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SPEAKING OF PEOPLE THE BI-WEEKLY NEWS LETTER For Faculty and Staff Volume 10, No. 17 May 18, 1970 BUILDINGS TO BE RENAMED HONORING Two University of Mi-GEORGE E. WHITTEN, JAMES M. COX, JR. ami buildings will be renamed this week and next in honor of George E. Whitten, trustee emeritus, and James M. Cox, Jr., trustee. The Learning and Instructional Resources Center, completed in 1961 and known to thousands of students as "LIRC," will be dedicated to Mr. Whitten at a noon luncheon today at the UM Faculty Club. It will be known as the George E. Whitten Learning and Instructional Resources Center. The Science Building, which opened in 1967, will be dedicated to Mr. Cox Tuesday, May 26 at a luncheon at the Faculty Club. It will be known as the James M. Cox, Jr. Science Building. President Stanford announced the moves to honor the men for outstanding service to the University following official action of the Board of Trustees. Mr. Whitten was elected to the board in 1945 and served on its executive committee from its inception in 1953. He was elected vice chairman in 1963 and became trustee emeritus by his request in 1966. Mr. Whitten was an executive of Burdine’s and Federated Stores. Mr. Cox was elected to the board in 1964 and has served since. He will be cited for his advancement of science and his contributions to higher education and research. His father, the late James M. Cox, former Governor of Ohio, was on the UM’s first Board of Regents and was a signer of the Charter. Mr. Cox is chairman of the board of Cox Broadcasting Co., and president and publisher of The Miami News. FOUR ADDITIONAL BLACK FACULTY, The appointment of four ADMINISTRATORS APPOINTED additional black adminis- trative and faculty staff members at the UM has been announced by President Stanford. They are: Miss Nancy Wilson, graduate advisor in UM's Pearson Hall, to become assistant director of admissions; Dr. Gerald Leonard Murison, a native of South Africa, now with the University of Pennsylvania, to be assistant professor of biology; Whittington B. Johnson, a native Miamian now completing his doctorate at the University of Georgia, to be associate professor of history, and Mrs. Aubrey (Robert H.) Simms, Miami educator, to be an academic adviser in the Office for General Students, College of Arts and Sciences. Three additional black administrative positions are in the process of being developed, Dr. Stanford said. One will be in the President’s office, one in the College of Arts and Sciences, and one in the Office of Non-Academic Personnel. FACULTY DANCE A Faculty Dance will be held at 8 p.m. Friday, FRIDAY, MAY 22 May 22, at the Faculty Club with live music, refreshments and "surprises for a jolly evening." For reservations at $1.50 per person, call A1 Howard, 284-2444. Milton M. Coplan. M.D., clinical professor of surgery (urology) has been elected president of the southeast section, American Urological Association. Dr. Coplan is also secretary of the University of Miami Citizens Board... Dr. Carl E. B. McKenry, Jr., director, Center for Urban Studies, was elected to the Board of Governors of the Council of University Institutes for Urban Affairs at its annual conference in Washington, D.C. April 23-25. He also served as a panelist during the program on the subject of "Urban Studies Center Typologies."... Dr. William B. Deichmann, pharmacology, has been appointed to the USDA’s newly formed "Lindane Advisory Committee" which is reviewing the use of this pesticide in interstate commerce... Philip E. Heckerling, law, served as an instructor in the 1970 session of the Trust Training School sponsored by the Florida Bankers Association in Gainesville recently. He lectured on the subject of "Living Trusts."... Miss Ulla Jarlfors, research assistant, medicine, gave a seminar May 14 at the University of Southern California on the fine structure of the venom gland of the black widow spider... Dr. William G. Heuson, chairman, finance, will speak May 26 at the National Conference of Municipal Finance Directors at the Deauville Hotel. His topic: "The World’s Best Kept Secret — How to Get Young People Into the Field of Municipal Finance.’’ On April 25 Dr. Heuson spoke on "Where Does Banking Go From Here?" at the South Florida Bond Administrator Institute, Key West...
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Full Text | SPEAKING OF PEOPLE THE BI-WEEKLY NEWS LETTER For Faculty and Staff Volume 10, No. 17 May 18, 1970 BUILDINGS TO BE RENAMED HONORING Two University of Mi-GEORGE E. WHITTEN, JAMES M. COX, JR. ami buildings will be renamed this week and next in honor of George E. Whitten, trustee emeritus, and James M. Cox, Jr., trustee. The Learning and Instructional Resources Center, completed in 1961 and known to thousands of students as "LIRC," will be dedicated to Mr. Whitten at a noon luncheon today at the UM Faculty Club. It will be known as the George E. Whitten Learning and Instructional Resources Center. The Science Building, which opened in 1967, will be dedicated to Mr. Cox Tuesday, May 26 at a luncheon at the Faculty Club. It will be known as the James M. Cox, Jr. Science Building. President Stanford announced the moves to honor the men for outstanding service to the University following official action of the Board of Trustees. Mr. Whitten was elected to the board in 1945 and served on its executive committee from its inception in 1953. He was elected vice chairman in 1963 and became trustee emeritus by his request in 1966. Mr. Whitten was an executive of Burdine’s and Federated Stores. Mr. Cox was elected to the board in 1964 and has served since. He will be cited for his advancement of science and his contributions to higher education and research. His father, the late James M. Cox, former Governor of Ohio, was on the UM’s first Board of Regents and was a signer of the Charter. Mr. Cox is chairman of the board of Cox Broadcasting Co., and president and publisher of The Miami News. FOUR ADDITIONAL BLACK FACULTY, The appointment of four ADMINISTRATORS APPOINTED additional black adminis- trative and faculty staff members at the UM has been announced by President Stanford. They are: Miss Nancy Wilson, graduate advisor in UM's Pearson Hall, to become assistant director of admissions; Dr. Gerald Leonard Murison, a native of South Africa, now with the University of Pennsylvania, to be assistant professor of biology; Whittington B. Johnson, a native Miamian now completing his doctorate at the University of Georgia, to be associate professor of history, and Mrs. Aubrey (Robert H.) Simms, Miami educator, to be an academic adviser in the Office for General Students, College of Arts and Sciences. Three additional black administrative positions are in the process of being developed, Dr. Stanford said. One will be in the President’s office, one in the College of Arts and Sciences, and one in the Office of Non-Academic Personnel. FACULTY DANCE A Faculty Dance will be held at 8 p.m. Friday, FRIDAY, MAY 22 May 22, at the Faculty Club with live music, refreshments and "surprises for a jolly evening." For reservations at $1.50 per person, call A1 Howard, 284-2444. Milton M. Coplan. M.D., clinical professor of surgery (urology) has been elected president of the southeast section, American Urological Association. Dr. Coplan is also secretary of the University of Miami Citizens Board... Dr. Carl E. B. McKenry, Jr., director, Center for Urban Studies, was elected to the Board of Governors of the Council of University Institutes for Urban Affairs at its annual conference in Washington, D.C. April 23-25. He also served as a panelist during the program on the subject of "Urban Studies Center Typologies."... Dr. William B. Deichmann, pharmacology, has been appointed to the USDA’s newly formed "Lindane Advisory Committee" which is reviewing the use of this pesticide in interstate commerce... Philip E. Heckerling, law, served as an instructor in the 1970 session of the Trust Training School sponsored by the Florida Bankers Association in Gainesville recently. He lectured on the subject of "Living Trusts."... Miss Ulla Jarlfors, research assistant, medicine, gave a seminar May 14 at the University of Southern California on the fine structure of the venom gland of the black widow spider... Dr. William G. Heuson, chairman, finance, will speak May 26 at the National Conference of Municipal Finance Directors at the Deauville Hotel. His topic: "The World’s Best Kept Secret — How to Get Young People Into the Field of Municipal Finance.’’ On April 25 Dr. Heuson spoke on "Where Does Banking Go From Here?" at the South Florida Bond Administrator Institute, Key West... |
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