Veritas, Vol. 05, No. 17, May 17, 1965

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THE BI-WEEKLY NEWS LETTER
Dri, Robert J. Harrison, audiology-speech pathology, has been namqd president-elect of the Florida h and Hearing Association... (See Page 3)...
May 17, 1965
Voi. 5, No. 17
DR. ROSTOW. DR. STANFORD COMMENCEMENT SPEAKERS
President Stanford and Dr. Walt
_____________________________ Whitman Rostow, chairman of the
U.S. Department of State Policy Planning Council, will be speakers at separate commencement exercises, June 8 in Miami Beach Auditorium. Dr. Stanford will address approximately 250 degree candidates of the School of Law, School of Medicine and Graduate School at 10:30 a.m. Dr. Rostow, who also is U.S. representative to the Inter-American Committee for the Alliance for Progress, will speak at ceremonies for 950 baccalaureate degree candidates at 8 p.m. The twin commencements are being held for the first time this year to avoid overcrowding the Auditorium.
DR. BRUNSON TO TAKE ACTING DEANSHIP
Dr. May A. Brunson, UM's dean of women since 1955, has been named acting dean of students, effective June 1. She succeeds Dean Noble B. Hendrix who is retiring. Dean Brunson, who holds her doctorate from Columbia University in student personnel administration, also will continue as dean of women.
BUDDHIST MONK DELIVERS FINAL SOCIOLOGY TALK
Dr. Walpola Rahula, visiting professor of religion at Northwestern University, will deliver the last of the Department of Sociology’s Sperry and Hutchinson lectures, May 18 at 8 p.m. in Brockway Lecture Hall. His subject will be "Buddhism in Modern Asia.”
A native of Ceylon, the University of London graduate is the first Buddhist monk to hold a professorship at any Western university. For the past ten years he has been conducting research on fourth century Buddhist manuscripts at the Sorbonne. His lecture is open to the public without charge.
BETATRON INVENTOR	Dr. Donald W. Kerst, developer of
WILL LECTURE	the world's first periodic electronic
accelerator—the “betatron”—will deliver a special physics colloquium, May 20 at 4 p.m. in Room 331 of the J. Neville McArthur Building. The University of Wisconsin physicist will discuss: “Behavior of a Plasma in an Octopole Toroidal Confinement.” For developing the doughnut-shaped accelerator that has become on of the high energy physicist’s most valuable tools, Dr. Kerst received the 1945 Comstock prize of the National Academy of Sciences and the John Price Wetherill medal in 1950.
FINAL VERITAS. JUNE 1
day, June 1. Deadline for all items is May 25.
The last issue of Veritas until September will be issued on Tues-
The Danforth Foundation has invited the College of Arts and Sciences to send a team to its 1965 Workshop at Colorado College in June. Attending will be: Dean E. Morton Miller. Dr. Aaron Lipman. sociology; Dr. Emmet F. Low, mathematics; and Dr, John I, McCollum. English...
Dr. Herbert Wev. education, is author of “Planning and Preparing for Successful School Desegregation,” a Phi Delta Kappa pamphlet being distributed to all school superintendents in the South...
Dean S. Fred Singer attended the International Space Science Symposium in Buenos Aires under a National Science Foundation grant, delivering a paper on interplanetary dust particles...
At its recent annual meeting on Miami Beach, the American College Health Association elected Dr. Benjamin R. Reiter, health center, as the group's first executive director. Dr. Ruth E. Boynton was re-elected secretary-treasurer...
Dr. John A, Miller, biological science, presided at a symposium on the honors program and the superior student at Ashland College in Ohio. He also addressed the faculty and attended the spring meeting of the board of trustees...
Dean Clark E. Myers was elected to a three-year term on the American Association of Collegiate Schools of Business Executive Committee at the recent meeting in New York...
Dr. Richard S. Sterne, sociology, is conducting a study on “Social Needs and Resources” for the City of Miami...
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