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

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into DUmuko the Liberal agriculture, transportation, real estate, education, and recreation. An outgrowth of its work was a book called Miami: Economic Pattern of a Resort Area. by Dr. Reinhold P. Wolff, associate professor of economics. The war reached deeply Arts staff but a half-dozen faculty members came back this year after war service, in or out of uniform. I)r. Jay F. W. Pearson, dean of the faculty, returned in August after serving as a major in the Air Corps. Others returning were Dr. Robert E. McNicoll, professor of Latin American history and institutions, who for about a year was with the State Department in Washington; J. Ralph Murray, assistant professor of English, formerly an ensign; Frederick II. Koch, Jr., assistant professor of drama, from the Miami Air Depot; and Dr. Chari- Borrott ton W. Tehran, assistant professor of history, from his farm in k'Gawja. ' New members of the Liberal Arts faculty who came to the University in answer to an expanding enrollment were Dr. Julian D. Corrington, associate professor of zoology; Social Sciences Faculty: I)r. H. Franklin William . Dr. Harold E. Brigg . Dr. Charlton W. Trheau. To t. Biological Science Faculty, .Seated: Dr. Jay Pearson. Dr. Walton Smith. Mr . Doroth) Morse. Dr. Taylor Alexander. Standing: Dr. Leon Slater, Dr. Nelson Marshall, Dr. Robert William , Dr. Julian Corrington. Iloltom, Foreign Language Faculty: Pedro Hiriharne. Sidne) Maynard, Mr-. Melanie Ro borough. Dr. William Dismuke . Leonard Muller. Paid W. Harms and John L. Rouse, assistant professors of English: Mrs. Dorothy C. Andrews, lecturer in psychology; Dr. Leon H. Slater, visiting professor of psychology; George S. Gleason, assistant professor of engineering drafting; and Mrs. Nina M. Harkins and Mrs. Lucy B. Hauser, instructors in English. A faculty change of major importance was the promotion of Dr. Harold E. Briggs, professor of history, to dean of the College. Dr. Briggs replaces Dr. J. Riis Owre, professor of Spanish, who is now in Cairo. Egypt, as a lieutenant in the Navy. Unless the approach of spring in Coral Gables has dazed ns, we’d say that 1944-45 has been a decisive year. « at .V • I I

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Dr. Iliirolil K. Uric -. Dcjn of the Colic © of Liberal Arts. things than held by many civilians of their own age. Although some of them may be a little rusty in the ways of the cloistered life and a little hazy about the difference between a transitive verb and the categorical imperative, as who isn't, they have enlivened college life by being quick to challenge text and teacher. Without being stuffy about it a goodly number of them are seriously interested in government and public affairs, and headed, it seems, to careers as attorneys. Most of these former servicemen are less concerned with the kind of college life you’ve seen in the movies than with reciprocal trade agreements. Dumbarton Oaks, and the San Francisco Conference. (One of them, we're told, flew to Philadelphia to vote in the November elections.) Hut this preoccupation, it’s pleasant to report, Bo»k r does not keep them from showing a zestful enthusiasm about college girls. W hile the vets are likely to take courses in government and economics, the presence of several hundred Navy V-12 trainees has skyrocketed the enrollments in math, physics. and chemistry. Scores of these sailor-students have gone from the University to midshipman school and emerged, in due course, as ensigns, lately there has been some talk about the establishment of a permanent Navy Reserve Officers' Train- Ro«borough ing Corps at the University after the war. The gift of a million dollars hy Kdmond A. Hughes for a College of Engineering has set a goal for the science department. Other substantial gifts to the University include a hundred thousand dollars for a Library Building from George A. Brockway, and fifty thousand dollars for a Student Union Building from Louis Beaumont. An Expansion Drive, which got its start at a banquet of Miami Beach realtors, had by April brought in nearly five hundred thousand dollars, with some of the individual donors contributing as much as twenty thousand. Early in May the widow of Henry L. Doherty gave the University land valued at forty thousand dollars adjoining the tract chosen as a campus when the school was founded. As soon as the Wrar Production Board is willing, new buildings will be erected on the original site, now expanded to about two hundred fifty acres off Dixie Highway between Red Road and Le Jcune Road. Public interest in the University was also stimulated by the work of the University’s Post-War Planning Commission, composed about equally of Liberal Arts and Business Administration professors. The Commission undertook a careful studv of Miami industry. Hiribarn© Fink IO • I him

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Butinc Adniiniflrulioi) Faculty. Sealed: Dr. John Hold-wort li. Emot M. Mr Crack Ml, Mr . Lncllen Hauser, I)r. J. Maynard Kerch. Standing: Dr. I.otii, K. Manley, Dr. Churl-ton W. Tebnu. Dr. Keinhohl I . Wolff. Dr. Jnme J. Carney. Business Ad. ECONOMISTS SEIIVE WITH » I E POST-MAII PLANNING OIIOIPS Tbeke are a LOT of ways to predict tilings to come. Some people ask their ouiju boards, and some consult lite stars, but University economists Dr. Reinhold P. Wolff and Dr. James J. Carney adopted more reliable methods when they did research for the Dade County Co-ordinating and Planning Committee, which was headed by Dr. Louis K. Manley, professor of government. 'Pile committee was appointed by tbe county commission to formulate plans for the development of the county, both in the immediate future and through a long-range program. Dr. Ashe is on the 12 • I bln WoUf committee as tbe representative of tbe City of Miami. In addition to working on tbe county committee. Dr. Wolff turned out a two-hundred-page book on the economic future of Miami for the University Post-War Planning Commission. Dr. J. J. Carney came back to the University after several years’ leave of absence on government service, and Dr. Charlton W. Te-beau returned from bis Georgia farm to take over some sociology and government classes. Dean Ernest McCracken held down his two jobs, dean of the School of Business Administration anti acting dean of the College of Liberal i Arts, until Dr. Harold Briggs was appointed dean of the A latter. During this double-duty Mr. McCracken relied on his “tried and true” faculty, including Dr. John Ke«ch Thom Holdsworth, dean emeritus of the School of Business Administration and professor of economics. Everyone at school was excited about the University expansion news. W ar Bond Drives, and the close of the war in Europe- throughout all of it. this school believed in Business As Usual.” Erneftt M. McCracken, Dean of the School of liu-inr AdniiniMration.