Veritas, Vol. 03, No. 28, April 15, 1963

              E R I T A S TI« Weekly
Lotter
April 15, 1963
OFFICE OF PUBLIC INFORMATION
IMS * FLEET’ AWAITS 176-FOOT SISTER
The ’’John Elliott Pillsbury,” biggest ship in the IMS'€leet, ^0s expected to be ready for marine research by mid-summer, according to Institute of Marine Science Director F. G. Walton Smith, pf|^j|j|^6-foot former Army supply ship was mothballed in 1959 after service as a missile-tracking unit. Acquired for $275 as surplus property (original cost: $1.7 million), she is currently being reoutfitted in Charleston, S.C. under a $320,000 National Science Foundation grant. If ready, the ’’Pillsbury” will join ships from five other nations in a three-month exploration of equatorial Atlantic Ocean in July.
BLUE CROSS Blue Cross-Blue Shield Hospital and Medical Plan enrollments will be accepted DRIVE SET through April 23 for full-time employes. This is the annual opportunity to join or change coverage. Applications and brochures available: Assistant Tre*asurer’s Office, Ashe Building; Office of Dean, Medical Research Building; Mrs. F. Vandever, IMS; Mrs. Forsyth, physical plant; Mrs. V. Runyan, dept, of medicine, Jackson Memorial. New policies effective June 1. Applications must be in Mrs. Morrow1s office by April 24.
EUROPEAN TOUR	Faculty, staff, older or married students have until Friday to deposit
DEADLINE HERE	$100 with Dean Dan Steinhoff for a $667 all-expense European tour, June
13-30. Another dozen would-be tourists are needed to fill out the group, to be led by Dr. and Mrs. James Carney. The 17-day jaunt covers London, Amsterdam, Munich, Vienna, Rome, Zurich and Paris from New York.
FACULTY CLUB Dean Clark E. Myers, business and Dr. William Deichmann,pharmacology, were ELECTS TWO recently elected to the Faculty Club’s Board of Governors. Continuing members are: Dean J. Riis Owre,° Dr. Archie McNeal and Mr. Gary Salzman.
The Board will consider nominees for club president today.
SIX WILL JOIN	Five new faculty members and one returnee join the College of Arts and
FACULTY IN FALL	Sciences and School of Business Administration this fall. The four A &
S additions: Dr. R. W. Bagley (Ph.D., Fla.), now at University of Alabama, will become professor of mathematics; Dr. John P. Guarino (Notre Dame) and Dr. H. B. Powell (Texas), both take their first staff appointments as assistant professors of chemistry, and Mr. Ernest L. Weiser (UCLA) shifts from Reed College in Portland, as assistant professor of German. The School of Business Administration adds: Dr. William D. Stevens (Harvard), now at New York University, professor of marketing; and Mr. George D. Welch, on leave of absence for doctoral work, returns as associate professor of accounting.
SYMPHONY SERIES CLOSES	Beethoven’s great choral symphony, the No. 9 in D minor, high-
WITH BEETHOVEN’S NINTH	lights the final pair of this season’s University of Miami
Symphony concerts, Sunday and Monday. The 100-member UM Chorus, directed by Glenn Draper, joins soloists Dorothy Coulter, Beverly Wolff, David Lloyd, Kenneth Smith and conductor Fabien Sevitzky in the mammoth masterpiece. Both the Sunday program at Miami Beach Auditorium and Monday’s at Dade County Auditorium begin at 8:30 p.m.
...And today is the deadline for renewing Symphony subscriptions for the 1963-64 season beginning in October.
NSF GRANT ADDS A $13,700 National Science Foundation grant will enable college teachers MATH PROGRAM of science, mathematics and engineering to attend the UM’s second summer program on linear algebra and numerical analysis, Aug. 5-30. Twenty will be chosen from applicants throughout the U.S.
UM TO SUPERVISE	Two graduate students in secondary education are now being chosen for
PRINCIPALS-TO-BE	internship training as future high school principals under UM and the
National Association of Secondary School Principals. The pair will -intern in ’’progressive” high schools picked from the southeastern U.S., Dean John Beery explains. The University is one of seven chosen for the pilot program, according to Dean Beery, member of the NASSP project’s committee. The other schools: Columbia, Stanford, Colorado, University of Chicago, Wisconsin and Harvard.
BAND CAMP Applications are now ready for teenage musicians wishing to attend the annual TUNING UP Summer Band and Orchestra Camp, June 16-July 20. Tuition of $225 includes
housing, food, instruction, recreation, supervision and local transportation. Added this year is a class in intermediate strings.
’IMAGE-MAKERS * Two hundred of the nation’s top ’’image-makers” (photography, writing, TV) MEETING HERE will gather here for the seventh annual Miami Conference on Communications Arts, April 24-26. The sessions, to be held in the Otto G. Richter Library lecture hall, give wide berth to technical problems and methods. Its dedication instead: "For the exchange of creative ideas among all those who work with the Photographic image, ink-on-paper and electronic.” For info: Wilson Hicks, director, University publications.