Ronald Perry was born in Miami, Florida, in 1932, but spent most of his childhood on Key Largo where his parents operated a fishing lodge. He enrolled at the University of Miami receiving a Master of Arts degree in 1954. He then joined the Army and served two years as a cryptographer leaving in 1956 to enroll in graduate studies, only briefly, at the University of Iowa. Perry returned to Miami, published his first volume of poems, The Fire Nursery and Other Poems, and soon thereafter traveled to Southeast Asia where he worked for an engineering firm. In 1959, Perry published Rock Harbor and in 1960 The Pipe Smokers : An Ecologue for an Unspecified Occasion. Perry then moved to the Bahamas where he lived for eleven years. In 1962 Voyages from Troy was published, but he published little else until Denizens appeared in 1980, a volume chosen by Donald Justice, whom Perry met while a student at the University of Miami, for the National Poetry Series. Perry was preparing a manuscript entitled In the Smoke at the time of his death in 1982.
Florence Brigham researched and collected materials on the Florida Keys and wrote articles on the history of Marathon and Key Vaca. While a student at the University of Miami, Brigham completed a History of Key Vaca, published in the Southern Florida Historical Association journals for 1957 and 1958. She presented a paper "They Chose Key Vaca," before the Association in 1957, and another of Brigham's articles later appeared in Tequesta magazine.
Charles Deering, son of William and Abbey Reed (Barbour) Deering, was born on July 31, 1852, in South Paris, Maine. His father was the founder of Deering, Miliken & Company, and later of Gammon & Deering, manusfacturers of harvesters and the predecessor of the Deering Harvester Company, organized in 1880. This latter company merged with International Harvester Company in 1902.
Charles Deering married Anna Rogers Case of November 3, 1875, in Newport, Rhode Island. Their son, WIlliam Case Deering was born on October 18, 1876, and died on May 12, 1924. Anna Rogers (Case) Deering died on October 31, 1876. Charles Deering was remarried, on January 2, 1883, to Marion Denison Whipple. Deering died in Miami, Florida, on February 5, 1927.
Historian Bailey Diffie specialized in medieval and early modern Portuguese history, as well as in that of colonial Brazil and Latin America. Bailey taught at City College in New York, Columbia University, the University of Washington, and the University of Texas. His major publications include Puerto Rico: A Broken Pledge (1945), Latin American Civilization: Colonial Period (1945), Prelude to Empire: Portugal Overseas before Henry the Navigator (1960) and Foundations of the Portuguese Empire, 1415-1580 (1977). Diffie's teaching career as well as his influential work, Latin American Civilization established a significant place for him in the field of Latin American Studies.
The Division of Enrollment Management at the University of Miami includes the Office of Admission, Officed of International Admission, Office of Financial Assistance Services, Office of Student Employment, Office of Technical Operations, Office of Market Research & e-Communications, and Office of Retention ('Cane Success Center).
The University began offering Evening Division courses in 1926, as described in the University Bulletin "for the benefit of young men and women employed during the day." The Divison of Continuing Education was established in 1964. They were later combined in one unit and called the Divison of Continuing and International Education.
The first part of this collection contains the letters by Ruth Bryan Owen (later Rohde) to Carrie Dunlap, 1907-1929; the second part are the credentials of Carrie Dunlap, the school teacher. Carrie was the daughter of Millard Fillmore Dunlap, banker in Jacksonville, Ill. and campaign treasurer for William Jennings Bryan.
The Honorable Ruth Bryan Owen was the first elected congresswoman from Florida, the first female Democratic member of the House from the "Old South" and later the first United States female ambassador. She sponsored the bill for the creation of the Everglades National Park. In addition, Ruth was the daughter of William Jennings Bryan who was nominated for President of the U.S. three times. He was last nominated in Denver in 1908 to run against William Howard Taft.
The IBIS, the yearbook of the University of Miami, began publication in 1927. The Ibis has been published annually since that first year and has grown considerably. Recent volumes of the IBIS are almost 500 color pages and are created by a staff of nearly fifty.
The Information Management and Systems Division focuses on the development and maintenance of digital resources and the provision of technology management services and support for the Richter Library system.
American anthropologist Henry Field studied in England, graduating from Oxford University in 1925. He worked as Assistant Curator of Physical Anthropology in the Field Museum of Natural History, and held the position of Curator, 1934-41. Field participated in several of the Museum's Near East expeditions.
In 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt asked Field to join his staff as anthropologist and personal advisor. Field became a member of the Special Intelligence Unit of the White House, and director of the "M" project, a study of world population, migration and settlement undertaken to provide data for shaping post-war relocation strategies. Henry Field eventually published the 666 studies following declassification of the files in 1960. He also wrote a history of his experiences, entitled The "M" Project and The Track of Man, Volume 2: The White House Years.
Throughout his career, Field participated in archaeological expeditions in Europe, Africa, Mongolia and southwest Asia. He also led expeditions to Europe, the North Arabian Desert, Iraq, Jordan and Saudi Arabia. He was a member of the University of California African Expedition (1947-48), and the Peabody Museum- Harvard Expedition to the Near East and Pakistan. In 1966 he joined the University of Miami faculty, and edited, wrote and published a number of anthropological studies through his "Field Research Reports."
Field, the recipient of many honors and awards, was a research fellow in physical anthropology at Harvard from 1950-69, and an honorary member of the Glasgow Archaeological Society. He also joined several foreign scientific societies and organizations in the United States and other countries. His publications include the following works on southwest: Useful Plants and Drugs of Iran and Iraq, The Anthropology of Iraq and Bibliographies on South West Asia I-VIII. He also published Contributions to the Anthropology of the Caucasus, The Track of Man, Arabian Desert Tales, Mongolia Diary and Mongolia Today, Trail Blazers and other works.
The Undergraduate Student Body Government is made up of the Executive Branch, the Senate, the Court, and the Elections Commission. The Student Body Government plans and implements campus-wide initiatives affecting academics, campus life, and dining, among other activities.
The Women’s Guild was organized for the purpose of fostering favorable relations between the community and the University of Miami. Guild programs are specifically designed to stimulate interest in and inform members about the University of Miami, stressing the University’s importance as a vital educational and cultural resource for all of South Florida.
The Acquisitions Department is responsible for ordering, receiving, and paying for new books, journals, periodicals, music scores, videos, DVDs, CD-ROMs, and other non-book materials for the Otto G. Richter Library, Marta & Austin Weeks Music Library, Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science Library, Judi Prokop Newman Information Resources Center (Business) and Paul Buisson Reference Library (Architecture).
From its origins in three classrooms in 1950, the Lowe Art Museum has been committed to fulfilling its mission to serve the University of Miami as a teaching resource, and the residents of and visitors to greater Miami as a major general art museum. With the gift in 1950 by philanthropists Joe and Emily Lowe, this free-standing museum facility opened to the public in 1952 as the first art museum in South Florida. Its 17,500–object collection is one of the most important in the southeast, with strengths in Renaissance and Baroque, American, Ancient and Native American, and Asian art.
