University of California Berkeley - Blue and Gold Yearbook (Berkeley, CA)

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DEAN ROGER J. TRAYNOR, Jurisprudence DEAN CHARLES DERLETH, JR., Engineering DEAN FRANK H. PROBERT, Mining DEAN CLAUDE B. H UTCH ISON, Agriculture DEAN GILBERT N. LEWIS. Chemistry 22

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The most distinguished honor that has come to the University was the award of the Nobel Prize for physics to the brilliant young scientist, Dr. Ernest Orlando Law- rence, p rofessor of physics and director of the Radiation Laboratory. Special ceremonies were held on the evening of February 29 at the University for the bestowal of the award since circumstances prevented him from going to Sweden to receive it at the hands of the King. Among the additional presidencies of learned societies which came to our university were that of the American Mathematical Society, to which Professor Griffith C. Evans was selected; the presidency of the Paleontological Society of America, bestowed on Professor Ralph W. Chaney; the presidency of the International Botanical Congress, Stockholm, to which Professor E. B. Babcock was chosen. The University secured a goodly number of medals during the year, among them being the following: the Nichols Medal, awarded to Dr. Joel H. Hildebrand; the 1938 Agassiz Medal (oceanography), awarded to Dr. Harold U. Sverdrup; the John Deere Medal, awarded to Professor H. B. Walker; the Commonwealth Club Medal for Literature, awarded to Professor George R. Stewart; the Commonwealth Club Medal for Works of Scholar- ship, awarded to Professor Herbert I. Priestley. President Sproul was elected a member of two very important boards: i.e., that of the Rockefeller Founda- tion and that of the Carnegie Foundation for the Ad- vancement of Science. One of the important happenings of the year was the construction and occupation of the well-equipped build- ing of the University Press at the corner of Oxford and Center streets, which will make possible increased facil- ities for the publications of the University in its various fields. Lack of space forbids a summary of the other academic happenings of the year, which continued to mark the progress of the University. MONROE E. DEUTSCH. THOMAS M. PUTNAM, Dean of Undergraduates RAYMOND G. GETTELL. Dean of Summer Sessions LUCY W. STEBBINS, Dean of Women THOMAS B. STEEL, Registrar CHARLES B. LIPMAN, Dean of the Graduate Division LUTHER A. NICHOLS, Comptroller

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DEAN WARREN C. PERRY, Architecture DEAN JOEL H. H ILDEBRAND, Letters and Science DEAN ROBERT D. CALKINS, Commerce C DEAN FRANK N. FREEMAN, Education DEAN SYDNEY B. MITCHELL. Librarianship 23