Berkeley High School - Olla Podrida Yearbook (Berkeley, CA)

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DEDICATIONS 2 CARL HERBERT WENNERBERG Superintendet of Schools

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Berkeley High School, Spring, 1964, Berkeley, California x ' p9k L. 1 ' - 1, ' - J f Tt l ■r ¥ i Vl

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It is highly appropriate that Superintendent, Carl Herbert Wennerberg, should be one of those to whom this issue of Olla Podrida is dedicated. As Superintendent he has brought to this district a rich background, with a career that has taken him through class- room teaching at the elemntary, secondary, and college level, as well as through service as school principal and superintendent prior to his work in Berkeley. Under his leadership, the Berkeley School District has pioneered in the classroom and in school-community cooperation. His broad vision has encouraged experimental programs in science, mathematics, and reading; written educational and personal policies; new dimensions in school-city planning; intensive in-service training in child study, inter-group education, and inter-personal relations. He has given encouragement and support to the continuing study of de facto segregation and its problems. His positive action has pro- moted many projects and school-community activities to reduce misunderstandings and issues which have faced the cosmopolitan city of Berkeley. We are also pleased that, as a result of his leadership, we are currently engaged in a tremendous construction program to meet some of the more urgent needs of Berkeley High School and other schools in the district. In addition to continuing to act as a Trustee of Redlands University, Mr. Wennerberg was chosen, among several hundred superintendents throughout the nation, to attend the Harvard Conference on Urgent Problems of Public School Administration Today and Tomorrow. He was also chosen from among hundreds of school administrators to meet in Los Angeles to discuss problems of urban youth with the personal representative of the President. In the fall of 1963, he was one of seventy selected from more than 500 school administrators, and spent six weeks in Sweden as a guest of the Meet Modern Sweden Committee and of the Swedish Government. On March 15, 1964, Mr. Wennerberg was presented the California Sun-Reporter ' s 1963 Citizens of Merit award, in recognition of his continued interest and enthusiasm for the development of the democratic concept of equal opportunity in the field of public education. He joined a distinguished group of previous merit award winners, among whom were Governor Edmund G. Brown, Congressman A. Philip Burton, and Joseph Eichler. As Mr. Wennerberg leaves this district, in order that he may complete work for his Ph.D. at the University of California, we wish him every success and ask that he take with him our gratitude for the manner in which he has exemplified the democratic philosophy and spirit in his conduct of school affairs. 3