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

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UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA O To the capable hands of Robert Sproul, our president, goes the task of directing a campus during wartime. A graduate of the University of California at Berkeley, Dr. Sproul majored in Civil Engineering. During his four years at Berkeley, he was promi- nent in many campus affairs, and received a Phi Beta Kappa rating. Prior to his appointment to the presidency. Dr. Sproul served as Cashier, Assistant Comptroller, Secretary of Regents, Vice-President and Comptroller of the University. In the thirteen years of his presidency. Dr. Sproul has devoted his untiring efforts toward making the Los Angeles branch a symbol and ideal for all institutions of higher learning. Although Dr. Sproul has to divide his time between the Berkeley and Los Angeles camps, he manages to spend six months of every year here, and is the first president of the University of California to have an official residence on our campus. Under him our university has grown and flourished, and in him we place our trust for the present and future. President Robert Sproul greeted those attending the reception In his honor. Famous for his orations, President Sproul is frequently requested to speak.

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SWW U c ' Cttt Governor Earl Warren heads the Board of Regents which meet frequently to discuss problems of the U.C. campuses. Board of Regents include His Excellency, Earl Warren, Fredrick Houser, Charles W. Lyon, Walter F. Dexter, A. J. McFadden, George U. Hind, Paul K. Yost, A. Gianni, Robe.t Sproul, James Moffilt, Edward Dickson, J. Neylan, Chester Rowell. Mortimer Fleishhacker, George 1. Cochran, Charles league, Sidney M. Ehrman, President Moyer Jor- dan, Edwin Pauley, Brodie E. Ahlport, Edward Heller, and Norman Sprague. Full control of the University of California is vested in the Board of Regents, which is composed of twenty-four promi- nent citizens, appointed by the governor, and eight state officials. These men, who are every minute conscious of the many problems which continually arise in operating the university ' s seven campuses, act as the mainstay of the Uni- versity of California. This year besides discussing such mat- ters as finance, endowments, and educational relations, the regents have also had the additional problem of coping with the gigantic task of meeting the new demands and needs of the University on a wartime basis.