Veritas, Vol. 10, No. 15, April 20, 1970

              SPEAKING OF PEOPLE
THE
BI-WEEKLY NEWS
LETTER
For Faculty and Staff
Volume 10, No. 15	April 20, 1970
ELEVEN DESIGNATED AS Eleven faculty members have been OUTSTANDING TEACHERS named Outstanding Teachers for 1970
in the fifth annual selection to recognize excellence in the teaching profession. Inaugurated in 1966 by Dr. Armin H. Gropp, vice president for academic affairs and dean of the faculties, the distinction carries with it a $1,000 increase in salary for each recipient. Those honored this year are: Dr. Arnold B. Cheyney, elementary education; Dr. Shepard M. Faber, physical sciences; Dr. Clarence P. Idyll, fishery sciences; Dr. Lee Kjelson, music education; Dr. Kenneth F. Lampe, pharmacology; J. Calvin Leonard, human relations; Mrs. Grace E. McCarthy, nursing; Dr. Augustin E. Recio, electrical engineering; Dr. David Saltzman, physical sciences; Dr. Dan Steinhoff, management, and Thamas A. Thomas, law.
UM RANKS 29TH IN The UM ranks 29th in the 100 universities and FEDERAL FUNDS	colleges receiving largest amounts of federal
research and development funds, a newly-released National Science Foundation report shows. The only southern university ranked above UM is Duke, in 20th place. Massachusetts Institute of Technology is first. UM received $13,037,000 of the total $1,227,863,000 given the 100 institutions.
This total does not include federal funds received for training, facilities, and other sponsored activities.
UM OPENS NEW FIELD Within walking distance of 'gator holes STATION IN GLADES	and various wetland communities, as well
as pinelands and hammocks, a new field station in Everglades National Park has been opened by the University of Miami. Its establishment adds another facility for teaching and research in UM's continuing growth as a center for accumulation and distribution of knowledge on the environment of South Florida, according to Dr. Eugene H. Man, dean of research coordination and chairman of UM’s ecology facilities steering committee. Dr. Ronald H. Hofstet-ter, assistant professor of biology, is director of the Everglades Field Station, which has a dormitory for 18 people, a classroom, laboratory, kitchen, washrooms, a workshop and a separate room for aquaria and animal cages. The site is in the “hole in the doughnut,“ farm area within 10 miles of National Park headquarters and near the Royal Palm Hammock and Anhinga Trail.
EARTH DAY As part of the nationwide “Earth Day“ observance, WEDNESDAY the UM Environment Chapter is sponsoring a teach-in with discussions, films and seminars Wednesday, April 22 on campus. The public is welcome to take part in the informal search for a future worth living — with clean air, water, sunshine, rain and life — and to learn something about the words “environment,“ “ecology“ and “civilization.“ For speakers, locations and times, see the Miami Hurricane.
C. M. Kromp. associate director, Ungar Computing Center, and associate professor of industrial engineering, was elected to board of directors of Goodwill Industries of South Florida and the Goodwill Lighthouse for the Blind at the annual meeting March 31...
Dr. Emanuel Papper. dean, School of Medicine, and vice president for medical affairs, delivered the Crawford Long Memorial Lecture at Emory University April 7. Long was the first person credited with having done major surgical procedure painlessly through use of ether. Dean Papper also was elected recently to membership in Cosmos Club in Washington, D.C...
Mrs. Josephine Johnson, speech, recently performed a program of British and Irish poetry for the Pen Women of America. She and Gerry Burlage, communication services, completed their third video-tape for educational resources, W. B. Yeats's The Cat and the Moon, to be shown at the 11th International Yeats Summer School, Sligo, Ireland in August...
Clifton Williams, chairman, music theory-composition, was guest composer/conductor for the Second Spring Conference on Wind and Percussion Music at Western Michigan University, conducting the first performance of his composition, “Dramatic Overture," commissioned for the occasion...
Philip Frost. M.D.. dermatology, was visiting professor at the Duke University Medical Center, Durham, N.C. April 16-17. He spoke on epidermal cell kinetics...
Morton Kronengold, ocean engineering, was chairman of a session on oceanographic instrumentation at the Geoscience Electronics Symposium in Washington, D.C. April 14-17...