Veritas, Vol. 01, No. 23, March 6, 1961

              DEAN WALKER TO RETIRE - On March 25 Dr. Walter 0. Walker, dean of the division of research and industry, and professor of chemistry, will reach three score and five years, and will retire from both positions, effective October 1, in accordance with UM’s retirement plan. In addition to becoming dean emeritus and professor emeritus, Dean Walker will continue as director of UM’s industrial chemical research lab and as consultant through the University for Allied Chemical Corp. in New York. With his retirement Dean Walker completes 15 years of notable service to UM.	Said Dr. Pearson, ,TIt is with a
sense of deep personal and professional regret that I accede to Dean Walker’s request that he be relieved of his responsibilities as dean and professor. As a teacher and a pioneer in research in the chemical refrigeration field he has made a brilliant imprint upon the University’s development. He has been a prime mover in bringing about the seven-fold expansion of research contracts during the eight years of his deanship.”
HEAD TAKES LEAVE, VISITING DIRECTOR NAMED - To head the new Division of Communications Services, during a leave of absence granted Dr. Sydney W~ Head, recently appointed director, Roy J. Johnston, former director of television at North Carolina State College, Raleigh, N.C., comes to UM this week as visiting director. Born in Jamestown, Rhode Island, January 30, 1919, Johnston has a broad background of TV experience. An honor graduate of the University of Rhode Island, he holds his'master’s degree from the University of Tennessee. During WW 2 he served four years with the 8th Air Force, was awarded five battle stars. Before becoming production director of WUNC-TV, the North Carolina State College station in 1954, he had held production and program directorships in Atlanta, Macon and Columbus, Ga. Previously he taught two years at the University of Tennessee and was assistant director of the University Theatre. Dr. Head, who returned Wednesday from several days in New York where he was one of a consultant team making a study of educational television for the U.S. Dept, of Education, has been granted a year’s leave for an overseas television project.
ELEVEN LEADERS FOR ELEVENTH WEEK - Eleven nationally and locally prominent religious leaders are appearing on the campus this week to assist in the observance of UM’s eleventh annual religious emphasis week. At 2:30 p.m. Tuesday in Beaumont, Father James Hall, chaplain at Bethune-Cookman college, will discuss racial relations. Climax of the week’s program will be a panel discussion Thursday at 8 p.m. in Beaumont, with Dr. James Vadakin, economics chairman, as moderator. Panelists will be Carl Selle, English; Vaughn" Camp, history, Dr. Frank George, psychology, of UM faculty; Steve Slepin, psychology graduate student, and Rabbi Alfred Waxman, president of the Rabbinical Association of Miami. Both Beaumont programs are open to the public.
RIBICOFF ASKS $75,000 FOR UM - Secretary Abraham Ribicoff last week asked President Kennedy for an immediate grant of $75,000 to support UM’s courses for exiled Cuban lawyers and doctors. At the same time, NEWSWEEK Magazine, in a news story on efforts to help Cuban educators find positions in the U.S., hailed UM’s pioneering work for the Cuban doctors. Said NEWSWEEK: ’’The University of Miami Medical School has probably moved faster and more efficiently than any organization to help.”
290 CUBANS START LAW COURSES - UM’s special classes for Cuban lawyers got under way Monday with 290 exiled attorneys enrolled. The three-month program is directed by Dr.
John Chommie, UM professor of law. Bilingual attorneys are acting as voluntary interpreters. The American Bar Association has shown interest in the UM program, according to Dean Burnes.
AS OTHERS SEE UM - In its staff-written story on ’’The Secrets of Successful Retirement,” in the current issue, LOOK Magazine quotes UM’s Aaron Lipman, associate professor of sociology. As quoted by LOOK, says Lipman: ’’When a man retires from his job it is a major family crisis that demands adjustments. Retirement is harder for men to accept.
Women who keep house can say ’my work is never finished’ and be largely correct. When a man stops working, he loses his ’instrumental role’ as the wage earner, the pursuit that gives him status in the American family culture. His pride suffers.”
SCHOOL MAGAZINE FEATURES UM WRITER - One of the main articles in the February issue of ’’The National Elementary Principal” is contributed by Dr. Mark Murfin, professor of elementary education. Under the headline, ’’Forty Years of Change, in the Elementary School,” Dr. Murfin discusses how buildings, learning processes, teaching methods, classroom environment and curriculums have developed in two score years. In his conclusion, he makes three main points: 1, citizens must be well informed; 2, good homes are vital for children; 3, the individual child must remain the center of all educational endeavor.
REMINDER— Seafood orders from Tropical Food Lab will be at the delivery platfdrm behind Ashe Bldg., Monday, March 6, 2-5 p.m.