Miami Hurricane, September 11, 1984

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Volume 61 Number 5
Tuesday, September 1 1, 1984
UM Students, Faculty Organize Airline
By PAT GARRIGA
Hurricane Staff Writer
Ah. That piece of pie in the sky.
Three recent graduates of University of Miami's master’s program in international business administration are looking skyward these days — they are in the process of organizing their own airline. National Express, Inc.
Michael S. Rosen, 31, is president and director of National Express. F. Darrell Richardson, 38, is the executive vice president and chief operating officer and director. S. Lewis Richards is chairman of the board and the company's chief executive officer and director.
According to a preliminary prospectus, which describes the projections of their as yet wingless airline, National Express was incorporated in Florida on May 5, 1983, to offer low-cost passenger and cargo services.
So far, National Express is still in the organizational stage. The company’s executive offices are located at 3000 SW 4th Avenue in Fort Lauderdale.
Due to the delicate certification review process going on at this time, company executives were advised by their legal counsel to postpone any personal interviews until the airline gets the green light to commence actual operations.
On June 22 of this year, the Civil Aeronautics Board granted National Express a certificate to operate domestic flights, pending approval from the Federal Aviation Administration. If approved, the airline could also have charter services on a world-wide basis.
To gain that approval, National Express must generate over $10 million. Thus, the paper airline would become an actual one. The entre-
preneurs have filed a registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission to generate those millions through public stock offerings. A decision on that statement is expected within a few weeks.
National Express plans to offer low fares, but doesn’t plan to forego the frills. For example, the airline will use comfortable, wide-body planes.
Full baggage service and delicatessen-style meals, including wine and beer, will also be offered. All proposed ticket prices are to be 20 to 65 percent below current discount fares. No advance purchase or minimum stay requirements are planned.
A "super standby" rate, available 30 minutes before departure and depending on the availability of seats, would offer prices up to 40 percent below National Express's already discounted fares.
National Express plans to lease, rather than buy, only one type of aircraft — Boeing's L-1011 wide-body plane. The company has a preliminary agreement with Boeing to begin leasing one such aircraft in October or November, to fly the New York-Miami route
By January of 1985, National Express plans to lease a total of nine planes to service New York at Kennedy Airport, Miami, Denver, Atlanta, San Juan, Los Angeles and San Francisco. Except for the New York-Miami route, one flight per day to each city is planned.
Most maintenance service, as well as reservations, passenger and administrative services are to be provided by Air Canada. However, no formal agreement has been reached between the two airlines.
Management at National Express believes that leasing one type of aircraft and flying once a day should reduce maintenance and crew training costs. The decision to lease the aircrafts should also reduce investment costs and would avoid fluctuating interest rates.
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Former l M ¡president hasn't	slowed down yet
By MAYADE ALMASHAT
Hurricani' Staff Writer
Dr. Henry King Stanford retired as University of Miami president in July 1981, leaving behind a lifestyle familiar to him for nearly 19 years
Yet, Stanford hasn't slowed down since he and his wife returned to his home state of Georgia after leaving l!M. Stanford said he has been so busy that he needs to retire from retirement.
“Some friends in Miami cere so concerned over what I would do following my retirement that they predicted I would be dead in two years,” Stanford said, adding that he felt fortunate to be so occupied.
"They sincerely believed that the withdrawal from the heavy schedule to which I was addicted in Miami would be so severe that I could not survive," he said. “But, to borrow a phrase from Mark Twain, predictions of my death were greatly exaggerated."
In May 1982, nearly a year after his retirement, Stanford traveled around the world with his wife, Ruth, w’ho was given the travel offer as a going away present. Ruth could travel with the friend of her choice, so she chose her husband “There was no John Wayne around,” Stanford said jokingly.
Having visited countries above the equator, Stanford said they decided to visit the other half of the
world on this trip. The couple visited such places as Sri I anka, Tahiti, New Zealand, Bali, Kenya, Niger and Zaire.
This year, after presiding over the Rotary Club International Convention in Birmingham, England, Stanford flew to Dublin, Ireland, where he spent his nights in castles and his days driving throughout the country.
Stanford plays tennis and jogs 10-12 miles a week. He also has taken up garden work as a hobby — he likes to keep his garden manicured
Yet, travel and hobbies have occupied a small part of Stanford's retirement. He is chairman of the board of the Caribbean Resources Development Foundation, a fundraising organization assisting development projects in Caribbean nations
He is also vice-chairman of In-vest-in-America, an organization which sponsors summer college courses to teach elementary and secondary teachers the rudiments of the American market economy.
Stanford is on the board of four corporations, is a trustee of the Knight Foundation, and is keeping a busy schedule of speeches to different organizations.
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Stanford became the University's third president on April 18, 1962, following Jay F. W. Pearson
(1953-62) and Bowman Foster Ashe (1926-52).
The job of university president was not new to Stanford. He was familiar with the position, having served as head of Georgia Southwestern College in 1948, Georgia State College for Women and Birmingham Southern in 1957.
Stanford received his bachelor's degree in history and German from Emory University. He said he majored in history in hopes of joining the United States Foreign Service. Because he already had three years of French in high school, Stanford said he was not allowed to enroll as a freshman in a junior level French class according to the school's rules at that time.
Yet, since Emory University required freshmen to study a foreign language, Stanford chose German, and took over 40 hours of the language.
Stanford also received a master’s degree in government and management at the University of Denver. Then at New York University, Stanford received his doctorate degree specializing in politi, cal science and public administration
Stanford's career includes some teaching. The Georgia School of Technology in Atlanta and New York University were among two of the higher education schools he taught in.
Stanford has mixed emotions
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Stanford said, however, he does not miss reading dull memoranda and letters. He also said he does not miss the feeling of disappointment that came to him when he was unable to raise the money that so many worthy academic and non-academic departments at the University of Miami deserved
While serving UM for nearly 19 years. Stanford said he felt best about the university when he saw its academic progress. He said a
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of an airline on price, such as middle- and lower-income families, students and the elderly. Advertising will emphasize low fares and quality service.
Plans also include hiring approximately 700 employees Each one would be required to purchase stock in the company, and no automatic raises are planned.
Instead, employees would participate in a profit-sharing plan. Management at National Express estimates that this policy would increase the employees' identity with the company and increase productivity as well.
National Express plans to have a booked flight for each of its routes. However, National Express's plans have yet to be put to the actual test of flight.
The state of the economy, government regulations and certification requirements and the generation of sufficient funds are some of the factors to be dealt with. Also, only three senior officers at National Express have any prior experience in airline operations.
Four professors of UM's School of Business are also lending their knowledge to National Express. Dr. Ronald R. Hudson, associate professor of management and international studies, is now chairman of the Management Advisory Committee at National Express.
Dr. James Foley, an associate professor of economics and director of graduate programs in that field at UM, is a member of the airline's advisory committee, as is Dr. Oscar J. Hoizman.an associate professor of accounting at UM’s School of Business. In addition. Dr. Luis Dominguez, UM professor of marketing, is chairman of the airline's marketing department.
Children learn foreign culture
By SANDRA JARAMII.LO
Hurricane Staff Writer
It all started one day last year when, at the request of Beth Am Temple School, three Chinese researchers from the University of Miami taught students, parents and teachers shadowboxing, a Chinese exercise form.
Patricia de Marquez, community coordinator at the International Student and Scholar Services Office, began to consider bringing international students and elementary school children together on a larger scale, and "Around the World in 18 Weeks" was born.
During the course of a semester, foreign students from l'M will conduct a geography lesson at an area elementary school. The lesson will consist of students dressed in clothes of their native countries showing slides, displaying artifacts, serving food and answering questions concerning their native countries.
The goal of the program is to help children and parents gain a better understanding of other countries through personal contact with native students. So far, Indian. Malaysian. Nigerian and Chinese students have committed themselves to participate this year, and more students of other nationalities are expected to join
Last September, the pilot program at George Washington Carver Elementary School was greeted enthusiastically.
"Teachers just thought it was a
great thing, said Mrs. de Marquez. If letters sent by many of the 480 or so students who attended the program were any indication, so did they.
In the words of Marlenne Bo-lufe, a student at George Washington Carver, "I really liked the orientation we had because it is really interesting to see how other people around the world live, dress and how they go to school It showed me that all people don't dress in jeans and T-shirts."
"I think it (the program| is a very good idea provided we get the proper support for it," said Ajay Agrawal. president of the Indian Student Association and „ participant in the pilot program "We had a very nice welcome, we enjoyed it and I think the students also enjoyed it."
Agrawal was able to gather more material to present this year during a two-month summer vacation in India. He is pleased that the program is giving Indian students more exposure to American culture.
The 1984 series, sponsored by the Lions Club of Miami, will begin Sept 20 at David Fairchild Elementary School with an Indian presentation.
De Marquez, who is of English origin, has high hopes for the future of the program She already has more students participating than last year, and she expects word of mouth to spark interest at other elementary schools, allow ing the program to expand.
Union gets directors, new ideas and decor
By DENISE L. HERMAN
ffurricartc Staff Writer
Redecoration of the Student Union is already in progress, and further renovations are on the way Other plans for the Union include the expansion of the bowling program at the University of Miami and \ ideo tournaments.
These renovations are the goals of Barbara Peltz and Bjorn Andersen. who were hired this summer as assistant director of Recreation and assistant director of Operations and Maintenance, respectively, for the Student Union.
Andersen hopes to create a new image for the Union
"We have a new clientele of students. I think we should cater to their wants and desires, and this is the best chance ever to do this "
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By LISA GIBBS
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Katherine Brady will be the first lecturer sponsored by the University of Miami Lecture Series Brady is the author of the book "Father's Day," a novel about incest and child abuse.
Brady, who will speak at l'M Sept 25, was chosen by the Lecture Series Committee over many lecturers, including former presidential candidate Senator George McGovern
According to a student committee member, the group felt that McGovern was "passe" and that Brady would appeal to the Miami community at large
Brady will cost the committee $2,000. McGovern would have cost $4,000.
Dean of Student Personnel William Sandler, when asked why Brady was chosen over McGovern, said “I couldn’t tell you."
The committee is already making plans to promote the Brady lecture on the Florida International University and Miami-Dade campuses.