Veritas, Vol. 05, No. 10, February 1, 1965

              Dean William F. Lee has been named president of the Florida Chapter and a member of the board of directors of the National Association for American Composers and Conductors. Fabien Sevitzky is also a board member...
“The Origin of Pre-Biological Systems, edited by Dr, Sidney Fox, molecular evolution, has been published by Academic Press...
Dr. Archie McNeal, libraries, attended an American Library Association invitational conference on the problem of censorship, held in Washington, D.C. He later participated in the ALA mid-winter meeting as president of the Association of College and Research Libraries and executive board member...
Dr. Gordon C. Ring, physiology, attended an invitational NIH seminar on “Transplantation and Aging’' at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, LaJolla, California...
Dean E. Morton Miller attended the American Conference of Academic Deans meeting in St. Louis...
Dr. Aaron Lipman, spciology, served as a resource person at a recent Department of State orientation seminar for research grantees in Washington, D.C....
Dean John R, Beery and Dr. Herbert W. Wey attended sessions of the National Association of Secondary School Principals on Miami Beach...
Dr. E. W, D. Norton, ophthalmology, presented an invited paper to The Gonin Society in Villars, Switzerland last month...
UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI
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Feb. 1, 1965	Voi. 5, No. 10
WEATHER BUREAU	Dr. Verner E. Suomi, chief scientist of
SCIENTIST TALKS	the U.S. Weather Bureau, will present a
seminar, Feb. 8 at 4:15 p.m. in Room 101, Computing Center. His subject in the School of Environmental and Planetary Sciences’ program will be “Hurricane Experiments.0 Dr. Suomi is the first man to hold the newly-created Weather Bureau post as top scientific advisor to the agency’s research meteorologists. As a University of Wisconsin faculty member he helped design many experiments orbited in the Explorer and Tiros satellites. The meteorologist also will be on campus to inspect the Miami Weather Bureau and National Hurricane Research Laboratory facilities, recently relocated in the Computing Center.
SEPS SCIENTISTS	The largest privetely-owned observatory
GET OBSERVATORY in Florida, located in western Palm Beach
County, has been donated to the University and its School of Environmental and Planetary Sciences by an anonymous benefactor. Two large astronomical telescopes and other equipment are located in a group of structures on a ten-acre tract just west of Palm Beach Airport. SEPS faculty and students plan to utilize the observatory in a number of projected experiments, such as studies of the lunar surface and cosmic dust layers, Dean S. Fred Singer said. The new UM telescopes are a ten-inch refracting device and an eighteen-inch Newtonian Reflector.
IMS LAB OPENS	The Institute of Marine Science has opened
ON PIGEON KEY	a field laboratory on tiny Pigeon Key in
Monroe County. Under a five-year agreement with the County IMS will utilize an existing cluster of buildings formerly occupied by the State Road Department and also construct a new lab structure, to be equipped with running sea water. Dormitory facilities and offices for researchers and graduate students are being equipped, according to Dr. F. G. Walton Smith. Pigeon Key is located approximately midway along the Seven Mile Bridge.
16th CENTURY OIL “The Holy Family,” a large oil painting GIVEN TO LOWE	dating from the mid-16th century is “art
gift of the month” at the Joe and Emily Lowe Art Gallery. Done by an unknown Italian artist it is the gift of Col. C. Michael Paul, Palm Beach winter resident. The painting will be displayed in the Gallery entrance foyer throughout February.
Dr. Waino W. Suojanen, management, recently presented guest for the Department of the at Pensacola Naval Air Station. (See: Faculty in the News)...