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

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President ROBERT GORDON SPROUL, who is as much a part of our California tradi- tion as Wheeler Steps. A grateful student body re- joiced that he decided to stick around for ' All Hail ' . PRESIDENT ' S MESSAGE THE Class of 1947 is the first to be graduated since the close of World War II. Many of its members are veterans of that war, and all are veterans of the University of California, under war or postwar conditions. All share in some degree a common understanding of what war can mean. We may con- fidently hope, therefore, that the Class of ' 47 will contribute effectively to the solution of world problems. The world stands today at another of his- tory ' s few rare and fateful crossroads where is determined the future of civilization. The challenge of today ' s crossroad comes with especial force to to the schools of a democracy, and particularly its institutions of higher learning. For the creative compulsion in human civilization is education, and education achieves its purposes through educated men and women. Not to many, Class of 1947, is it given to live in a great and decisive era of human destiny. I charge you, therefore, that, as you carefully appraise the difficulties that inevitably accompany unchartered tasks, you recognize, and rejoice in, the greatness of your opportunity. God guide you through the years to come !

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BOARD OF REGENTS A LIBRARY annex and a ?chool of jurisprudence building are among the fifty-five permanent building? planned by the regent;- of the I ' nherr-ity of California. Appropriations of $60.000.000 for these buildings explain the newly con- strut-ted chemistry building. The eight campuses of the I ni ei ity are governed by these regents, twenty-four men who determine the policies and actions of all University branches. Last year the regents received 84.000,000 to be matched by other sources and to be used for housing on the Berkeley. Los Angeles. Santa Barbara, and Davis campuses. ( oii truction on the women ' s dormitories was finished. The policy of the I niversity had formerly been to let private in- tli idual take care of the housing of L niversity students, but the increased enrollment altered this policy. The regents are meeting the demands of a growing university. EARL WARREN, honored as California ' s most outstanding alumnus in 1946, took great interest in the University, although his time was well take up at s-.i-.e ; BOARD OF REGENTS Edward H. Heller, Elgin Stoddard, Frederick W. Roman, Brodie E. Ahlpon, Goodwin J. Knight, Lt. Governor; Marjorie Woclman, Asst. Secretary; Robert M. Underbill, Secretary; Edwin W. ' Panky, James K. Moffit, James Corley, Comptroller; Victor R. Hanson, Robert G. Sproul, Edward A. Dickson, Mortimer Fleishhacker, John F. Ncytan, Maurice E. Harrison, Sam Collins, Sydney M. Ehrman. 21