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

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(JuVEKN 44)K. To the Students of the University of California: The period of your university education comes at a time of great change in the life of our State and Nation, and at a time when there are increasingly grave world problems to be solved. There are many persons who will tell you that this situation can mean only discouragement for you as you face the future. I feel, on the contrary, that American youth has thrived upon ob- stacles and that the challenge presented to you will serve to strengthen you and bring out the best that is in you. Each succeeding generation of Americans has been told that it faces a world of diminishing opportunity . Each generation has then gone on to reach greater heights of accomplishment. With this background of history, with the many unfulfilled needs of our people, and with the tremendous store of material and human resources of our Nation, there is good reason for confidence to dominate the thinking of students today. I know your generation can be counted upon to furnish its quota of men of scholarship and vision who will push forward the boun- daries of knowledge and apply their findings for the betterment of mankind. Sincerely, 7Kryztreo Governor. THE BOARD OF REGENTS President Sproul addresses the Board of Regents ' meeting.

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SINCE MARCH 23, 1868, when the University of nia was granted its charter by the State Legislature, our campus family has grown from one to eight in number. Not only has the number enlarged, but the individual campuses have expanded in area and population ranking us as the world ' s largest university. Yet within +his large structure there has been throughout its eighty-four years a tinual attempt to personalize each campus. Each campus serves a particular need within the state, and President Robert Gordon Sproul has watched his ideas become filled as the University has expanded throughout California. From Davis on the North to La Jolla ' s Scripps in the South, technical progress has been advanced, and each campus has contributed toward the improvement of general fare throughout the state. Davis, established to further the study of agriculture and related fields, has recently added a College of Letters and Science and is certainly our most expansive brother. Our Medical Center in San Francisco is most proud of its current building program and included in this observation are a teaching hospital, large clinic, radioactivity center, and a student union. Lick tory atop Mount Hamilton in the Santa Clara Valley was the first addition to the University. Astronomy students there have some of the finest equipment possible with which to work. Santa Barbara, a Liberal Arts College, is presently working on blueprints for their new campus-408 acres at Goleta, adjoining the blue Pacific. The research facilities and testing plots of the Citrus Experimental Station at Ri verside have been of immense value +o fornia farmers and fruit growers. Plans are now under way for the addition of a Liberal Arts College there. UCLA is another of the more expansive members of our in population and facilities. Recent additions to the wood campus are a Medical Center, Law School, and the Chemistry-Geology building. Scripps Institute of ography continues its concentrated study of the ments of the sea and surrounding area. Our campus here at Berkeley has done much to further the University ily. BoaIt Hall, Dwinelle Hall and the Biochemistry ing will house important groups of academic personnel. In addition +here are two associate members of our University which complete +he group contributing to the welfare of California—Hastings School of Law and the California School of Fine Arts, both in San Francisco.