University of Miami - Ibis Yearbook (Coral Gables, FL)

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The Miami Round-table, under the auspices of the National Council of Christians tnd Jews, presented weekly radio discussions on religious subjects. Dr. H. Franklin Williams, assistant professor of history, is director and narrator, and Dr. McMaster serves as program chairman. There, too, students were given an opportunity to air their views. During the first semester, the Christian Science organization petitioned the Committee on Campus organizations for permission to organize and was given authority to do so. Officers and members were: Richard Shutt. president; Betty Odder, secretary-treasurer; Joseph Heard and Mary Frances Price, readers; and Phyllis Wachstetter, Dorothy Parnie-lee, Henry McDonald, Doris Brengal, Graham McElroy, Mary Veach. Muriel Smith, Lowell Vcach, Marion Small. Bruce Reekie, and Loretta Taylor. Mrs. Arnold Volpe was faculty advisor. Catholic students held weekly get-togethers under the leadership of Genevieve O'Keefe, president; Suzanne Watters, vice president; May Moral, secretary; and Tom McGuire, treasurer. Members were: Toni Long, Mary Maroon. Louise Maroon, Genevieve O'Keefe, A! Kasulin, Bob McDougal, Suzanne Watter, May Morat. Tom McGuire. Lillian Thomas was acting president of the Canterbury Club. Other officers were: Marion Diller. secretary; Barbara Willock, treasurer; Bill Mason. Harry Russell. Jane Mack, Barbara Neldett. Bill Folwell. Ed Lewis. Ethel Newkirk. Martha Fahnestock. Fred Maetke, and Dorothy Jones. Top. YWCA. From row: Brengol. Lopoz, Fandrey. Blanton. Stowart. Davios. Brown. Mins Morritt • Back row: Price, Aider-man, Howltt, Sargent. Blount. Gouldman. Brannon. Coraiglia, Arthur. Second: NEWMAN CLUB. Front row: Sansone. Gil do la Madrid. Throlkold, L. Maroon. Morat. Long. M. Maroon • Back row: Hickoy, Sullivan. Shannon. Kurtz. Lopoz. O'Keefe. Gallaghor. DoVoo. John. Third: CHRISTIAN SCIENCE GROUP. Front row: Parmaloo. Brengol, Frasc. Cole • Back row: Dabkowski. Mrs, Fisher, Wachntottor, Mrs. Volpo, Price, Hoard. Bottom; CANTERBURY CLUB. Front row: Dillor. Nowkirk. Thomas. Willock • Back row: Lewis. Fahnstock, Mason. Russell.

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Philosophers Dr. Kaplan and Dr. Barth flank Dr. McMastor of tho Religion Department. ATTI WKn TO THE TIMES What started out to be a course in Religious Biography this year got beautifully side-tracked sometime during the first semester and turned out to he the University’s first and only offering on “Religion and Post-War Reconstruction. Originally, the course was a study of the lives and works of great religious leaders of the past, hut this year Dr. McMastor extended the subject to include the great leaders of the present-day world and their doctrines. Using the seminar method, students mulled over the results of the National Study Conference on a Just and Durable Peace, Pope Pious Xll's seven point peace plan, the five point peace plan of the Jews, and President Roosevelt’s four freedoms. Sometime during the semester, each member of the class selected a current hook on a religious topic to review for the class, and 30 later presented it as a personal gift to the library. Over a thousand hooks on religion and related subjects have been added to the library in that manner during the past five years. Speaking on “The value of maintaining individual differences in religion as a basis of brotherhood. a trio of speakers from the National Council of Christians and Jews addressed the group during Brotherhood Week in February. The speakers were Rev. A. W. Gottschall, southern regional director of the council; Rabbi Solomon Goldman of Chicago; and the Rev. Father James A. Greeley of Augusta, Georgia. More than once outsiders tiptoed in to attend special sessions and to become a hit dogmatic about the subject of tomorrow. Usually the area of agreement reached was the same: international cooperation and union. Seeking the student’s answer to the (portion. “What part should religion play in the world of tomorrow? members of the Hurricane Round-table decided in a discussion before the post-war planners that education is needed for tolerance. Included in the forum were: Jane Mack. Rebecca Jackson. AI Adler, George Bersntcin. and Jake Watson. Two other courses in religion were offered: Biblical Literature which is an introduction to the Old and New Testaments with a study of the Apocrypha and Comparative Science of Religion which considers all religions from an historical, scientific viewpoint. Every so often people would “happen into” religion class . . . people who bad lived in the Amazons, eaten roast jungle fowl, met African chieftains, won high Greek honors, etc. Wherever they came from, they eventually came to lecture to Dr. McMasters’ classes. “During the five-year history of the religion department, students have been eager to learn the truth about religion, and the classes have always been well attended,” says Dr. William MeMaster, professor of religion.

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 4itcuict l Tlllltl) FLOOII STIIIIO To find tin Arl department's little ivory tower, find vour way to the third floor. Then, starting at the library, let your artistic instincts guide you around to the other side of the building, where we await you. We have the nicest rooms in the building (even stoves for winter). The light is a pleasant east-north light and the decor consists of easels, paints, flowers, vases, jars, bottles, shellac, turpentine, picture frames, and various other objects d'art in which we delight. One wall is thoughtfully inscribed with mottos: “The Pobble That Has No Toes and “Harp Harpie the Larpie. And we have faculty members. Denman Fink and Virgil Barker. Mr. Fink, noted in illustrating, architecture, mural-painting, ami many other fields of art: teaches classes in painting, design, charcoal, and composition. I)r. Barker, an international art authority, has been curator of paintings at Carnegie Institute, director of the Kansas City Art Institute. and editor of “The Arts. New as a full-time lecturer at Miami this year, he 32 teaches courses in art history and delights classes with such phrases a “knicknacks on the what-not to describe the clutter of ic torian furnishings. On an occasion when a harking dog in the patio threatened competition for his lecture, Dr. Barker grinned, “Fin a better Barker than he is. and continued the lecture in a voice of magnificent volume until the dog quieted down. Delta Tau Alpha, the art honorary, has kept things humming in the ivory lower this year. Among other things, members have held an exhibit for service men at Miami's First Christian Church and exhibits in connection with University dramatic productions, painted posters, aided in the hook drive sponsored by Nu Kappa Tau. ami given the University library money to he used for art hooks. Members are Marion Diller. Lillian Thomas, Tom-azenc Mann, Judith Lopez, Hortensc Beck wilt, Anita Sistrunk, Mary Carter. Betty Graham, and Rodney Winfield. But petty annoyances do occur in the art department. Sometimes these appear in the guise of faculty members who look over our rooms, muttering happily —“Oh, what a fine room for my Birdseed 287 course! Oh, what a beautiful room! Then confusion ami indignation ensue, until Mr. Fink comes down and saves the old homestead again. Then there are the people (they take man-sized bites anyway) who come in the dead of night and eat all the fruit in our still-life setups. But we stopped that, heh-heh, by spraying the fruit with shellac. Passing students occasionally wander in and tell us how to paint our pictures. Pet ode to mayhem is this: “Why are you painting it red? It looks green to me. The correct answer is, “Because I'm color-blind! We have found a way to stop the disconcerting habit which the Navy navigators have of gathering in a group outside the room and staring in. We gather in a group inside the