This is a meaningful picture for the University taken in 2007 – two historically important people of the university are standing at the birthplace of the first campus. Dr. William Butler (left) and Dr. Henry King Stanford (right, third president of the University from 1962-1981) are standing in front of the sign “U of M Opened Here” located near downtown Coral Gables. The picture was given to us by Dr. B together with two dozens of additional images on his professional and personal life from 1942 to 2014.
Dr. Butler had served as the Vice President for Student Affairs and professor at the University of Miami for 32 years and retired in 1997. He is the founder of the William R. Butler Volunteer Service Center at the U.M. also. He helped me many times with research questions, and he is an ardent supporter of the University Archives by donating us his interview videos “Conversations with Dr. William Butler (1995-2004)” and publishing the book “Embracing the World: the University of Miami, from Cardboard College to International and Global Acclaim (2008).”
(Conversations with Dr. William Butler)
Please go to the link below to see pictures and learn more about the first campus of the University.
(Anastasia building & North Campus)
University of Miami Archives -- Let's Archive It 