family income of $34,000 would be necessary to purchase the average home. At a 15 percent mortga^ ?, the income necessary to make the payment rises to $42,000. With the 17 percent mortgages seen here lately, a family would need to be making 546,000 to meet the payments on an 586,800 house.
"The average non-medical full professor’s salary at the UM is 539,000 and the average non-medical assistant professor will make 529,000,” Ms. Cook said.
The program is applicable for principal residences only and available to professors, associate professors, assistant professors and key administrators as determined by the president. Applications for Please turn to page 2
Georgina N. Marty (1) and daughter Georgina Marty, scholarship recipient
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A Fulbiight the UM family
Georgina Marty, a student bom in Barcelona, Spain, of Cuban parents, has been awarded a Fulbright-Hays Fellowship to study at the University of Coimbra in Portugal.
The 20-year-old senior in the School of Business Administration has a major in international finance and marketing and speaks four languages—English, Spanish, Portguese and French. She believes her linguistic ability was an important factor in winning the prestigious grant, one of 25 awarded in the United States this year
Marty' will graduate this spring one year ahead of schedule with 147 credits,
27 more than those required. She earned 24 of those credits by taking advanced placement tests.
That might seem like more than a full load for anyone, but Georgina also finds time for two hours of ballet four nights a week and for two part-time jobs—one as a translator for Rachlin & Cohen, a CPA firm in Coral Gables, and the other as a secretary for the Florida Medical Corporation. She’s also taken piano lessons for seven years and lists tennis, softball and swimming as favorite past-times.
The oldest of three children, she was born in 1961 in Barcelona where hei*parents fled from Cuba. From there, they moved to New Jersey and then to Miami, their home for the past 11 years. Georgina, a graduate of Our Lady of Lourdes Academy, became a U.S. citizen at the age of eight. Her mother Georgina N. Marty, is a staff coordinator in the School of Continuing Studies.
In August she will leave for Portugal where she w'ill enroll as a student in the economics department at the University of Coimbra for one year The fellowship, funded by the International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation, will cover tuition, books, maintenance, health and accident insurance and travel. At the end of the year, all the U.S. Fulbright-Hays Scholars will meet in a European city to share their experiences and to consider a topic of international concern or historical interest.
Marty then plans to return to the University of Miami to study for a Master erf Business Administration degree. She aims to study possible markets betw een the U-S. and Portugal and thinks Miami is a fine place to do just tiiat.