University of California Berkeley - Blue and Gold Yearbook (Berkeley, CA)

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BOARD OF REGENTS Transference of as many extra-curricular activities as possible from the center of campus was the chief work of the Regents of the University. This was done in order to utilize the outlying areas and to conserve the remaining sites available for class- room buildings. For this reason, the new Administration Build- ing was built on Telegraph avenue outside Sather Gate. It has the advantage of being in the business district and yet is avail- able to students and administrative officers by its proximity to the campus. Plans for the future include construction of academic build- ings within easy distance of the Library. All agricultural projects are to be transferred permanently from the Berkeley hills to the Oxford strip, while the 51,400,000 Cyclotron is being built above the Big C. GOVERNOR CULBERT L. OLSON Clockwise: Jordan, Wheeler, Patterson, Roman, Hoc2en, Dickson, Calkins, Corley, Ellis, Underhill, McEnerney, Williams, Sproul, Fleishhacker, Cockran, Pau ley, Ehrman, Ranter 21

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BLUE AND GOLD is primarily a record of the Class of 1941, a memorandum in print of young men and young women with whom friendships have been estab- lished that you would be loath to lose. It will help to keep fresh and vivid common memories of place and cir cumstance, of youth ' s dreams and youth ' s hopes. Given reasonable nurture, these friendships will flourish for a lifetime and, like trees along the road, enrich the most prosaic journey with unfailing joy. The sort of friends that you have made, and the number of them as well, have been influenced inevitably by the fact that your University is not the college of a region, nor of a denomination, nor of a philanthropist; it is the university of a state. To its seven campuses, at Berkeley, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Davis, Mount Hamilton, La Jolla, and Riverside, in 1940-41, there came 28,851 students from 56 counties of California, from 54 other states and territories of the United States, and from 54 other countries of the world. These thousands came to the University of California because, in the seventy-three years of its existence, it has successfully held to ideals of scholarship that are respected in the farthest corners of the earth. They came because the University of California raises no barriers of race, religion, or economic status, but offers its privileges and grants its honors solely on the basis of individual worth. The quality of your membership in this group and the future contribution that you may make toward it and toward the reputation of the University will be appraised always by this criterion of individual worth and by no other. It is for us and those who come after us to press forward in the spirit of the great ' tradition we inherit: the tradition of loyalty to country expressed by service in the common weal; the tradition of translating obstacle and opportunity alike into achievement. There is menace and threat abroad in the world today, and the American nation confronts the stern and peremptory task of defending and preserving these traditions and the kind of national life for which they stand. What we do now, and the results flowing from it, will be of profound significance in the future. I hope that this challenge will be met, and that the way of life of which this Blue and Gold is an expression, will survive and grow stronger with each passing year. 20

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MONROE E. DEUTSCH Vice-President and Provost TOE ADMINISTRATIVE YEAR Several important adm inistrative posts in the University changed incumbents during the year. Luther A. Nichols resigned as Comptroller, and James H. Corley, Assistant Comptroller, was named his successor. Two appoint- ments as Business Manager were also made, William J. Norton for the Berkeley campus and Deming Maclise at U.C.L.A. Lucy Ward Stebbins, who had superbly held the Deanship of Women for twenty-eight years, presented her resignation; Mary B. Davidson became Acting Dean. Thomas M. Putnam, Dean of Undergrad- uates, whose excellent administrative service to the University has covered many years and numerous posts, withdrew to devote himself to his work in the math- ematics department; Hurford E. Stone, Acting Dean of Undergraduates at U.C.L.A., was transferred to Ber- keley with the same title. The Deanship of the College of Mining made vacant by the death of devoted Dean Frank H. Probert, was assigned to Acting Dean Lester C. Uren. The enrollment on the Berkeley campus which had grown by leaps and bounds for many years, showed a decrease. During the fall semester the total number of students enrolled was 15,581 as compared with 16,199 in the corresponding semester of 1939-40. In this con- nection it must however be noted that the enrollment for August to December, 1940, is 52 per cent greater than for the fall of 1929-30. To meet the needs of this large enrollment, thus far the only additional space in prospect will come from the classroom building being erected on College Avenue, opposite Cowell Hospital, and that released in California Hall by the completion of the new Administration Building, now in process of construction on the east side of Telegraph Avenue between Sather Gate and Bancroft Way. A most important piece of work for scientific purposes is the huge cyclotron of 4,000 tons being erected on Charter Hill. The dormitory for women, the generous gift of Mrs. Sigmund Stern, will be built east of Founders ' Rock. National defense absorbed much of the attention of the University during the year; not only did a considerable number of the members of the staff holding reserve commissions in the army and navy respond to calls but others carried on important research or served on a variety of committees engaged in national service, or on draft boards, or in organizing and teaching in special technical courses meeting emergency needs. Death took from our faculty during the year Carl L. Alsberg, Director of the Giannini Foundation and Professor of Agricultural Economics; Stephen I. Lang- maid, Professor of Law; George M. Peterson, Associate Professor of Agricultural Economics; Frank H. Probert, Professor of Mining and Dean of the College of Mining. Retirement removed from active service at Berkeley Herbert E. Bolton, Sather Professor of History and Director of the Bancroft Library; Orrin Kip McMurray, HURFORD E. STONE LUCY W. STEBBINS Dean of Undergraduates Dean of Women 22