Veritas, Vol. 08, No. 15, April 22, 1968

              SPEAKING  OF  PEOPLE
THE    BI-WEEKLY    NEWS     LETTER
Dr. Sidney W. Fox, director, Institute of Molecular Evolution, delivers the annual Sigma Xi Distinguished Scientist lecture today at
Texas Christian University. Earlier lecturers have included Linus
Pauling, J. V.McConnell and David
Krech...
For Faculty and Staff
April 22, 1968
Vol. 8, No. 15
DEAN OWRE TO RETURN Dr. J. Riis Owre, associate dean of the
TO TEACHING JUNE 1 Faculties   and  professor  of  Spanish, will
drop administrative status for the single
academic title of Professor, effective June 1. In the 33 years since he
joined the UM in 1935 as assistant professor of Spanish, Dean Owre has
held top administrative posts for three decades. Throughout these years
he has continued to teach and his publications in the field of Hispanic
literature have brought him renown as a distinguished scholar.
Reflecting on his new single title, Dean Owre commented: "For most
of us in administrative work, I suspect, there comes a time when one
wants to get back to books and students — the fundamentals of education,
after all. That time has come for me. I am looking forward now to the
best job of all in a university — that of professor."
In accepting Dean Owre's request to return to teaching full time,
President Stanford said: "I have admired Dean Owre for his adroitness
in combining administrative skills with scholarly pursuits, an ability
rarely demonstrated in the academic world. I wish him much happiness
as he returns to his first love, teaching."
MUSIC  PRACTICE BUILDING
NAMED FOR BERTHA FOSTER
The Music Practice Building will be
renamed the Bertha Foster Memorial
Music Building in honor of the late
first Dean of the UM School of Music. Official dedication will be made
after completion of a second floor addition, to be under construction in
the near future. Dr. Foster died Feb. 29. A signer of the original charter
and one of the founders of the University, she served as Dean from 1926
until 1944 when she retired as Dean Emeritus to devote full time to the
Musicians Club of America which she founded in 1939. She had also
served on the University's Board of Regents from 1926 to 1941.
ART GALLERY BECOMES
LOWE ART MUSEUM
The UM Board of Trustees has approved a
resolution changing the name of the University's Joe and Emily Lowe Art Gallery
to Lowe Art Museum. The resolution requesting the change was signed
by Mrs. Ray Fisher, immediate past president of Beaux Arts, and by Dr.
Sterry Branning, immediate past chairman of the Friends of Art, in order
to distinguish the University art facility from a commercial gallery.
SPACE  PROGRAMS
TO BE STUDIED
The long-range effects of the American and Russian space programs will be evaluated in a three-
year study by the UM's Center for Advanced In-
ernational Studies under a grant from the National Aeronautics and
Space Administration. The NASA grant will provide funds at the rate of
$100,000 annually. The in-depth analysis will focus on the impact these
space programs have had on the economy, living standards, education,
popular attitudes, scientific and technological capabilities and national
aspirations of each country. Principal investigator will be Foy D.
Kohler, former U.S. Ambassador to Russia and now professor of international studies here.
Dr. Kamal Ya'coub, electrical
engineering, is co-author of a paper, "Linear Order Estimates Using Subsamples," published in SI AM
JOURNAL OF APPLIED MATHEMATICS, Vol. 16, No. 1, 1968. Dr.
Ya'coub will present a paper on
"Statistical Model Relating Underwater Acoustic Phase to Environmental Parameters" at the 75th
meeting of the Acoustical Society of
America in Ottawa next month...
Dr. Mahlon Ball, marine geology
and geophysics, IMS, attended the
American Geophysical Union annual meeting in Washington, D.C...
John H. Clotworthy, chairman,
division of ocean engineering, will
participate in the 33rd American
Assembly at Arden House. Subject
of the Assembly is "The Uses of
the Sea." It meets May 2-5...
Ivan Davis, music made his first
appearance in London, England
Apr. 11, playing a solo recital at the
new Queen ElizabethConcert Hall...
Arthur G. Phillips, chairman,
humanities, has a poem, "The Excluded," in the April issue of
Florida Quarterly, published by
the University of Florida...
G. W. Smith, registrar, and
George Giampetro, director of
admissions, attended the annual
meeting of the American Association of Collegiate Registrars and
Admissions Officers in Philadelphia April 15-19. Smith served as
recorder for a session on "Education Under Veteran's Laws" and
Giampetro took part in a session
concerned with programs to assist
the disadvantaged student...
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