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

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1946 UM . . . The first Hurricane baseball team was organized and coached b j assistant football coach Eddie Dunn. Dunn married Doroth} Ashe, daughter of the U.M. president, and later became a member of the Board of Trustees. UM . . . Hurricane football was the hit of the new )ear. earning its first Orange Bowl victory. UM . . . The new main campus began as a series of temporary wooden shacks arranged in quadrangles. U.M. was able to use the facilities of the old Richmond Lighter-than-Air Base in South Miami until construction of the new main campus could be com- pleted. UM . . . Lee Carpenter, elected as Hurricane editor in March, began training classes for new reporters for the coming iiear. 1947 UM . . . The Universiti of Miami continued to expand with a growing enrollment of over 2,500. UM . . . The fall Hurricane was oneofonix) seven papers in the countr ; to win an AU-American rating from the Associated Colle- giate Press. UM . . . The division of broadcasting opened with on y 43 students. The department grew rapidiv, at one time offering 38 courses and 20 student productions aired each week on local stations. UM . . . Eight hundred seniors graduated after spending two i ears on the old Anastasia campus and two on the new main campus. UM . . . Flotsam, a student literar and humor magazine, was recognized as an unofficial campus publication. 14 RETROSPECTIVE

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1944 UM . . . With the team ' s roster almost completely depleted by the war, U.M. co-eds joked about the all-female football team of 1944. UM . . . This iear s graduatior excerises were to be the last armed parade at the Universiti; of Miami. UM . . . Miss Mari; B. Merritt, dean of women, was chairman of college panhellenics of the National Panhellenic congress and a member of its War and College Women committee. The home of campus sororities is named in her honor. UM . . . The Uniuersity experimented with a trimester system, thus graduation excersises were held in Februari and June. This system was not very popular in Miami as student classifications and other administrative records became confusing during the transition. 1945 UM . . . Dr. B. F. Ashe returned full-time to his duties as presi- dent of the University from his special wartime assignments. Ashe had found it difficult to maintain offices simultaneously in Wash- ington, Atlanta, an Miami. UM . . . The student body grew rapidly as hundreds of men returned to school on the new C.I. Bill of Rights. UM . . . Officials announced that the school would return to its original site when building construction was again permitted. After 19 years in temporary classrooms, U.M. started making plans to return home. UM . . . The University decided to abandon the trimester sys- tem. Effective in July, U.M. shifted back to the pre-war semester model. RETROSPECTIVE 13

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CJM Archives Miami Herald Archives 1948 1949 UM . . . Construction began on the first main campus housing. Designed for four to six people per apartment, these dormitories, initially used for the families ofG.l. ' s were considered fairl i luxuri- ous for collegiate housing of the time. UM . . . With the increase in campus housing, Miami ' s out-of- state student population grew rapidl], . UM . . . This year marked the first of three national champion- ships for the Hurricane polo team, one of the best and briefest in U.M. ' s sports history. Led by captain Jack Speedy Euans other national championships followed in 1949 and 1950. UM . . . Norman Christensen. founder of U.M. ' s quality student publications, began work and in one year instituted Miami s third publication. Tempo. UM . . . The Merrick Building was completed — 23 years after the delay in its construction. UM . . . Bill Lufler replaced Gardner Mulloy as tennis coach. UM . . . Pi Kappa Alpha won the house decoration prize for Homecoming and Betty Ann Harding was selected as Homecom- ing Queen. UM . . . Installed the fall before as a voluntary corps, R.O.T.C. became well entrenched at U.M. UM . . . The Hurricane basketball team won their first undisput- ed state basketball title. UM...Thel 949 IBIS was dedicated to President Bowman F. Ashe, who awoke from the nightmare of the 1 926 hurricane to find himself president of a still-born University. . . but painstaking- ly reshuffled the pieces of a broken dream into a modern Univer- sity. i RETROSPECTIVE 15