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

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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

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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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With a storehouse of information worth any number of Quiz Kids and Information Pleasers, HALE SPARKS conducts the Association ' s popular program, The University Explorer. Mr. Sibley ' s silent helpers keep in contact with the world ' s largest alumni association through letters and The California Monthly as well as bringing new sheep into the fold. A late dispatch from the fourth floor of Stephens Union disclosed that the Alumni Association is still keeping in touch with its 25,000 scattered members. Administration of all touching was in the hands of Robert Sibley and Company, managers of the largest University and college alumni association in the world. The California Monthly rolled off the press with news of the seven campuses, the sixty-nine graduated classes, and the streamlined nine-point program for the year. Efforts were directed to stimulate high morale of alumni in army camps and naval bases, to maintain eighty scholar- ships for high school leaders of the state, to complete its building program for the men ' s dor- mitory, and to lay plans for occupational assistance and continued schooling for able-bodied alumni at the close of the war. The cry of an Indian massacre in the Fall, and promises of a taste of the good old days in the Spring lured alums back for the Homecoming and Charter Week programs. CALIFORNIA MONTHLY STAFF BACK ROW: Edwin Emery, Mrs. Viola Kuehne, Robert Sibley, George A. Pettitt, 0. Watt FRONT ROW: Doris Ann Neely, Francis Holbrook Holland 23