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In some respects the University of Miami has had the appearance of an armed camp during the past few years. It is right that it should be so under the circumstances, and the major emphasis lias been upon those tilings which would be most helpful to the war effort. In the Army program and in the Navy program thousands of young men, from all parts of the country, have come for training. They have stayed a few months in most cases, and then gone on for further technical training or directly into the Army and Navy, hut there has constantly been a larger civilian enrollment than we had expected. No departments have been closed, and we have every reason to believe that the University will come through the war years enlarged and strengthened, and ready to serve in a larger way our own returning students and the new students who will come in the post-war years. Students who are being graduated this year have spent most of their academic life in the University under war conditions, hut they have been considering not only the things of just today but the best that has been said and thought throughout tillages. We congratulate them on work well done under unusual and trying conditions. We hope and believe that the war will soon be over. For the seniors wc have every good wish for the future. May it bring peace, prosperity, and happiness. B. F. Ashe PRESIDENT
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Administrators I)r. Ashe found out last summer that commuting between Miami (the University of) and Atlanta (the War Manpower commission) two or three times a week just didn’t suit a man of his type. Even Superman would find it hard to be president of a teen-aged university and southeastern regional director of the W MC. So, deciding to concentrate on the University, he told his immediate government boss, Paul McNutt, to find someone to fill his hoots and hastened on home. It’s still very hard to find Dr. Ashe. You’re more likely to see Mrs. Wedderspoon (nee Havens) or Mrs. Proctor, who will relay your message to I)r. Ashe. Keeping the home conflagrations conflagrating while Dr. Ashe was away and being right-hand man number one now that our president is back is William J. Hester, who is also a member of the law school faculty. As secretary of the administration, he is vice president in charge of everything that people want to have done when they can’t see Dr. Ashe. Mr. I lester and Dean Foster E. Alter make numerous secret missions to keep the University in touch with what’s expected of the school as far as war training goes. Besides being dean of men, Fos Alter is cheerleader of the U. of M. and coordinator between the V-12 unit and the University. This year, not to be outdone by Miss Merritt, Dean Alter instituted an orientation class for freshman men. We hear that one of his students stayed up till 4 a.m. one winter’s day memorizing the Greek alphabet for Orientation 103. Another glohe-trotter is Miss Mary B. Merritt, who snatches time from teaching English, being dean of women now and then, to brush up on Greek letter matters since she’s chairman of college panhellen-ics of the National Panhellenic congress and a member of its War and College Women committee. Between trips, she goes about housing out-of-town co-eds, smoothing out sorority difficulties, and keeping the entire female population headed in the right direction. Sidney B. Maynard, treasurer of the University, not only keeps his eyes on finances, but devotes time to teaching Spanish and rooting for the various athletic teams we send around the state. Some say he’s Dean Alter’s closest rival when it comes to being a booster. Rounding out the administration is our hard-working registrar, Harry Provin. But we’d say that all our administrators are hard-workers. Adminittrutive head of the t'niver»iiy are Man B. Merritt, IX-an of Women; William Metier, Secretary j Foster Alter, lX-an of Mrnj Sydney B. Maynard, Treasurer and Harry Provin, Registrar.
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