Miami Hurricane, October 08, 1943

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OCTOBER 8, 1943
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Graduating Cadet’s Father To Speak At 43-5 Exercises
Climaxing the eighteen weeks of rugged aviation cadet training, the class of 43*5 of the Army Air Forces Flying Training Detachment—Pan-American Airways Inc., will be graduated Saturday in exercises held at the Coral theatre in Coral Gables. Starting the day with a full corps parade at 10 a.m., the cadet corps will pass in review before Major Jesse H. Brown, commanding officer of the
tabling detachment and Major
to Dance After Exams
Poetponed until Thursday, Oct. *1, the V-12 formal dance, to be heid at the Coral Gables Country club from 9 to 12 p.m., is shaping up into a post-exam affair. For the past week or so, the sailors have been on “maneuvers” to defeat the stag nemesis.
For this reason the “men in white” have established a date bureau. Daily in the auditorium at 12:45 p.m. the committee. Tom Lott, Don McIntosh, Bob Sullivan, and “Georgia-Boy” Branen, hold counsel and may be consulted at that time.
Besides arranging dates for V-12 and women students, the committee is attempting to keep tabs on all dates. The "fixers” have requested V-12s who have already made their own dates to register such information.
Civilian male students may obtain Invitations to the dance from any V-12. However, they are excluded from the services of the date arrangers.
A number of problems confront the committee. Wont of these, say the boys, is the misguided girl who thinks she will be disgraced if she signs up with the date bureau. The sailors think otherwise —they like their women fearless.
Donald Russell, guest speaker at tiie graduation am executive officer of the training detachment the Lorado Army Air Base Flexible Gunnery school, Larado, Tex. Major Russell is the father of Aviation Cadet Donald B. Russell of the graduation class.
After the parade, the corps of graduating cadets will march down through Coral Gables to the Coral theatre for the graduation exercises.
Major Brown will be in charge of the program and will introduce the guest speaker. Present on the platform will be Major Brown. Major Russell, Captain Owen J. Williams, director of training, Mr. CHkrles J. Lunn, director of the Pan-American Airway s Navigation section, Captain M. M. Swaim, commandant of cadets, and Chaplain Dixon of the Miami Beach Technical Training Command.
The guest speaker will have the honor of pinning the silver wings of the navigator on the breast of his son, Aviation Cadet Donald B. Russell.
A silver identification braclet will be awarded the honor graduate whose identity remains a secret until the ceremonies.
Tonight, the graduation class will receive their guests at the Coral Gables Country club for a graduation dance.
After graduation, the newly commissioned lieutenants will depart for their duty stations immediately.
The San Was Never Like This When Coeds Roamed Halls
.Army-Navy Teat Set Tor Nov. 9
Students who wish to take the qualifying test for the Army Specialised Training program and the Navy V-12 College program Nov. • are requested to register with Foster E. Alter, dean of men, as soon as possible so that the needed testing supplies can be ordered.
Eligible for the test are men between the ages of 17 and 21 inclusive who are recent high school graduates -or who will be graduated by March 1, 1944.
The same examination, testing the aptitude and general knowledge required for the program of college training, will be taken by both Army and Navy candidates. Those taking the test will be given a choice of service preference, but taking the test does not obR-f»te the candidate to enlist in the service.
Poncho To Return For Fob. Session
The University's number one tennis player. Francisco “Paneho” 8egura, sends word that he’ll return to the U. in February after Playing a tournament in Mexico City and taking a few months off t* visit his family in Ecuador.
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The bee-hive, better known as the San Sebastian, is really humming this week what with the Army navigation class of 43-5 making its last stand in Coral Gables before shoving off for parts unknown.
The combination cadet dormi-tory-U. of M. Administration building, whose balconies are usually crowded with star-shooting navigators brushing up on tomorrow’s lesson, has been converted into « mixture of a habei dashery and the' Yankee stadium. From the “verboten” territory come the strains of “Pistol Packin’ Mama” (43-5’s theme song, it seems) and Red Barber’s interpretations of Mort Cooper’s doings.
The concern over clothes at the San is almost as bad now as it used to be before the days of cadets at the U. when the population of the second and third floor» was strictly female and strictly forbidden to just such people as those who inhabit it now. The men of 43-6 make more fuss over the prided “pinks” they’ll don tomorrow than their female predecessors did over their slinky satins.
Next week, the San will quiet down after 43-5 moves out, bag, baggage, and second lieutenant* Except for the intermittent interruption of the lond speaker, hailing tile cadets 43-5 leaves behind them to “git up and git,” and the usual greetings whistled out to passing females, the building will be moderately atjU—until tiie class of 43-5 is graduated.
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First veteran to register at the University, one of the first schools selected for the educational rehabilitation program is Melvin Edward Wh.pmire, native of Greenville, S. (j., and former member of the Artsy Air corps.
Under this! government program, administered by the Veterans administration, enlisted soldiers, sailors, apd officers wounded in service will be sent to universities, vocational schools, or will be “trained-on-the-job.’- >.
The men wiil be treated individually, with nothing routine about the system, say Mr. S. F. Montague and ‘Mr. Harry E. Simmons, directors; of tha Florida program.
Graduates of high schools and former college jstndehta will enter the universities if they show proper promise of• benefiting by the training. They iwill attend regular classes of the University and will not be distinguished from other students in any way.
Soldier Pianist To Play Sunday
Piano music; will make up the Music Workshop’s Sunday night concert this wepk when Pvt. Frederick Marvin -nlaya. Winner of first place In the Southern California Allied Arts Festival for two successive seasons, Marvin has appeared yefore California’s concert andienrss since 1938. He has recently completed music for the motion picture, “Voice in the Wind,” starring- Sigrid Gurie and Frances Lederv.
A pupil of Rpdolf Serkin at the Curtis Institute of Muaic in Philadelphia, Marvin: has appeared with the Paaadena symphony orchestra, the Glendale symphony orchestra, and in the Holi -wood Bowl.
Since being Rationed with the Army Air forces on Miami Beach, Pvt. Marvin h*s given numerous concerts for service men. The Workshop concert, to Arhich the public is invited, begins at 8:00
p.m.

Nu Kcjppa Tau
At a receni meeting of Nu Kappa Tau, higuest women’s honorary fraternity, it was finally decided that they would tap each trimester. This procedure will not become effective until the third trimester.
Postwar expansion of the University was assured last week when Attorney John G. Thompson, representing George A. Brockway, presented Dr. Bowman Ashe, president of the University, with $100,000 in war bonds which will be used to construct a library building after the war.
Air. Brockway, an industrialist who lives in Courtland, N. Y, has a winter home at 2054 N. Bay Road, Miami Beach. The fund for the library, which will be named after the donor, was established last March.
Stu dan ta Gat Tlckats Fraa
Students will recuire tickets to the football fames this season upon Präsentation of tkoir registration cards to tke Athletic office. Those who have loet their cards may have them duplicated ia the Registrar’s
Navy V-12s, V-5s, and Army navigation cadets will receive complimentary tickets from their, commanding officers.
14 Sigma Chis To Be Initiated
Initiation of fourteen Sigma Chi pledges will be held Saturday evening and Sunday morning at the Law school
Pledge-officers are Chester Eugene Allen, president; Paul Walker, vice president; George Brockway, secretary; and Ed Boucher, treasurer.
Other members of the pledge class are Paul Salvatore, Harry Steffans, Jim Leavitt, Ed Holst, Tom Lott, Alec Branen, Don Singletary, Edward Thurman, Carl Larrabee, and Don McIntosh.
Vita Joins Debate Council
Salvatore Vita, a junior transfer from Fordham, was voted membership to the Debate council at a meeting Tuesday. Other members of the group are Ed Lewis, Rashi Schorr, and Vivien Feld.
9 Cheerleaders,
2 Twiriers Chosen
After a week of daily workouts, nine cheerleaders for the 1943 football season were chosen last Friday night.
Last year’s uniforms of white skirts lined with green, and white sweaters decorated with Ms will be worn by the girls. The boys will wear white trousers and sweaters.
Cheerleaders are captain, Louis Goodman, and Pat Mulloy, Carol Turner, P. J. Harvey, Blanche Ci-rillo, George Bernstein,- Louise Maroon, Mary Louise Lewis, and Elliott Segherman.
Janice Greenfield and Zelda Sy-mon, both freshmen, have been selected drum majorettes for the marching band. Graduates of Miami Senior high school, the girls have been acting as portrait models for convalescent soldiers at the Biltmore hospital this week.
Snarks To Honor Member At Lunch
Honoring Renee Greenfield who graduates in October and will meet with the Snarks for the last time as an undergraduate, the creative writers’ club will have a luncheon meeting next Thursday at noon in room 323.
Donald Justice will read a new play to the group.
Dr. H. Franklin Williams Lived Around Corner From Mussolini
Mussolini were no elaborately decorated Fascist uniform when Dr. H. Franklin Williams lived around the coiner from him in Rome in 1922. ’¡'he pompous Duce, wearing a f or jial evening suit nearly burst with pride when be was awarded the Order of Bath by King George of England. This was the first foreign medal be received, Dr. Williams relates.
Travelling owr Sicily, Dr. Williams observed an interesting country with ah abundance of orange grovea and vineyards. He visited the town of Enna (recently the center of German resistance) which is known as Cas-trogiovanni at (hat time.
Dr. Williams pas born in Providence, R. L, hut received most of his school!*» in Cambridge, Mam. Upon graduation from high school, be travelled to Europe with his mother and sister. After tiro years abroad. Dr. Williams returned to the United States and
entered Harvard university to major in history. He also studied international law at Cambridge university after winning the Whewell scholarship.
Returning to Harvard, he received his master’s degree in 1931 and his Ph.D. degree in
1935.	While studying for his doctor’s degree. Dr. Williams was assistant of history in a system somewhat similar to the Lancaste rian educational policy. A class of several hundred students was divided into sections taught by sub-teachera, while a professor was in charge of the class as a whole.
During the summer vacation of
1936,	Dr. Williams studied at the University of Mexico and was required to write n theme in Spanish. “This waa my work of art,” said the industrious history professor.
Before receiving his doctor's degree, he gathered material in
London for his thesis. “This work in London was research into British foreign policy,” he reminisced. “I looked through government records as far back as the time of William the Conqueror.”
After receiving his Ph.D. Dr. Williams was offered the position of assistant professor of history at Amherst college, where he taught until 1938. In that year he came to the University of Miami as assistant professor of history.
Since he has been in Miami, Dr. Williams has been moderator of the radio series, “National Conference of Christians and Jews.’ He has participated in many radio talks on American history and other educational subjects. He is chairman of a Miami conference on post-war problems, member of the Harvard club of Miami, member and faculty sponsor of the local chapter of Sigma Chi.