University of California Santa Barbara - La Cumbre Yearbook (Santa Barbara, CA)

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.4 Dr. Helen S. Keener Dean of Women Personal De Dr. Lyie G, Reynolds Dean of Men Miss Ellen Bowers Senior Administrative Assistant

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Provost Dr Noble wos born and raised m Korea where he graduated from the Seoul Foreign High School, This school was attended chiefly by children of American missionary and business people, but also by children from several consulates representing some five or six European nations. He then attended the University of California, Berkeley, where he obtained his B.A,, M.A., and Ph.D. degress. He came to Santa Barbara College in 1936 as an instructor of Zoology. In 1947 he became chairman of the Department of Biological Sciences. In 1951 he became Dean of the Division of Letters and Science. Dr. Noble was appointed to his present position as Acting Provost of Santa Barbara College in 1956. He has conducted a continuous program of research in parasitology, where his mterests lie in basic problems of life cycles, cytology, chrom- osome activity, and the ecology of parasitism. His research activity has been supported by grants from the Office of Naval Research and from the National Science Foundation. Last year, on sabbatical leave, he worked at the Marine Laboratory of the United Kingdom at Plymouth, England. During the academic year as Acting Provost, Dr. Noble has been concerned, with a long range Academic Master Plan for the campus. This Plan centers around the maintenance of a univer- sity liberal arts college in the face of expanding enrollments and demands for increasing em- phasis in graduate programs. ACTING PROVOST ELMER R, NOBLE

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ans Academic Dr. Donald Davidson Deanof Applied Arts Dr, Willaid McRary Dean of Letters and Science