Stanford Law School - Yearbook (Palo Alto, CA)

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Wallace Sterling completed his eighteenth year as President of Stanford University in April. In the post-War period Stanford was close to fi- nancial ruing the faculty was demanding a schol- ar for the Presidency. Dr. Sterling has proved the businessman and academician that was needed. In the years of his term Stanford has been brought to its feet and stands on The Edge of Greatness? Professorial ranks have doubled since 1949, enrollment is up two thousand, main- ly at the graduate level, the PACE program fPlan of Action for a Challenging Eraj raised over S110 million for development and innova- tion. Major University achievements during his presidency-have included the establishment of five overseas campuses, construction of the S21 million Medical Center, and the completion of the S114 million linear accelerator. The President was born in Ontario, Canada, in 1906. The son of a Methodist minister, he Worked his way through the University of To- ronto by pitching hay, stringing telephone lines, working on a construction gang, and serving as an advance man for a Chautauqua show. He played and later coached football and basketball. With a Ph.D. in history from Stanford, Dr. Sterling went to the California Institute of Tech- nology where he rose from assistant professor to E. S. Harkness Professor of History and Govern- ment and Chairman of the Faculty in seven years. In 1948 he became director of the Hunt- ington Library and Art Gallery in San Marino, I. E. WALLACE STERLING President of the University California. On April 1, 1949 the former research assistant at the Hoover Library became the fifth President of Stanford University. Since then he has received over a score of honorary degrees and foreign decorations including the Order of the British Empire, the French Legion d'Honneur, and the Japanese Imperial Order of the Rising Sun. Austria and West Germany have given him their Orders of Merit. In addition to his duties at Stanford, Dr. Sterling has served as President of the Association of American Colleges C1961-631 and is currently a member of the State Depart- ment Committee on Foreign Relations and Chairman of the Commission on Presidential Scholars. President Sterling and his Wife, Ann, live in the Lou Henry Hoover House on the campus, they have three married children. At home he is gracious and hospitable, he loves to play the piano and to entertain guests. His garden is filled with prize flowers that he plants, cares for, and loves to bestow on attractive visitors. An advocate of accomplishing tasks by grad- ualism, which he has defined as the art of do- ing easily tomorrow what could be done today only over a dead body,', President Sterling is presently concerned with taking Stanford that final step to greatness. Toward this end he re- cently commissioned a two-year comprehensive study of University's entire academic program under the direction of Professor Herbert Packer.