Veritas, Vol. 07, No. 13, March 20, 1967

              SPEAKING OF PEOPLE
THE BI-WEEKLY
NEWS LETTER
Dr. Stanford addressed the 1967 convention of the Tennessee Education Association in Murfreesboro March 16. His topic was /'Higher Values in Higher Education: Fact or Fancy?”...
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For Faculty and Staff
March 20, 1967
Voi. 7, No. 13
DR. CLYDE WOOTEN NAMED Dr. Clyde C. Wooten, a specialist in ASSISTANT DIRECTOR	the contemporary Far East, has joined
the UM as assistant director of the University’s Center for Advanced International Studies, Dr. Mose L. Harvey, Center director, announced last week.
Dr. Wooten is considered one of the nation’s leading authorities on current developments in China and China’s relations with both the communist and non-communist worlds.
He did his undergraduate work at Washington State University and engaged in intensive study of the Chinese language in the Army Language School and Chinese language and area studies at Yale University. He holds a doctorate from Georgetown University.
Dr. Wooten served as an officer in the Air Force from 1947 until his retirement as a full colonel in September, 1966. He held numerous key positions concerned with intelligence and planning activities for the Far East and Communist China and lived and worked in the Far East for 11 years*.
In addition to his duties as assistant director of the Center, he is interim director of the Center’s research activities and is assisting in the development of a program of East Asian studies.
DR. JOSE A. BALSEIRO	Dr. Jose A. Balseiro, one of the most
TO LEAVE UNIVERSITY	distinguished men of letters of the
western hemisphere, will leave the University of Miami at the end of this academic year to accept a position at the University of Arizona in Tucson.
Professor of Hispanic literature at UM for the past 21 years, Dr. Balseiro will join Arizona’s department of romance languages headed by one of his former graduate students at the University of Illinois, Dr. Renato Rosaldo, whose invitations to join the department of Arizona have been extended for several years.
In announcing Dr. Balseiro’s resignation, President Stanford said he has accepted it "reluctantly and with the deepest sense of appreciation for the magnificent contribution Dr. Balseiro has made through the years to the academic progress of the University of Miami and its growing prestige in the academic world beyond the campus.”
Dr. Balseiro is author of eight books of essays, five books of poetry, two novels - all internationally acclaimed - and scores of scholarly articles, published in leading journals of the Hispanic world.
FACULTY CLUB OPENING The Faculty Club Open House orig-DELAYED TWO WEEKS	inally scheduled for April 1-2 has
been delayed until April 15-16. The Open House is for those eligible for membership - faculty and administration. Opening banquet, which was set for April 6 will be held instead April 20.
Delay is due to late arrival of kitchen equipment.
Participating in the Conference on Pediatric Pharmacology of the Food and Drug Administration in Washington, D.C. were William L. Nyhan, M.D., Ph.D., chairman, pediatrics; William A. Little. M.D. chairman, Ob-Gyn, and Frank Moya. M.D., chairman, anesthesiology...
Dr. Helmut Albrecht of the Max Planck Institut, Seewiesen, Germany, recently joined the Behavior and Sensory Physiology Section of the Institute of Marine Sciences as a visiting professor...
A paper, "Inelastic Instability with Sidesway of Concrete Frames” by Dr. Wen F. Chang. civil engineering, will appear in the April issue of the Journal of the Structural Division, The American Society of Civil Engineers...
A literary work of Dr. Jose A. Balseiro. foreign languages, that he delivered at the Fourth Congress of the Academies of the Spanish Language in Buenos Aires has been published in the "Mem-oria” (Proceedings) of the Congress by The Argentine Academy of Letters. His essay on "The Presence of Wagner and the Almost Absence of Debussy in the Works of Ruben Dario” also was officially recommended to be published and widely distributed "for its excellence.”
Dr. Delmar E. Solen. drama, presented a paper, "Expanding Opportunities for Careers in Educational Theatre” at the annual Southeastern Theatre Conference...