Veritas, Vol. 01, No. 29, April 17, 1961

              BETTER LATE THAN NEVER - Among spring’s harbingers appearing at UM last week were new faculty contracts, last of which were being sped to their destinations Friday. Not so late as in some years, not so early as had been hoped, these important examples of English composition had to wait while the budgeteers worked out details in the interest of making as many readjustments upward (’’raises” in non-financialese) as possible. Anyone who has tears to shed because of anxiety in watchful waiting might shed a spare one for Dr. Tharp. While others were gamboling out o’doors on Easter Sunday, the Vice President and Dean of Faculties spent most of the day putting his signature on the contracts. By day’s end he reported that his right hand was as lame as a political duck.
BIG DEAL AT SMALL PRICE - Dean Dan Steinhoff, generalissimo of the sixteenth annual UM Tax Conference next week, points out that all faculty and staff are invited to take advantage of the ’’bargain basement” package tour to San Juan, P.R., which winds up the parley for the weekend of April 28-30. Complete cost is $125 by prop plane, $150 by jet. The package includes rooms for Friday and Saturday, all meals, tour of San Juan and an evening of whoopla. Departure Friday afternoon, April 28 — back home Sunday evening.
OFF GOES THE HEAD (SYDNEY) - To the Sudan, that African area famed by Kipling as the home of ’’Fuzzy Wuzzy, a pore benighted heathen but a first class fighting man,” this week goes Dr. Sydney W. Head, director of communications services, on leave to serve as technical consultant to the Sudanese government. He will make headquarters at Khartum, work with Sudanese government to improve radio service, be on the payroll of the International Cooperation Administration through contract with National Association of Education Broadcasters. Since Khartum is far from deep blue water, Yachtsman Head sold his ketch, ’’Ballerina” before taking off.
~HF.AT.TH INSURANCE FOR 65 PLUS - Mrs. Irene Morrow, assistant treasurer, has information available on a commercial health insurance plan for those 65 and over.
DEBATERS HONORED AGAIN - For the ninth time in ten years, UM’s varsity debaters have qualified to represent the southeast in the national championships at West Point April 26 to April 29.
FIVE TAPPED FOR IRON ARROW - Five faculty members were tapped last week by Iron Arrow, oldest and highest campus honorary. New wearers of Seminole jackets symbolic of membership are: Dr. Alfred C. Andrews, chairman, classics department; Dr. Ralph Jones, Jr., chairman, department of medicine; Fred Shaw, associate professor of English and director of Guided Studies; Jackson Sells, associate professor of engineering and W. H. Charlton, assistant registrar.1
SPEAKING OF FACULTY - Dr. Karl S. Vorres, assistant professor of physical chemistry, has been awarded a $5,000 grant from the Institute of Gas Technology for studies involving the
preparation and determination of the structure of mixed metal oxides...... Dr. Fabien
Sevitzky, UM symphony conductor, is visiting nine Dade County high schools to act as guest
conductor for student orchestras..... David G. Nellis, assistant professor, radio-TV-film,
has been awarded a news fellowship by the Columbia Broadcasting Company Foundation. It provides for a year’s study at Columbia, plus living allowance for wife and two children.
....Dean Beery and Dean David were official representatives at the inauguration of Dr.
Joe Rushing as president of the Junior College of Broward County......Dr. Dean G. Epley,
human relations, Dr, Frank Dunbaugh, marketing and Miss Georgia Del Franco, mathematics, participated in a seminar on ’’The Family in a World of Rapid Social Change” at Bryan
Memorial Methodist Church.....Dr. Reuben Y. Ellison,French, spoke on Eugene Ionesco to the
French club of Ft. Lauderdale.....Dr. Alfred C. Andrews, classics, is author of an article
on ’’Marjoram as a Spice in the Classical Era” in the April issue of Classical Philology,.. .. Mrs. Julia Morton, director of Morton Collectanea, will give an illustrated talk on tropical fruits at the Florida Home Economics Association, April 29.... Dr. Oscar T. Owre, assistant professor, zoology, gave an illustrated lecture at the 32nd annual meeting of the Cooper Ornithological Society, Tucson, Arizona....Professor C.M. Kromp, chairman, and Professor D.W. Glenn, industrial engineering, will appear on the program of a Symposium on Operations Research, to be held April 22 at the Biscayne Terrace Hotel under the joint auspices of the Miami Chapter of the American Institute of Industrial Engineers and UM’s
Industrial Engineering Dept.....Professor Stojan A. Bayitch, Law School, is author of
’Latin America - A Bibliographical Guide to Economy, History, Law, Politics, and Society,” which is Vol. 6 in the school’s Interamerican Legal Studies......Reinhold P. Wolff, Profes-
ses: of economics, is quoted in the current TIME magazine’s story on ’’Fast Growing Florida.” Says he, ’’Industry has always come where the people are. Growth begets growth.”
NOTED EDITOR TO SPEAK - Norman Cousins, editor of the Saturday Review, will be the first guest lecturer in the new University College Building during the week of April 24. His talk will be for UG students, not open to the public. He will deal with the social sciences, but has not announced the specific topic.
UM SINGERS TO EUROPE - A UM choral group known as the Singing Hurricanes will sing for their suppers (and other meals) on a six weeks tour of U.S. military installations in the European Command this summer.' After that they will go to Germany for a week on a tour sponsored by the Methodist Church of Germany. The government-sponsored military tour will include France, United Kingdom, Germany, Italy, Austria, Turkey, Libya, the Azores,
Iceland and such other areas as designated by AF commanders. The bid to make the tour came out of negotiations initiated by Glenn Draper, UM choral director.
PEACE CORPS FORMS HERE - Those interested in joining the Peace Corps can obtain copies of the questionnaire for volunteers from Placement Director Louis A. Miller. There is no obligation to those who complete the form. Basic requirements for Peace Corpsmen is that they must be U.S. citizens, at least 18 years old, with ’’technical ability, physical stamina and emotional stability,”