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

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THE BI-WEEKLY NEWS LETTER
For Faculty and Staff
April 22, 1968	Vo!. 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 The Music Practice Building will be NAMED FOR BERTHA FOSTER 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 The UM Board of Trustees has approved a LOWE ART MUSEUM	resolution changing the name of the Uni-
versity'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 The long-range effects of the American and Rus-TO BE STUDIED sian 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. 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...
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Dr. Kamal Ya'coub, electrical engineering, is co-author of a paper, "Linear Order Estimates Using Sub samples," published in SIAM 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 ElizabetLDoncert 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...