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Seeds of Something Different: An Oral History of the University of California, Santa Cruz
  • Seeds of Something Different: An Oral History of the University of California, Santa Cruz
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    • Timeline: An Institutional History of UC Santa Cruz
    • EXPLORE BY CHAPTER
      • Ch. 1: Histories of Santa Cruz
      • Ch. 2: Envisioning A New Campus of the University of California, 1956-1961
      • Ch. 3: Planning the Santa Cruz Campus: 1961-1965
      • Ch. 4: Finding Faculty for the Experiment
      • Ch. 5: Cowell, Stevenson, and the Dream Becomes Reality
      • Ch. 6: An Unexpected Flourishing of the Sciences
      • Ch. 7: The Chadwick Garden and the Arboretum
      • Ch. 8: The Rising Counterculture
      • Ch. 9: The Vietnam War, Academic Freedom, and Campus Activism
      • Ch. 10: Escalating Protests and a Campus Divided
      • Ch. 11: "The Changing City on a Hill"
      • Ch. 12: "A Male Academic Locker Room"
      • Ch. 13: Kresge College
      • Ch. 14: Radical Feminism and Gay Liberation
      • Ch. 15: The Formation of College Five and the Kindling of the Arts
      • Ch. 16: The Genesis of Environmental Studies and College Eight
      • Ch. 17: The Building College-Board Crisis and the End of the McHenry Era
      • Ch. 18: A Crisis of Leadership and a Search for New Direction
      • Ch. 19: Chancellor Robert Sinsheimer and the "Reorganization" of the Experiment
      • Ch. 20: A Growing UCSC in the Community
      • Ch. 21: Finding a Place on a "Very White Campus"
      • Ch. 22: The Sinsheimer Era's Final Years
      • Ch. 23: Earthquakes: The Stevens Years
      • Ch. 24: A "Maturing" Campus Considers Its Direction
      • Ch. 25: Chancellor Karl Pister
      • Ch. 26: Affirmative Action and Diversity in a Hostile Climate
      • Ch. 27: UCSC as a Leader in the Research Sciences
      • Ch. 28: Conventional Grading, Graduate Education, and New Priorities
      • Ch. 29: Inventing and Reinventing Interdisciplinarity
      • Ch. 30: Often Invisible, Underpaid, and Overworked: Staff and Lecturers
      • Ch. 31: Still Pioneering: A New Experiment in College Nine and Ten
      • Ch. 32: The Brief and Tragic Tenure of Chancellor Denice Denton
      • Ch. 33: An Acting Chancellor in a Time of Instability
      • Ch. 34: Endings and Beginnings in a Time of Austerity
      • Ch. 35: The Continuing Story of Protest at UCSC
      • Ch. 36: What We Value Now: UCSC at Fifty
      • Ch. 37: The 2016 Election, Reaction, and Resistance
      • Coda

Ch. 4: Finding Faculty for the Experiment

UCSC Faculty, 1965

UCSC Faculty, 1965

University of California, Santa Cruz campus dedication picnic: Jane McHenry (center back), with regents' and administrators' wives. 1964.

Campus dedication picnic, 1964

Chancellor's Memo (January 1964; Vol. 2, No. 1)

Chancellor's Memo, January 1964

Cowell College Library Committee: Stanley Williamson, chemistry; John Dizikes, history; Richard Mather, history; Gabriel Berns, Spanish, and George Amis, English (back to camera). 1965.

Cowell Library Committee: Stanley Williamson, Chemistry; John Dizikes, History; Richard Mather, History; Gabriel Berns, Spanish, and George Amis, English, 1965

Division of Natural Sciences faculty: James Currin, physics; Robert Thornton, biology graduate student; Stanley Williamson, chemistry; Herman Ammon, chemistry; William "Bill" Doyle, biology; Charles Daniel, biology; Todd Newberry, biology. 1965.

Natural Sciences faculty, 1965

Physical Planning Office clerical staff: (top to bottom of stairs) Helen Sherra, senior accounting clerk; Wanda Roades, principal clerk; Isabel Jordan, principal accounting clerk; Sally Hegland, administrative assistant to Jack Wagstaff; Peggy Schiele; Georgia Liguori; Anne Illingworth, senior typist clerk; Lueen Gardner, secretary, chancellor's office. 1965.

Physical Planning office clerical staff, 1965

Mary Holmes, professor of art history, circa 1966

Mary Holmes, Professor of Art History, 1966

Richard Randolph, professor of anthropology, founding faculty

Richard Randolph, Professor of Anthropology, 1966

Bruce D. Larkin, professor of politics; Bernard F. Haley, professor of economics; Karl Lamb (below), professor of politics. 1966.

Bruce D. Larkin, Professor of Politics; Bernard F. Haley, Professor of Economics; Karl Lamb, Professor of Politics, 1966

Stevenson College faculty party: N. Manfred Shaffer, professor of geography, with unidentified others. 1966.

N. Manfred Shaffer, Professor of Geography, 1966

Robert Werlin, professor of politics, founding faculty. 1966.

Robert Werlin, Professor of Politics, 1966

Neal Oxenhandler, professor of French literature. 1966.

Neal Oxenhandler, Professor of French Literature, 1966

William Hitchcock, Professor of History, founding faculty. 1966.

William Hitchcock, Professor of History, 1966

Physics board. Professors Ronald Ruby and James Currin. 1966.

Physics Board: Professors Ronald Ruby and James Currin, 1966

Michael Brailove, Professor of Spanish Literature. 1966.

Michael Brailove, Professor of Spanish Literature, 1966

Gudrun Kamm, German instructor, 1966.

Gudrun Kamm, Instructor of German, 1966

Paulette Fridling, founding faculty, Circa 1966.<br />

Paulette Fridling, founding faculty, 1966

Bert Kaplan, Professor of Psychology, founding faculty, Cowell College. Circa 1965.

Bert Kaplan, Professor of Psychology, circa 1966

William Domhoff, psychology, Bert Kaplan, and Bhuwan Lal Joshi, professors of psychology, at Cowell College. 1966.

William Domhoff, Bert Kaplan, and Bhuwan Lal Joshi, Professors of Psychology, 1966

Marshall Sylvan, Professor of Mathematics. Circa 1966.

Marshall Sylvan, Professor of Mathematics, circa 1966

Ronald Larsen, Professor of Mathematics. 1966.

Ronald Larsen, Professor of Mathematics, 1966

Carl Morris, professor of statistics, and Ronald Larsen, professor of mathematics, by a water trough. 1966.

Carl Morris, Professor of Statistics, and Ronald Larsen, Professor of Mathematics, 1966

Jacob Michaelson, Professor of Economics; Raymond Nichols, Professor of Government; and Leonard Kunin, Professor of Economics. Circa 1966.

Jacob Michaelson, Professor of Economics; Raymond Nichols, Professor of Government; and Leonard Kunin, Professor of Economics, circa 1966

Roger Keesing, Professor of Anthropology. 1966.

Roger Keesing, Professor of Anthropology, 1966

Herman Ammon, Professor of Chemistry. Circa 1966.

Herman Ammon, Professor of Chemistry, 1966

Charles Daniel, Professor of Biology, founding faculty. 1966.

Charles Daniel, Professor of Biology, 1966

Maurice Natanson, Professor of Philosophy, founding faculty. 1966.

Maurice Natanson, Professor of Philosophy, 1966

Siegfried Puknat, Professor of German Literature, founding faculty, with students. 1966.

Siegfried Puknat, Professor of German Literature, 1966

George M. Benigsen, founding faculty, professor of Russian. 1967.

George M. Benigsen, Professor of Russian, 1967

Jonathan Fifi'i of the Solomon Islands, research assistant to anthropologist Roger Keesing, presents a tribal baton to Chancellor McHenry. 1966.

Research Assistant Jonathan Fifi'i of the Solomon Islands and Chancellor McHenry, 1967

Bruce D. Larkin, professor of politics. 1971.

Bruce D. Larkin, Professor of Politics, 1971

Edward Landesman, Professor of Mathematics, in a classroom, circa 1992.

Edward Landesman, Professor of Mathematics. Circa 1992.

Karl Lamb, Professor of Politics. 1971.

Karl Lamb, Professor of Politics, 1971

Gabriel Berns, literature professor, founding faculty. 1978.

Gabriel Berns, Professor of Literature, 1978

Thomas Vogler, professor of literature. 1976.

 Thomas Vogler, Professor of Literature, 1976

Course description for Page Smith and Charles Daniel's Chicken course taught through Cowell College. Circa 1972.

Course description for Page Smith and Charles Daniel's Chicken course, circa 1972

Oral History Audio Clip: Todd Newberry

Audio Clip: Todd Newberry, Professor of Biology, 2006

Oral Histories

  • A Dual Teaching Career: An Oral History with UC Santa Cruz Professor Frank Andrews
  • The Critical World of Harry Berger, Jr.: An Oral History
  • Donald T. Clark: Early UCSC History and the Founding of the University Library
  • G. William Domhoff: The Adventures and Regrets of a Professor of Dreams and Power
  • John Dizikes: A Life of Learning and Teaching at the University of California, Santa Cruz, 1965-2000
  • In the Beginning...and Beyond: Edward M. Landesman—Professor of Mathematics, UC Santa Cruz

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