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Rubén Ortiz-Lamadrid was a Cuban journalist active in the 20th century. He wrote a weekly column for Havana's El Mundo newspaper and went on to host a radio show by 1933.

Ortiz-Lamadrid was also a member of Cuba's Junta Nacional de Economía, representing the country at various international conferences as well as acting as head of a section of the Ministry of Commerce.

Murien M. Curtis was a student of the Unversity of Miami in 1937.  She was the IBIS yearbook's Editor of Snap Shots.

Hartwell Hopkins Hunter was a student of the University of Miami during 1928-1932.  According to The Miami Hurricane, the university's student newspaper, he was a member of Pi Chi in 1928 and Sports Editor of The Miami Hurricane in 1931.

Musician Edmundo López was born in 1922 in Victoria de las Tunas, Oriente Province, Cuba. At age 12, he began his musical studies in Havana and later traveled to New York City and London, England to complete his advanced studies. He taught as a music professor at the Universidad de Santiago de Cuba in the 1960s and traveled widely to deliver seminars and talks on Cuban music and musical theory. López also published several works and bibliographies on Cuban music. He died in New York City in 1992.

Alice Martha Dorn Timanus was a student at the University of Miami from 1936 to 1940.  The Miami Hurricane reported that she was the Queen of the Chi Omega Carnival in 1938, was one of  15 honor students, was named in the Who's Who in American Colleges and Universities in 1939, and was Associate Editor of the 1940 IBIS yearbook. She and her brother Lewis both graduated in 1940 and served in the Navy. She was married on April 21, 1944 to Corp. Gustavus T. Timanus, and passed away in 2010 at the age of 92.

Wadsworth and Walker, Inc. was the firm under contract with by the University of Miami for admissions promotions.

Felipe Rivera was a Cuban playwrite active in Havana in the early 20th century.

The Academic Library Development Program (ALDP) is a management self-study program developed by the Association of Research Libraries' Office of University Library Management Studies and tested in various small to medium-sized academic libraries.

George W. Rosner worked for the library from 1939 to 1941 as a student assistant and later reurned as a librarian with a library science degree from Columbia University.  He held the position of head of the Circulation department until 1970, and later became the assistant director of the Archives and Special Collections department.

Mrs. Marcella U. (Ungar) Werblow was a daughter of Arthur A. Ungar, who was a trustee of the University of Miami from 1930s to 1960s. She was also an aunt of Leonard Abess, Jr., who wasa a fomer chair of the Board of Trustees of the university.

Charles Lewis Morgan arrived at the University of Miami as Acquisitions Librarian in 1947 and later served as Assistant Director for Special Collections. Morgan contributed to the growth and expansion of the Otto G. Richter Library, and assisted in the development of collections on Florida, the Americas and the Soviet Union. He also donated an extensive personal collection of monographs, serials and other materials relating to the poet, Wallace Lewis Stevens.

In addition to these contributions, Morgan wrote several poems. He composed poems in both English and Spanish from 1954 to 1960.

The Council of Administrators, composed of high-level personnel from all divisions of the University, was primarily a discussion group for an exchange of ideas. If consensus could be reached, it was possible for decisions to be made which could then become policy.

Under the leadership of George Gwin, President, Jack Hazen, Vice-President, and Joan Banninster, Secretary-Treasurer, the activities of the Society began with its first meeting of the new school year on October 10, 1952.

The University of Miami School of Law, founded in 1926, began with a small graduating class of fourteen students. Today UM is one of the nation's leading institutions of legal education. Faculty members are leaders in their scholarly and professional fields which benefits the highly talented and diverse student body through a rich and challenging curriculum and a wide variety of professional skills training opportunities. The School of Law has more than 20,000 alumni practicing law throughout the United States and nearly eighty countries around the world.