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Los Angeles: Administrative Officers
Chief Campus Officers
Originally, the Los Angeles campus was under
the supervision of a director whose title was changed to vice-president
and director in 1930 and vice-president and provost in 1931. From
1945-48, the chief executive at Los Angeles was called provost of
the University and in 1948, vice-president and provost of the University.
In 1952, chancellor became the official title. During two interim
periods (1942 to 1945 and 1950 to 1952) when the campus was without
a provost, administrative affairs were handled by a three-man committee.
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Ernest Carroll Moore, 1919-36
Ernest Carroll Moore played a major role
in the founding and early development of the Los Angeles campus.
Born in Youngstown, Ohio, on July 20, 1871, he was educated at Ohio
Normal University, Columbia University, and the University of Chicago,
where he received the Ph.D. degree in 1898. In the same year, he
joined the University faculty at Berkeley to teach philosophy and
education. Between 1906 and 1910, Moore served as superintendent
of schools in Los Angeles, then taught at Yale for four years and
at Harvard for three years. In 1917, he became president of the
Los Angeles State Normal School, which, in 1919, became the Southern
Branch of the University of California. From 1919 to 1936, he served
first as director and finally as vice-president and provost. After
his retirement from administrative duties in 1936, Moore served
as professor of philosophy and education until 1941. He died in
1955. source
Earle Raymond Hedrick, 1937-45
Earle Raymond Hedrick served as the second
chief campus officer. He was born September 27, 1876, in Union City,
Indiana, and was educated at the University of Michigan, Harvard,
and the University of Goettingen, Germany. He taught at Sheffield
Scientific School (Yale) from 1901 to 1903 and at the University
of Missouri from 1903 to 1924. He joined the faculty of the Southern
Branch of the University in 1924 as professor of mathematics and
as chairman of the department. In 1937, Hedrick was named vice-president
of the University and provost of the Los Angeles campus, a position
he held until 1942. He died in 1943. source
Clarence Addison Dykstra, 1945-52
Clarence Addison Dykstra was provost during
the post-World War II period. Born in Cleveland, Ohio, February
26, 1883, he graduated from the State University of Iowa and was
a fellow and teaching assistant at the University of Chicago until
1908. He taught at the University of Kansas from 1909 to 1918, served
for two years as executive secretary of the Cleveland Civic League,
then two years as secretary of the Chicago City Club. He came to
the Southern Branch of the University in 1923 and taught municipal
administration until 1930. From 1930 to 1937, he was city manager
of Cincinnati, and in 1938, he became president of the University
of Wisconsin, a post he held until 1945. He took one year's leave
of absence, 1940-41, to serve as the first director of selective
service. In 1945, he was named provost of the Los Angeles campus
and served until his death in 1950. source
Raymond Bernard Allen, 1952-59
Raymond Bernard Allen was chief executive
during a period of rapid campus expansion and was the first to hold
the title of chancellor. Born in Cathay, North Dakota, August 7,
1902, he was graduated from the University of Minnesota in 1924
and earned his M.D. degree from the same institution in 1928. For
two years thereafter, he was a general practitioner in North Dakota.
In 1933, Dr. Allen won a Mayo Fellowship and in 1934, received the
Ph.D. degree from the Mayo Foundation Division of the University
of Minnesota's Graduate Division. He went into medical administration,
serving at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University,
Wayne University's College of Medicine, the Chicago Colleges of
the University of Illinois, and Illinois' College of Medicine. In
1946, he became president of the University of Washington. Dr. Allen
became chancellor of the Los Angeles campus in 1952. During his
tenure, the Center for the Health Sciences came into being. He served
until 1959, at which point he resigned and became the Director of
the International Cooperation Administration in Indonesia. Later,
Allen joined the World Health Organization in Washington D.C. source
Vern Oliver Knudsen, 1959-60
Vern Oliver Knudsen served as chancellor
for one year and played a leading role in establishing graduate
studies and research at the Los Angeles campus. Born in Provo, Utah,
December 27, 1893, he earned his A.B. degree at Brigham Young University
and the Ph.D. in physics and mathematics at the University of Chicago
in 1922. In that same year he joined the faculty of the Southern
Branch of the University as an instructor in physics. From 1924
to 1958, Knudsen served briefly as dean of graduate studies and
subsequently as dean of the graduate division. In 1958, he became
vice-chancellor and in 1959, chancellor; he retired in 1960. Knudsen
served as a consultant in architectural acoustics to the Hollywood
motion picture studios, the Hollywood Bowl, the Lincoln Center for
the Performing Arts, and the Los Angeles Music Center, and was president
of the American Acoustical Society, 1933-35. source
Franklin David Murphy, 1960-68
Franklin David Murphy assumed the position
of chancellor at UCLA on July 1, 1960. Born in Kansas City, Missouri,
January 29, 1916, he was graduated from the University of Kansas
in 1936, spent 1936-37 on an exchange fellowship at the University
of Goettingen, Germany, and was graduated from the University of
Pennsylvania Medical School in 1941 with an M.D. degree. Dr. Murphy
served with the U.S. Army in World War II, working on research projects
in tropical diseases. He was separated with the rank of captain
in 1946. From 1948 to 1951, he was dean of the School of Medicine
and associate professor of internal medicine at the University of
Kansas. In 1951, he was named chancellor of the University of Kansas,
serving in that capacity until he went to Los Angeles in 1959. He
played important roles in the realization of Pauley Pavilion, the
establishment of the Jules Stein Eye Institute, and the passage
of the 1962, 1964, and 1966 bond issues that provided UCLA with
$95 million in construction funds. He left the campus in 1968 to
become Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of the
Times Mirror Company. source
Charles E. Young, 1968-97
Charles E. Young took office as chancellor
of UCLA on September 1, 1968, and was formally inaugurated on May
23, 1969. Born on Dec. 30, 1931, in San Bernardino, California,
Dr. Young's association with the University of California began
in 1953, when he enrolled as a transfer student at UC Riverside.
There, he served as the new campus's first student body president.
After graduating with honors in 1955, he pursued doctoral studies
in political science at UCLA, earning his M.A. in 1957 and Ph.D.
in 1960. In 1959, as a member of UC President Clark Kerr's staff,
he participated in the creation of the Master Plan for Higher Education
in California and the University Growth Plan.
Dr. Young returned to UCLA in 1960 to serve
in a series of executive posts in the administration of Chancellor
Franklin D. Murphy: assistant to the chancellor (1960-62), assistant
chancellor (1962-63), and vice chancellor for administration (1963-68).
He also became a full professor in the political science department.
Following Chancellor Murphy's resignation, Dr. Young was named his
successor by the UC Regents on July 12, 1968. When he became chancellor
at the age of 36, Dr. Young was the youngest person at the helm
of any major American university. He retired June 30, 1997, after
serving 29 years at the helm of UCLA. source
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Albert Carnesale, 1997-
Albert Carnesale became chancellor of UCLA
on July 1, 1997, and was formally inaugurated on May 15, 1998, as
UCLA's eighth chief executive. Born on July 2, 1936, Chancellor
Carnesale grew up in a tenement in the Bronx, New York. He earned
B.M.E. and M.S. degrees in mechanical engineering at Cooper Union
in 1957 and Drexel University in 1961, respectively. In 1966, he
received a Ph.D. in nuclear engineering at North Carolina State
University.
Before he assumed leadership of UCLA, Chancellor
Carnesale served for 23 years in numerous capacities at Harvard
University. He joined the Cambridge campus in 1974 as the Lucius
N. Littauer Professor of Public Policy and Administration at Harvard's
John F. Kennedy School of Government. Earlier in his career, Dr.
Carnesale was a member of the faculty at North Carolina State University
from 1962 to 1969, and again from 1972 to 1974. In the intervening
years, he held a position in government as part of the U.S. Arms
Control and Disarmament Agency from 1969 to 1972. In addition, he
worked in private industry for Martin Marietta Corporation from
1957 to 1962.
He currently holds faculty appointments
in the UCLA Department of Policy of Studies at the School of Public
Policy and Social Research and in the Department of Mechanical and
Aerospace Engineering at the School of Engineering and Applied Science.
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