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

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When the Regents of the University of California set out to pick a replacement for retiring President Robert G. Sproul, they polled the nation ' t top educators for opinions and got a nearly unanimous consensus: You already have Clark Kerr at Berke- ley. Dr. Clark Kerr became the twelfth President of the University this year after a career full of academic and public service. He holds the LI.D. from Swarth- more, Harvard and Occidental Universities, as well as the Ph.D. from the University of California. He has had an active career in teaching in the field of economics and industrial relations. Further, he has been active in the government service and in labor arbitration. In short, Dr. Kerr has a back- ground in education and the sort of diplomacy so vital to the President of such an institution as the University of California. Primary in his concern is the university, and specifi- cally, as he said here on the most recent Charter Day Ceremonies, the freedom found within this particular university system. The eminence which the University of California has attained has been made possible in large part because of the free- dom to grow and to develop in the way that seemed best to those charged with administering and guid- ing it. In addition to stressing the importance of university and academic freedom, Dr. Kerr under- lined the importance of the relations with the state, the necessity of retaining high quality in the educa- tion provided by this University, which is a direct product of the freedom found herein, and the prob- lems facing the future development of the University, about which the President said, We have many vexing problems before us, but I prefer to view them not as problems but rather as challenges — challenges which I am confident we, as a total University community, shall meet with success. Samuel B. Gould is the new Chancellor for the Santa Barbara campus of the University of California. While this information will come as a surprise to few, it is an important step in the growth of this campus. At the same time that Mr. Gould was named Chancellor, the status of this campus was raised to the same level as the Berkeley and Los Angeles campuses. Mr. Gould begins his Chancellorship on the first of July, 1959, but al- ready, he has anticipated extending Santa Barbara ' s expansion program into the academic area even more rapidly than the present program. We hope to develop more strength in the graduate and undergraduate programs. I think we can develop not only a distinguished campus, but a distinctive campus as well. Ohio, where he was formerly serving as the President of Antioch Mr. Gould will come to Santa Barbara from Yellow Springs, College. He did his undergraduate work at Bates College, where he received the Bachelors degree. He studied at New York Uni - versity for his Masters degree. In 1957, he was awarded an honorary LI.D. by Bates College. Mr. Gould has also studied at Oxford University, Cambridge University, and Harvard Uni- versity. 20