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Nova Southeastern University NSUWorks Nova News NSU Early Publications 10-1-1977 Nova University News, October 1977 Nova University Follow this and additional works at: https://nsuworks.nova.edu/nsudigital_novanews NSUWorks Citation Nova University, "Nova University News, October 1977" (1977). Nova News. 57. https://nsuworks.nova.edu/nsudigital_novanews/57 This Newsletter is brought to you for free and open access by the NSU Early Publications at NSUWorks. It has been accepted for inclusion in Nova News by an authorized administrator of NSUWorks. For more information, please contact [email protected]. UNiVeRSITY 3301 Colt~ Awef\ui!. FOI'llaudefdale, flordo J)) 1.. Vol. 3, No.3 Fort Lauderdale, Florida Oaober, 1977 NOVA UNIVERSITY HONORS FOUNDERS AT CONVOCATION Civic leaders of Broward County who Also, former trustee Dwight L. Rogers, found themselves designated the trustees Jr .. Fort Lauderdale, attorney and son of of a new university with no students the county's first Congressman. the late were honored September 25th at the Par· Dwight L. Rogers. Sr.; former trustee Dr. kef Playhouse in Fort Lauderdale for Myron I. Segal, one· time prominent their roles in having created Nova Uni Hollywood surgeon now living in New versity. York; former trustee Foy B. Fleming. a The occasion, the first convocation of Fort Lauderdale attorney since the 1940's Nova University. was attended by com and a founder of the First Bankshares munity leaders and those who have sup bank group. ported the institution for the past 12 Also, former trustee Leo Goodwin, Jr" years. Fort Lauderdale philanthropist; honorary trustee Louis W. Parker, Fort Lauderdale The founding board of trustees, it was philanthropist and donor of the univer* explained by Nova President Abraham sity's Louis W. Parker Physical Sciences S. Fischler, was created in 1964 from the Center; former trustee Six ten F. Wollmar, officers and directors of a group of civic retired industrialist; fo rmer trustee James leaders and educators called South Donn, Jr., president of Gulfstream Race Florida Education Center, Inc. SFEC had Track and member of a family which be* been formed for the purpose of assem came early supporters of the university, bling what is now the entire public-private and original trustee and board vice presi* Nova educational complex on the site of dent Henry Kinney of Fort Lauderdale. a World War II U.S. Naval Air practice Honors likewise were awarded to in facility called Forman Field. The univer dividuals who served on early advisory sity campus came into being three years committees to the university trustees. JiJICf on September 25, 1967, 10 years to Ellis, Hollywood atlorney, both of whom cant donation to the university from a These included Hollywood architect the day prior to the convocation. were on the original board; the late W. philanthropic foundation. James M. Hartley, designer of the campus Forman Field itself had been part of Howard Allen, one*time president of the Others included former trustee Robert and its buildings; Fort Lauderdale build* the Davie holdings of the late H. M. For Landmark First National Bank in Fort O. Barber, industrialist and business ing contractor E. J. Richardson; E. man, who founded a dairy in the vicinity Laude rdale; Myron L. Ashmore, <1 former consultant; the late Donald U. Bathrick, Thomas Wilburn, retired long*time presi* some 60 years ago. A Forman son, Or. trustee and Broward County school former trustee and retired chief executive dent of the First Federal Savings and Charles R. of Fort Lauderdale. a former superintendent, now li ving in Tallahas of the Pontiac Di vision of General Mo* Loan Association; retired industrialists trustee and major donor to the university see; the late Henry D. Perry. banker and tors; honorary trustee George W. English, and civic leaders Kelly Y. Siddall and was honored at the ceremonies. member of a pioneer Broward family; pioneer Fort Lauderdale attorney and Gregory Barry, and the late North Brow* Among the others honored were James form er trustee Robert E. Ferris, Fort founder of what is now the Landmark ard banker and industrialist G. Russell Farquhar, the founding chairman and Lauderdale attorney; former trustee L. Banking Corporation; current trustee French. now chairman emeritus, who received Coleman Judd, Fort Lauderdale realtor, William D. Horvitz, president of the land Following the convocation a reception the first Nova University Order of Merit; banker and land developer; th e late development firm of Hollywood, Inc., for the honorees, supporters and univer* current trustees Robert C: Ellyson, Fort William C. Mather. Hollywood attorney. which had its begin nings in the county in sity faculty and personnel was held at Lauderdale accountant, and W. Tinsley who was responsible for the first signifi * the 1920's. the Pier 66 Hotel. NOVA UNI VERSITY LOOKS AHEAD Nova University's future contributions nology Center, he said, Or. William E. to the quality of life in South Florida will Glenn is developing a solar air conditio'n* Summer Institutes encompass significant projects in the er that will dramatically reduce the cost field of fine arts, and research on energy of energy for that purpose and moving from the Gulf Stream that can "light up toward harnessing the power of the gulf 1977 the whole southeastern coast," according Stream. to the institution's Chancellor, Dr. Alex* Nova's President, Abraham S. Fischler ander Schure told the audience of the traced the development of the institution's Nova Convocation. growth. The consortium of Nova with the New "Each year from 1964 to 1970 we ran The Summer In stitutes and Ihe Work* York Institute of Technology will invest a short by approximately $250,000 a year," shops of the external degree programs half billion dollars in higher education in he recalled, "but we were determined to for the summer of 1977 departed from the the next decade, said the chancellor, who take a vision and make it a reality." In pattern of past years in a couple of ways. is also president of NYJT. 1970 the university graduated its first Two seemingly unrelated groups com* "There is no such thing as free public Ph.D.'s, five in all, and that same year Dr. bined talents and efforts and met on the education," the speaker declared, in dis* Schure brought the undergraduate insti* University campus and at Rolling Hills cussing the role of the nation's indepen* tution of NYIT to the campus. Country Club. The Family Welfare Insti dent colleges and universities in higher D r. Alexander Schure It now has a current annual operating tute was conducted by the Early Child education. budget of $19 million, a gross monthly hood Ed.D. Program and the Graduate "Some components of the public edu* payroll of $670,000, and approximately Program in Public Administration. B.OOO students in 23 states and three cation system are free," he said, "but for The Center for Higher Education held the most part it is subsidized." Further, countries in Latin America. its fifth a nnual Summer Institute at the he commented, the U.S. taxpayers are " But the struggle is not over," he de* Diplomat Hotel, this year adding the relieved of a cost of several billion dollars c1ared. "We now face a greater challenge Vocational, Technical and Occupational a year because independent universities than ever before in the struggle between Program to the longer established Com* educate about ane*fourth of all college the independent sector and the tax munity College Faculty Program. students. supported sector." Although the inde And while there is a need for oppor pendent sector represents 22 per cent of Education U.S.A.-1977, the Summer tunity for all in higher education, there all college students enrolled, Dr. Fischler Institute of the National Ed.D. Program is also a need for excellence, he emphasized. sa id, it confers 31 per cent of all bachelor's for Educational Leaders. was held in Speaking of the facilities and programs degree's and educates 40 per cent of all Washington, D.C., to expose the partic* available within the Nova-NYIT consor American minority students. Some 41 ipants in the p rogram to procedures of tium, work in cancer and arthritis re* per cent of its students come from fam* the federal government and to expose search being performed on the Davie ilies earning less than $15 ,000 a year. Washington to the participants in the campus, the development of an ultra* As for Nova, he observed, "our infancy program. sonic scanner at the Science and Tech* is over, but we need nourishment as we nology Center at Port Everglades which enter adolescence. We need the two-way can peer inside the human body without Dr. Abraham S. Fischler dialogue. We need both your intellectual Material on the Institutes begins on the danger or radiation. At the Tech* stimulation and monetary support." page 4. 2 Trustee Profile William D. Horvitz Message from Honorary trustee William D. Horvitz, lished an office in Miami to begin paving the President member of a family which has been an im Hollywood's first streets for the city's found portant part of the history of Broward County er, Joseph H. Young. Isaac Newton once said, "If I am success since 1920, waS an early supporter of Nova After the hurricane of 1926 brought the ful it is because I have stood on the shoulders University and of the civic efforts that led to f building of the new city virtually to a halt, of giants." This particular quote is very the establishment of the Nova educational the Highway Construction Co. and another apropos for this edition of the Nova News, complex in 1962.