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Gerhart Hauptmann (1862-1946) was a German playwright, poet and novelist who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1912. "The Sunken Bell" is a poetic fairy tale, a play in four acts.

Actor, writer and publicist Edgar Hay moved to Miami in 1920 and entered the local theater scene. Before coming to Miami, Hay embarked on a brief stage career and also served in World War I. Although he lacked formal training, Hay obtained roles in several musical plays, and returned to Broadway for a short period after the war. In Miami, Hay acted in plays and wrote newspaper columns about local productions. The Federal Theater Project of the Works Progress Administration produced his play, "Rhapsody in Two Flats," in the 1930's. Hay also wrote a number of other plays, articles and short stories, and held several public relations positions.

Hay joined an order of Freemasons while stationed at Fort Sill, Oklahoma in 1918, and in 1920 "through the Masonic friendship of ...Frank B. Stoneman editor-in-chief of the Miami Herald," Hay obtained employment in Miami. Hay wrote his first column for the Herald, "Miami Rambles" between 1920 and 1924. During the 1920's, Hay also became active in Miami theater, performing with the original Miami Community theater and Parkway Playhouse.

From 1925 to 1928 Hay worked as publicist for the City of Coral Gables, and then resumed work with the Herald writing a column "Show Folks." Hay also worked as a copywriter and account executive for Loomis and Hall, Inc. In 1939, he left the Herald to devote full time to advertising and accepted public relations positions at the Florida Power and Light Company and Pan American World Air Ways, Inc. In 1944 he joined the Office of Special Information for the Air Service Command at the Miami Air Depot. After leaving his position as an associate of Arthur E. Curtis, Hay joined the University of Miami Office of Public Information where he remained until 1961.

Denis Hector, R.A., LEED AP, is an Associate Professor in the University of Miami School of Architecture with a secondary appointment in the Department of Civil, Architectural & Environmental Engineering. He received his B.Arch. from Cornell and his Masters from Penn. As a DAAD Fellow at the Institut fur Leichte Flaechentragwerke he conducted research in the laboratory of 2015 Pritzker Prize winner, Frei Otto. He has taught architectural design and structures at the University of Bath, Parsons, Columbia, and Penn. At UM, he has served as Director of Graduate Programs, Associate Dean in the School of Architecture, and co-chair of the Abess Center Ecosystem Science and Policy Faculty Advisory Board. He initiated the first National Science Foundation Hurricane Hazard Research Conference post-Andrew, edited Hurricane Hazard Mitigation, and participated in the Mississippi Renewal Forum Charrette after Hurricane Katrina, the Mississippi AIA Mississippi Building Code Workshop, the 2010 Haiti Charrette, and subsequent work in Haiti with colleagues in Partner in Health. He currently advises on lightweight structures, hazard mitigation building codes, and community resilience.

Elected to National Airlines' board of directors in 1974, Louis J. Hector (1915-2005) had distinguished himself as an attorney in private practice and with the Federal government. He was a partner in the Miami law firm of Steel, Hector & Davis. His career in public service included three years as a member of the Civil Aeronautics Board, from 1957 to 1959. He was also involved for almost 20 years with various aviation and administrative law activities for the Federal Aviation Administration, the U.S. State Department, the American Bar Association, and the Brookings Institution.

Mr. Hector was a member of the Board of Directors of Southeast Banking Corp and also served as chairman of the bank's executive committee for several years. He was a past director of the First National Bank of Miami and of the Lockheed Aircraft Corp. He was an emeritus trustee of the University of Miami, a member of the Rockefeller University Council, and a Smith College trustee. He also served on the Dade County (Fla.) Council of Arts and Sciences.

Mr. Hector was a member of the Florida Bar, the District of Columbia Bar, the Dade County Bar Association, the American Bar Association, and the Association of the Bar of the City of New York. He was the director of the Center For Administrative Justice and a member of the American Judicature Society.

During World War II, he was an assistant to Under-Secretary Edward Stettinius in the U.S. State Department, a Lend-Lease Administration attorney, and served with the Office of Strategic Services in the Southeast Asia and China Commands.

Born in Fort Lauderdale, Mr. Hector received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Harvard and Williams Colleges and his LL.B from the Yale Law School. He also attended Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar and was a member of Phi Beta Kappa.