University of Florida - Tower / Seminole Yearbook (Gainesville, FL)

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Religion-in-Life Week an attentive audience eyes the speaker. President Reitz speaks to the Convocation audience. DR. VIKTOR FRANKL Spiritual and moral conflicts rather than mental disease have crowded the psychiatrist ' s office and mental health clinics. world famous Viennese psychiatrist Viktor Frankl stated in one of his four speeches at UF. Speaking as the first Religion-in-Life lecturer of the academic year, Dr. Frank! said in former days people frustrated in their struggle for meaning in life would have probably turned to a pastor, a priest, or a rabbi. Today, they crowd clinics and offices and the psychiatrist finds himself confronted with human problems rather than real psychotic disease, he said. Dr. Frank] is the founder of the currently popular school of logotherapy based on the concept that man ' s drive in life is a search for meaning. He perfected his philosophy while imprisoned in the concentration camps of Auschwitz and Dachau from 1942-45. His appearance on campus was sponsored by the Religion-in-Life committee. He titled his four talks Psychiatry and Man ' s Search for Meaning, Basic Concepts of Logotherapy. From Death Camp to Exist- entialism. Existential Dynamics and Mental Health. 29 set,

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Scholarship Slavery, if not extinction, would be the price of unilateral disarmament, a Harvard professor of govern- ment and history told the OF audience at the Ninth Annual Scholarship Convocation. Dr. William Y. Elliot, advisor to the Secretary of State, termed peaceful coexistence a Soviet sham. Ask yourself, he said, if Moscow means by ' peace- ful coexistence ' anything other than that we consent to exist on Moscow ' s terms. Some 450 professors and college administrators, colorfully clad in academic regalia, marched up the aisle in the Florida Gym to the strains of Pomp and Cir- cumstance, in a processional which opened the con- vocation, one of the two formal ceremonies to be held during the year. Convocation, equaled in importance only by Com- mencement ' Day, pays tribute to the academic quality of the student body by honoring those owlio have ex- celled in their studies during the preceding school year. J. Hillis Miller Memorial Scholarships, honoring the former University President, went to four categories of students for work in 1961. In all, 22 individual scholarships were given and six campus organizations cite dfor academic excellence.

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Music GATOR BAND The Gator Band is a very diversified group, being divided into six distinct organizations: the Gator March- ing Band, which performs during halftimes at football games both in Florida Field and out of town whenever possible; the Gator Summer Band, which provides music in the summer; the Gator Symphonic Band, which tours and presents formal concerts; the Variety Band, which performs popular and show tunes; the Gator Concert Band, which adds pep to the basketball games and per- forms outdoor concerts; and the Gator Military Band, which works with the ROTC. With the aid of the OF Athletic Association and funds from Student Government, new uniforms were purchased this year for the Band. The lovely Gatorettes are also an integral part of this large musical group. They plan their own chore- ography and perform at the halftimes of football games. • • —a •-•-•