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

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John H. Boalt Professor of Law and former Dean of the School of Jurisprudence; and F. J. Teggart, Professor of Social Institutions. Professor R. J. Traynor left the School of Juris- prudence on becoming a member of the Supreme Court of the State. Among the honors received by members of our fac- ulty a few may be mentioned. Professor E. 0. Lawrence, our Nobel laureate, was also awarded the William du Bois Duddell Medal of the Physical Society of London. The Charles T. Daly Medal of the American Geo- graphical Society was bestowed upon Professor Carl 0. Sauer. Professors Karl F. Meyer and Wendell M. Latimer were chosen members of the National Academy of Sciences. The American Philological Society elected Professor George M. Calhoun as president; the American His- torical Association in turn elevated Professor James Westfall Thompson to the presidency. The Entomolog- ical Society of America named Professor W. B. Herms its president. The Sather Professorship of Classical Literature was held by Axel W. Persson, Professor of Classical Archae- ology and Ancient History at the University of Upsala, Sweden. Professor William B. Cannon, George Higgin- son Professor of Physiology, Harvard Medical School, and Professor James Franck, Professor of Physical Chemistry at the University of Chicago and a Nobel laureate, were Hitchcock Professors during the year. Professor Ivan M. Linforth was named Faculty Re- search Lecturer for 1940-41 Within the organization of the University two changes may be noted. A School of Optometry (with authority to confer the degree of B.S.) has been set up, and the School of Architecture is to begin with the junior year and confer the degree of A.B. In honor of Stanford University which is this year celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of its foundation, President Ray Lyman Wilbur was invited to deliver the Charter Anniversary Address on March 27. Such were a few of the changes in the academic year now coming to a close. MONROE E. DEUTSCH CHARLES B. LIPMAN Dean of Graduate Division RAYMOND G. GETTELL Dean of Summer Sessions JAMES H. CORLEY THOMAS B. STEEL Comptroller Registrar 23

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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

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DEAN PERRY DEAN HILDEBRAND ' DEAN HUTCHISON DEAN LEWIS CALIFORNIA DEANS Claude B. Hutchison, Dean of the College of Agriculture, in addition to being resident instruc- tor on four campuses, is head of agricultural studies. Preparing students for industrial research is the duty of Gilbert N. Lewis, Dean of the College of Chemistry. The College of Commerce under Robert D. Calkins provides undergraduates with a sound background in business. The School of Architecture under Dean Warren C. Perry gives instruction in handling modern architectural prob- DEAN CALKINS 24