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Vol. XXXVI, No. 20	University of Miami
Campus Voting Breaks Record
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UM’s second oldest tradition, Songfest-Swingfest, will take place April 8. beginning at 7 p.m. at Dade County Auditorium.
The 23rd annual festival of voral competition will include 17 groups entered in sorority, fraternity and mixrd chorus divisions. Each group will present its own musical .election vying for trophies to he awarded in each division.
"Festival Of Song” is the overall theme of this year's Songfest. Each competing entry has chosen its own singing production and will wear costumes to match its theme. Some of the groups will provide their own scenery.
The music spectacle is planned and produced from start to finish by Phi Mu Alpha, professional music fraternity.
The music group this week received a certificate from the I'ndrrgraduate Student Government for meritorious service to the University.
Swingfest immediately follows Songfest. The affair, a semi-formal dance open to all students, will be at the Electricians’ Ballroom at 10 p.m.
Winners of Songfest will be announced at midnight.
Students may purchase tickets at the Information Booth in the Student Union or at the Music School office. Admission is $1.50 per person for both events.
GRANT STOCKDALE
Rises To Fame
Envoy Picked Top Alumnus
Grant Stockdale was honored this week by the University of Miami Alumni Association as its “outstanding alumnus" for this year at a testimonial dinner at the Fontainebleau Hotel.
He has been named by his long-time friend. President John Kennedy, to represent this nation in Ireland. Stockdale is the first UM graduate to receive an ambassadorial appointment.
Stockdale received his B.B.A. from the UM in 1940, He is a former Dade legislator and member of the county commission.

The Sound Of Music
Do you dig the classical bit or do you prefer a wild licorice stick?
The Festival of International Contemporary Music, first of its kind in the country, was held last weekend before an overflow crowd at the Beaumont Lecture Hall. The festival featured music from 14 foreign countries.
Then on Monday night, an equally enthusiastic crowd witnessed a jazz concert in the Student Union patio.
Witness these pictures, and guess which is which.
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Ex-Geography Head, Club Founder Die
Two prominent associates of the University have died.
Like the rest of the student body. The Hurricane is taking an Easter break—only the paper’s will be a bit longer.
Students will return to class Tuesday. April 4 The paper will reappear Friday, April 14.
I So until then, try not to lay any eggs. And, by the way, happy j Easter’
Two Incumbents Named To USG
■ Story In Pictures, See Page 2.
A record number of voters in recent student government history — more than 50 per cent above the previous high — turned out for Undergraduate Student Government elections, official tallies revealed this week.
New USG Council members and individual school
government officials were dents.
The two-day voting session brought 600 students to the polls the first day and 961 the next. The previous high was last year’s 1000.
The top USG positions — president, vice-president and treasurer — will be filled when the newly-elected council gets under way just days after the Easter vacation.
These key jobs will go to the representatives who get the most votes in the intra-council election.
Dr. Thurston Adams, director of student activities, and students Jerry Gross and Ron Girard, composing the election board, tallied the machine votes.
"This is the most votes cast since abandonment of the political parties when the old Student Body Government was thrown out,” Gross said.
Two incumbents and seven newcomers will serve on the new council. The incumbents are USG vice-president Max Sudakow. w ho w as unopposed, of the School of Engineering and Jeff Randall, of the University College.
Other elected council members are Stu Block. UC; Ron Shapo and Caryl Durham, College of Arts and Sciences; Bill Cornell and Bill Frey. School of Business Administration; Buany Hendrick. School of Education, and Leroy King (unopposed). School of Music.
This year, Miss Durham served as USG Council representative from the Panhellenic Council — an appointed position.
Student votes were divided among the different schools: Arts and Sciences, 312; Business Administration, 335; Education, 111; Engineering, none, and UC. 803.
In addition to those elected, five more council members are being appointed by various student organizations.
lected by 1561 voting stu-
They have the same voting power of the council.
Norman Lachman was un-rontesled for senior president of the College of Arts and
Sciences.
Nanci Skorcz was elected senior vice-president. Junior class president is Jeff Rosinek.
UC officers are Art Rothen-berg, president, and Renee Jaffe, vice-president. The four representatives are Leslie Litt, Bill Levine, Barbara Silver and Roger Levin.
Three Profs To Deliver ‘Last Talks’
Three UM professors are scheduled to give their “last lectures” next month.
The "My Last Lecture" series, sponsored by the Associated Women Students, asks the speakers to lecture as if it were their last chance.
This is the second year for the series.
Heading the list on April 12 is Nathan Shappee, history instructor. His topic will be ”50 Years Of Emancipated Women.”
Zoology professor Dr. Julian Corrington will speak April 19 on “Improbable Biologists,” dealing with people who have achieved fame in biology without previous technical training.
Rirhard Paul Janaro, assistant professor of English and humanities, will lecture April 26. He will talk on ”A Freight Train To Paradise."
All three will speak from the Great Lounge of the 720 Dormitory. The lectures are arranged by the AWS government.
Mrs. Mildred Mallory, 64, founder of UM’s Symphony Club, died Monday at Miami Beach.
Dr. J. Riley Staats, retired head of the Geography Department, died Saturday. He
was 65.
Mrs. Mallory received an honorary Doctor of Music degree from UM in 1959 for her work with the club. During World War II, she received the King George VI medal from the British government for relief work.
She was founder of the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra and the Crossroads Rehabilitation Center at Indianapolis. Mrs. Mallory was also active in the Mystic, Conn., Seaport Museum.
Dr. Staats played an important part in the development of
a complete ground school
course in maps and meteorology in cooperation with the Civil Aeronautics Administration during World War II.
University flags flew at half-mast this week in memory of the professor who served on the UM staff from 1946 until his retirement in 1954
In 1947, he was appointed to Florida's Resource Education Committee. Dr. Staats and a colleague. George E. Harding, co-authored a geography textbook in 1951. entitled “Essentials of World Geography.”
He was a member of the National Council of Geography Teachers.
Carni-Gras Wings On
Half the proceeds will go to the UM scholarship fund. The other half is divided among the participants. Last year, $6,-000 was taken in during the two-day festival.
Curfew for all girls has been extended to midnight on the 13th.
Students will ride the ferns wheel again. And there will be go-kart driving in the Union parking lot.
Kids will be trying their luck, testing their skill and stuffing their faces with cotton candy, peanuts and pop com
UM students this week started planning the booths and attractions that will fill the Student Union patio during Cami-Gras nights. April 13 and 14
Actual booth-building for the fifth annual carnival begin. April 10. Hammers and nails will be available in the
Union.
Keith Miller is the student chairman.
A record 59 booths have been entered by 47 campus organizations, Greeks and non-Greeks.
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