University of California Los Angeles - Bruin Life / Southern Campus Yearbook (Los Angeles, CA)

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kv fi ■1 Left to right: W. M. |ones. S. M. Ehrman, A. P. Ciannini, C. D. Steigjr, Mrs. E, B. Macfarland, E. A. Dickson, R. M. Underbill, C. W. McEnerny, R. C. Sproul. C. I. Cochran, M. Fleishacker, A. B. Miller, F. M. Jordan, R. T. Fisher, C. A. Ramm, S. O ' Melveny, J. K. Moffitt. OFIEGE » At the second meeting of the Board o Regents this year, held at Los Angeles, the three new members recently appointed by Governor Merriam were seated. Seeing the need for a more general representation on the Board. Governor Mer- riam appointed prominent Southern Californians to replace the vacancies caused by the deaths of Mrs. Margaret Sartori, Dr. John Randolph Haynes, and Mr. William Henry Crocker. The new members are representatives of varied ac- tivities. Mrs. Eleanor Banning MacFarland is primarily a housewife, but she has long been active in community and political enterprises. Mr Stuart O ' Mel- veny is a member of a prominent firm of Los Angeles attorneys In addition to representing an outstanding advertising agency, Mr. Fred Moyer Jordan is the President of the Alumni Association of the University of California at Los Angeles. The meetings of the Board are held monthly. Four meetings a year are held on the Los Angeles campus, the remainder being held in San Fran- cisco, in Berkeley, and at Davis. Governor Merriam is the President of the Board, while Garrett McEnerny is the Chairman. The President of the Board of Regents and the President of the University are ex-officio members of all the committees. The discussions of the Regents are concerned with such vital matters as improvements to the University, which include additions to courses, and the growth and maintenance of the seven campi ; finance; endowments: and educational relations. 19

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CHAIRMAN Governor Frank F. Merriam satisfied the desires of U.C. LA. for greater representation on the Board of Regents when he appointed three residents of Southern California to fill the vacancies existing on the board. Because he is President of the Board of Regents, he presides at all meet- ings, both here and at Berkeley. 18 It would be fitting to say that Governor Merriam was holding a pair of Bruin cubs when this picture was tak- en. However, the truth of the matter is that they were lion cubs from the farm near El Monte.

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PRESIDENT Robert Cordon Sproul asserts he began life as an infant in the San Francisco of the Cay Nineties — in 1891 to be exact — was pronounced a civil engineer by the University of California in 1913 — served as comptroller and secretary of the Regents for ten years — as Vice-President for five years — and arrived as President in 1930, at the age of thirty-nine — all this despite Pitkin ' s dictum that Life begins at forty. He doesn ' t remember having a fortieth year — it was instead his first in the presidency of one of the great- est of American Universities, and he was completely engrossed in carrying that University through a depression — concentrated, when at rare intervals he became conscious of self, on the consoling hope that the first hundred years are the hardest. Bookkeepers say he receives $13,500 a year for administering an organization with as- sets of $83,000,000 and a staff of 300 full time teachers and em- ployees. He says he receives $1,000,000 in personal satisfaction from directing the educational activities of 25,000 full time and 45,000 spare time students.