It has been five years since CLARENCE A. DYKSTRA accepted the post as Provost of the University of California at Los Angeles. As professor, city manager of Cincinnati, head of selective service, and president of the University of Wisconsin it was DEDICATION possible to forsee the future which this University was destined to have under his direction. A true Southern Californian, he first ventured west in the twenties where as a commissioner of water and power for the city of Los Angeles he was one of those instrumental in establishing a $300,000,000 aqueduct and hydro-electric plant. To this project is owed much of the great life that Is now possible In this area. Coming here In 1945, shortly before the second world war ended he had the task of holding a University together that was beginning to bulge at the seams with an Increase of enrollment from 9,000 to 13,000 students. UCLA was filled with temporary buildings, temporary students, and temporary faculty. The work of providing an education for these students was a herculean task. While looking at the problem of the veteran. Provost Dykstra also had to look to the future when the veteran would disappear from the scene. The course for UCLA had two routes. Either It would falter and remain a southern branch or it would rise and become one of the leading universities in the country. Now five years later as wc look over the campus we are aware that Provost Dykstra lead us on the latter course. With a faculty and administration that would not be traded man for man v ith any in the country, a scholastic rating among the finest, and a student body of the highest calibre . . . UCLA is on the road to greatness. For that achievement we look to the man responsible . . . the Provost. His secret of success seemed to lie in the words which have been used to describe him, MUCH TO BE SAID, LITTLE TIME IN WHICH TO SAY IT, NO TIME TO BE WASTED. To DR. CLARENCE A. DYKSTRA we dedicate the 1950 Southern Campus.
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