Veritas, Vol. 03, No. 34, May 27, 1963

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May 27, 1963
OFFICE OF PUBLIC INFORMATION
$1.5 MILLION AWARDED FOR NEW RESEARCH LAB
Financed by a $1.5 million, five-year grant frja 1 lnsf:i tute of Mental Health, one of the four biometric laboratories in the U.S. will come to UM this summer. Dr. Dean J. Clyde (Ph.D., Penn State, ’50) is transferring his operation from George Washington University. Complete with IBM 1401 computer and a staff of 16, the lab will study side-effects and new uses for psychiatric drugs such as chlorpromazine, the original "tranquilizer/1 It will be located temporarily off campus. The nation’s three other biometric labs are at UCLA, Columbia and the University of North Carolina.
14 WILL RETIRE:	Fourteen faculty members, whose educational guidance at UM total 225
TAUGHT 225 YEARS years, will retire from UM May 31. All have reached or passed the age
of 65. Eugene E. McCarty, full and part-time professor of education since 1926, is oldest retiree in point of service. He was director of the old Merrick Demonstration School. Mrs. Natalie Grimes Lc.wrence, English, also retires after teaching at UM since 1931. The remaining retirees, by schools—Arts and Sciences: J. Arthur Lewis, assistant to the dean (1948); Forrest Adams, math (1946). Business: Mrs. Luellen Hauser, business education (1942); Dr. Ralph L. Sackett, marketing (1945). Education: Dr. Orlie M. Clem (1946^, Dr. William A. McCall (1954), Dr. Lester R. Wheeler, founder-director of the reading clinic (1946). Engineering: C.E. Anderson, mechanical engineering (1947). Music: Dr. Modeste Alloo, professor of brass instruments and associate Symphony conductor (1942);
Herman Busch, Symphony first cellist and professor of cello (1954); Eugene DuBois, professor of violin and Symphony concertmaster (1950) and Mme. Renée Longy, professor of solfege and chamber music (1951). Mme Longy has accepted a post at New York’s Juillard School of Music.
UC, MUSIC GET Dr. H. Franklin Williams has been named acting dean of University College, ACTING DEANS and Joseph Tarpley, acting School of Music dean, both effective June 1.
Dr. Williams, who retains his role of vice president and director of community affairs, succeeds Dean Paul K. Vonk, who has accepted a vice-presidency with Parsons College, Fairfield, la. Tarpley, now associate dean, steps up as Dean John Bitter becomes assistant to the president for development and lecturer in humanities.
$$ SAVING Two deadlines designed to relieve pains of the pocketbook are near. All em-DAYS NEAR ployes are reminded to return their Aetna insurance questionnaires to Mrs.
Morrow’s office, Ashe 234, by Friday. Applications for membership in this group plan will not be accepted after June 1. Last day to apply for first summer session tuition remission is June 5; Personnel Office, Ashe breezeway.
MARINE TECHNOLOGY	A new Division of Marine Technology is creating a wake of new research
AT FULL THROTTLE	and student interest at the Institute of Marine Science. The newborn
department works closely with the School of Engineering in the study of basic marine engineering. Temporary chairman is Dr. F.F. Koczy, who also heads IMS’s Division of Physical Sciences.
MRS. EVANS HEADS Mrs. Franklin J. Evans is newly-installed president of the Medical MED FACULTY WIVES Faculty Wives. She succeeds Mrs. Thomas Scotti. Other new officers:
Mrs. Edward Norton, vice president; Mrs. James C. Hirschman, recording secretary; Mrs. Beverly B. Jones, corresponding secretary and Mrs. G. Robert Yates, treasurer. Dean Hayden Nicholson presided at the Riviera Country Club installation.
EDER COLLECTION	More books relating to Colombia, its Cauca Valley and other Latin American
STILL GROWING	subjects have been donated to the Otto G. Richter Library by R.J. Eder of
NYC. The collection now numbers nearly 2,000.
HONORARY TAPS Beta Gamma Sigma, business school academic honorary, has initiated Comer J. TOP BANKER	Kimball, chairman of the board, First National Bank of Miami, as 1963
honorary member. Eleven students were also initiated. New officers are: Eloise Kimmelman, accounting, president; James McMahon, finance, vice president; Wilhelmina ^ukowska, accounting, secretary and Kermit Roberts, also accounting, treasurer.
’CANE* NAMED	For the second time in three years the UM student newspaper, ’’The Hurricane,”
’PACEMAKER’	has won the American Newspaper Publishers Association ’’Pacemaker Award."
Winning editor was senior Leonard Teel,for last fall’s editions» Only four other college papers received the award, according to Wilson Hicks, director of UM publications .
LAST V’TAS	Veritas begins a long summer breather after the June 3 issue, next week. That
NEXT WEEK	edition will include a listing of UM activities throughout the next three
months. Contributors are reminded the deadline is 5 p.m. Tuesday (5/28) because of the Memorial Day holiday.