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

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Adult Education KVRXIKG SESSIONS TAILORED IIV IHI. TIIAIKP TO FIT IIKMAMt The “Quiet, Class in Session signs that li;m» in tin- halls of the Main Buihling worked overtime this year beeause of the many evening classes of the Division of Adult education. The Adult Division has operated on the theory that one is never completely educated. Judging from the increased enrollment and accelerated program, it appears that a great many people put that theory into practice. I rider the direction of Dr. Charles Doren Tharp.- the Division has been enlarged to serve the entire Dade County area. Academic, professional, ami special courses are offered to meet the needs of all kinds of students: those wishing to earn college credit, those wanting specialized knowledge of their profession. and those going to school for the heck of it. Included in the program are the Annual Federal Tax Institute, which is a course of Dr. Clmrlet Dorm Tharp. Director of the Adult Division. fifteen weekly lectures by prominent attorneys, accountants, and officials specializing in tax problems, and the Annual Dade County Teachers Institute, which is a two weeks course of concentrated study in a different special field of interest each year. Instructors in the Adult Division are members of the regular University faculty, ami engineers, accountants, and other trained men who. in daylight hours, are professionally engaged in practicing what they preach at night. The curriculum of the Adult Education Division is characterized by its flexibility; courses arc added or dropped in accordance with their demand. Always mindful of students' wishes. Dr. Tharp has instituted the policy of forming a class if a minimum of twelve people have expressed a desire for it. At present, curriculum planning is concerned with the needs and requests of the returning servicemen. I of 1 • 17

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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.

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Dorm Dilemma IT V A S ' T II .% I» l» K . II B II B — HI T IT HID Nothing is more griped about, more regimented, and yet more favorably remembered than life in a college dormitory. This fall, the San Sebastian opened its doors wide—they had to open wide- to let in three hundred girls, hut then that's another story. The corridors, which onee were fdled with cadets whistling the Army Air Corps song, were lined this year with telephones and waiting women. After each ring of the phone, there was a short pause, a wild scream, thundering footsteps, and then a low. purring, “Hello, Joe? This is Mary. — Ami if it wasn't Mary it was some other girl equally w illing to talk to Joe—any Joe. House rules were NOT made to he broken, or so said the Student Council, composed of Jerrie Roth, president, Arlene Greenwald. vice-president, and Lorraine Walters, secretary. This council had to lie faced when a student didn't fall in line with dorm conventions. The misses Klizahcth Stewart ami Marian Goodwin, as residence directors, also served as weeping walls for the girls' troubles. Out of student efforts emerged a social com- mittee headed by Rose Irwin, who was assisted by Robert High and Bruce Davis of the men's dorms. The committee staged several dances with varied themes- -a Valentine’s dance, an open house, and a hobby socks tribute to Sinatra. The Canteen for servicemen. started by Rea Murray and Patricia Hughes in the card room of the San, was a bright spot in each dorm girl's social life. Toothaches, hives, broken legs, fallen arches —no matter what the ailment everyone trotted down to see Mrs. Helen Dick, pillar of wisdom concerning medical treatment. She was available night or day and was really unconcerned about being disturbed in the middle of the dark for a good reason. It was just the ones that came trouping down at three in the morning with a whimper to the effect that their hands were asleep that brought a deep sigh from Nurse Dick. As in everything, the girls found in the San Sebastian one figure of complete calmness and efficiency who could solve their complaints. ’I’liis person was “Georgia.” the housekeeper. The firs! year of San Sebastian's reopening rolled up a high score; snags in the net were untangled, and now dorm girls are looking to the new semester, and new snags. San .SeliiiKlinn card room in one of it |iiit-i r motnrnl .