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

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President Kerr Once more Blue and Gold captures and preserves a year rich in student traditions and activities for you who have helped to make it memorable. Nineteen Sixty-four will be remembered as a decisive year for the Berkeley no less than of the current graduating class. In the future, many students who might have elected to study at Berkeley will attend the newer of the University, for Berkeley will have reached its maximum enrollment. Each year will continue to bring new students, but the total number will stand at the present level. You who are members of the Class of 1964 have become alumni of the University of California and in that capacity you are a special group with a special role to perform. You can bring a sense of the community to the University, and at the same time interpret the meaning of the University to the larger public. And the essential meaning of the University is contained in the fundamental values to which all universities are committed: devotion to truth; respect for fact; cultivation of reason. I hope this year ' s Blue and Gold, in keeping alive for you the memories of your student years, will also remind you of those unchanging values. Clark Kerr

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The Charter Day speakers take their places on the stage. In 1853, Congress gave the state of California 46,000 acres of public lands to be used for a of learning. Nine years later, the Morrill Act offered a grant of 150,000 acres of land to those states which would establish an and mechanical arts college. So in 1866, the Legislature chartered an Mining, and Mechanical Arts College. The founders of the College of California offered buildings and lands to this school, on the condition that a complete University be established. This offer was accepted and Governor H. H. Haight, on March 23, 1868, the date celebrated each year as Charter Day, signed the new act into law. The University was open for instruction by September, 1869 at the College of California site in Oakland, while buildings were being constructed at Berkeley. In 1962, the University was honored to have the late President John F. Kennedy as its Charter Day speaker. Last year, Walter Schirra, U. S. Astronaut, spoke to the audience on the importance of the space age. Adlai Stevenson Chancellor Strong The banners of each graduating class are displayed in the Alumni procession.

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Governor Brown TO THE STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA: I am very happy to once again extend my greetings to you, your faculty and administrators. As Governor, I am also President of the Regents, so my interest in this school and its accomplishments is more than passing. You are attending one of the truly great universities in world. You are part of a free educational system is unsurpassed anywhere. And you are preparing yourselves for citizenship in a great state and country. you leave the University, I hope that you will a pledge to continue to work for your University, your state and nation in some capacity. Our educational system and our democratic way of life were built and have been maintained by men and women, citizens who have dedicated themselves to the search for truth. I urge you to carry on that search all of your lives. Sincerely, EDMUND G. BROWN, Governor