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Juan A. del Regato was one of several hundred Cuban medical students expelled from the University of Havana in 1927 due to protests against President Gerardo Machado. Approximately 130 of these students relocated and continued their studies at the Université de Paris in France. Many of these students returned to Cuba and acquired great prestige as physicians.

Juan A. del Regato graduated from the Université de Paris in 1937 and came to the United States in 1938. He collected the theses of several of his fellow Cuban scholars in France, and donated them to the Otto G. Richter Library in 1988.

Regan was the first Dean for the School of Architecture, which was separated from the College of Engineering on June 1, 1983 to become the first school of architecture at a private institution in the state of Florida. Regan received his Bachelor of Architecture at Auburn University, Alabama, in 1964, and earned his Graduate Diploma in 1973 from the School of Architecture in London, England.

A preeminent architectural educator, Regan touched the lives and helped launch the careers of generations of students and faculty as dean of four major university architecture schools: Texas A&M University, Auburn University, North Carolina State University, and the University of Miami. He was also an instrumental professor in the formation of the architecture program at Virginia Tech from 1967 – 1984, where he also served as chair of the school’s foundation program, assistant dean and director of the Washington Alexandria Architecture Center.

Born in 1926, Charles (Chuck) Reed Jr was a Florida architect who worked primarily in the modernist tradition. After serving in World War II, Reed enrolled in the University of Miami School of Architecture. He graduated in the second class of the newly founded school, and went on to practicing architecture. He worked for Igor Polevitzky, a South Florida architect who he greatly admired. His time with Polevitzky became the basis for his architectural foundations, as he learned more in depth about how the design buildings that respond uniquely to the sub-tropical South Florida climate. He began his own practice in the mid-1950's in Hollywood, Florida. While he did not classify his work as belonging to any category or style, his work is classified as mid-century, although he called his work organic and a reinterpretation of residential homes. He explored creative ways to address the South Florida climate and environment with whimsy, as well as being sensitive to the particulars of the landscape. He was always cognizant of hurricane design and was one of the first South Florida architects to implement reinforced masonry construction. He retried in 1997 where he relocated to North Carolina, and he passed in his home in 2022. He left behind a variety of work in South Florida, primarily in Hollywood, Florida.

Alfred Reed was a native New Yorker-born in Manhattan on January 25, 1921. His parents loved good music and made it part of their daily lives; as a result, he was well acquainted with most of the standard symphonic and operatic repertoire while still in elementary school. Beginning formal music training at the age of ten, he studied trumpet and was playing professionally while still in High School. He worked on theory and harmony with John Sacco, and continued later as a scholarship student of Paul Yartin.

After three years at the Radio Workshop in New York, he enlisted in the Air Force during World War II, and was assigned to the 529th Army Air Force Band. During his three and a half years with this organization, Alfred Reed became deeply interested in the Concert Band and its music. He produced nearly 100 compositions and arrangements for band before leaving the Service. Following his release, he enrolled at the Juilliard School of Music as a student of Vittorio Giannini. In 1948 he became a staff composer and arranger with NBC and, subsequently, ABC in New York, where he wrote and arranged music for radio and television, as well as for record albums and films.

In 1953 Mr. Reed became conductor of the Baylor Symphony Orchestra at Baylor University in Waco, Texas, at the same time completing his interrupted academic work. His Master's thesis was the “Rhapsody for Viola and Orchestra,” which later was to win the Luria Prize. It received its first performance in 1959, and was published in 1966. During the two years at Baylor he also became interested in the problems of educational music at all levels, especially in the development of repertoire material for band, orchestra and chorus. This led, in 1955, to his accepting the post of editor in a major publishing firm. He left this position in September, 1966, to join the faculty of the School of Music at the University of Miami, as Professor of Music, holding a joint appointment in the Theory Composition and Music Education Departments, and to develop the Unique Music Merchandising Degree Program at that institution.

With over 200 published works for Concert Band, Wind Ensemble, Orchestra, Chorus and various smaller chamber music groups, many of which have been on the required performance lists, Dr. Reed was one of the nation's most prolific and frequently performed composers. His work as a guest conductor and clinician has taken him to 40 states, Europe, Canada, Mexico, and South America, and for six consecutive years, six of his works have been on the required list of music for all Concert Bands in Japan. He left New York for Miami, Florida, in 1960, where he has made his home ever since. In the Fall of 1980, following the retirement of Dr. Frederick Fennell, Dr. Reed was appointed conductor and music director of the University of Miami Symphonic Wind Ensemble.