Veritas, Vol. 01, No. 28, April 10, 1961

              April 10, 1961
WEEKLY
Office of Public Information
Vol. 1 No. 28
LIBRARY CONSTRUCTION UNDER WAY - Green light for completion of the $3,000,000 Otto G. Richter Library was given by UM’s Board of Trustees last week. Contract was awarded to M.R. Harrison Corporation as lowest bidder. Architects are Watson, Deutschman and Kruse.
RESEARCH H Q ESTABLISHED ON CAMPUS - Dr. Irving E. Muskat, vice president for research, last week opened his campus office in Room 222, J. Neville McArthur Engineering building. Mrs. Jack Plunkett, a newcomer to UM, has been installed as administrative secretary. Also making headquarters in the office is Lieut. Gen. Manuel J. Asensio, U.S.A.F. Ret., president of the University of Miami International Research Association, Inc., which is working with the University of Miami International Research Foundation, Inc., in the development of the international research center, as announced last month. Telephone is MOhawk 1-2511 extension 2358.
154 CUBAN PHYSICIANS" GRADUATE"- To 154 Cuban physicians on April 1 were presented certificates for completing the three months intensive course in post graduate medical education offered by the joint faculties of the University of Miami and the University of Havana. They then took the examinations provided by the Education Council for Foreign Medical Graduates. Those who pass these exams then are qualified to occupy professional positions as internes, residents of staff physicians on hospitals in the United States. Within a month a second intensive post graduate course will be inaugurated by the joint UM and UH faculties.
HANDSOME, FACT-FILLED NEW BOOKLET OUT - Out this week is the first of a series of booklets to be sent to high school and secondary school seniors and prospective transfer students who inquire about admission to UM. Entitled "This is the University of Miami," the booklet is designed as an introduction to UM. Using color on the cover, it is handsomely illustrated with pictures which stress study. It includes a short article, "The Purpose of an Education" by Dr. Pearson. Following is an excerpt: "Its very name, university, suggests its universal aspect — universal in the vast range of subjects it offers for study. And in another sense it is universal. The student can develop himself into the well-rounded individual *— ’the universal man’ — prepared to meet the hard challenge of the world. This challenge the educated man or woman recognizes and accepts with the confidence of a mind trained to know, and knowing, to think. That, in a few words, is the main purpose of an education." Although the booklet is published for off-campus use, a limited number of copies is available at the Admissions Office. The booklet is the first major production of the new University Publications Office.
AS OTHERS SEE UM - The Dade County Development Department, an agency of METRO, devoted its entire March issue of "Metropolitan Miami Memo" to UM’s new research center. The publication departed from its customary conservative format to feature a diagrammed map of the new center on its front page. "Memo" also included reprints of hews stories published by the Miami Herald and the Miami News announcing the center and biographies of Dr. Irving E. Muskat and Manuel J. Asensio, Lieut. Gen. U.S.A.F. Ret. Summed up "Memo" -"The University of Miami’s 450-acre research center in South Dade county has broad and materially potent economic impact for Metropolitan Miami, Florida, Southeastern United States and Latin America. The Dade County Development Department, economic planning and evaluating agency of Metropolitan Miami government, foresees establishment of numerous research laboratories in this international center."
SPEAKING OF FACULTY - Medical World News, a publication for the medical profession, in its March 31 issue has a two-page article and front cover color picture dealing with the new techniques for regional profusion in the treatment of cancer developed by Dr. Daniel S. Martin, associate professor of surgery at UM Medical School — Dr. Nathan D. Shappee, history, last week addressed the Florida Historical Society on "The Celestial Railroad"— Dean J. Riis Owre, Graduate School, delivered the principal address at the Auburn Foreign Affairs Seminar, on the topic: "The People of Hispanic America" — Dr. J. Everett Royer, associate dean, school of business administration, will serve as chairman of a 30-member committee appointed by Dr. Tharp to plan the University Honors Day Program.— "Factors in Mental Illness" will be discussed by two UM faculty members at the Miami Public Library at 8:15 p.m. April 11. Subject for Dr. George Jacobson, clinical assistant professor of psychiatry is "From Within." Dr. Murray Wax, assistant professor of psychology, is "From Without." Oliver Griswold, program coordinator, Radio-Film-TV, spent Easter vacation in Colombia gathering info and making films for UM TV programs. His host at Santa Marta was George H. Gwin, B.S.*53, a Compania Frutera de Sevilla official there — Prof. Jess W. Brandon, acctg.,is one of 10 U.S. professors invited to attend a management conference this month at the U.S. General Accounting office, Washington, D.C. — Prof. Herbert A. Kuvin, Law, lectured and conducted a Q & A session at the Southern Conference of the American Law Students Association. His subject was "Are Legal Ethics Acquired or Learned?’ —Dr. Berthold C. Friedl, Prof. Romance Languages and Russian, and Mrs. Eva Friedl, instructor in Russian, will take leading parts in the meeting of the local chapter of the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages April 15 in Merrick 201. Dr. Friedl will moderate and participate in a panel discussion on the topic, "Is RussiaiFulfilling its Potential in American Education?" As state president, Mrs. Friedl will give the welcoming address. UM students will present Russian folksongs.