Veritas, Vol. 02, No. 08, November 13, 1961

              I RI T A S
November 13, 1961	Office of Public
KRESS COLLECTION DEDICATED WEDNESDAY Following dedication ceremonies at 2:30 p.m.
Wednesday, at the Joe and Emily LoweArt
Gallery, to which faculty, students and the public are invited, the famed Samuel H. Kress collection of paintings and sculpture will go on permanent public exhibition in the gallery’s new wing constructed for this purpose. The 41 paintings and four sculptures represent the 18th regional collection made available to communities in America by the Kress Foundation. Funds for the $100,000 new wing were provided through the generosity of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Lowe and Mrs. lone Staley Bisso. Vice President C. Doren Tharp will preside at the dedication. William Arnold Hanger, UM trustee and chairman of the Gallery Board of Regents, will welcome guests on behalf of the regents. Mrs. Bisso will represent the donors for presentation of the new wing. Mrs. Raymond H. Jack, daughter of the late Claude Washington Kress, for whom the wing is being dedicated, will present the collection which will be accepted on behalf of the University and the community by Dr. Pearson. Accompanying Mrs. Jack for the dedication and other ceremonies will be her husband and son, Claude, and her sister Mrs. Wesley Frame. Among honor guests will be Mrs. Rush Kress, whose husband is the only survivor of the three brothers who founded the Kress stores. Preceding the dedication ceremonies, Dr. Pearson, UM trustees and the Gallery’s Board of Regents will be hosts at an invitation dinner at the Riviera Country Club. Guests of honor will be the members of the Kress family mentioned above, Guy Emerson, art director for the Kress Foundation, Mrs. Fern Rush Shapley, Foundation art historian, and Miss Mary M. Davis, assistant to the art director, Mrs. Bisso and Mr. and Mrs. Lowe. Speaker will be Dr. John Walker, director of the National Art Gallery, Washington. Following the dinner, guests will attend a preview of the collection at the Gallery. Preceding the dedication, a luncheon will be held at the Gallery for community business leaders, Citizen Board members, government officials and out of town guests. Speaker will be Mrs. Shapley. Permanent public exhibition will begin Thursday morning.
NOTED HARVARD PROF JOINS UM As announced in the press following Tuesday’s board meeting, Dr. Howard H. (for Hathaway) Aiken, famed Harvard pioneer in originating and developing general purpose computers, is joining UM as Distinguished Professor of Information Technology. Said Dr. Pearson in the announcemenc, ”Dr. Aiken developed the theory and prototype of the modern digital computer. We consider his appointment to our faculty a major achievement in bringing here the first of a number of famous scientists whom we hope to add to the University during the next several years. Dr. Aiken will work with us toward the development of an institute of Information Technology. He also will assist in the upbuilding of our International Research Center.” Dr. Aiken, who will have offices in the Engineering building, holds his bachelor’s degree from Wisconsin, his master’s and doctoral degrees from Harvard. While an undergraduate at Wisconsin he worked as an operator in the local gas and electric plant. Upon graduation he was responsible for redesigning and reconstructing the same plant. Before being honored with emeritus status at Harvard this year, he served 24 years on that university’s faculty, including 15 years as professor of applied mathematics and 12 years as director of the Harvard Computation Laboratory. He also has had wide experience as a consultant to business and industry.
TRUSTEES DEFY DOWNPOUR Dodging through a rain squall so intense that it blotted out
McArthur from Ashe, 22 of UM’s 33 active trustees assembled in the President’s conference room last Tuesday for their November meeting. On hand to preside was Chairman Dan Mahoney, looking fit as a fiddle and trim as a missile after a vacation in Italy. Before getting down to business, board members and high UM officials sat down to a robust luncheon brought over from the Student Union under supervision of Roy Davis, Slater food service director for UM, and Mrs. Dorothy Johnson, associate director, and served by Mrs. Alma Fink, cafeteria supervisor, and Portia Kellenberger, cashier. Following the business session, trustees inspected the new model of the expanded Student Union displayed on first floor of Ashe.
MONDAY DEADLINE FOR THANKSGIVING ”VERITAS”	In order that the Nov. 27 issue can reach
the UM mailroom before the Thanksgiving holiday, deadline for that week’s ”Veritas” will be noon, Monday, Nov. 20.
UM GETS SATELLITE PROJECT The Meterological Satellite Laboratory of the U.S. Weather
Bureau has contracted with the Radar Meteorologcal Laboratory of UM’s Institute of Marine Science for a study of meteorological data provided by satellites. As described by Lab Head Homer Hiser, this is a pilot project to determine procedures and methods for the interpretation of weather satellite cloud photos along several technical lines. Known as a ”mesoscale” (middle-sized) project it will cover an area about the size of Florida, concentrated on Florida and surrounding ocean areas. Detailed case studies will be carried on, using data obtained by radar sets, conventional surface and upper air observations (including pilot reports) and pictures made by TIROS satellites.