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

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UNIVERSITY MEETINGS ie tg ie After wishing Lincoln a happy WALTER WHITE, secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, criticized racial discrimination in the armed forces and warned of a dangerously low morale among Negro citizens. Hitchcock lecturer for 1942, A. H. REGINALD BULLER courageously faced a campus audience to divulge the private life of the higher fungi on which he is an authority, having written six vol- umes on the subject. Comparing the daze of the United States in Aug- ust, 1941, to that of France before its collapse, ANDRE MAUROIS stressed the necessity of unity in a time of emergency. He is a commander of the Legion of Honor and of the royalties of two best sellers. CARL WILLIAM BLEGEN dug up some data on his Excavations at Troy I for the annual series of Sather lectures. He lives in the past as an archaeologist and in the present as professor of classics at the University of Cincinnati. Forgetting for a moment that he was the individ- ualist who had a 33-unit semester course with an almost perfect A average, LEONARD WILSON joined two other students in pointing out that the future of democracy depends on students assum- ing their responsibilities as citizens. Trust-buster THURMAN ARNOLD took leave of his office of assistant Attorney-General to tip his hat to Cal students, ask for a long-range eco- nomic vision, and to hint at the dawn of the light metals and plastic age.

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GUEST SPEAKERS AND Hitler is what you might call screwy, but he ' s not nuts. Who should know better than GER- HART H. SEGAR, editor of the Neu Volkszei- tung and ex-prisoner of a German concentration camp. The Reverend MARTIN CYRIL D ' ARCY holds his own on the aims of education. At Oxford University he also holds the titles of Catholic priest and a Jesuit lecturer in Thomistic phi- losophy. America ' s answer to Mein Kampf is another best seller, Union Now . After covering Europe as a foreign correspondent, CLARENCE K. STREIT urged the Wheeler audience to follow his advice. Regent JOHN FRANCIS NEYLAN listens to his Sproul introduction and deliberates a moment before presenting his pre-war non-intervention- ist views. Avoid conflict to lead in post-war re- construction. Wheeler Hall, but not an American Civ class NORMAN THOMAS, explorer of the realms o socialist thought, terms Hitler ' s chances of sui prising America as less than those of Columbus WILLIAM ERNEST HOCKING came all tb way from Harvard to tell the University audience that America will not be pushe around the Pacific . Then, as the Foerster le turer, that night he spoke on Immortality: Relativity of Death . e g d

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Seen at almost every University function shaking hands with some of his 25,000 acquaintances, is ROBERT SIBLEY, Executive Manager of the California Alumni Association. Twenty years of service here have won him international He heads the parade on Charter Day and tells rally audiences at least once year an I remember about our Great University . CHARLES STETSON WHEELER, JR. wields a gavel for the largest Alumni Association in the world. A life membership endowment fund of almost three-quarters of a million dollars resulted from the exercise of his business and financial sense. Accustomed to burying himself in a maze of legal terms and twenty-volume works, he also takes time off periodically to fill his father ' s niche on the Board of Regents. ALUMNI ASSOCIATION CLOCKWISE: Bradford Bosl ey, John Lund, Jennett Miller Swartz, Jean C. Witter, R. W. Muller, William G. Donald, Mabel Dolcini, Herbert Spilman, Florence Hayes Wright, James T. M. Putnam, Parker Talbot, Fred McConnell, F. Herbert Frenzel, Charlotte Ham Carlson, Earl Warren, Fred Henderson, Robert Sibley, Frances Holland, Viola Kneline, William F. 0. D. Watt, Frank Balbo, C. E. Rutledge, Ezra Decoto, Ralph Fisher, Jr., Claude E. ZoBell, John Reith, Ralph Pletcher, Hiram Miller