Veritas, Vol. 03, No. 02, October 1, 1962

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Oct. 1,1962
Office of Public Information
DR. STANFORD, AS ACCREDITING COMMISSION CHIEF, CALLS MEETING TO REVIEW ACTION IN MISSISSIPPI
As chairman of thi
Colleges of the Sml1 tMrîTAssoc 1 atioh of Colleges and Schools (the regional
accrediting body) Dr. Henry King Stanford called a special meeting of the Commission’s Executive Council in Atlanta Sept. 28 to study recent events at the University of Mississipoi. Said Dr. Stanford, who also is chairman of the executive council: MThe purpose of the meeting will be to review recent steps taken by the Governor of the State of Mississippi, to act as registrar of the University of Mississippi. The Council will also review the relationship between the Governor’s office and the state colleges and universities.” In his statement, Dr. Stanford emphasized that collegiate standards for admission to membership in the SACS (equivalent to accreditation) or for continuing membership provide that institutions must be free from political manipulations. He also pointed out that the Council would receive a first hand report of Mississippi events from Gordon Sweet, the Council’s executive secretary, who had been sent to study the situation at the chairman’s direction.
UM ASSUMES RESPONSIBILITY FOR SELECTION	At the request of the State of Israel Bonds
OF FIRST MIAMI-ISRAEL CULTURAL AWARDS	organization of Miami, the University of Miami
is assuming responsibility for selecting a
group of outstanding Americans to receive the first Miami-Israel Cultural Awards. The awards, to be presented Oct. 28, will recognize notable contributions to the cultural growth of the young State of Israel. Under the'chairmanship of President Henry King Stanford, a Board of Selections, including a number of members of The Board of Trustees and the Citizens Board will make the final choices from nominations made by a UM committee headed by Dr. H. Franklin Williams, vice president for community affairs. Other nominating committee members are Dr. C. Doren Tharp, Dean Paul Vonk, Dr. Fabien Sevitzky, Prof.
Berthold C. Friedl and Dr. Bryce Ryan. The Board of Selections, of which Trustee J. Neville McArthur and Samuel Friedland are vice chairmen, held its first meeting in the Richter Library Thursday evening. It is the aim of the State of Israel Bonds organization to make the first awards to leading citizens with Florida connections and to expand on a national basis in future years.
McNEAL TO ASSUME ASSOCIATION OFFICE Back to his old studying and stamping grounds in
Memphis, Tennessee, next week, will fly Dr. Archie L. MeNeal, director of libraries, to take office as vice president and president-elect of the Southeastern Library Association. It was while a student at Memphis State College that Dr. McNeal embarked on his professional career, beginning as a student assistant in the Cossitt Public Library there.
ST. JOHN TO LAUNCH LECTURE SERIES Thursday evening at 8 o’clock in the lecture hall of
the Otto Richter Library, Robert St. John, noted author, will give the first lecture in the annual series sponsored by UM’s Undergraduate Student Government. Lectures are free to students, staff, faculty and administration.
Off campus public will be admitted by $1 donation to the lecture fund.
DR. MALTI, NOTED CORNELL FACULTY MEMBER,	New chairman of the Dept, of Electrical
NAMED UM ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING CHAIRMAN	Engineering at UM’s School of Engineering
is Dr. Michel G. Malti, who comes to our
campus from Cornell University where he had a distinguished ‘career as professor of electrical engineering. Born in Lebanon, Dr. Malti obtained his bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Georgia Tech. Awarded a graduate fellowship to Cornell, he ^ar neb both his master’s and -doctor’s degrees there. Beside teaching, he has written and published extensively, speaks Arabic fluently. He is the author of a textbook, ’’Electric Circuit Analysis,” adopted by U.S. universities and translated into Russian. He and Mrs. Malti are the parents of six children and also have two adopted c hildren.
TCP NAVY BRASS ATTENDS DEDICATION	The tiny island of Bimini was literally
OF UM UNDERWATER TV INSTALLATION AT BIMINI brass-bound last week when top officials
of the Office of Naval Research flew down from Washington with science news and TV men for the formal dedication of the closed circuit underwater TV installation operated by scientists'tof the Institute of Marine Science. Representing UM at the ceremonies were IMS Director F.G. Walton Smith, Dr. Fritz Koczy, Dr. John C. Steinberg and Morton Kronengold. Among those of the Lerner Marine Laboratory on hand to greet the distinguished visitors was Philip Wylie. Dr. Walton Smith was honor guest at a dinner given by the Lerner Laboratory.