Veritas, Vol. 01, No. 31, May 1, 1961

              May 1, 1961
WEEKLY
Office of Public Information
Vol. 1 No. 31
ANOTHER SIGNIFICANT UM MILESTONE - At commencement next month, Dr. Jay F.W. Pearson will confer the first Ph.D. degrees in UM* s history. Recipients will be Alfred Etaugh, Jr., in psychology, William MacDonald, in pharmacology. Doctor-to-be Etaugh is from Peoria, Illinois, holds his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Bradley college, will return there to join the faculty as assistant professor. Doctor-to-be MacDonald is a native Ohioan, now lives in Coral Gables, has his BCA. from Emory University. As further indication of the progress of graduate study, Dean Owre reports the largest number of candidates for the Master’s degree - total of 860 in the Graduate School’s history. Among them are husband and wife, both candidates for zoology master’s. They have a very timely name for the Civil War centennial year — O’Hara. But Mr. O’Hara is named James, not Gerald, and his wife is named Mary, not Scarlett, so any further similarity with Margaret Mitchell’s famed characters is gone with the Biscayne Bay wind.
LOAN APPROVED FOR 720 TWIN - The federal Housing and Home Finance Agency last week announced approval of a loan of $2,871,000 to UM for construction of a residence hall for women students. Twin of 720, it will be situated east of that building. This is the fourth loan UM has received from H & H FA. Commenting on the Washington announcement, said Vice President and Treasurer Cohen: ”We have not received official notification, but if plans proceed as scheduled we hope to have the building ready for use at opening of the 1962 fall semester.1’ Architect is Robert M. Little.
NEW CREDIT UNION HOURS - Effective May 1, the Credit Union’s office hours will be 9:45 a.m. to 5 p.m. - Mon. Tues..Wed.;.9:45 to 5:30 - Thurs. Fri. If anyone has that spring urge to buy a new car, Credit Union says it has funds available.
FILM PREVIEW FOR GALLERY BENEFIT - Beaux Arts is presenting a special preview of the color film ’’The Royal Ballet” for benefit of the Joe and Emily Lowe Art Gallery on Thursday evening, May 11, at Wometco’s new Parkway Theatre and Art Gallery, Coral Way at 12th Ave. Deadline for tickets, obtainable at the Lowe Gallery, is May 8.
NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS HONOR ’HURRICANE’- Good news from the annual meeting of the American Newspaper Publishers Association in New York is that UM’s ’’Hurricane” was chosen as one of the five best college newspapers in the U.S. It will receive the Association’s ’’Pacemaker” plaque at the Collegiate Press convention in Chicago, Nov. 29. The Weekly’s editor tips his sombrero in congratulations to our esteemed contemporary.
SOLAR RESEARCH LEADER TO SPEAK - Dr. Harry Zvi Tabor, director of th'e Solar Energy Research Center at Hebrew University, Jerusalem, will speak at a physics colloquium at 4 p.m. May 1, Room N 109, Memorial Classroom Building. Public is invited.
SPEAKING OF FACULTY - Professor Edward Sofen, government, will deliver the main address at the 25th conference of the Florida Association of Civil Service and Personnel Agencies
May 4 at the Deauville. His topic ’’Metro - An Appraisal and Analysis.”....... Dr. Karl S.
Vorres, assistant professor, physical chemistry, will present a paper, nHigh Temperature
Methane Fuel Cells” at a symposium of the Electrochemical Society in Indianapolis..........
Harvard University Press is publishing a book, ’’Exploration into the Nature of the Living Cell,” written by Edward L. Chambers, M.D., assistant professor, physiology, Medical School and his father, the late Dr. Robert Chambers. Dr. Chambers recently presented papers to the International Society of Cell Biology, in Paris, and the International Embryological
Society in Pallenza, Italy.....Dr. Thomas J. Wood and Professor Edward Sofen, government,
have delivered a series of six lectures on constitutional law to the Cuban lawyers in
exile enrolled at the Law School.....A second, revised draft of the AAUP plan for faculty
government has been put in the interoffice mail for faculty members. Anyone who fails to
receive a copy is asked to check with Dr. Alfred C. Andrews, Classics......Dr. Fabien
Sevitzky, music director and Symphony conductor, will conduct performances in Chile, Argentina and Brazil during May and June. He then will go to Italy to conduct seven performances of ’’Carmen” in the Verona Arena.....UM faculty members will take a leading part in the program of the meeting of the Florida section of the American Chemical Society at the Hollywood Beach Hotel, May 5-6. Dr. Harry P. Schultz will be general chairman.
Among those assisting him will be Drs. Dever, Hubinger, Keenan, Popp and Sickels, and Dr. Kenneth F. Lampe, of the Medical School. Among those presenting papers will be graduate students Blount, Brill, Colvin, Davis and Miss Gerhard, faculty members Drs. Delchamps,
Dever, Popp, Schultz and Vorres......Dr. Mills will be chairman of a high school teachers
symposium May 6.
LUCE DEFINES EDUCATION - Welcomed to UM	by	Dr. Pearson as ”a fellow educator and a	fellow
fighter for freedom of the mind,” Henry	R.	Luce, editor-in-chief of the	TIME, Inc.	publica-
tions, in his keynote address to the fifth annual photojournalism conference gave a definition of education which caused wide comment among the conferees. Said Yaleman Luce:
”My father (a noted missionary to China	- ed. note) had a definition of	education.	He
said, ’The aim of education is to make man	at home in God’s universe.*”	Then added Luce,
’’Whether or not it is God’s universe, it is indeed a universe, and not a globe only, which today invites or challenges men to make themselves and their children at home.”
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