Miami Hurricane, August 20, 1954

              UM Joins Library Co-op Plan
6 Universities Pool Facilities To Aid In Research Problems
Volume XXVIII University of Miami, Coral Gables, Fla., August 20, 1954
No. 34
Marine Lab Develops Method Faculty Adds 24; To Predict Red Tide Attacks 4 Return To Staff
L»r. F. G. Walton Smith
The means to predict when and where the fish-killing red tide will strike in the gulf has been developed by the Marine Laboratory, according to Dr. F. G. Walton Smith, director of
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West Coast.
Dr. Smith said it has been learn- < ed that the rivers, after heavy rains, carry into the gulf concentrations of phosphates and other chemicals which serve as fertilizers for the Red Tide.
The organism, it was explained by Dr. Smith, is present in the water at all times, but becomes a menace only when it is fed on fertilizers.
When it “blooms” it sometimes reaches a concentration of 60,000,-000 organisms to a quart of water.
This causes the water to take on a reddish tint.
During this period of frenzied reproduction, Jim Brevis has a paralyzing effect on fish and sea animals.
Millions of dollars are lost each year in the fishing industry and charter boat business because of the Red Tide scare.
The Marine Laboratory has been applauded for its research by two national magazines. The Aug. 14 issue of “The Saturday Evening Post” has “The Truth about Florida’s Red Tide” while the August “Field and Stream” describes “Blood in the Gulf.”
The UM, with a sixty-five foot floating laboratory in the gulf and its researches at Coral Gables, is getting $25,000 a year from the state for the work.
Dr. Robert F. Hutton, research assistant, is preparing a paper with further details on a cousin of Jim Brevis, with the name of Gonyaulox.
Dr. Smith has organized a project, “Operation Drift Card,” by which plastic cards are set afloat and later returned to him with information about currents and tides in the gulf.
Bi-Annual Exams For Pathologists Scheduled At UM
Bi-annual examinations of the American Board of Pathology are scheduled to be held at the recently created UM Medical School this year in conjunction with the mid-winter clinical meeting of the American Medical Association.
The AMA will meet Nov. 30 through Dec. 4, according to an announcement by Dr. Homer F. Marsh, dean of the Medical School.
Dean Marsh stated that arrangements were completed following the recent visit of Dr. William Wartman, of Chicago, secretary-treasurer of the AMA special examining board for pathologists.
While here Dr. Wartman held conferences with Dr. W. A. D. Anderson, chairman of the pathology department of the UM Medical and director of the pathology department at Jackson Memorial Hospital.
In choosing the site for the exams the pathology board must first decide that the exam 'site is situated in a metropolitan center, and that it is adequate for the large number of candidates taking the test.
Dr. Anderson estimates that between 110 and 140 candidates will lake the exams this year. Eligibility to take the tests is determined by the American Board of Pathology.
Twenty-four additions to the UM faculty have been announced by Dr. Jay F. W. Pearson, University president.
The four returnees are Dr. Alfred P. Mills, Milton Kaplow, Mrs. Anna C. Knabb and Elbert Silver.
One of the new additions is Dr. Dean George Epley, who will be chairman and associate professor of human relations department.
Joining the Botany Department as instructor will be Manley Boss, UM alumnus, while anothei alumnus, Henry Hubinger, will join the Chemistry Department.
The Drama Department has added A. V. Gavrilov to its staff to handle all dance work for the University theatres.
Also joining the English faculty as instructor will be Mrs. Joan Cronin.
Joseph Carrier, Jr., another UM alumnus, has been named an instructor in the Geography Department
New member of the Home Eco nomics Department will be Helen McGuire.
The Mathematics Department will gain two assistant professors, Dr. Harry Gonshor and Dr. Chung Tao
Yang.
The growing department of nursing will also add two instructors, Marion Cario and Mrs. Helen Valentine.
Dr. Edward Schuh, graduate of Harvard, will join the Philosophy Department as instructor.
The Physics Department will gain three new members this fall: Joseph Callaway and Roger Woods, assistant professors, and Dr. Bchram Kiirsunoglu, visiting professor.
Visiting professor in the Hispanic-American studies field will be Dr Ricardo Donoso, director of the National Archives of Chile and a professor of Chilean history.
BY EVELYN SAVAGE
Hurricane News Editor
A cooperative research library program established by UM and five other Florida and Georgia universities will be initiated this fall to meet the increasing demand for research library materials, according to Dr.
Archie McNeal, director of libraries, of libraries.
Under the newly-adopted plan students doing advanced work in highly specialized subjects will have access to books from the University of Georgia, Georgia Institute of Technology, Emory University,
University of Florida, Florida State University and the UM.
The Union Catalogue, a list of the special collections of the universities. will be maintained by Emory University at Atlanta, Ga.
At no extra cost to the student, books may be sent for and obtained within a day or two.
Research work will be made easier by giving the student access to far more material. It will enable one to use special collections and periodicals unobtainable through the students own library facilities.
Each university will have two representatives on the Georgia-Florida Committee for planning research library cooperation. Dr.
Archie McNeal, UM director of libraries, and Dr. James M. Godard, vice-president and dean of administration, will serve for the UM.
Dr. Godard said, “The new program will open up for us special collections for a small cost and will greatly expand our library service.”
Dr. McNeal, in announcing the step, explained that most southern universities will have to double or triple their research libraries within the next 10 years to serve their graduate and professional programs.
Since southern universities are already faced with serious financial problems because of increasing enrollments and expanding programs, the newly formed committee hopes to solve a few of these problems through a sharing of their facilities. Working with the universities in coordinating the program is the Southern Regional Education Board.
The joint committee, plus a representative of the SREB, will share the library collections as though they were parts of a single collection.
New books and periodicals will be acquired for research purposes only after checking the present nr prospective availability at one of the cooperating universities.
The idea for such a cooperative program has been under consideration since 1948, with the univer-
Dr. Archie McNeal
sities cooperating with each other in modified ways since that time. In March an organizational meeting was held and in July the final formulation of plans was accomplished.
Dean Harley Chandler, of the University of Florida, was named chairman of the committee and Richard Harwell, assistant librarian at Emory, was named executive secretary.
Arrangements for such central services as housing, microfilming and surveys of special collections will be made as future analysis shows to be desireable.
Each university will contribute towards the salary and travel expenses of the executive secretary.
Servicemen, Attention
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Prof At Folklore Confab
Dr. Ralph S. Boggs, director of the UM Hispanic-American Institute and professor of Spanish, is the United States' delegate to the seventh International Congress of Folklore and International Conference of Folk Music now being held in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Delegates from 24 countries are attending the two conventions. Besides formal study sessions, there are exhibitions of folk art and folk dancing in the various countries represented.
Among the themes and discussions are folklore and basic education, folk music and popular music, comparative folklore and the influences of folk music and artistic music.
HURRICANE STAFFERS LABEL and sort 10,000 copies of last week's special cane. Hus is the second annual 8-page edition to be sent to prospective students, vacationing students and friends of the
UM here and abroad. Workers clockwise are Rae Denhurg. Nancy Starkstein, Marvin Randell, Bill Haim, Marvin Selgel, Allan Herbert, and Carol
Ross.
2 Deans At Conference
Foster E. Alter, dean of men, and Dr. H. Franklin Williams, vice-president and dean of students, are delegates to the annual summer work conference of the Southern College Personnel Association at Mars Hill College, N. C.
The meeting, which will end Sunday, is being held in cooperation with the Southern Regional Education Board and the Hazen Foundation. Attending are delegates from colleges in 14 southern states.
The delegation hopes to define the needs of students in higher education and plan academic and personnel programs in accordance with the needs of students in the southern areas.
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