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

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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.

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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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Education DEM O .VST It AT I O.'V SCIMMH. GIVES PRACTICAL TEA«IIKI -TUAI.M. G The optimism of various departments of the University is sliared by the School of Education, which looks forward to its part in the post-war expansion program. Eventually the School of Education will have its own building on the new campus, permitting increased work with Dade County teachers-in-service and growth, too. of a testing program that is already well on its way to substantial accomplishment. As most students know, the University is fully accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools, and holds memberships in the Association of American Colleges, the Association of Urban Universities, and the Florida Association of Colleges and Universities. This wide recognition is reflected in the approval by the Florida Department of Education of the teacher-training work of the School of Education. The fine work of the Merrick Demonstration School, operated jointly by the University and the Dade County Hoard of Education, is shown by the fact that there are always more applicants for admission than the school can accommodate. In the spring of 1945, for example, the parents of a two-year-old child found that ninety children had already been enrolled for the first grade entering in 1948, although only thirty-five can he taken. About eighty students are enrolled as School of Education undergraduates, forty as part-time students, and another eighty as candidates for master's degrees. University economists McMaster and the Dade County Post-War Planning Commission see evidences of strong gains in South Florida population in the next twenty years. It is believed that Miami's population will go from the present 170.000 to about a quarter of a million by 1965. The work of the School of Education in this growth is, of course, clear. Dr. (!hirlr R. Foster. Jr- Dean of the School of Education. r w .m • i:i