Proposed Slate for 2016 ‐ 2017
Of icers Mark Appelbaum President Sanford Lakoff Editor Morton Printz Vice President Robert Knox Secretary/Treasurer Suzan Ciof i Managing Editor Henry Powell Past President, Awards
Henry Powell President APRIL 2016 Volume XV, No. 4 Executive Committee Mark Appelbaum Vice President Phyllis Mirsky Secretary/Treasurer Members at Large: George Backus (IGGP, SIO); Stan Chodorow (History, Campus); Win Cox (Communications, Campus); Fran Gillin Joel Dimsdale Past President, Awards (Health Sciences); Marguerite Jackson (Health Sciences); and Gill Williamson (Mathematics, Campus). Ex Of icio: Dick Attiyeh, Representative to CUCEA; Jack Fisher, Members at Large: Marguerite Jackson, Robert Knox, Carol Historian; Nancy Groves, Liaison to the UCSD Retirement Associa‐ Plantamura, , Roger Spragg, Joe Watson, and Gill Williamson. tion; Sandy Lakoff, Editor, Chronicles, Suzan Ciof i, Managing Edi‐ Ex Of icio: Dick Attiyeh, Representative to CUCEA, Jack Fisher, tor, Chronicles, and Director, UCSD Retirement Resource Center; Historian, Boone Hellmann, Representative, UCSD Retirement By Henry Powell anyone else rich, though it might and Maxine Bloor, Liaison to Oceanids. Association, Sandy Lakoff, Editor, Chronicles, Suzan Ciof i, Direc‐ Professor Emeritus of Pathology get him killed by the hordes of pro‐ tor, Retirement Resource Center, and Maxine Bloor, Liaison to spectors drunk with acquisitive The election of the proposed slate will take place in April by email. Oceanids. If you do not have access to email, you are welcome to mail in your Forward queries, changes in mailing/email address to: Have you thanked a missionary frenzy. approval of the proposed slate, or your proposal of an alternate Suzan Ciof i, Director, UCSD Retirement Resource Center, Already in 1849, General Bennet of icer or Member at large to: Suzan Ciof i, Director, UCSD Retire‐ lately? UCSD, 9500 Gilman Drive, #0020, La Jolla, CA 92093‐0020. ment Resource Center, UCSD, 9500 Gilman Drive, #0020, La Jolla, The University of California was C. Riley, an energetic and vision‐ Telephone: (858) 534‐4724, [email protected] CA 92093‐0020. The deadline for mail ballots is April 15, 2016. founded in Berkeley in 1869. As its ary military governor of the territo‐ sesquicentennial in 2019 nears, we ry, convened a constitutional con‐ might want to remind ourselves how vention and drove the delegates to it came to be and who were its little‐ fashion a document prescribing remembered progenitors. institutions of civil governance. A Like so much else having to do major concern of the delegates was with California, our system of public that education be free, public, and excellent. The consistency with Joel Dimsdale, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of higher education had its beginnings in the feverish Gold Rush of 1849. which the case for education was Psychiatry made during these formative years No other territory came hurtling into Professor Emeritus Henry Powell Topic: "The Anatomy of Malice, The Enigma of the Nazi the Union with such speed, Carey embedded public education in the McWilliams noted in The Califor- ly disruptive. John August Sutter DNA of the ledgling state. But the War Criminals” man who more than anyone else nia Exception (1949); it became the had been advised that the rich soil Wednesday, April 13, 2016, 3:30 ‐ 5 PM thirty‐ irst state only a year after the of California would yield greater laid the foundation for what be‐ electrifying discovery at Sutter’s wealth to farmers than the “crazy‐ came the University of California Ida & Cecil Green Faculty Club Mill. Onrushing events, a vacuum in making” pursuit of gold, but the lust was not at all like the fortune seek‐ governance, masses of migrants for easy riches brought a stampede ers drawn by the Gold Rush. In from many countries, violence and of speculators with no interest or some ways he was the prototypical lawlessness all combined to create a patience for the hard work of clear‐ sense of desperate urgency in this ing and tilling the soil. Still, even the cont. on page 2 wildest dreams of the Gold Rush BOTH of the following events are on WEDNESDAY, MAY 11 new and raw western territory. There were also strategic issues. Be‐ had to pass scienti ic scrutiny. Cap‐ Chancellor’s Scholars Freshman Cohort tween the high Sierras on one side tain Sutter reached for his personal Academic Poster Session— Free and the Paci ic Ocean on the other, copy of Encyclopedia Americana How a Missionary Helped Found Seuss Library, UCSD Faculty Club, 10:00 AM ‐ 12:00 PM “Alta California”‐‐ newly separated when called upon to prove that the the University of California …. 1
shiny yellow material brought for from Mexico by the war that ended Writing Anatomy of Malice ….. 2
with the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidal‐ his inspection was indeed gold. He Annual Business Luncheon go (1848) ‐‐ was too distant from the tested it with nitric acid, weighed it, Donor Recognition event ……... 6
Atkinson Pavilion, UCSD Faculty Club rest of the country to be left open to and compared its weight to equal Emeriti Book Club ………...... 6 11:30 AM ‐ 2:00 PM ‐ Fee: $25 member/$40 non‐members covetous foreign imperial powers. amounts of silver. In short he knew Anecdotage ………………………… 7
Featuring Gary Jacobson, Distinguished Professor of But nothing catalyzed action so that without knowledge, training, Political Science much as the Gold Rush, nor was any‐ and veri ication, the shiny metal in Mark your calendar ……...……... 8 thing more economically and social‐ his hand would not make him or Topic: "Making Sense (if possible) of the 2016 Election”
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American celebrated in the heroic Yale graduate and Congregationalist images of the fearless pioneer and minister, soon looked for a more per‐ Anecdotage self‐made man fashioned by writ‐ manent site. Several blocks of land in ers from Ralph Waldo Emerson to downtown Oakland provided real es‐ tate for the College of California and a Horatio Alger. But he was not By Sandy Lakoff and chips, are some actual maintenance com‐ building was raised. Durant was so driven by the urge to succeed in English plaints submitted by Qantas pilots ired with enthusiasm that he con‐ mining, farming, commerce, or in‐ Breakfast (marked with a P) and the solu‐ fessed to having “college on the A Cite to Behold: Kid brother dustry. Instead, he was a pious tea, biscuits, tions recorded (marked with an S) brain.” It turned out Durant would George, who professes linguis‐ Christian missionary. and other by maintenance engineers. (By the need both physical and moral courage tics at Berkeley, boasts over Samuel Hopkins Willey (1821 culinary way, Qantas is the only major air‐ to contend with dishonest and vio‐ 100,000 citations on the Google ‐1914) was a New Englander who staples of line that has never, ever, had an lently inclined building contractors, scholarly index! He did not come to graduated from Dartmouth College Old Blighty. Keep an eye out for its accident.) but he succeeded. As well as becom‐ this vocational celebrity without and Union Theological Seminary in perfect name: “God Save the Cuisine.” ing the irst president of the college, parental in luence. Like all Jewish New York, and pledged his service P: Left inside main tyre almost he made it into a university by over‐ moms, his mother (and my step‐ to the American Home Missionary *** needs replacement. coming political forces that wanted mother) complained that her sons Society originally founded by Bap‐ S: Almost replaced left inside main the college to focus on Agriculture and didn’t keep in touch nearly as often tists. Upon being ordained as a Thanks to Claire Angel : tyre. Mining to the detriment of liberal as she had every right to expect. Presbyterian minister at the age of Jeffers, and founded the irst pub‐ arts. Willey served as Vice President “Two professors I have,” she la‐ 27, Reverend Willey was ordered Chutzpah is a Yiddish word mea‐ P: Test light OK, except auto‐land lic library in California. During the of the College of California and later as mented, “and neither one can write to go west, to become the pastor in ning gall, brazen nerve, effrontery, very rough. constitutional convention of 1849 he the irst Vice President of the Univer‐ me a line!” Pop regularly wrote Monterey, where he was to create sheer guts plus arrogance; and, as S: Auto‐land not installed on this served as chaplain and offered the sity of California, which absorbed the letters to the editor, including one schools and a library. If he had Leo Rosten writes, "No other word aircraft. benediction at the conclusion of its college. about corrupt military contracting harbored any hopes of a peaceful and no other language can do it jus‐ proceedings. He and his wife then As he had blessed the work of the that made it into the New York minister’s life in a well ordered tice." P: Something loose in cockpit. moved to San Francisco where they California Constitutional Convention Times. And he sometimes dabbled New England township, he had to The essence of chutzpah: A little S: Something tightened in cockpit. petitioned the town council to fund a in 1849, Willey blessed the irst grad‐ in whimsical doggerel like one that give them up for the sake of his old lady sold pretzels on a street cor‐ public school. There too he met re‐ uating class from Berkeley in 1873 began: calling. Late in the fall of 1848, he ner for 25 cents each. Every day a P: Dead bugs on windshield. sistance. The council rejected his and was honored many years later by A helluva ine palaver left New York harbor by steamer young man would leave his of ice S: Live bugs on back‐order. request, claiming there were not the president and faculty who gave Had I with a lone- for New Orleans. While there, he building at lunch time and as he pas‐ enough children in San Francisco him an honorary degree in 1910. some cadaver… caught a glimpse of his future on sed the pretzel stand, he would leave P: Autopilot in altitude‐hold mode th who needed educating. The Willeys President Benjamin Ide Wheeler ad‐ December 12 as he boarded a Where it went from there escapes her a quarter, but never take a pret‐ produces a 200 feet per minute responded by organizing a demon‐ dressed Willey with these words. vessel bound for Chagra, Panama my memory, but it must have been zel. descent. stration, marching at the head of a The prayer you offered when and watched it ill up with miners, rather a one‐sided exchange. This went on for more than three S: Cannot reproduce problem on procession of a hundred youngsters the foundations of this com- prospectors, and others who could years. The two of them never spoke. ground. along the still unpaved streets of San monwealth were laid found not get to California fast enough to *** One day, as the young man passed Francisco. It would become known its largest answer through join the treasure hunt. And what exactly is a palaver? the old lady's stand and left his quar‐ P: Evidence of leak on right main as the Children's March and it may the institution you estab- Getting to Monterey required In the dictionary it’s a ten‐dollar ter as usual, the pretzel lady spoke to landing gear. have been the irst public protest of lished Your life is a bond be- an arduous overland trip across word meaning “to talk profusely.” him. Without blinking an eye she S: Evidence removed. its kind in the state (something else tween your beginnings and the Isthmus of Panama and then by In her recent book SPQR, a history said: "They went up to 35 cents." that seems to be in our DNA!). The our present, your dream and steamer from Panama City of Rome, the classicist Mary Beard P: DME volume unbelievably loud. march worked and eventually the its embodiment, between north. Once there Willey set about refers to the story that on entering S: DME volume set to more believ‐ council yielded. your prayer and its an- *** explaining his goal to the burgeon‐ and leaving meetings of the Roman able level. Willey and his wife became tire‐ swer. Upon you the foremost Thanks to Marv Hoffman: ing populace but found little recep‐ Senate, the Emperor Augustus took less advocates of education at all benefactor of California, irst tivity. Discouraged, he returned to time to address each senator by P: Friction locks cause throttle lev‐ levels. Their vision was open and citizen of this state, I confer Qantas Q and A. After every his cabin on the steamer and wrote name. Beard calls this bit of sena‐ ers to stick. inclusive. They established a college the degree Doctor of Law. light, Qantas pilots ill out a form, in his diary, “No answer seems torial courtesy a palaver and esti‐ S: That's what friction locks are for. at Benicia, with help from General The originally Baptist missionary called a “Gripe Sheet” which tells possible.” Yet he persisted be‐ mates it would have taken about Mariano Vallejo, one of the origi‐ society that sent Willey to California mechanics about problems with the cause no matter how dif icult the an hour and a half at each end! “A P: IFF inoperative in OFF mode. nal “Californios,” with the aim of also richly deserves honorary recogni‐ aircraft. The mechanics correct the assignment, he could not allow helluva ine palaver” indeed. S: IFF always inoperative in OFF serving the needs of both natives tion for seeding the development of problems, document their repairs on himself to abandon it. The Mission‐ mode. and immigrants. Starting with the this and many other colleges and uni‐ the form, and then pilots review the ary Society was expressing the will *** Contra Costa Academy in a former versities, including New York Univer‐ Gripe Sheets before the next light. of the Divinity to which he had There really is a food truck P: Suspected crack in windshield. fandango hall, the Willeys and their sity, Vassar, the University of Chicago, Never let it be said that ground pledged his service, so he got on roaming San Diego dispensing ish S: Suspect you're right. collaborators from the Missionary and both Morehouse College and Spel‐ crews lack a sense of humor. Here with the job. He assumed his duties as pastor, met and married Martha Society, along with Henry Durant, a cont. on page 3 UCSD Emeriti Association UCSD Emeriti Association CHRONICLES APRIL 2016 PAGE 6 CHRONICLES APRIL 2016 PAGE 3
man College, so important in the * * * sources of support, including re‐ Emeriti Chancellor’s Scholars Fund struggle to overcome the evils of In retrospect, it is worth noting search funding from the federal racial discrimination. that the University has yielded great government and industry, and to On Friday evening, March 4th, Thank you to our many generous Annual donors (cont.) : The early days of the new uni‐ dividends for California’s economy, an increasing extent, like private donors to the Emeriti Chancellor’s donors to the Emeriti Chancel‐ Jack Fisher versity were characterized by including its agriculture (among universities, from philanthropy. Scholars Fund gathered with select lor’s Scholars Fund! Paul & Claire Friedman great struggles, especially with them the “California strawberry,” Again, history tells us that the scholars at the Faculty Club for the Patricia Galambos those who wanted it to focus on now a two‐billion‐dollar state agri‐ roots of our philanthropic efforts very lovely Emeriti Chancellor’s Endowed donors: Mel & Lynn Green agrarian training. “The Grange,” business) and viniculture (with re‐ are deep ‐‐ surprisingly, as deep Scholars Donor Recognition Din‐ Irma Gigli Don & Pat Helinski led by the single‐tax‐on‐land pop‐ sults no less lucrative and pleasing as the churnings of the Gold ner. The gala dinner was orga‐ Ruth Covell Hart Isaacs ulist Henry George, wanted a col‐ to the palate). Out of the agricultural Rush. Around the turn of the last nized by Suzan Ciof i, RRC Director, Jake Jacoby Multi‐year support of a scholar: lege that made students into bet‐ college at Davis grew a campus with century a rough‐hewn character and assisted by Lilian Argueta, CSP/ Marguerite Jackson ter farmers. Grangers had no pa‐ a veterinary school, law school, and later known as “the grubstake EMP Coordinator. Harry & Mary Powell Michael Kaback Roger & Carol Spragg tience for the liberal arts and business and medical schools. At man” journeyed from the gold The number of donors to the Robert & Dorothy Knox “classicism.” They wanted another Riverside a Citrus Research Station country to Berkeley and walked fund has grown signi icantly since Marilyn Wilson Harold & Carol Kushner land grant college like those was the nucleus of future scienti ic into the President's of ice. With‐ then‐Emeriti‐President, Don Helin‐ Annual donors: Gunter Lagmair spawned by the Morrill Act of departments including insect biolo‐ out a word he handed President ski irst proposed creating the Richard & Jessie Attiyeh David & Sally Miller 1862 that would teach farming, gy and other ields related to citrus Wheeler a bag, and without a fund in 2008. From its very mod‐ Ron Campnell Phyllis & Edward Mirsky animal husbandry, and the me‐ cultivation. Here at UCSD the ma‐ word he left. In the bag was $750 est beginnings, with $7,000 raised Lanna Cheng Bob & Barbara Nemiroff chanical arts, but they ignored the rine sciences supported by the worth of gold coins and an un‐ in the irst year of donations, the Russell & Frances Doolittle Morton & Janna Printz Act’s requirement that the colleges Scripps family created a research signed note in which the anony‐ Emeriti Chancellor’s Scholars Fund Fred & Josephine Randel pay due attention to the liberal enterprise with enormous bene its mous benefactor explained that saw donations of over $165,000 Kim Signoret‐Paar and arts as well. President Daniel Coit for isheries, marine conservation, he was a mine owner who had this year. With some ifty donors Hans Paar Gilman cannily obliged them by and so much else. At the same time, been educated at the University. to the current fund, the donor Suresh Subramani & appointing Eugene W. Hilgard to of course, the campuses of the Uni‐ His gift was intended to endow a recognition dinner was held at the Feroza Ardeshir head the college of agriculture, a versity have become world‐class loan fund for needy students; it Faculty Club, to accommodate eve‐ Judith & Victor Vacquier scholar with real farming creden‐ centers for scholarship and teaching would serve he wrote, as their ryone. Donors were very moved Mihoko Vacquier tials as well as an acute apprecia‐ in the natural sciences, the social “grubstake.” Such “grubstakes” when they listened to poignant John Wheeler & tion for science. Addressing a hall sciences, and the humanities. have sometimes seeded the de‐ personal stories by two outstand‐ Jacqueline Hanson packed with many a skeptical We approach the sesquicentenni‐ velopment of an entire campus, ing freshman Chancellor’s Scholars, farmer, Hilgard removed his spec‐ al with an awareness that the state's as in the case of the Toland Medi‐ Cindy Ayala and Maxwell Bland. It Donors, your gifts are changing tacles, looked straight at the faces contribution to the University has cal College that became UC San was a truly memorable evening! lives forever! Thank you. in the room, and said that the Uni‐ steadily declined during the new Francisco. UC Santa Cruz was versity of California would study century. There seems to be much built in part on the research facil‐ every facet of the state’s terrain, less appreciation among voters and ities that house the Lick observa‐ Emeriti Association Book Club “from the rocks to the stars.” He the legislators they elect of the value tory and its telescope, the gift of reminded them that different plac‐ of a research university for the James Lick. Here of course the es had different climates and soil state's needs. Nor, for that matter, is gifts of the Scripps family created A new initiative launched in 2014, the conditions. He talked about the there enough appreciation for the the marine research station upon UCSD Emeriti Association now has a Book “gumbo soil” he had known in in vocational skills and civic and cul‐ which UCSD was built, and those Club, which meets from 11:30 AM to 1 PM, Mississippi and why it was neces‐ tural literacy imparted by of the en‐ gifts have been followed by many on the fourth Monday of each month at the sary to match seeds to soil by tak‐ tire three‐tiered system of public others from those whose names Ida & Cecil Green Faculty Club. ing account of the differences. The higher education ‐‐ from community are gratefully commemorated on The next meeting will be held on Mon‐ argument didn't end there. It con‐ colleges through the four‐year col‐ our buildings, laboratories, and day, March 28. The book to be discussed tinued into the Constitutional Con‐ leges to the University, with its post‐ other facilities. But the mission‐ will be: Doomed to Succeed, by Dennis vention of 1879 when farmers in‐ graduate programs – even though ary who came here thanks to the Ross. sisted that students should spend sustainable growth depends more Gold Rush started it all. The following meeting will be held on at least two hours a day doing than ever on high‐tech capability Monday, April 25. The book to be dis‐ farm chores. Jacob Freud, a Berke‐ and innovation. The state’s simple Henry Powell is currently Presi- cussed will be League of Denial, The NFL, ley alumnus, rose to the defense of but profound educational motto ‐‐ dent of the UCSD Emeriti Associa- Concussions and the Battle for the Truth, by the University, saying that he did‐ “Quality, Affordability and Access” ‐‐ tion. He has also served as the Mark Fainaru‐Wada and Steve Fainaru. n't need to learn how to plow, but, remains a proper ideal. But now, as chair of the UC-wide Academic as the University had taught him, an “entrepreneurial university,” in Council and Senate. Please RSVP on the EA RSVP website: “why to plow, when to plow, and Dick Atkinson’s phrase, we must how deep.” depend more and more upon other https://hrweb.ucsd.edu/ea/
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sual alliance between the American terpreter turned to leave his intelligence community and a group cell. He turned to her and said, of medical societies in psychiatry “What’s the matter? Are you and neurology. All agreed that the afraid to see something you By Joel Dimsdale disparate as coffee houses and Nazi leaders had to be studied, but might like?” Rudolf Hess re‐ Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry living rooms. Curiously, there the consensus went even further. mained an enormous psychiat‐ were numerous connections be‐ The medical societies urged that the ric enigma. Labeled by court‐ I started writing Anatomy of tween the war crimes trial and Rorschach test be administered to room observers as “so plainly Malice forty years after the execu‐ the University of California. One those sentenced to death and that mad,” he alternated between tioner came for me. I was in my of the Nuremberg psychiatrists they be executed in such a fashion delusions and amnesia. Was he of ice at a small outlying building became a professor of criminolo‐ that their brains could be examined. malingering? on the grounds of Massachusetts gy at Berkeley, and some of his Imagine spending 80 hours with I am, I confess, a mandarin of General Hospital. There was a iles are stored at UC Santa Cruz Hermann Goering, sitting next to the DSM – the Diagnostic and sharp rap on my door and a some‐ (although no one knows why they him on his cot in his small dank cell Statistical Manual of Mental Dis- what ominous‐looking man carry‐ are there or even how they got at Nuremberg. Imagine listening to orders, professional psychia‐ ing a gun case asked, “Are you there). The preserved brain of him, watching him, and smelling him trists’ periodically updated ef‐ Dimsdale?” When I replied “Yes,” one of the war criminals made its in the close con ines of the cell for fort to describe the characteris‐ he said, “I’m the executioner and I way to UCSF. months and months. tics of patients with mental ill‐ have come for you.” He sat down There are many biographies There was something about Nu‐ nesses. It was fascinating for me on my couch, started opening the and even autobiographies of the remberg that drove everyone there a to read these 70‐year‐old psy‐ gun case, and I said a little prayer, perpetrators. There are also a “little crazy.” The devastation from chiatric records. Terms since wondering whom I had managed to number of psycho‐historical mon‐ the war, the testimony of the survi‐ then have shifted slightly and enrage so much. ings, with or without a political ographs written by scholars who vors, the horrifying photographs of views about how to assess pa‐ He opened the case and out purpose. studied the biographies but never concentration camp victims, and the tients have changed enormous‐ tumbled documents. He was the When I retired, I had time to interviewed the criminals. All of burgeoning post‐war tensions ly. In 1945, there were no struc‐ Nuremberg executioner, the hang‐ return to this question. Obviously, this is fairly typical for studies of among the Allies cast a shadow on behind big desks,” in his words. tured psychiatric diagnostic in‐ man of the Nazi war criminals, and I couldn’t interview the dead, but I public of icials. They leave everyone associated with the trial— While both Kelley and Gilbert terviews, no MRIs, and our neu‐ his documents related to his mili‐ could study them at the distance in “tracks” that scholars can pursue. from judges to janitors. People got rushed to publish their indings, ropsychological tests were ra‐ tary service. “Dimsdale,” he said, archives. So, I immersed myself in What is different about this irritable witnessing what man was much of their work was “kept ther limited. Nonetheless, the “you have to stop studying the sur‐ this dismal story by delving into area of study is that we also have capable of and furious with the ra‐ back,” sequestered out of fear of old assessments have value and vivors of atrocities and instead the records. wide‐ranging interrogation tran‐ tionalizations of the defendants. lawsuits, consigned to moldy car‐ the spectrum of malice that they study the perpetrators. I knew I learned that archival research scripts and courtroom testimony. Kelley and Gilbert were not im‐ tons stored in basements, and reveal would probably be simi‐ them and I was proud to have exe‐ is a little like a scavenger hunt. And surprisingly, we have the ex‐ mune from these emotional strains, nearly discarded. lar to that found in today’s war cuted them.” Frequently, no one knows what it tensive papers of Douglas Kelley, and their work together was marred In this book I have focused on criminals. A chance meeting like that is in the storage areas, not even a psychiatrist, and Gustave Gil‐ by personal animosity, to such an four of the war criminals because Contemporary war crimes doesn’t get forgotten. But I was re‐ the special collections librarians bert, a psychologist, who me‐ extent that I have called it “a collabo‐ the nature of their malice was so trials do obtain psychiatric re‐ luctant to take on this task. It was who are their stewards. At UC San‐ thodically studied the war crimi‐ ration from hell.” Not only did they profoundly different. Labor minis‐ ports, but their purpose is nar‐ simply too dark, and besides, how ta Cruz, where I found a particu‐ nals with extensive interviews distrust each other, but they had ter Robert Ley had a history of rowly de ined. Can the defend‐ could I interview the dead? So, I larly interesting collection of pa‐ (80 hours of interviews, accord‐ profoundly different world views repeated head injuries, severe ant understand that he is on shelved the project and I focused pers, I was only the second person ing to Kelley), IQ tests, and the about the war criminals. Gilbert be‐ enough to leave him with impul‐ trial, etc.? There has been no instead on treating my patients— in forty years to have accessed a Rorschach inkblot test. Never be‐ lieved the Nazi leaders were psycho‐ sivity and an expressive aphasia. contemporary study akin to thousands of them—and my clini‐ particular set of iles. The expecta‐ fore nor since have we had such pathic maniacs who were utterly His brain wound up at UCSF’s what Kelley and Gilbert at‐ cal research. NIH would certainly ble archives‐‐ Library of Congress intimate access to the thinking unlike ordinary people. Kelley be‐ Langley Porter Institute. Goering tempted at Nuremberg. My not take kindly to my devoting time and National Archives‐‐ were im‐ and feelings of high government lieved they were self‐serving bu‐ revealed himself to be an book describes their studies, to such non‐grant related research. mensely helpful, but my studies leaders. Kelley and Gilbert got reaucrats and that the world was “amiable psychopath,” capable of what they learned about malice, But the question lingered. The also took me to some unlikely ven‐ their assignment due to an unu‐ illed with people like them, “sitting charming the unwary. He asked what this did to them, and how psychiatrist Kelley to adopt his we might think about malice executioner had urged me to study ues. For instance, I found a cache Gilbert believed the Nazi leaders daughter. Julius Streicher was “malice,” the intentional in liction of valuable records in the vaults of today from a contemporary per‐ of harm, because that term cap‐ the University of Akron. were psychopathic maniacs who quite simply loathsome, glorying spective in psychiatry, psychol‐ tures the essence of the Nazi lead‐ Virtually everyone associated were utterly unlike ordinary and persevering until the end in ogy, and neuroscience. Anatomy people. Kelley believed they were ers’ actions. I certainly have heard with Nuremberg kept iles, souve‐ his pornographic racist fantasies. of Malice will be published in self-serving bureaucrats and lots about malice on another level nirs, and diaries. Tracking them At one point in his imprisonment, May by the Yale University Press. that the world was illed with he was scheduled for a physical from my patients, and it crops up down became a bit of a quest and I people like them, “sitting behind repeatedly in the news—mass kill‐ conducted interviews in places as examination, and the female in‐ big desks,” in his words. Roarschach inblot test
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sual alliance between the American terpreter turned to leave his intelligence community and a group cell. He turned to her and said, of medical societies in psychiatry “What’s the matter? Are you and neurology. All agreed that the afraid to see something you By Joel Dimsdale disparate as coffee houses and Nazi leaders had to be studied, but might like?” Rudolf Hess re‐ Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry living rooms. Curiously, there the consensus went even further. mained an enormous psychiat‐ were numerous connections be‐ The medical societies urged that the ric enigma. Labeled by court‐ I started writing Anatomy of tween the war crimes trial and Rorschach test be administered to room observers as “so plainly Malice forty years after the execu‐ the University of California. One those sentenced to death and that mad,” he alternated between tioner came for me. I was in my of the Nuremberg psychiatrists they be executed in such a fashion delusions and amnesia. Was he of ice at a small outlying building became a professor of criminolo‐ that their brains could be examined. malingering? on the grounds of Massachusetts gy at Berkeley, and some of his Imagine spending 80 hours with I am, I confess, a mandarin of General Hospital. There was a iles are stored at UC Santa Cruz Hermann Goering, sitting next to the DSM – the Diagnostic and sharp rap on my door and a some‐ (although no one knows why they him on his cot in his small dank cell Statistical Manual of Mental Dis- what ominous‐looking man carry‐ are there or even how they got at Nuremberg. Imagine listening to orders, professional psychia‐ ing a gun case asked, “Are you there). The preserved brain of him, watching him, and smelling him trists’ periodically updated ef‐ Dimsdale?” When I replied “Yes,” one of the war criminals made its in the close con ines of the cell for fort to describe the characteris‐ he said, “I’m the executioner and I way to UCSF. months and months. tics of patients with mental ill‐ have come for you.” He sat down There are many biographies There was something about Nu‐ nesses. It was fascinating for me on my couch, started opening the and even autobiographies of the remberg that drove everyone there a to read these 70‐year‐old psy‐ gun case, and I said a little prayer, perpetrators. There are also a “little crazy.” The devastation from chiatric records. Terms since wondering whom I had managed to number of psycho‐historical mon‐ the war, the testimony of the survi‐ then have shifted slightly and enrage so much. ings, with or without a political ographs written by scholars who vors, the horrifying photographs of views about how to assess pa‐ He opened the case and out purpose. studied the biographies but never concentration camp victims, and the tients have changed enormous‐ tumbled documents. He was the When I retired, I had time to interviewed the criminals. All of burgeoning post‐war tensions ly. In 1945, there were no struc‐ Nuremberg executioner, the hang‐ return to this question. Obviously, this is fairly typical for studies of among the Allies cast a shadow on behind big desks,” in his words. tured psychiatric diagnostic in‐ man of the Nazi war criminals, and I couldn’t interview the dead, but I public of icials. They leave everyone associated with the trial— While both Kelley and Gilbert terviews, no MRIs, and our neu‐ his documents related to his mili‐ could study them at the distance in “tracks” that scholars can pursue. from judges to janitors. People got rushed to publish their indings, ropsychological tests were ra‐ tary service. “Dimsdale,” he said, archives. So, I immersed myself in What is different about this irritable witnessing what man was much of their work was “kept ther limited. Nonetheless, the “you have to stop studying the sur‐ this dismal story by delving into area of study is that we also have capable of and furious with the ra‐ back,” sequestered out of fear of old assessments have value and vivors of atrocities and instead the records. wide‐ranging interrogation tran‐ tionalizations of the defendants. lawsuits, consigned to moldy car‐ the spectrum of malice that they study the perpetrators. I knew I learned that archival research scripts and courtroom testimony. Kelley and Gilbert were not im‐ tons stored in basements, and reveal would probably be simi‐ them and I was proud to have exe‐ is a little like a scavenger hunt. And surprisingly, we have the ex‐ mune from these emotional strains, nearly discarded. lar to that found in today’s war cuted them.” Frequently, no one knows what it tensive papers of Douglas Kelley, and their work together was marred In this book I have focused on criminals. A chance meeting like that is in the storage areas, not even a psychiatrist, and Gustave Gil‐ by personal animosity, to such an four of the war criminals because Contemporary war crimes doesn’t get forgotten. But I was re‐ the special collections librarians bert, a psychologist, who me‐ extent that I have called it “a collabo‐ the nature of their malice was so trials do obtain psychiatric re‐ luctant to take on this task. It was who are their stewards. At UC San‐ thodically studied the war crimi‐ ration from hell.” Not only did they profoundly different. Labor minis‐ ports, but their purpose is nar‐ simply too dark, and besides, how ta Cruz, where I found a particu‐ nals with extensive interviews distrust each other, but they had ter Robert Ley had a history of rowly de ined. Can the defend‐ could I interview the dead? So, I larly interesting collection of pa‐ (80 hours of interviews, accord‐ profoundly different world views repeated head injuries, severe ant understand that he is on shelved the project and I focused pers, I was only the second person ing to Kelley), IQ tests, and the about the war criminals. Gilbert be‐ enough to leave him with impul‐ trial, etc.? There has been no instead on treating my patients— in forty years to have accessed a Rorschach inkblot test. Never be‐ lieved the Nazi leaders were psycho‐ sivity and an expressive aphasia. contemporary study akin to thousands of them—and my clini‐ particular set of iles. The expecta‐ fore nor since have we had such pathic maniacs who were utterly His brain wound up at UCSF’s what Kelley and Gilbert at‐ cal research. NIH would certainly ble archives‐‐ Library of Congress intimate access to the thinking unlike ordinary people. Kelley be‐ Langley Porter Institute. Goering tempted at Nuremberg. My not take kindly to my devoting time and National Archives‐‐ were im‐ and feelings of high government lieved they were self‐serving bu‐ revealed himself to be an book describes their studies, to such non‐grant related research. mensely helpful, but my studies leaders. Kelley and Gilbert got reaucrats and that the world was “amiable psychopath,” capable of what they learned about malice, But the question lingered. The also took me to some unlikely ven‐ their assignment due to an unu‐ illed with people like them, “sitting charming the unwary. He asked what this did to them, and how psychiatrist Kelley to adopt his we might think about malice executioner had urged me to study ues. For instance, I found a cache Gilbert believed the Nazi leaders daughter. Julius Streicher was “malice,” the intentional in liction of valuable records in the vaults of today from a contemporary per‐ of harm, because that term cap‐ the University of Akron. were psychopathic maniacs who quite simply loathsome, glorying spective in psychiatry, psychol‐ tures the essence of the Nazi lead‐ Virtually everyone associated were utterly unlike ordinary and persevering until the end in ogy, and neuroscience. Anatomy people. Kelley believed they were ers’ actions. I certainly have heard with Nuremberg kept iles, souve‐ his pornographic racist fantasies. of Malice will be published in self-serving bureaucrats and lots about malice on another level nirs, and diaries. Tracking them At one point in his imprisonment, May by the Yale University Press. that the world was illed with he was scheduled for a physical from my patients, and it crops up down became a bit of a quest and I people like them, “sitting behind repeatedly in the news—mass kill‐ conducted interviews in places as examination, and the female in‐ big desks,” in his words. Roarschach inblot test
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man College, so important in the * * * sources of support, including re‐ Emeriti Chancellor’s Scholars Fund struggle to overcome the evils of In retrospect, it is worth noting search funding from the federal racial discrimination. that the University has yielded great government and industry, and to On Friday evening, March 4th, Thank you to our many generous Annual donors (cont.) : The early days of the new uni‐ dividends for California’s economy, an increasing extent, like private donors to the Emeriti Chancellor’s donors to the Emeriti Chancel‐ Jack Fisher versity were characterized by including its agriculture (among universities, from philanthropy. Scholars Fund gathered with select lor’s Scholars Fund! Paul & Claire Friedman great struggles, especially with them the “California strawberry,” Again, history tells us that the scholars at the Faculty Club for the Patricia Galambos those who wanted it to focus on now a two‐billion‐dollar state agri‐ roots of our philanthropic efforts very lovely Emeriti Chancellor’s Endowed donors: Mel & Lynn Green agrarian training. “The Grange,” business) and viniculture (with re‐ are deep ‐‐ surprisingly, as deep Scholars Donor Recognition Din‐ Irma Gigli Don & Pat Helinski led by the single‐tax‐on‐land pop‐ sults no less lucrative and pleasing as the churnings of the Gold ner. The gala dinner was orga‐ Ruth Covell Hart Isaacs ulist Henry George, wanted a col‐ to the palate). Out of the agricultural Rush. Around the turn of the last nized by Suzan Ciof i, RRC Director, Jake Jacoby Multi‐year support of a scholar: lege that made students into bet‐ college at Davis grew a campus with century a rough‐hewn character and assisted by Lilian Argueta, CSP/ Marguerite Jackson ter farmers. Grangers had no pa‐ a veterinary school, law school, and later known as “the grubstake EMP Coordinator. Harry & Mary Powell Michael Kaback Roger & Carol Spragg tience for the liberal arts and business and medical schools. At man” journeyed from the gold The number of donors to the Robert & Dorothy Knox “classicism.” They wanted another Riverside a Citrus Research Station country to Berkeley and walked fund has grown signi icantly since Marilyn Wilson Harold & Carol Kushner land grant college like those was the nucleus of future scienti ic into the President's of ice. With‐ then‐Emeriti‐President, Don Helin‐ Annual donors: Gunter Lagmair spawned by the Morrill Act of departments including insect biolo‐ out a word he handed President ski irst proposed creating the Richard & Jessie Attiyeh David & Sally Miller 1862 that would teach farming, gy and other ields related to citrus Wheeler a bag, and without a fund in 2008. From its very mod‐ Ron Campnell Phyllis & Edward Mirsky animal husbandry, and the me‐ cultivation. Here at UCSD the ma‐ word he left. In the bag was $750 est beginnings, with $7,000 raised Lanna Cheng Bob & Barbara Nemiroff chanical arts, but they ignored the rine sciences supported by the worth of gold coins and an un‐ in the irst year of donations, the Russell & Frances Doolittle Morton & Janna Printz Act’s requirement that the colleges Scripps family created a research signed note in which the anony‐ Emeriti Chancellor’s Scholars Fund Fred & Josephine Randel pay due attention to the liberal enterprise with enormous bene its mous benefactor explained that saw donations of over $165,000 Kim Signoret‐Paar and arts as well. President Daniel Coit for isheries, marine conservation, he was a mine owner who had this year. With some ifty donors Hans Paar Gilman cannily obliged them by and so much else. At the same time, been educated at the University. to the current fund, the donor Suresh Subramani & appointing Eugene W. Hilgard to of course, the campuses of the Uni‐ His gift was intended to endow a recognition dinner was held at the Feroza Ardeshir head the college of agriculture, a versity have become world‐class loan fund for needy students; it Faculty Club, to accommodate eve‐ Judith & Victor Vacquier scholar with real farming creden‐ centers for scholarship and teaching would serve he wrote, as their ryone. Donors were very moved Mihoko Vacquier tials as well as an acute apprecia‐ in the natural sciences, the social “grubstake.” Such “grubstakes” when they listened to poignant John Wheeler & tion for science. Addressing a hall sciences, and the humanities. have sometimes seeded the de‐ personal stories by two outstand‐ Jacqueline Hanson packed with many a skeptical We approach the sesquicentenni‐ velopment of an entire campus, ing freshman Chancellor’s Scholars, farmer, Hilgard removed his spec‐ al with an awareness that the state's as in the case of the Toland Medi‐ Cindy Ayala and Maxwell Bland. It Donors, your gifts are changing tacles, looked straight at the faces contribution to the University has cal College that became UC San was a truly memorable evening! lives forever! Thank you. in the room, and said that the Uni‐ steadily declined during the new Francisco. UC Santa Cruz was versity of California would study century. There seems to be much built in part on the research facil‐ every facet of the state’s terrain, less appreciation among voters and ities that house the Lick observa‐ Emeriti Association Book Club “from the rocks to the stars.” He the legislators they elect of the value tory and its telescope, the gift of reminded them that different plac‐ of a research university for the James Lick. Here of course the es had different climates and soil state's needs. Nor, for that matter, is gifts of the Scripps family created A new initiative launched in 2014, the conditions. He talked about the there enough appreciation for the the marine research station upon UCSD Emeriti Association now has a Book “gumbo soil” he had known in in vocational skills and civic and cul‐ which UCSD was built, and those Club, which meets from 11:30 AM to 1 PM, Mississippi and why it was neces‐ tural literacy imparted by of the en‐ gifts have been followed by many on the fourth Monday of each month at the sary to match seeds to soil by tak‐ tire three‐tiered system of public others from those whose names Ida & Cecil Green Faculty Club. ing account of the differences. The higher education ‐‐ from community are gratefully commemorated on The next meeting will be held on Mon‐ argument didn't end there. It con‐ colleges through the four‐year col‐ our buildings, laboratories, and day, March 28. The book to be discussed tinued into the Constitutional Con‐ leges to the University, with its post‐ other facilities. But the mission‐ will be: Doomed to Succeed, by Dennis vention of 1879 when farmers in‐ graduate programs – even though ary who came here thanks to the Ross. sisted that students should spend sustainable growth depends more Gold Rush started it all. The following meeting will be held on at least two hours a day doing than ever on high‐tech capability Monday, April 25. The book to be dis‐ farm chores. Jacob Freud, a Berke‐ and innovation. The state’s simple Henry Powell is currently Presi- cussed will be League of Denial, The NFL, ley alumnus, rose to the defense of but profound educational motto ‐‐ dent of the UCSD Emeriti Associa- Concussions and the Battle for the Truth, by the University, saying that he did‐ “Quality, Affordability and Access” ‐‐ tion. He has also served as the Mark Fainaru‐Wada and Steve Fainaru. n't need to learn how to plow, but, remains a proper ideal. But now, as chair of the UC-wide Academic as the University had taught him, an “entrepreneurial university,” in Council and Senate. Please RSVP on the EA RSVP website: “why to plow, when to plow, and Dick Atkinson’s phrase, we must how deep.” depend more and more upon other https://hrweb.ucsd.edu/ea/
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American celebrated in the heroic Yale graduate and Congregationalist images of the fearless pioneer and minister, soon looked for a more per‐ Anecdotage self‐made man fashioned by writ‐ manent site. Several blocks of land in ers from Ralph Waldo Emerson to downtown Oakland provided real es‐ tate for the College of California and a Horatio Alger. But he was not By Sandy Lakoff and chips, are some actual maintenance com‐ building was raised. Durant was so driven by the urge to succeed in English plaints submitted by Qantas pilots ired with enthusiasm that he con‐ mining, farming, commerce, or in‐ Breakfast (marked with a P) and the solu‐ fessed to having “college on the A Cite to Behold: Kid brother dustry. Instead, he was a pious tea, biscuits, tions recorded (marked with an S) brain.” It turned out Durant would George, who professes linguis‐ Christian missionary. and other by maintenance engineers. (By the need both physical and moral courage tics at Berkeley, boasts over Samuel Hopkins Willey (1821 culinary way, Qantas is the only major air‐ to contend with dishonest and vio‐ 100,000 citations on the Google ‐1914) was a New Englander who staples of line that has never, ever, had an lently inclined building contractors, scholarly index! He did not come to graduated from Dartmouth College Old Blighty. Keep an eye out for its accident.) but he succeeded. As well as becom‐ this vocational celebrity without and Union Theological Seminary in perfect name: “God Save the Cuisine.” ing the irst president of the college, parental in luence. Like all Jewish New York, and pledged his service P: Left inside main tyre almost he made it into a university by over‐ moms, his mother (and my step‐ to the American Home Missionary *** needs replacement. coming political forces that wanted mother) complained that her sons Society originally founded by Bap‐ S: Almost replaced left inside main the college to focus on Agriculture and didn’t keep in touch nearly as often tists. Upon being ordained as a Thanks to Claire Angel : tyre. Mining to the detriment of liberal as she had every right to expect. Presbyterian minister at the age of Jeffers, and founded the irst pub‐ arts. Willey served as Vice President “Two professors I have,” she la‐ 27, Reverend Willey was ordered Chutzpah is a Yiddish word mea‐ P: Test light OK, except auto‐land lic library in California. During the of the College of California and later as mented, “and neither one can write to go west, to become the pastor in ning gall, brazen nerve, effrontery, very rough. constitutional convention of 1849 he the irst Vice President of the Univer‐ me a line!” Pop regularly wrote Monterey, where he was to create sheer guts plus arrogance; and, as S: Auto‐land not installed on this served as chaplain and offered the sity of California, which absorbed the letters to the editor, including one schools and a library. If he had Leo Rosten writes, "No other word aircraft. benediction at the conclusion of its college. about corrupt military contracting harbored any hopes of a peaceful and no other language can do it jus‐ proceedings. He and his wife then As he had blessed the work of the that made it into the New York minister’s life in a well ordered tice." P: Something loose in cockpit. moved to San Francisco where they California Constitutional Convention Times. And he sometimes dabbled New England township, he had to The essence of chutzpah: A little S: Something tightened in cockpit. petitioned the town council to fund a in 1849, Willey blessed the irst grad‐ in whimsical doggerel like one that give them up for the sake of his old lady sold pretzels on a street cor‐ public school. There too he met re‐ uating class from Berkeley in 1873 began: calling. Late in the fall of 1848, he ner for 25 cents each. Every day a P: Dead bugs on windshield. sistance. The council rejected his and was honored many years later by A helluva ine palaver left New York harbor by steamer young man would leave his of ice S: Live bugs on back‐order. request, claiming there were not the president and faculty who gave Had I with a lone- for New Orleans. While there, he building at lunch time and as he pas‐ enough children in San Francisco him an honorary degree in 1910. some cadaver… caught a glimpse of his future on sed the pretzel stand, he would leave P: Autopilot in altitude‐hold mode th who needed educating. The Willeys President Benjamin Ide Wheeler ad‐ December 12 as he boarded a Where it went from there escapes her a quarter, but never take a pret‐ produces a 200 feet per minute responded by organizing a demon‐ dressed Willey with these words. vessel bound for Chagra, Panama my memory, but it must have been zel. descent. stration, marching at the head of a The prayer you offered when and watched it ill up with miners, rather a one‐sided exchange. This went on for more than three S: Cannot reproduce problem on procession of a hundred youngsters the foundations of this com- prospectors, and others who could years. The two of them never spoke. ground. along the still unpaved streets of San monwealth were laid found not get to California fast enough to *** One day, as the young man passed Francisco. It would become known its largest answer through join the treasure hunt. And what exactly is a palaver? the old lady's stand and left his quar‐ P: Evidence of leak on right main as the Children's March and it may the institution you estab- Getting to Monterey required In the dictionary it’s a ten‐dollar ter as usual, the pretzel lady spoke to landing gear. have been the irst public protest of lished Your life is a bond be- an arduous overland trip across word meaning “to talk profusely.” him. Without blinking an eye she S: Evidence removed. its kind in the state (something else tween your beginnings and the Isthmus of Panama and then by In her recent book SPQR, a history said: "They went up to 35 cents." that seems to be in our DNA!). The our present, your dream and steamer from Panama City of Rome, the classicist Mary Beard P: DME volume unbelievably loud. march worked and eventually the its embodiment, between north. Once there Willey set about refers to the story that on entering S: DME volume set to more believ‐ council yielded. your prayer and its an- *** explaining his goal to the burgeon‐ and leaving meetings of the Roman able level. Willey and his wife became tire‐ swer. Upon you the foremost Thanks to Marv Hoffman: ing populace but found little recep‐ Senate, the Emperor Augustus took less advocates of education at all benefactor of California, irst tivity. Discouraged, he returned to time to address each senator by P: Friction locks cause throttle lev‐ levels. Their vision was open and citizen of this state, I confer Qantas Q and A. After every his cabin on the steamer and wrote name. Beard calls this bit of sena‐ ers to stick. inclusive. They established a college the degree Doctor of Law. light, Qantas pilots ill out a form, in his diary, “No answer seems torial courtesy a palaver and esti‐ S: That's what friction locks are for. at Benicia, with help from General The originally Baptist missionary called a “Gripe Sheet” which tells possible.” Yet he persisted be‐ mates it would have taken about Mariano Vallejo, one of the origi‐ society that sent Willey to California mechanics about problems with the cause no matter how dif icult the an hour and a half at each end! “A P: IFF inoperative in OFF mode. nal “Californios,” with the aim of also richly deserves honorary recogni‐ aircraft. The mechanics correct the assignment, he could not allow helluva ine palaver” indeed. S: IFF always inoperative in OFF serving the needs of both natives tion for seeding the development of problems, document their repairs on himself to abandon it. The Mission‐ mode. and immigrants. Starting with the this and many other colleges and uni‐ the form, and then pilots review the ary Society was expressing the will *** Contra Costa Academy in a former versities, including New York Univer‐ Gripe Sheets before the next light. of the Divinity to which he had There really is a food truck P: Suspected crack in windshield. fandango hall, the Willeys and their sity, Vassar, the University of Chicago, Never let it be said that ground pledged his service, so he got on roaming San Diego dispensing ish S: Suspect you're right. collaborators from the Missionary and both Morehouse College and Spel‐ crews lack a sense of humor. Here with the job. He assumed his duties as pastor, met and married Martha Society, along with Henry Durant, a cont. on page 3 UCSD Emeriti Association UCSD Emeriti Association
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Of icers Mark Appelbaum President Sanford Lakoff Editor Morton Printz Vice President Robert Knox Secretary/Treasurer Suzan Ciof i Managing Editor Henry Powell Past President, Awards
Henry Powell President APRIL 2016 Volume XV, No. 4 Executive Committee Mark Appelbaum Vice President Phyllis Mirsky Secretary/Treasurer Members at Large: George Backus (IGGP, SIO); Stan Chodorow (History, Campus); Win Cox (Communications, Campus); Fran Gillin Joel Dimsdale Past President, Awards (Health Sciences); Marguerite Jackson (Health Sciences); and Gill Williamson (Mathematics, Campus). Ex Of icio: Dick Attiyeh, Representative to CUCEA; Jack Fisher, Members at Large: Marguerite Jackson, Robert Knox, Carol Historian; Nancy Groves, Liaison to the UCSD Retirement Associa‐ Plantamura, , Roger Spragg, Joe Watson, and Gill Williamson. tion; Sandy Lakoff, Editor, Chronicles, Suzan Ciof i, Managing Edi‐ Ex Of icio: Dick Attiyeh, Representative to CUCEA, Jack Fisher, tor, Chronicles, and Director, UCSD Retirement Resource Center; Historian, Boone Hellmann, Representative, UCSD Retirement By Henry Powell anyone else rich, though it might and Maxine Bloor, Liaison to Oceanids. Association, Sandy Lakoff, Editor, Chronicles, Suzan Ciof i, Direc‐ Professor Emeritus of Pathology get him killed by the hordes of pro‐ tor, Retirement Resource Center, and Maxine Bloor, Liaison to spectors drunk with acquisitive The election of the proposed slate will take place in April by email. Oceanids. If you do not have access to email, you are welcome to mail in your Forward queries, changes in mailing/email address to: Have you thanked a missionary frenzy. approval of the proposed slate, or your proposal of an alternate Suzan Ciof i, Director, UCSD Retirement Resource Center, Already in 1849, General Bennet of icer or Member at large to: Suzan Ciof i, Director, UCSD Retire‐ lately? UCSD, 9500 Gilman Drive, #0020, La Jolla, CA 92093‐0020. ment Resource Center, UCSD, 9500 Gilman Drive, #0020, La Jolla, The University of California was C. Riley, an energetic and vision‐ Telephone: (858) 534‐4724, [email protected] CA 92093‐0020. The deadline for mail ballots is April 15, 2016. founded in Berkeley in 1869. As its ary military governor of the territo‐ sesquicentennial in 2019 nears, we ry, convened a constitutional con‐ might want to remind ourselves how vention and drove the delegates to it came to be and who were its little‐ fashion a document prescribing remembered progenitors. institutions of civil governance. A Like so much else having to do major concern of the delegates was with California, our system of public that education be free, public, and excellent. The consistency with Joel Dimsdale, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of higher education had its beginnings in the feverish Gold Rush of 1849. which the case for education was Psychiatry made during these formative years No other territory came hurtling into Professor Emeritus Henry Powell Topic: "The Anatomy of Malice, The Enigma of the Nazi the Union with such speed, Carey embedded public education in the McWilliams noted in The Califor- ly disruptive. John August Sutter DNA of the ledgling state. But the War Criminals” man who more than anyone else nia Exception (1949); it became the had been advised that the rich soil Wednesday, April 13, 2016, 3:30 ‐ 5 PM thirty‐ irst state only a year after the of California would yield greater laid the foundation for what be‐ electrifying discovery at Sutter’s wealth to farmers than the “crazy‐ came the University of California Ida & Cecil Green Faculty Club Mill. Onrushing events, a vacuum in making” pursuit of gold, but the lust was not at all like the fortune seek‐ governance, masses of migrants for easy riches brought a stampede ers drawn by the Gold Rush. In from many countries, violence and of speculators with no interest or some ways he was the prototypical lawlessness all combined to create a patience for the hard work of clear‐ sense of desperate urgency in this ing and tilling the soil. Still, even the cont. on page 2 wildest dreams of the Gold Rush BOTH of the following events are on WEDNESDAY, MAY 11 new and raw western territory. There were also strategic issues. Be‐ had to pass scienti ic scrutiny. Cap‐ Chancellor’s Scholars Freshman Cohort tween the high Sierras on one side tain Sutter reached for his personal Academic Poster Session— Free and the Paci ic Ocean on the other, copy of Encyclopedia Americana How a Missionary Helped Found Seuss Library, UCSD Faculty Club, 10:00 AM ‐ 12:00 PM “Alta California”‐‐ newly separated when called upon to prove that the the University of California …. 1
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