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

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Munir School Faculty, Seated: Madame Lina Coen, Mrs. France Bcrgli, Mi Hertlia Foster, Mr . Hannah Asher. Standing: Joseph Tarplcy, Ralph Roth. Arturo di Filippi. Fd »ard Clarke. Franklin Harris. Joel llclnv. Dr. Modesto Alton. School of Music ROIIKKIIWP STI'DKXT IIFOTAI.S DISPLAY THAIMX. IIY F.U ITLTY day-to-day activities of tin University «f Miami School of Music arc sometimes overlooked in the maze of public performances by famous guest artists, concerts by the symphony orchestra, and Monday evening recitals by students. Hut behind these more or less spectacular events, the workaday routine of finger exercises, vocalizing, and sight-singing goes on hour after hour in the practice rooms of the Music W orkshop. A change of prime importance came this year when Miss Her!ha Foster, who has been dean since the school was organized, resigned to devote her time to establishing in Miami a national home forage d musicians. Joseph Tarpley. teacher of piano ami himself a graduate of the I niversitv. has become secretary of the division, handling administrative details. Mr. Tarpley doubles as director of the Keubek Twenty-seventh Avenue Center, a downtown branch of the School of Music. Miss Foster remains with the faculty as dean emeritus. Although the war has borrowed many male students, the faculty has been almost untouched. The only teacher in service is John Bitter, conductor of the orchestra, serving in London as an Army captain. The following staff members have continued to teach throughout the war: Dr. Modeste Alloo. acting conductor of the symphony orchestra, formerly with the Boston spmphony orchestra; Mrs. Hannah Spiro Asher, student of Leopold Codowsky and one-time teacher in the conservatory in Breslau, Germany; Joel Belov, formerly first violinist with the Philadelphia orchestra, teacher at Curtis and Kastman. and author of standard texts in violin technique; Mrs. Frances Hovcy Bergh, author of a four-volume work on music appreciation; Edward Clarke, widely known lecturer on music and literature; Mine. Lina Coen, graduate of the Paris Conservatory and voice coach; Dr. Arturo Di Filippi, operatic tenor and director of the Miami Opera Guild: and Henry Gregor. FrankMn Harris, and Kalph Both, pianists and composers. Joeeph Tarpley, Secretary of ilir School of Mu-ic.

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School of Law FKMIM.M: INTEREST APPARENT |. IXItKASKI) FMMH.I.MKXT After a somewhat quiescent period, during which University students seemed more concerned with draft laws than with writs of supersedeas, mandamus, and habeas corpus, the School of Law suddenly revived this year with an influx of students from the undergraduate schools. The addition of several instructors thus became necessary. Walter T. Rose, a member of the North Carolina bar, and Seymour J. Simon, magna rum laude graduate of the school, were the new ones selected to “lay down the law” after Mrs. Dorothy Mitchell, instructor, took a leave of absence. Robert McKenna, associate professor, and William Hester, professor, continued on the staff, and the return of Associate Professor Lauffer T. Hayes was expected for the September term. Dean Russell A. Rasco was able to visit the school only occasionally in 1944-45 because of his work as state director of the War Manpower Commission. The novelty of seeing women in Law School classes paled a little this year. Mrs. Hart Morris, wife of the University's football line coach who is now serving as a lieutenant in the Navy, and Yolanda Rodriguez, daughter of the consul from Panama, were enrolled. Practicing attorneys in Miami who are graduates of the school get together at meeting of the University of Miami Law School Alumni Association. This year Amos Heujamiu was president of the group: Dixie llerloug Chastain. first vice-president: Victor Levine, second vice-president; Dave Phillips, secretary: Randolph Bell, treasurer. Law school graduates are automatically admitted to practice in the courts of Florida without examination. b School Faculty: Dean Russell Rasco. Mrs. Dorothy Mitchell. Robert A. McKenna. William J. Hester.