Office of the Chancellor. Administrative Files for John S. Galbraith, 1964 - 1971

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Office of the Chancellor. Administrative Files for John S. Galbraith, 1964 - 1971

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Administrative files created by John S. Galbraith, the second chancellor (1964-1968) of UCSD. The collection includes correspondence relating to matters of personal concern to Galbraith, including his relations with members of the campus and San Diego communities, relations with his professional colleagues, the "Flag Incident" of 1967, and issues such as campus drug use and Galbraith's two resignations. Included are correspondence between Galbraith and U.C. President Clark Kerr and materials documenting their conflict over funding for the UCSD Library.The collection is arranged in three series: 1) PERSONAL CORRESPONDENCE, 2) SUBJECT FILES, and 3) SCRAPBOOKS.

5.10 linear feet; (4 archives boxes and 4 oversize folders)

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University of California, San Diego. Geisel Library. Mandeville Special Collections Library.

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SNAC Resource ID: 6652877

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Galbraith, John S.

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University professor and administrator and historian specializing in the British Empire. Galbraith was born on 10 November 1916 in Glasgow, Scotland and educated at Miami Univ., Ohio and the Univ. of Iowa (Ph. D., History, 1943). He served on the UCLA faculty (1948-1964). In 1964, Galbraith was appointed Vice Chancellor, Academic Affairs, for the new UC San Diego campus. In that same year, he replaced Herbert York as Chancellor, serving in that post until 1968. Galbraith rejoined the UCLA facult...

Kerr, Clark, 1911-2003

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Clark Kerr was born in Reading, Pennsylvania on May 17, 1911 to Samuel W. and Caroline (Clark) Kerr. He married Catherine (Kitty) Spaulding in Los Angeles, California in 1934, and they had three children: Clark Edgar, Alexander William, and Caroline Mary. Kerr died in 2003, in El Cerrito, California, shortly after completing his memoirs, The Gold and the Blue: A Personal Memoir of the University of California, 1949-1967. Kerr received his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1932 from Swarthmore Colleg...

University of California, San Diego.

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Administrative History John S. Galbraith succeeded Herbert F. York as chancellor of the University of California, San Diego, in 1964. He quickly became a popular and respected administrator and continued the UCSD tradition of finding outstanding people to fill academic and administrative posts. Galbraith involved himself in a wide array of San Diego community affairs and thereby helped promote better relations between the University and the S...